Runcorn wouldn't have been the first place I'd put down as having Reform vibes. Based on nothing whatsoever other than knowing the place vaguely some 30 years ago, I'm going to agree with you. In the… (View Post)

No, it's actually in Doncaster, between an old colliery and the colliery village. Cookie correctly guessed this was a miner's strike question (answer upthread). We worry about politics being divisive… (View Post)

As a short diversion, here is an image in the occasional political landscape quiz. Where is the (very divisive) politics in this picture I took this morning? Location is in South Yorkshire. (View Post)

Not Orgreave, but the right idea. Many old woodlands near pit villages have stands of even aged coppice about 40 years old (Sycamore in this case). The original trees were cut by the miners for heati… (View Post)

There was North Lincs (Scunthorpe etc), NE Lincs (Grimsby etc) and the rest of Lincolnshire - including Lincoln - originally wanted nothing to do with either. [I think in the past the rest of Lincs w… (View Post)