East or South East?

[DarloRich]

Mike Neville on Look North? I'm guessing that's the North East version as you're from Darlington. Mind you, despite being broadcast from Leeds, Look North's Yorkshire version doesn't even cover most of North Yorkshire. Harrogate even gets the Newcastle based Look North.

There are other Look North Programmes? Yorkshire isnt north. It is in the Midlands

 

[anti-pacer]

There are other Look North Programmes? Yorkshire isnt north. It is in the Midlands

Hahaha. Part of the REAL Midlands are covered by Yorkshire's Look North. I remember standing in a kebab shop in Heanor and they had a TV in the waiting area. Look North (Leeds) was on, which considering Heanor is 10 miles from Nottingham, I found a bit strange.

You also have Look North (Hull) which covers East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and even parts of North West Norfolk.

 

[O L Leigh]

Sorry, this isn't meant as a rant or an attack on anyone. It's just something that I feel very passionate about. It does annoy me somewhat when people try to define East Anglia by reference to other places, such as London, or even try to deny it's identity at all.

As a proud East Anglian, I believe that East Anglia has a strong identity all of it's own. It's not the Midlands or the Home Counties, and nor is it the South-East. And neither does it matter where else is nearby or who provides the local media and under what name it does it. It's not a modern construct but a region with centuries of history going back even to pre-Roman times. East Anglians are proud, independent people with a history of doing things their own way.

O L Leigh

 

[anti-pacer]

Sorry, this isn't meant as a rant or an attack on anyone. It's just something that I feel very passionate about. It does annoy me somewhat when people try to define East Anglia by reference to other places, such as London, or even try to deny it's identity at all.

As a proud East Anglian, I believe that East Anglia has a strong identity all of it's own. It's not the Midlands or the Home Counties, and nor is it the South-East. And neither does it matter where else is nearby or who provides the local media and under what name it does it. It's not a modern construct but a region with centuries of history going back even to pre-Roman times. East Anglians are proud, independent people with a history of doing things their own way.

O L Leigh

One of the many places I've lived was Gorleston between 1992-6 and I always referred to the region as East Anglia. Officially that was Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

On trains to London I classed the start of the South East as Manningtree, which being in Essex, back then it was part of that region. Also that's where NSE station signs started to appear.

Likewise coming back from the North or Midlands, when the train got to Peterborough I knew I was back in East Anglia.

Government attempts to increase your region and give it more economic clout has resulted in places that are not part of "East Anglia" being lumped in with it.

The only other places that I could even consider being part of East Anglia are the very northern parts of Essex. There's no way that Southend and the south and west of the county are part of it. No sane person I hope would class Chigwell as East Anglia.

 

[J-2739]

There are other Look North Programmes? Yorkshire isnt north. It is in the Midlands

NEVER!!! It must be very rough up your north then!!

To be fair, the most Midland feeling city in Yorkshire is probably Sheffield (since it has rather close links to Chesterfield), but all the other cities? Nah, too drunk!

As for the East Anglia/South East thing, I'd consider Essex to be an interchangeable county, having cultural ties with East Anglia, and economic ties with the Greater London region (London Underground; M25). All other parts of East Anglia are definitely in there own right though.

 

[J-2739]

I do. Coming from the north east it certainly feels like the south east down here to me. It is very affluent, poverty seems low, employment is high, house prices are extortionate, many people seem to drive flashy cars and there seems to be cash in peoples pockets for "luxury" items

Never been to Harrogate or Notton (Wakefield) yet?

 

[anti-pacer]

Never been to Harrogate or Notton (Wakefield) yet?

There are many affluent parts of Yorkshire, even a few in Wakefield itself.

 

[J-2739]

There are many affluent parts of Yorkshire, even a few in Wakefield itself.

Wakefield has actually decent suburbs, with Newmillerdam and its nice pond, to Notton with its 200 grand houses fit with enormous back gardens.

Wakefield is definitely better than down here in Barnsley, and I even find it nicer than some of inner city Leeds, but all those places don't reach the affluence of the likes of York and Harrogate (surprisingly even northern positioned).

Really, I find Yorkshire more affluent than the North West, and the North West more affluent than the North East.

Sorry, off topic!!

 

[PeterY]

Living in West Hertfordshire (Hemel Hempstead and Watford) I consider myself a Southerner .

The north (for me) starts at Watford gap.

 

[anti-pacer]

Wakefield has actually decent suburbs, with Newmillerdam and its nice pond, to Notton with its 200 grand houses fit with enormous back gardens.

Wakefield is definitely better than down here in Barnsley, and I even find it nicer than some of inner city Leeds, but all those places don't reach the affluence of the likes of York and Harrogate (surprisingly even northern positioned).

Really, I find Yorkshire more affluent than the North West, and the North West more affluent than the North East.

Sorry, off topic!!

I think the North West trumps us on both affluence and poverty.

Also, £200k houses aren't unusual anywhere in the North. We have areas of Wakefield where you're looking at £1m plus, whereas other more associated places with wealth up here, houses fetch a lot more.

 

[Busaholic]

They all talk funny and can count to 12 on one hand down there.

Whereas if you can count to 12 at all in Southend you're given genius status.

 

[321446]

I personally think Essex is divided on the East Anglia front. North Essex yes, South Essex definitely not.

I'm surprised you don't see yourself as a Southerner . You're on the same latitude as London and a stone's throw across the estuary from Kent.

Essex still begins at the River Lea for me. And Kent is but a stone's throw away, just as long as it doesn't get any closer, thank-you very much!!!!

 

[adrock1976]

Your "official" region - South West - stretches from just south of Stratford-upon-Avon right down to Lands End. The northern extremity to your region is closer to the Scottish border than it is to you.

Don't forget that as things presently stand before Brexit happens, South West Region also includes Gibraltar.

 

[anti-pacer]

Don't forget that as things presently stand before Brexit happens, South West Region also includes Gibraltar.

That should be there slogan.

"From Gloucestershire to Gibraltar
Welcome to the South West"

 

[Busaholic]

That should be there slogan.

"From Gloucestershire to Gibraltar
Welcome to the South West"

That'd look good in Cornish - trouble is, no-one would understand it.