Personally, I couldn't give a **** about what people in West or North Yorkshire think of us, that wasn't the question, it's what we feel about ourselves that's relevant.
This is a Hull City board - it largely representing people from Hull and perhaps East Yorkshire, and not too many from south of the river. I imagine there are a lot of people who live south of the river who work in and travel to Hull, meaning the travel updates etc. are very useful. Probably more useful to them, than updates of what is happening in Bradford is to 'us'. If we was lumped in with the rest of Yorkshire, then we would be their Scunthorpe. Who in Leeds or Bradford cares about what is going on in Hull, Beverley or Cottingham? I bet they would be very interested in travel updates on Castle Street. I'm glad that we are the 'big fish' (pardon the pun) in the area, that has to put up with a little news about some places we aren't particularly interested in. Rather than being a little add-on to a larger region that begrudgingly gives us a couple of minutes of their broadcast.
I've no more interest in the traffic in Bradford, than I am in the traffic in Lincoln. Ideally, I'd like Radio Humberside to become East Yorkshire Radio and cover(roughly) the Humber up to Scarborough and the coast over to Goole/Howden/Pocklington etc
This, so then Scunny and Grimsby can be covered on Radio Lincolnshire which I think they would also prefer.
Hull is probably the worst city in England retail wise.They build a smart complex right next to the railway station and stick a Tescos in as the main shop.It beggars belief.There's better shopping in a small town like Castleford.
You talk about wessies being as thick as pig **** with little concept of their culture as if it should be a surprise to us.
ive never really considered myself a Yorkshireman and would never label myself one unless specifically asked , or asked to choose like in this thread. It might be that i grew up in Humberside , i dunno but i certainly dont consider to be a humbersider by any stretch - Ive never given it major thought before but i kinda associate proper yorkshire with the white rose , mining , york , barnsley , rural life and ee ba gum .
I was born in Wetherby, during the War, and then my family moved back to Hull. I can remember Hull from the age of 3 (i.e. 1946). But I consider I'm from Hull, wherever I may go. That's what I say if asked where I'm from. I'm a Yorkshireman.
i never travel to Lincolnshire. in the past year i have been across the bridge a handfull of times, and those related to City. I travel to York regularly and even more often to Leeds and West Yorkshire. I am proud to be from the East Riding of Yorkshire. The only people, and I include those on the South Bank, who wish to retain any affiliation to Auntie's convenient geographical definition are media types with a vested interest (both those on the BBC gravy train and those on the fringes), those who spin the value of this mythical Humber renewable corporation, and the Police, who know their earnings and local power would deminished at the break-up. I suggest you go back to the studio and listen to both those who listen because they have no perceived choice, but more importantantly those 100s of thousands who are fed up of arrogant assumptions about what the license payer wants as opposed to what some London based BBC 'Professional' tells us we want!
Not bothered about how or when the Bridge was built, not bothered about all the crap about Humber****e. I was born in Yorkshire, i'm a Yorkshireman through and through, stuff what anybody else says. Happy Yorkshire Day everyone!!
I have no affinity at all with south of the bank but am guessing older folk might do. Some of the places mentioned in the local media in Lincolnshire, I have no idea where they are at all, I wonder where else in the country this would happen.
The problem is BBC seem to have a policy for radio of sticking to county boundaries created in 1974, I would have thought that they would have had a look at this by now. I would suggest Radio Hull & Yorkshire Coast. I would assume Scarboro people would prefer this as it would be more relevant to them than traffic in Northallerton as Radio York would give them, but I would still include an overlap with lincs for Barton & Scunny as I think they might like a choice. As for Look North, I dont want to return to the days of leeds Look North but I do believe when they set up the Hull Studio, a new transmitter should have been built on the Yorks Wolds that would have captured all of the old historic East Riding plus those places just outside like Scarboro, Malton & Selby
On the subject of look north, would you think that people as far South as Wisbeach, Boston, Grantham, and other such places I ve seen covered on Look North would see themselves as 'Northerners'? For instance, I recently caught two consecutive 'news' items on Look North: one from Brid, and one from Sandringham. I dont even know where Sandringham is, but it aint round here! i understand that the BBC have to make compromises in linking geographical regions together for logistical convenience, but i would suggest much greater cultural affiliation is a better and more sensible discriminating factor than the pin in a map policy we currently have. Can anyone imagine waking up one day to find that Merseyside and Greater Manchester are suddenly one and the same? Just as most people on the North Bank see themselves as Yorkshiremen, then many on the South see themselves as Lincolnshiremen, or whatever the corresponding term may be. Some, through affinity to Lincoln would probably see Nottingham as there regional centre. Nottingham County Cricket used to play at Cleethorpes for goodness sake! From a personal point of view, i hope that Yorkshire Day inspires a lobby on the BBC to change geography back to its natural order. However, as long as the predominant local media status-quo shouts loudly in Auntie's favour, the words 'Turkey' and 'Christmas' will endure and only those within the walls can call themselves local. Time for change auntie!!!
Yorkshire of course. Hull has been in Yorkshire for about 1000 years ffs, yet some people think a 20 year stint in a made up region has somehow changed our identity. Hull is and always has been a Yorkshire city and we are Yorkshiremen. When I go to the seaside I go to Brid or Scarborough, not Cleethorpes. I go to York, not Lincoln. When I leave Hull, I drive on the M62 through Yorkshire, not Lincolnshire. In fact, the only time I've ever gone south of the river is to go to the airport!
well bugger me. London is now part of the Look 'North' kingdom. Pete Levy is broadcasting from Stratford. It's not even North London. Come on Auntie, stop taking the p i s s!!!!!
