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There are still one or two counties in England that still maintain their uniqueness and individuality Minx. Yorkshire being one of them. I'm not talking about the posh end like Harrogate, York and Leeds, but the grass roots areas like South Yorkshire comprising Barnsley, Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster. Although Doncaster has lost its identity and you have to travel to the rural areas and villages where I live to get a real flavour of the county.
Those rural areas grew up mining coal, and all the residents wore flat caps, raced pigeons and spit on the pavements....Ug! As a boy I delivered the papers just as the night shift was returning home....
It was a brilliant place to live in those days, everyone looked out for each other, the local bobbies knew who your dad was, and there was very little crime that the bobbies didn't know who done it! Only the Doctor had a car, and street games were common. Now it's crap! But there are still hard core Yorkshiremen still wearing flat caps though, and happily very few pigeons...
Just this Minx..................
And this....................
Thank you for filling me in. Makes sense now I would love to visit one day when the world’s normal again!