How many Brits are here?

[MissHannah]

Present!

South-west London currently but have lived in Devon and Sheffield too.
Make mine an Earl Grey

Miss Sofia, I'll be in Rye for the day in a couple of weeks - what's the name and address of your shop?

 

[Carnage]

I do rather like rude Londoners, I enjoy seeing the shock on the faces of tourists. That and how they treat people who stop at the bottom of escalators on the Tube.

 

[Cooperson]

Evening all! Midlands born and bred, right on the Staffs/Derbyshire border. Usually hang out in the Outerwear section ( got a thing for leather jackets) but wandered over to the Observation bar to see the posts on the new site upgrade. Great to see so many Brits here.

Cheers!

 

[HannahJane]

Good evening everyone! I'm another English girl here, born and raised in Northamptonshire but lived in Sheffield for my 3 years of university study.
Nice to meet you all.

 

[Dave E]

Good evening everyone! I'm another English girl here, born and raised in Northamptonshire but lived in Sheffield for my 3 years of university study.
Nice to meet you all.

Whereabouts in Northants are you from (that's the part of the world I'm from as well)?

 

[HannahJane]

Whereabouts in Northants are you from (that's the part of the world I'm from as well)?

I'm in a tiny village down near Towcester. Whereabouts are you from? Do you find a lot of other vintage lovers around this area?

 

[Dave E]

I'm from the Oxon/Northants border area, a tiny village there. Where I am now just outside Buckingham isn't that far from Towcester, though. Don't really see many people around dressed vintage, although to be fair, I'm not either hugely (I'm a hat guy, don't think my wife would go for me doing much more than that).

 

[Mr Badger]

(Early) mornin' all from the charming but fairly boring city (just about) of Bath. Born and raised outside Leicester, lived all over London for 17 years, down here just over four...

Dave E and HannahJane, my dad's side of the family were from Rushden in Northants...

There's some lindy hop action in Bath, my wife's just started taking lessons, and a v.v. expensive vintage clothes shop, but no-one really dresses very well, apart from the odd (sometimes, very odd!) perce or lady in their 50s...

Dave, I think you should just think "f-it" and starting dressing how you want to – I mean, I'm not suggesting a zoot suit and fedora for going down the supermarket, but I wear a lot of different vintage or repro stuff everyday, and no-one takes much notice. However, I have had quite a few positive comments from passers-by - usually about a hat, jacket or shoes being nice. So there y'go!

We DJ down the local pub a couple of Saturdays per month, and I do a lot of reading, that's what keeps me sane!

 

[Goodman.MJ]

Does an Englishman living in Minneapolis count? Doing my best to keep ol' blighty alive in the colonies, what!

 

[Dave E]

Dave, I think you should just think "f-it" and starting dressing how you want to – I mean, I'm not suggesting a zoot suit and fedora for going down the supermarket, but I wear a lot of different vintage or repro stuff everyday, and no-one takes much notice. However, I have had quite a few positive comments from passers-by - usually about a hat, jacket or shoes being nice. So there y'go!

I know what you mean, and I'm certainly old enough and ugly enough to ignore any stick I'd get. For me at the moment, hats (and a decent leather jacket) are as far as I want to go, but who knows!

 

[dragonaxe]

if i had the money i could get into the whole outfit thing. plus a suitable car with running boards etc, lol. But i think my wife might have words to say about that! lol

 

[Peacoat]

How about if my "people" were from England; does that count? I had read my family's history and knew, in the abstract, that we were from England. When I first visited the UK, it was no longer abstract. It was a very real feeling of belonging, of having been there before, and for a long time.

London didn't do it for me*, but when I got to the Wash area, I felt like I had come home. The people in Norwich, and especially in East Dereham, were just like family. It's something I can't fully articulate other than saying it was a very warm and full sense of belonging. It has been over 250 years since my people left England, but when I was back there, it was if I had never left (except the accent was a bit off!).



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*No offence intended, but it was just like any other big city, but with a lot of cool, really cool, history.

 

[Edward]

I don't really consider myself English or British. I'm a Londoner.

Not one of those rude ones though... ;-)

lol Interesting you say that... as an 'outsider' myself, I've always instinctively felt a strong sense of London being a markedly different place of its own, as distinct from the rest of England (even in other big cities like Manchester). Maybe because (if memory servers) something like 50% of those of us who live within its borders moved here as adults, so many of us at that not English? I always find the concept of identity and perceived nationality / cultural affiliation fascinating (perhaps unsurprisingly, given my own origins).

 

[Wolfen]

I'm from Northern Ireland, currently living in the USA. Was raised on the British side of the political divide in our wee country so I am proud to call myself British. Especially in America...

 

[Edward]

I'm from Northern Ireland, currently living in the USA. Was raised on the British side of the political divide in our wee country so I am proud to call myself British. Especially in America...

Well, you know, i order to qualify as Irish in America, you have to have at least one great, great grandparent who ate a potato once. Never having visited the place is also a plus.

I kid, I kid.... well.... a bit.

 

[Tomasso]

Well, you know, i order to qualify as Irish in America, you have to have at least one great, great grandparent who ate a potato once. Never having visited the place is also a plus.

I kid, I kid.... well.... a bit.

That's only on St. Paddy's Day. Personally, I was able to attain Irish citizenship due to my fraternal grandparents being born in Ireland.

 

[Woland]

Will a (topped) pint of Scottish blood qualify?

 

[sixsexsix]

I grew up in the lovely rolleyes city of Burnley, but have lived in Canada since I was 6. Still lots of family in Lancashire and Gloucestershire, who I go visit every few years

 

[Wolfen]

That's only on St. Paddy's Day. Personally, I was able to attain Irish citizenship due to my fraternal grandparents being born in Ireland.

I'm lucky in that I have British citizenship from being born in Northern Ireland, could have Irish citizenship if I wanted it for the same reason and American citizenship cos my dads a yank.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Ed, I'm with you on that. London is quite a different place to anywhere else. This is largely due to that failure of a MultiKulti idea, eh? I was reading Time Out during the World Cup and they listed how many people from each country represented were in London and where to go watch that team. There were something like 800, 000 people from Nigeria in london, and about 600, 000 from Ghana. I was stunned. And happy. I love MultiKulti!! It's what makes this place special.

lol Interesting you say that... as an 'outsider' myself, I've always instinctively felt a strong sense of London being a markedly different place of its own, as distinct from the rest of England (even in other big cities like Manchester). Maybe because (if memory servers) something like 50% of those of us who live within its borders moved here as adults, so many of us at that not English? I always find the concept of identity and perceived nationality / cultural affiliation fascinating (perhaps unsurprisingly, given my own origins).