Lives on in this institution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_West_Anglia
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:05 (one month ago) link
Staffs is more West Midlands
i know you're right but i mean kind of? South Staffs used to contain Walsall and maybe the entire Black Country, but it doesn't any more - and North Staffs is Stoke and whatever that is
Derby & Notts & Leicester all East Midlands, and there is a bit of a different 'style' of Midlandsiness between West and East
this is also "right" but Derby is pulled North by the Peaks maybe and then places like Chesterfield feel like the almost-North too
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:09 (one month ago) link
Nottingham and Leicester i'll give to the East Midlands absolutely, other bits of Notts i feel a little differently about, when i think about Derby i know in my heart it's the Midlands i just prefer to ignore it out of existence
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:11 (one month ago) link
not the entire Black Country - Dudley & Stourbridge were in Worcestershire
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:17 (one month ago) link
oh yeah good shout
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:18 (one month ago) link
the North starts at Stoke as any fule kno
― fetter, Sunday, 7 April 2024 18:31 (one month ago) link
kay, hang on, need to check if this opinion is controversial... East Anglia is part of The South. Is that just me or is that a commonly accepted feeling?― emil.y, Sunday, 7 April 2024 14:16 bookmarkflaglink
― emil.y, Sunday, 7 April 2024 14:16 bookmarkflaglink
I don't think this should be controversial but has made me think - technically I am from south of the Watford Gap and I have lived in the south my entire adult life, but I still think of myself as a midlander and probably always will, I strongly believe the midlands is its own thing and not north or south. but some of East Anglia is further north than the west midlands - Norwich is further north than Birmingham for instance
on the other hand I call my mum "mom"
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 7 April 2024 23:22 (one month ago) link
there is also "the west is its own thing" argument which I personally agree with - the south west/West Country doesn't have a whole lot to do with the rest of the south and probably has no reason to be grouped together with it really
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 7 April 2024 23:33 (one month ago) link
West Country / London / Anglia / Central / Yorkshire / Border / Meridian / Granada / Tyne Tees - I don't make the rules
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 8 April 2024 00:04 (one month ago) link
tbf that sort of works
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 8 April 2024 00:36 (one month ago) link