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Grim up North indeed!

We've got a lot of restaurants in Herefordshire 5.4 per 100,000 people ...national average is 1.6

But that's about all we have going for us!! We're not very trendy!!

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But we can spell :lol:
 
As you get older and maybe wiser Mark, you will realise that being trendy is least you have to worry about. :D
In fact one of the joys of growing old is not caring about being trendy at all. :D

I would put a deposit down on an East Dorest bolt hole for your retirement if I were you. :D

I wonder what Paul thinks of being very close to the very untrendy East Dorset.
 
Andy it's not the trendy bit I'm interested in its the general perception that it's still 1945 in Manchester which is a surprisingly widely held perception in the South of England...

Cheers
Mark
 
Andyp":2uvq7a59 said:
Roger, isn't Malvern in Worcestershire? :D
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It is but we're on the West side of the hills and pay Herefordshire council tax but have a Worcestershire post code. The boundary between the two counties has been, shall we say, fluid !
 
I remember visiting a company site in Manchester, I was told not to park close to the fence as the locals were in the habit of tossing bricks over onto any cars near it. We were also told to lock the car doors as we left the site, there was a set of traffic lights at the end of the road and the enterprising youth were know to empty the boot/back seats of any cars stopped by them.
I was on a site in Scotland and the trainer with us asked the hotel if the car park was safe, she was not impressed with the answer 'your car is as safe as on your own drive', she came from Manchester and had her car broken into a number of times while at home.

I do hope it has improved some since then.
 
Remind me....this is the Manchester which is on the west side of the Pennines, right? You know, where all the clouds dump their contents before ascending the Dales........the one which averages 140 days of rain a year? I've got the right Manchester, haven't I........the one that gets over a foot more rain in a year than us?
 
DaveL":1mjtepmc said:
I remember visiting a company site in Manchester, I was told not to park close to the fence as the locals were in the habit of tossing bricks over onto any cars near it.
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Was that company ICL in West Gorton Dave?

I used to work in the Ashton manufacturing plant and if ever we had to visit the West Gorton site we would forgo the rather beneficial personal mileage rates and opt for a pool car instead. The bricks over the fence there was no myth.
 
We spent a 3 yrs in Altrincham with the missus working in the tower block above the Arndale centre (before it was bombed). I think the IRA did Manchester a favour in a funny sort of way. Not been back since the mid 90s but I am well aware how much the city centre has changed.
 
"Ay up lad, it's all t'Boddingtons ale - cream of Manchester.

"Now where's them 'kin bricks gone me laddie cos we wanna hurl em on tit f'kin cars!" :lol:

My missus is a Manc. And she's trendy. She tries to make me trendy, but I'm a Darset carrot crunching cave man me. ;)
 
Mike G":2e04pxa0 said:
Remind me....this is the Manchester which is on the west side of the Pennines, right? You know, where all the clouds dump their contents before ascending the Dales........the one which averages 140 days of rain a year? I've got the right Manchester, haven't I........the one that gets over a foot more rain in a year than us?
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One and the same Mike, but it gets most of that rain in the winter and when it's not raining it's party time! :D

Cheers
Mark
 
Andyp":1oqddwyx said:
DaveL":1oqddwyx said:
I remember visiting a company site in Manchester, I was told not to park close to the fence as the locals were in the habit of tossing bricks over onto any cars near it.
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Was that company ICL in West Gorton Dave?

I used to work in the Ashton manufacturing plant and if ever we had to visit the West Gorton site we would forgo the rather beneficial personal mileage rates and opt for a pool car instead. The bricks over the fence there was no myth.
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It was indeed ICL, now that name is no longer in use, Fujitsu is how they are know today. They built a new site which is much better than the old one.
A note about the bombing, it affected some of the ICL offices, and when they allowed the staff back in, every office had been ransacked, all the desks were smashed to open the drawers.
 
There must have been at least 6 or 7 name changes in the 27 years I spent with ICL. It was indeed Fujitsu by the time I left in 2007.

Are they still manufacturing computers in Manchester?
 
Andyp":1chld5sw said:
There must have been at least 6 or 7 name changes in the 27 years I spent with ICL. It was indeed Fujitsu by the time I left in 2007.

Are they still manufacturing computers in Manchester?
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No they don't make anything in the UK anymore.
 
Sorry Rod, but you are reading the wrong paper...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 78221.html

Guess where I live ;)

Winchester is obviously very nice being in 4th place in a list... "dominated by southern England".


And as for you Mark! They only show the top 20 in the article so I don't know how far down you have to go to find Manchester. This is Manchester where apparently the food is apparently so good but which can't manage a single Michelin star, yet a sleepy village in Berkshire called Bray (that's in the south by the way) has seven (including two of the UK's four 3 star restaurants).

Sounds pretty grim to me ;)

Terry.
 
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