| Prestonian? |
| Robbo | I was just wondering how many people on here consider themself a Prestonian.
Personally I consider myself a Prestonian, due to the strong links with Preston and I was born in Preston and follow PNE, but I have lived in Leyland all my life(21 years!)
Don't get me wrong I'm a Leylander first and formost but I just wondered if anyone else considers themselves Prestonians? |
| Martin | I was born in Chorley Hospital and lived in Leyland for the first 37 years of my life.
What is the correct term for a Leylander? We should really have a better name.... Here in Glastonbury, people sometimes call themselves Glastafarians.
Any suggestions? |
| noel | I consider myself a Faringtonian as I have lived most my life there . Born in Preston as all my family were . My mum always told me that "quare folk came from Leyland" and sure enough I found it true when I met my wife to be ( joke!!! incase she reads this.) Even when I lived down in Wiltshire I was a Faringtonian not a Dilton Martian . Not much fun being called a Martian. Particularly when you have the blood of Kings. Sorry I've been reading TP again. Like the Glastafarian one though Martin. |
| William R | Having lived in Barnsley since 1960, you`d think I was becoming "naturalised", but no, they still call me a Lanc. then I get the crack about the best thing to come from Lancashire was the M62. I tell them it works in reverse too, they built the M62 so that the Yorkies could leave quicker for greener fields. Nobody has told me what "The last Saturday in Farington" is yet, it never seemed to happen, Farington always survived. Cheers, William R, |
| Lady Griffin | I don't really know what I am [:(].After 45 years in NZ Don't think of myself as a Kiwi -in fact it's an arguable point as to what a Kiwi is these days.There are so many incomers of different nationalities these days. Even the All Blacks have taken the name New Zealand from beneath the Silver Fern recently.
Certainly am a Lanky and refuse to put myself down on official forms as a New Zealander of European descent, which can mean a host of origins, and after crossing that out write Lancashire and English.
My son is a Kiwi and my two daughters were born in Preston and I lived and worked there for a while,follow PNE and sign the Preston Guild Scroll over here.
Hope to sign the next one or even be there.
Was born in Leyland and lived in Lostock Hall but on balance think I'm a Brigger as my family were born there and I did most of my growing up in Bamber Bridge.
My mother,father and grandmother were born in BB and all are in St Saviours churchyard.
So yes I'm a Brigger born in Leyland and a Preston masher by association. |
| dampslad | Bill -thought I'd e-mailed you about "The last Saturday in Farington".
It was St Ambrose's walking day, not held around Whitsuntide like the Leyland ones but on the last Saturday in August to commemorate the arrival of the first bail of cotton at Farington Mill after the American civil war had caused it to close for several years.
The menfolk carried it shoulder high down Mill Street singing "All People That On Earth Do Dwell" (The Old Hundredth) in thanks.
When I was a lad, the procession always used to pause at the top of Mill Street while the parish church band played and everyone sang the hymn.
Colin Damp
Plymouth |
| Martin | quote:
Originally posted by Caroline
Isn't 'Glastafarian' something to do with all those hippies down there, Martin? Here in La Chapelle Blanche we're called Chapellois, but really, I'm a Lancashire Lass.
I think it is the 'alternative' community that has coined the Glasta nickname.
We could still do with a catchy Leylandite name. |
| William R | As Leyland used to be The Leyland Hundred, should we be called Leyland Centurians or possibly Cents for short? Only joking, Martin, once a Leylander always a Leylander. Cheers Bill. |
| LDunlop76 | Shouldn't you be called Leylandii? <~~ducking and running fast!
Don't know what the heck I am - born in Withington Hospital, lived 18 years just too far to the south of Manchester to be a Mancunian, but not far enough to be a country bumpkin (though possibly a Cheshire cat? <g>), then 12 months in Liverpool, 4 years on the Wirral and 20 years between Wigan and St Helens! Not sure I quite qualify for pie-eater status yet! LOL!! |
| Martin | quote:
Originally posted by LDunlop76
Don't know what the heck I am - born in Withington Hospital, lived 18 years just too far to the south of Manchester to be a Mancunian, but not far enough to be a country bumpkin (though possibly a Cheshire cat? <g>), then 12 months in Liverpool, 4 years on the Wirral and 20 years between Wigan and St Helens! Not sure I quite qualify for pie-eater status yet! LOL!!
Doesn't that make you a Heinz 47er |
| Caroline | Isn't 'Glastafarian' something to do with all those hippies down there, Martin? Here in La Chapelle Blanche we're called Chapellois, but really, I'm a Lancashire Lass. |
| noel | You know I'm feeling really sorry for Lady G not knowing what/who she is.[:)]
I'm sure you've got a better life down there in upside down world Linda than we have in this overcrowded, overtaxed damp country.
Thank your blessings.[^] that's meant to be green with envy. |
| Lady Griffin | I'm sure you're right Noel.It is Paradise here compared to most countries.I still think it is gradually becoming Paradise Lost.I wonder what Brian's daughter thought.She could have popped in for a cuppa if I'd known.
Still can be a torn apart feeling though and quite strange sometimes.
When I get back to Lancashire-which admittedly isn't often- I think thank God I'm home, lapse into dialect, and do the nostalgic trips around old haunts and re-connect with my family.
Then when I get to the Airport and see the Koru on the tail of Air New Zealand I think thank God I'm going home.So there you are.
If I were rich I would live in both countries for six months of each year and travel first class of course.
Long haul travel leaves a lot to be desired.
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