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Post by IlfordDave1975 on Jan 20, 2004 9:41:53 GMT
I have never considered London to be HOME, not in 7 years, its just where my house is.
I have almost thought it a few times, last night I actually did.
To me HOME is Staffordshire, or to be more specific Keele Village, even though I only lived there a few years, it was the last place I lived full time in stoke before moving away to uni. After that it would be Newcastle under Lyme (just to clarify as I have lived in both Newcastles) As I lived in Newcastle/Basford/Hartshill area from age of 5 - 17.
after that, my adopted Home....Newcastle Upon Tyne, a city I spent 3 years in, a place I matured in, from this wide eyed 18 years old student ... to a married man with responsibilities.
So where is Home for You, where you live, or where you grew up ?
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Post by mart72 on Jan 20, 2004 9:45:35 GMT
My home is Fenton. Plenty of pubs, close to Stokes ground, and a good bunch of people. Dave the only people who call London home are asylum seekers and imigrants
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Jan 20, 2004 10:38:22 GMT
"Home" will always be Biddulph, The Moorlands and S-O-T in general. I live in Warrington now and have done for 7 years  , but it always grates on me to say I'm "from Warrington" just for convenience when I meet people on holiday. What I'd really like to say is "I'm from Stoke on Trent - I just live in Warrngton. I guess that's one plus for the yanks - when they say they're from somewhere they mean that's where they were raised - not where they find themselves living. |
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Post by romfordstokie on Jan 20, 2004 10:52:08 GMT
I've lived in the South East for 9 years and probably think of it as home.
However leaving work earlish on a Friday, getting on a Virgin train from Euston, couple of Stellas, the warm glow as the Train passes an illuminated Brit for a weekend of Mothers cooking a sack full of oatcakes and a home game you know that if home is where the heart is, home is most definitely Stoke on Trent
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Post by Rex on Jan 20, 2004 10:58:49 GMT
For some of you this might sound weird coming from a geezer who has never lived in Stoke. I class where i live now as being Home...
But
Whenever I drive to Stoke once I get to the sign that says Uttoxeter, I start to relax and 'feel at home'
Honest guv, no bullshit
Rex
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Post by IlfordDave1975 on Jan 20, 2004 11:17:15 GMT
uttoxeter.......
I start singing "Ohh staffydsher is wonderfull" as I pass over the county line.......
its become almost a ritual now.......
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Post by Linx on Jan 20, 2004 11:47:39 GMT
I effectively left Stoke (Weston Coyney to be exact) when I was 18 and went to uni.. For the last 24 years I've lived in Brum, Notts. and Lincs. where I've made new mates, married (a woman from Warrington who thinks my support for the Potters is quaint and slightly mad) and had a family. So I don't really feel that SOT is home any more: it's changed a lot and many of my familiar landmarks and roads have disappeared. My family are still there but I've lost touch with everybody else I used to know there . |
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Post by JR on Jan 20, 2004 11:52:09 GMT
Home is when you pass the Ghetto known as C rewe on the new Bypass and see the "Welcome To Nantwich" sign.
After a crappy 24 hour journey home just after Xmas it was a very nice sight.
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Post by jnb14 on Jan 20, 2004 11:53:11 GMT
Linx,
Are you Philip Baker, erstwhile of Longton High and the 6th Form????
If you are, I'm John Ball, you may remember me.
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Post by Linx on Jan 20, 2004 11:55:44 GMT
jnb14 - Yes, John, we've confirmed this before if memory serves me right. I've not noticed you on the OMB for ages - have you been lurking? What u doing these days?
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Post by jnb14 on Jan 20, 2004 12:14:19 GMT
Didn't realise we'd confirmed it, well hello!
At present I'm sitting in front of a bunch of Year 10 trying to teach them RE, not too successfully. I teach in Nottingham, history mainly, but we have to turn a hand to RE.
If anyone had told me at 16 i'd be a teacher.......
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Jan 20, 2004 12:19:22 GMT
married (a woman from Warrington who thinks my support for the Potters is quaint and slightly mad) - S'funny Linx - I think the same about people who support Warrington Wolves sometimes!  |
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Post by Linx on Jan 20, 2004 13:16:27 GMT
Jnb14 - small world: I teach in Notts as well - what school are you at? I can't believe you're teaching RE! And I hope your kids give you a harder time than we used to give to Mrs Vaughan at VI form college. BTW - I have an excuse to be writing this rather than being in front of a class. What's yours?  |
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Post by RobPa on Jan 20, 2004 13:38:18 GMT
home for me is penkhull, s-o-t lived in the same house since day 1 like, so cant say anywhere else is me home
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Post by Coll40 on Jan 20, 2004 13:52:11 GMT
I was born in Meir, got married at 23, then lived in Normacot, moved to Weston Park, now Lightwood.
Even though it's 20 since I left, I still call Meir my home.
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Post by altiscfc on Jan 20, 2004 13:54:59 GMT
Well I lived in Biddulph til I was 18, moved to Penkhull til I was 26 then spent 2 years in Manchester, a year in Amsterdam, a year in London where I'am currently will be til August this year. After all that I still consider Stoke my home, my parents live in Sandbach now and the rest of my family is scattered liberally around Stoke. However as of September this year I'll be off to see the rest of the world and have intentions to stop in NZ. I do the same as Not_Nick_H 'I'm from Stoke and live in London' |
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Jan 20, 2004 14:15:19 GMT
Strange co-incidence alti - I have a mate who did just that in September last year; Canada, Hawaii, Fiji, Aus, NZ, Singapore - he arrives back here on Thursday, but is lining up a move to NZ once he's got some work back on his CV. Good Luck.
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Post by ChrisEvans on Jan 20, 2004 14:18:09 GMT
It would have to be Quarry Bank for me! Born and bred in the Black Country (not that you can tell from my accent!! :  and only coming to live in Stoke for the first time in August of last year! I was born in Wordsley, lived in Brierley Hill till I was 5, then moved to Quarry Bank where i lived until I was 20. Then moved to Clee Hill in Shropshire, and have just moved to Stoke! Quarry Bank/Brierly Hill will always be my 'Home' closely followed by Clee Hill, and although Stoke seems nothing like home, it has always been 'special' to me! |
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jan 20, 2004 14:21:25 GMT
Have now lived in Ireland for 23yrs,but still like to get HOME now & again.
Home for me is where you were brought up.When its my turn to snuff it i hope to be buried at HOME too.
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Post by Admin on Jan 20, 2004 14:31:42 GMT
I was born in Fegg Hayes, moved to Abbey Hulton when I was 5 years old. Joined the Royal Navy at 16... came out seven years later and have been living in Penkhull since 1988. Penkhull is definintely my home now and, barring a lottery win (in which case I'd be off around the world) I'll be staying here till I depart this mortal coil!
Smudge
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Post by jnb14 on Jan 20, 2004 15:09:39 GMT
Linx, no excuse whatsoever! And we've OFSTED coming next week!
The place I teach is in Nottingham, called Djanogly Academy (pronounced Djanogly), It's basically an ordinary secondary school and getting more and more like Longton High.
I haven't thought about Mrs. vaughan for years!
More later!
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Post by rower on Jan 20, 2004 15:46:14 GMT
born in Hartshill.(hospital) lived in the Hillberry pub(grandparents owned it) moved to Eaton Park aged 1 and stayed here for the last 37 years rower Smudge!...you stated that you joined the navy..... then 7 years later "YOU CAME OUT  ".....would you like to elaborate on this?????? ;D |
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Post by JR on Jan 20, 2004 16:35:40 GMT
Bloody ell Rower u just ruined my gag
Was just going to say that won't sit next to him at monopoly tomorrow ;D
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Post by Northy on Jan 20, 2004 18:46:44 GMT
where ever i lay my hat ;D
Born in leek, mum trapped in a snow storm, then Talke Pits for 18 years, navy for 14 - had houses in sandyford, sneyd green and whitley bay. Then near oxford for 3 years and finally Barnton near Northwich since 95 as i got a job in warrington. I call home where I am now, involved in local village team football and the village kids teams, friends here, drink with em - town is crap for a night out though
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Post by deadotter on Jan 20, 2004 19:59:48 GMT
born in smallthorne,near to the fail,but have always been red & white.moved to sneyd green when i got wed,but have lived in deadotter land for the last 14yrs.
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Post by bogus on Jan 20, 2004 20:21:20 GMT
Born Haywood Hospital Burslum and spent the first 18 months of my life in Northwood.
Thankfully, my old man was from Heron Cross and a Stokie and we moved to Blurton and away from my predominantly The Fail suppoting mother's family.
Aged 23 yrs moved to Leighton Buzzard, Beds and also married.
Aged 30 years returned to Stoke divorced and took up residence in Blythe Bridge.
Aged 40 sold up the house, temporarily moved back to M & D's in Blurton before setting of to see Europe (The sunny southern bit ;D). Spent two years away and stayed the full second year in the Gulf of St Tropez in a static caravan that I bought.
Aged 42 returned, broke but happy, to M + D's and am still there now aged 47 and helping them through their retirement.
No Matter where I've been I have ALWAYS told people that I am from Stoke. It really is home and for me it would seem it's the place I always return to.
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Post by Parksy on Jan 21, 2004 0:17:32 GMT
My story is similar to coll40's. I was born on Leacroft Road, Meir (three houses from Denis Smith  ). Then we moved to George Avenue and stayed there until I was 16 when my parents moved to Meir Heath (1980 - my mum still lives there). I stayed for 2 years until Uni in Manchester where I moved around a bit until settling in Buxton where I have stayed for the last 16 years. I still class George Avenue, Meir as my home - and always will You can take the boy out of Stoke, but you can't take Stoke out of the boy ! |
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Post by Do eet fer Paddock on Jan 21, 2004 10:09:37 GMT
Home is Longsdon. Currently livng in Fremantle and it really is beginning to attach itself to the old physche. You know what? I start work at 12 midday and for the last week I have been at Cottesloe beach for 9.30 and it's been like stepping into a warm fucking bath (webcam at; www.coastaldata.transport.wa.gov.au/coastcam/live-cottesloe.html) . Take a look, you don't get that at Westport Lake do you? Now there are no people with holes in their arses greater than the Aussies at blowing their own trumpets, but you have to hand it to the climate down here. So much so that I'm seriously thinking about ditching my beloved Moorlands in favour of it. Even the sport is ok, the Fremantle Dockers AFL club are good to watch, and regularly pull in over 30,000. Not the same as watching the red & white idles but still. So I'm feeling utterly mixed up about the whole 'home' thing at present. Still, I'll be back wom early MArch so I guess we'll see what happens then. |
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Post by SouthportStokie on Jan 21, 2004 11:58:44 GMT
Born in Heron Cross, moved to Trent V'ale aged 2, lived there till I was 27, spent one week in Hanford, then moved to Central Drive, Blurton, for 4 years.
left Stoke in '89 for Southport, still here.
Home is Stoke, when on holiday, always tell people I'm from Stoke, currently living in Southport.
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Post by SouthportStokie on Jan 21, 2004 12:00:36 GMT
;D
Trent V'ale?
Try typing in Trent Vale.
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, but it always grates on me to say I'm "from Warrington" just for convenience when I meet people on holiday. What I'd really like to say is "I'm from Stoke on Trent - I just live in Warrngton. 
and only coming to live in Stoke for the first time in August of last year! 
".....would you like to elaborate on this?????? ;D
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