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Post by johnloony on Oct 27, 2017 4:45:33 GMT
I do find it bizarre that New Addington and the countryside next to it are in a seat called Croydon Central. I'm guessing you would think that "Croydon East" would be better. The reason it's "Central" is because it contains the town centre, and all the bits which make up the town centre.
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Post by johnloony on Oct 27, 2017 4:46:44 GMT
I don't think there are any constituencies in the wrong place, but I am reminded of general election night when the TV screen said "Conservative hold South Holland" and one of my colleagues asked where "South Holland" was.
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Post by minionofmidas on Oct 27, 2017 17:32:51 GMT
I wonder what people would have made of the former constituency of Liverpool Scotland. When I first came across this in writing it was as the "Liverpool division of Scotland" (and referring to TP O'Neill's parliamentary career of course) and, unfamiliar with the dated expression, I was genuinely unsure whether this meant there was a neighborhood called Scotland in Liverpool or another town called Liverpool in Scotland, eventually settling on the first as more probable.
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Post by londonseal80 on Oct 28, 2017 10:12:20 GMT
Mitcham and Morden.
Morden town centre and the Northern half is in the Wimbledon seat.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 28, 2017 10:19:14 GMT
The old Tamworth county division of Warwickshire used to confuzzle me. Also in that area I was surprised when I discovered that the 1955-74 version of Birmingham Aston was largely a suburban seat (covering much of what is now Erdington)
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 28, 2017 10:24:10 GMT
The old Tamworth county division of Warwickshire used to confuzzle me I didn't know such a thing ever existed, that's genuinely bizarre
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 28, 2017 10:30:26 GMT
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Post by sirbenjamin on Oct 28, 2017 10:34:57 GMT
I wonder what people would have made of the former constituency of Liverpool Scotland. Yes, an English constituency named 'Scotland' that elected an Irish nationalist MP... Scouse humour at its best.
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Post by andrewteale on Oct 28, 2017 15:02:07 GMT
How have we got this far into the thread without mentioning West Derby?
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Post by jamie on Oct 28, 2017 16:17:15 GMT
Despite being very specific, North East Somerset manages to miss out half of north east Somerset.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Oct 28, 2017 19:09:18 GMT
How have we got this far into the thread without mentioning West Derby? Because, as John Looney might say, everyone who isn't a spoondelockal bizumtok knows exactly where West Derby is.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Oct 28, 2017 19:12:01 GMT
The Conservatives once came up with a proposal that would have moved both Crewe Hall and Crewe railway station into the Congleton constituency.
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Oct 28, 2017 19:54:07 GMT
The Conservatives once came up with a proposal that would have moved both Crewe Hall and Crewe railway station into the Congleton constituency. Network Rail probably came up with a proposal to put Crewe railway station near Georgemas Junction.
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Post by J.G.Harston on Oct 28, 2017 19:59:58 GMT
The Conservatives once came up with a proposal that would have moved both Crewe Hall and Crewe railway station into the Congleton constituency. Network Rail probably came up with a proposal to put Crewe railway station near Georgemas Junction. I had to read that several times to get past thinking "Where's Gormenghast Junction?"
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Post by Lord Twaddleford on Oct 28, 2017 20:01:10 GMT
Network Rail probably came up with a proposal to put Crewe railway station near Georgemas Junction. I had to read that several times to get past thinking "Where's Gormenghast Junction?" Somewhere in High Peake?
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Post by sirbenjamin on Oct 28, 2017 20:11:12 GMT
This thread reminds me of my childhood. I didn't believe it when somebody told me that Everton football club were based in Liverpool.
Everton, as far as I was concerned, was a tiny village in the New Forest, near where my grandparents lived. How dare they be somewhere else? What devastating fucktardedness was this?
I still haven't forgiven them really. (Well, I haven't forgiven them for the match fixing disgrace of 1994, but their location in the wrong place didn't help!)
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Post by gwynthegriff on Oct 28, 2017 20:49:50 GMT
The Conservatives once came up with a proposal that would have moved both Crewe Hall and Crewe railway station into the Congleton constituency. Network Rail probably came up with a proposal to put Crewe railway station near Georgemas Junction. Unfortunately they wanted to put it outside my house! But with no easy access.
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Oct 28, 2017 21:54:19 GMT
Network Rail probably came up with a proposal to put Crewe railway station near Georgemas Junction. Unfortunately they wanted to put it outside my house! But with no easy access. How Great Missenden feels about HS2.
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Post by Foggy on Oct 28, 2017 22:05:05 GMT
Curious spelling of 'Wisbech' on that second map.
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Post by Andrew_S on Oct 28, 2017 22:25:40 GMT
The old Tamworth county division of Warwickshire used to confuzzle me I didn't know such a thing ever existed, that's genuinely bizarre The river used to be the boundary between Staffordshire and Warwickshire I think. Most of the old town centre is north of the river but these days something like 80% of the population of the town live south of the river.
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