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Do you consider Lincolnshire as North ?

Southport - I think I went there once, is that where you need binoculars to see the sea?
Supposed to be very genteel?

GandTea, surely York is North
You aren't a Midlander are you?

I'd like to live in Southport

Jalima I used to live in Southport

In the Scottish Borders where I grew up "down South" could be applied to Newcastle

I was born in York. Don't think of myself as a Northerner.

I was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire and we think it's very definitely "North". Midland starts south of South Yorkshire to us.

Jalima, South of the Humber is Lincolnshire, no way is that North, East, Yes. I think of North as Co. Durham, Northumberland, Cumbria, North Riding. When I drive North I don't feel I've got there until I see that Angel.````````````

I am south East - you are Midlands to me * jing*

London is East to me. I am south east.

London is north to me

The name 'South-port' first appeared in 1798. Records say that a small stream (nicknamed the 'River Nile') found its way onto the beach near Sutton's Hotel. The sea ran up some distance inland, forming an estuary. Tradition speaks of a 'fine bay of eleven fathoms of water within half a mile from the shore, where vessels occasionally lay securely at anchor.' To the local fishermen and farmers of that time, it was a port. It is not surprising that the new village lying South of the 'Domesday Book' village of Churchtown should have been re-named 'Southport' - a name which is retained, and as it is written at present, since 1826.

The Angel of he North, with it's welcoming outstretched arms/wings, is at Gateshead.

It'll be called Southport because it's south of Scotland. Makes sense.

but, if you draw a line across, that puts Sheffield, Doncaster, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Manchester, Liverpool in the Midlands GandTea - although I suppose Southport is called Southport for a reason

I always think that the Midlands go up to the Humber, and the North above the Humber

I thought the North started at the Watford Gap.....

No, no Galen north of Wulvrampten is still Midlands
North starts at the Cheshire border

I was told there was a line between The Wash and The Severn and anywhere from there upwards was north, with little houses all joined in never-ending terraces.
The view of someone I met when I moved from 'up there' down south

I thought the north started at Wolverhampton

A name can suggest where a person lives (not necessarily recommended if trying to preserve anonymity) and a "one off" poster could make that mistake. Sauchiehallstreetnan might have a certain ring to it?
Come to think of it, Dorsetpennt may or may not be from Dorset, Norfolkdumpling is another, but you see what I mean.

Wally from Westmorland?

Jings
The north west consists of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside, so I don't think there's such a thing as a NW sounding name

Felice said that she had not seen the username before, obieone

Oh God! I hope we haven't got a wastwater97! I'm outta here!