When I was a child and my bedroom was very messy my mother always referred to it as "looking like Howdon Fair". We lived in Hull and it wasn't until I was an adult that I realised this was a real place and an event. I now live in Newcastle where the local equivalent is "Paddy's market" a place where second hand clothes were sold and once again meaning somewhere which is a mess. Do people still use these expressions? or are they forgotten now. And are there any other local examples?
What were the first ever records that you bought and when?
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic