Can we not go any further with this topic please, it could create problems for me the next time i collect his rent.
Do you have a link that shows it has been used in common parlance for that time? As I posted earlier, I've looked before and couldn't find any real examples. The plod, radio and fire brigade are meaningless as far as this goes as they could be called anything at all from DMD's detectives to TANYA (one of those was actually the name of the ambulance service).
No I don't have a link, in the way that you don't have a link that it was not used.... I think most of the rest of the country know where the Humber is and the zone around it Can't see the problem tbh....
"The name "Humberside" was used as an informal name and geographical term for the area surrounding the Humber before the creation of the county. The term Humberside was applied to the ports of Hull, Goole and Grimsby during the twentieth century as industrial development took hold on wither side of the Humber Estuary. The use of the term to unify the two sides of the river was also driven by the desire of the local authorities of the area to promote the construction of a suspension bridge. Humberside was first adopted as an official term in 1964 when the planning region of Yorkshire and Humberside was created consisting of the East, West Ridings of Yorkshire and Parts of Lindsey from Lincolnshire. The Humberside name was used to actively market the area from then on. In 1971 the newly-launched local BBC radio station was named Radio Humberside. Humberside County Council held a competition to design a coat of arms for the new county. Mr E H Cook held the winning design and the arms were granted on 28th July 1976 by the College of Arms" From some website or other.... I could go on but I think I've made my point.
Having a link to prove a negative is tricky, but not altogether impossible, but it should be easy to find links showing it in common parlance. It's not an issue at all, only I was expecting you to educate me as I have looked before and found very little usage of the term prior to the Radio Station adopting it. I think, had the Government shown more respect and not just foisted it on people it could well have taken off. Amongst other things, people objected to being treat like irrelevant fools to be lied to or ignored.
As long as your point was you being still unable to find anything that says it was in common parlance for over one hundred years, yes you have.
I'm not in the business of educating folk especially on a site such as this with so many erudite minds and original thinkers. Don't disagree for one second about the lack of popularity and the 'decision taken by Whitehall' part....but the fact remains it's been around for decades before Whitehall decided to use it or not.
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive....ewspapertitle=hull daily mail&sortorder=score 35 references to Humberside in the Hull Daily Mail of the 19th Century.......
Mate, you're embarrassing yourself now. It hasn't been in common parlance for over 100 years which is what you claimed. Just move on.
Did someone delete it? The only one I saw was a desperate search of some newspaper that gave 30 odd hits, a scan of which showed many were for the same recurring article which seems to have been subsequently dropped. I'd say that's more proof that it wasn't in common parlance for over 100 years, which was your claim.
There isn't a region called Humberside actually. Just as there isn't one called the South Riding. Both are made up for convenience. There are however, two banks of the River Humber. One is in the historic East Riding of Yorkshire. The other is in Lincolnshire or what ever they prefer to be called these days. Geography wasn't one of your subjects at school I guess?
It has been in use verbally and written for over 100 years. The two local paper links I posted demonstrate that. Of course whether people like that fact is another matter, but we shouldn't rewrite history.....
Could I just point out, there is no River Humber, it's an Estuary. It's taken nearly 2000 years and the Paeonians* are still living like purple rain in a 'country formally known as' do you reckon we can keep this thread alive that long? *"the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
No, all you've shown is that a very small number of journalists used it. That to me is more proof that it wasn't in common parlance.
There's a couple of pertinent phrases in that article, which is Wikipedia by the way: a) Humberside within England in 1991, and b) succeeded by East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. Succeeded being the operative!!! Wikipedia also tending to be unreliable at best?
