Yorkshire Poll

Redwurzel said:
There is some branding go on in the last 10 years:

Yorkshire Farm
Yorkshire Vet
Educating Yorkshire
Yorkshire Tea (using Sean Bean and Michael Parkinson who to me have as much in common with Taylors of Harrogate as Mark Benbow and Bob Mortimer)
Yorkshire Railway

Almost trying to create a new distinct identity to compete with the Scots and the Irish, but I don't see it with Lancashire - maybe Manchester and Liverpool feel like Middlesbrough a bit different from the rural pre industrial counties.

I am happy to say I am from North Yorkshire (born in what is now Redcar and Cleveland).

I always thought Stockton on Tees had much more in common with Middlesbrough than say Stockton and Durham or Middlesbrough and York . The river Tees and heavy industry defined the region.
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Stockton-on-Tees has it's own history going further back than that of Middlesbrough. Connected by a river, yes but that's all. Again politicians in the past refused to recognise that and directed funding to the town of Middlesbrough in an attempt to gain city status. That worked well didn't it. This story was written up in the mag 'Then and Now', a study commissioned by the then labour gov't showed that Stockton had more historic buildings, better road networks etc and history. It showed that if they removed the local polluting heavy industry (Privately owned foundries )direct the funding there it could achieve city status with a clean up of the area. The local Labour controlled council would not back the idea because it would be a vote loser. I think I've got this story right, and will stand to be corrected.
Stockton and Durham are linked because a former Bishop of Durham purchased the settlement back in the 1100's.
Middlesborough has it's own proud, shorter history, shame the local politicians got rid of some of their historic buildings.

Sorry O.P I can't answer your question because I wasn't born in Yorkshire but my brother was and he is a 'Yorkshire Pudding'and proud of it.
 
Jimstewart said:
It’s like saying I was born with ginger hair and grew up with ginger hair but would never consider myself ginger. It is where it is. In Yorkshire.
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Not really. I said I never “refer” to myself as a Yorkshireman, in that I don’t say “I’m from Yorkshire”.
Maybe just close the post then as nobody can have an opinion as you have spoken in the matter and that’s that.
 
LowMoorBoro said:
Not really. I said I never “refer” to myself as a Yorkshireman, in that I don’t say “I’m from Yorkshire”.
Maybe just close the post then as nobody can have an opinion as you have spoken in the matter and that’s that.
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You can have all the opinions you want I’m really not bothered. Mine is that you can’t pick up a town and shift it.
 
LowMoorBoro said:
I don’t remember saying that. Oh well.
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No fairs fair you didn’t . I think you said something along the lines of you were born and brought up in Middlesbrough but you don’t think you are from Yorkshire. I’ve no idea how that is possible given that Middlesbrough is in Yorkshire but Hey ho each to their own.
 
Yorkshire absolutely.
Middlesbrough is Yorkshire it is as simple as that.

Good folk born north of the river have every right to follow Boro and simply can't claim to be from Yorkshire. I can absolutely understand why they wouldn't class themselves as Yorkshire, nor would they want to be.
I have quite few a mates who would say they are Teessiders and identify with County Durham, because they are from north of the river.

But Middlesbrough, Thornaby, Yarm and Redcar are all indisputably Yorkshire.
 
Jimstewart said:
No fairs fair you didn’t . I think you said something along the lines of you were born and brought up in Middlesbrough but you don’t think you are from Yorkshire. I’ve no idea how that is possible given that Middlesbrough is in Yorkshire but Hey ho each to their own.
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I said I don’t refer to myself as a Yorkshireman, that’s not the same at all.

I don’t really understand why you care so much?
 
I was born in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire but my postcode is TS. Bit of a mongrel really.
 
sambaDTR said:
I was born in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire but my postcode is TS. Bit of a mongrel really.
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Parts of Teesside are in Yorkshire (anything South of the river).

There's no such thing as a "Yorkshire postcode". The YO postcode means York (the city) area. Same as LS means Leeds. They're meaningless as far as this debate is concerned.

So rest assured you're not a mongrol. You're both 100% Yorkshire and 100% Teessider.
 
I'm a Yorkshireman....could have played cricket for them when they only selected Yorkshiremen. How old fashioned does that seem now....no wonder we won nowt in the early 80s....Somerset had Richards and Garner....we had Lumb and Carrick!
 
Wiseman_Vaughn said:
I mentioned to friends of mine in Leeds that people from Middlesbrough claim to be Yorkshiremen.

They laughed and said they had never heard that before.
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Never been particularly well informed some Leeds folk are they? I seem to remember them lining the streets to say goodbye to Sir Jimmy!
 
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Wiseman_Vaughn said:
I mentioned to friends of mine in Leeds that people from Middlesbrough claim to be Yorkshiremen.

They laughed and said they had never heard that before.
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Not really relevant though.
There are ill informed people all over the country.

Doesn't change the facts.
 
This is the thing that’s inhibited Boro and Teesside moving on more vigorously than the other Northern industrial conurbations. We squabble like chickens in a pen not about territory but what to bloody call ourselves .

Certainly not being disrespectful towards the posters on here because we love debate which enriches the board but my ire is towards successive leaders ( local and national ) who have done exactly this for generations and moved us about ( in name ) like on a chess board .

Yesterday on here we examined city status and if you think about it every time these people who determine who gets it look at Teesside they probably have to dig a ‘ latest ‘ map out to see what exactly we are . If we can’t get one voice and put a definitive cap on how the hell can they label us ?

As mentioned above Yorkshire doesn’t want us so sod them . We are like the unpopular uncle who has to be invited to a family wedding “ oh sit him over there out the way as he becomes a nuisance “ The family member nobody wants

btw born in Boro and am a Teessider
 
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