[Julian]

Originally Posted by iadom

Well the vast majority of people never wanted those stupid regional changes to council and municipal boundaries and names, so as far as I and the massive majority of people are concerned we have always lived in Lancashire, those six teams are still and always have been in Lancashire. The Lancashire County Cricket team play matches in Manchester & Liverpool.
That also means that historically Middlesbrough are in Yorkshire, no true Yorkshireman would ever recognise government imposed border tinkering, once a Tyke, always a Tyke.

I agree Jim. My wife comes from a town( the biggest one in Britain allegedly) which has been swallowed up by Greater Manchester - she is a Lancashire lass tho'