Same here, a lot of the Politics of Stourbridge is that we are not Dudley and we were taken from Worcestershire. It even infects people who weren‘t born when it happened. It is, however, diminishing now.
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My mother (*1935) was outraged her whole life that Birmingham stopped being in Warwickshire. The oddest one was when I was a civil servant and got a letter calling for Ted Heath (at that time still alive) to be hanged for treason for moving Monmouthshire into Wales.
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On this theme: 1) to her dying day, my aunt refused, as a resident of the royal town of Sutton Coldfield, to use a Birmingham postcode. 2) in my youth, when I moved to Hadleigh in Suffolk, I knew an elderly resident who had visited Ipswich (10 miles away) three times in her life. 1/2
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The idea that Somewheres and Anywheres were anything new for the 2010s is daft. But it sold a book, I suppose. 2/2
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If you want an extreme example, the post office did a post code change and moved a street from B28 to B11. The complaints still roll in 25 years later.
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I think I could make a good guess as to the name of that letter-writer
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