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rafletcher

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2150 on: 16 April, 2020, 01:52:56 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 16 April, 2020, 01:24:33 pm
Never go to Runcorn!  It's an inescapable fractal of 60mph main roads and twisty identikit cul-de-sacs.  Like Redditch, but with Scousers.

Finding the centre of Runcorn is similar to finding that of Telford - you go round and round, can see it, but can't find a way in.
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andrewc

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2151 on: 16 April, 2020, 02:17:21 pm »
Quote from: rafletcher on 16 April, 2020, 01:52:56 pm
Quote from: Kim on 16 April, 2020, 01:24:33 pm
Never go to Runcorn!  It's an inescapable fractal of 60mph main roads and twisty identikit cul-de-sacs.  Like Redditch, but with Scousers.

Finding the centre of Runcorn is similar to finding that of Telford - you go round and round, can see it, but can't find a way in.


The inmates of Runcorn are not Scousers     https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wooly%20back
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chrisbainbridge

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2152 on: 16 April, 2020, 06:11:52 pm »
Quote from: rafletcher on 16 April, 2020, 01:52:56 pm
Quote from: Kim on 16 April, 2020, 01:24:33 pm
Never go to Runcorn!  It's an inescapable fractal of 60mph main roads and twisty identikit cul-de-sacs.  Like Redditch, but with Scousers.

Finding the centre of Runcorn is similar to finding that of Telford - you go round and round, can see it, but can't find a way in.
Was Telford built to punish Wellington for something? They are so diametrically opposite.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2153 on: 17 April, 2020, 09:16:50 am »
Quote from: rafletcher on 16 April, 2020, 01:52:56 pm
Quote from: Kim on 16 April, 2020, 01:24:33 pm
Never go to Runcorn!  It's an inescapable fractal of 60mph main roads and twisty identikit cul-de-sacs.  Like Redditch, but with Scousers.

Finding the centre of Runcorn is similar to finding that of Telford - you go round and round, can see it, but can't find a way in.


There is no centre to Telford... it's a myth.  Men have gone mad chasing that Shangri-La.  You can hear their cries echoing in the Ironbridge Gorge.

I think that Telford was designed by petrol producers as a way of ensuring demand for their product.
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Jaded

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2154 on: 17 April, 2020, 09:20:46 am »
Telford is a shit version of Milton Keynes.
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Giraffe

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2155 on: 17 April, 2020, 09:28:03 am »
Finding the centre of such places is a bit like trying to find the highest point of Kinder Scout in mist - or clear conditions for that matter. It's put there to keep us occupied.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2156 on: 17 April, 2020, 01:42:06 pm »
I've been to the Weatherspoons in the middle of Telford.  I don't recommend it.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2157 on: 17 April, 2020, 04:24:36 pm »
Like a vortex in the middle of a black hole.
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SteveC

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2158 on: 17 April, 2020, 04:28:13 pm »
About 20 years ago, MrsC and I had a holiday in Shropshire. One of our projects while there was to get a photograph of every location in the county where there was a record of traditional morris dancing (the latest record being about 1925, none of the modern revival teams).
We succeeded getting pictures from every one of the two dozen or so locations except for the village which Telford is now on top of. There was no trace at all of any older settlement (unlike Milton Keynes for example, where you can find the old centres).
Very disappointing.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2159 on: 27 April, 2020, 08:56:45 am »
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ian

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2160 on: 27 April, 2020, 09:28:37 am »
I think people in Belper always did that. My gran was from Belper, which made her a bit foreign and leant a whiff of exoticism to my family line, what with it being an entire six miles away.

In other news, it also had value since 'belping' in the local vernacular was a burp.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2161 on: 28 April, 2020, 08:12:50 am »
As Alicia Keyes had Goldie Lookin Chain, so John Denver has...
https://youtu.be/TYtwCRPfOcE
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2162 on: 28 April, 2020, 08:07:10 pm »
What surprises me about that is I've never found a West Samoa version.
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Poacher

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2163 on: 07 May, 2020, 08:20:51 pm »
Fugitive caught after blowing his cover with fart: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-52577485
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chrisbainbridge

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2164 on: 07 May, 2020, 10:56:25 pm »
Realising officers were on the scent!!
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2165 on: 09 May, 2020, 12:10:50 pm »
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andrewc

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2166 on: 11 May, 2020, 06:14:09 pm »
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2167 on: 11 May, 2020, 06:27:55 pm »
I would have expected a higher threshold for "surreal" up Liverpool way.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2168 on: 14 May, 2020, 09:28:30 am »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2169 on: 15 May, 2020, 02:37:20 pm »
It's either here or Tales from the Lockdown

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52677514
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andrewc

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2170 on: 16 May, 2020, 12:03:30 pm »
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/property/historic-city-centre-town-house-18238594


Nice house & convenient for a very good pub. (If it ever reopens) 
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Canardly

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2171 on: 16 May, 2020, 12:12:05 pm »
RICS are forecasting falling house prices for the next year or so.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2172 on: 16 May, 2020, 02:47:59 pm »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2173 on: 16 May, 2020, 04:45:14 pm »
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2174 on: 16 May, 2020, 05:01:47 pm »
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