I'm collecting money for agents......

[Tingles]

Northerners do make the best cakes..

Eccles cakes
Lancaster Lemon Tart
Bakewell pudding

(I'm sure I thought of more until I started typing)

I think its to take the taste of coal out of their mouths

[Board Game Geek]

Actually, the last time I went north of the Watford Gap, was 20 years ago, and we went to a place called Tolford or something. It was a long drive and we'd gone quite a way north. Luckily, us passengers had plenty of cans to amuse ourselves with.

When we arrived, it was like going back in time to a village that had been forgotten by modern day.

It was a bit of a shock seeing people all dressed in old style clothes, having to change our english money at the bank for the local currency, and wandering around the village, seeing people still using horses and carts.

At least they had a foundry there where they made their own steel and stuff, so I guess they are quite self-sufficient in that sense.

It was a shame to go, and the people were really nice and friendly. It looked a hard life though. The sweetshop wasn't bad, but it was all old fashioned sweets. Maybe the modern stuff has yet to get up there ?

I gave the lady in the sweetshop a fiver and said that if she ever leaves for London, this is the sort of money they use there. She looked genuinely shocked, but I reassured her there was no catch, and I was just trying to help.

I wonder if that little old village is still there, these days ?

[Tingles]

Actually, the last time I went north of the Watford Gap, was 20 years ago, and we went to a place called Tolford or something. It was a long drive and we'd gone quite a way north. Luckily, us passengers had plenty of cans to amuse ourselves with.

When we arrived, it was like going back in time to a village that had been forgotten by modern day.

It was a bit of a shock seeing people all dressed in old style clothes, having to change our english money at the bank for the local currency, and wandering around the village, seeing people still using horses and carts.

At least they had a foundry there where they made their own steel and stuff, so I guess they are quite self-sufficient in that sense.

It was a shame to go, and the people were really nice and friendly. It looked a hard life though. The sweetshop wasn't bad, but it was all old fashioned sweets. Maybe the modern stuff has yet to get up there ?

I gave the lady in the sweetshop a fiver and said that if she ever leaves for London, this is the sort of money they use there. She looked genuinely shocked, but I reassured her there was no catch, and I was just trying to help.

I wonder if that little old village is still there, these days ?

Blist Hill?

[Board Game Geek]

Blist Hill?

I don't know. We were certainly all blist (apart from the driver) when we arrived at the place.

[Zippy]

True story - went to visit friends in Yorkshire with another(confirmed Southerner) mate. He actually asked "do you have cashpoints up here?"

Needless to say, he's never lived it down.

[Tingles]

I don't know. We were certainly all blist (apart from the driver) when we arrived at the place.

http://www.blistshill.org/


Near Telford.

[Board Game Geek]

http://www.blistshill.org/


Near Telford.

That looks like the place from what I recall.

It's a re-enactment museum ?????!?!

We all thought it was real...

[Tingles]

That looks like the place from what I recall.

It's a re-enactment museum ?????!?!

We all thought it was real...

I admire your sense of humour.