Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/05
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Nick
--- Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com> wrote:
> I love this Lancashire Yorkshire rivalry. Whilst
> born in
> Nottinghamshire I moved to Lancashire, the Fylde, at
> the age of 2 and
> did not leave until starting my apprenticeship in
> Huddersfield in
> what was then the West Riding of Yorkshire.
> Lots of good natured banter. My welding teacher, who
> was a clog
> wearing Yorkshire nationalist, said, on learning
> that I was from
> Lancashire that "there must be a lot of good blokes
> in Lancashire"
> then, as he turned away quietly said "'cause there's
> never been a
> good one come out"
> The lab technician who worked for me after I
> finished training very
> reluctantly accepted that whilst Yorkshire was 't
> best County in't
> World Lancashire was second and the whole rest of
> the World was
> nowhere :-)
> Of course Lancashire did win the War of the Roses
> and the Monarch is
> the Duke of Lancaster.......
> Frank
>
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