Well, I used to live in real, yokelly Cheshire and we never thought of places like Altrincham and Stockport as being part of the county. That was Manc-land.
Doesn’t the question of exactly where you live effect things such as car and house insurance ? I once saw a TV programme about the suburbs of Manchester where one part of a street was classed as being in Manchester and the other half in Cheshire. The residents in the latter paid much lower insurance premiums.
Agreed. I’m from a posh place just outside. Genuinely outside 
The TV programme were probably simplifying things massively. The way they use locations to determine premiums is complicated. A friend moved out of studentville into Cheshire proper, but their car insurance didn’t change - they queried this, and were basically told ‘you’re still a student, so we know you’ll still be parking in M13 every day’.
If your street is in one area and the neighbouring street is in another then both your Council Tax and services you receive for it (e.g. rubbish collection) can vary considerably.
I live in Rutland (smallest county in England 
) and invite posters to have a go at my local authority history:
- In 1889, what was Rutland’s status?
It was a County Council
- What happened next?
It became a Unitary Authority 
- Rutland now counts as a District Council. What name did the Council choose for it?
Rutland County Council District Council :smack:
From what I understand there are no posh places in/around/near Ipswich.
Your nearest posh place is…Cheshire
I suppose you’re right, if you define ‘posh’ as ‘lots of footballers live there’.
The funny thing is that you seldom see any of them. Admittedly most live in Alderley Edge and Bowdon but even so you’d reasonably expect to see these “superstars” more often than you do.
Thus far I’ve seen Denis Law, Teddy Sherringham(now gone)Gary McAllister(also gone)Paul Dickov (what a bloody surname) and Dennis Irwin.
I did once see Posh and Becks when I was delivering mail to Sherringham many moons ago
2 words for you: Manchester City
That is all.
Is Cheshire even in the north? Is it covered by North West tonight?
We used to get Midlands Today, even though they never reported news from anywhere nearer than Stoke. But we were in the Mid Cheshire Geographical Anomaly[sup]TM[/sup], with some huge hill between us and the Granada-land transmitter. Most people got Wales and Granada.
Hah! Bobby Smith used to live at the bottom of my road. (Back then he was probably on £20 a week :eek: )
I say! Mayfair is definitely nearer to Ipswich than this Cheshire place (wherever it is … in the North somewhere? 
)
Yes it is but usually they put out a special version entitled “Posh North West Tonight”
Only Cheshirites have the special receiver able to view this enlightning programme
Bobby Smith? Old Spurs player I believe
Centre forward of the Spurs 1960-61 Double team. 
This was my first season watching football!
Brown
Baker, Henry,
Blanchflower, Norman, Mackay
Dyson, White, Smith, Allen, Jones
I like it that you didn’t say “Ipswich is nearer to Mayfair than…” 
I remember the Spurs double team but not all the players.
Wasn’t White killed by a lightning strike whilst playing golf?
This reminds me of that Ripping Yarns episode where Gordon Ottershaw can name all the former players of Barnestoneworth United…“Noble, Carrick, Dobson, Crapper, Dewhurst, MacIntyre, Treadmore, Davitt”
Wasn’t Crapper transferred to Melchester Rovers the season they won the FA Cup, League Championship, Carling Cup, Charity Shield, World Cup, Grand National,Derby, St Leger and the Ashes.
The very same season that Roy Race broke his leg which prevented him winning Wimbledon for the 7th time
Sadly yes.
I confess that I had to look up a couple of names, but it was incredibly exciting to be there (with my Dad )while a team did the Double.
I was in Bertie Wooster mode .
Thankfully Mayfair probably is nearer Ipswich, but it would have been safer to say “Ipswich is nearer to Mayfair …”.