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 02/11/2006, 5:01 PM
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cms562
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Lancashire's true boundary
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I have taken Lancashire Life for a number of years on yearly subscription. I have just received my request to renew for the next 12 months. Before doing so I would like clarification on what appears to be a change of direction for the magazine.
I noticed that in the October issue ‘Greater Manchester’ was mentioned on more than one occasion. This is the first time I have seen this mentioned in Lancashire Life.
This prompted me to look at the contents page, for the regular box indicating that Lancashire Life supported the traditional county. Towns such as mine in Bury being firmly in the County Palatine of Lancashire but this box was not there.
Greater Manchester is a political and administrative area only.
Brian White
Bury
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26/10/2007, 1:59 PM
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imaginativename
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Re: Lancashire's true boundary
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I have noticed this too and it rather irritates me. I keep reading on the one hand that Lancashire's boundaries have never changed and then I'll turn the page over and see references to Merseyside, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, and articles on the Yorkshire villages of the Ribble Valley which miraculously awoke to find themselves in a new county in April 1974. Whilst administrative areas change frequently, the County Palatine has never done so. It would be nice if the contributors to the magazine learnt where Lancashire is before writing such confused articles - it is rather insulting to the people of Lancashire.
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26/10/2007, 2:01 PM
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imaginativename
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Re: Lancashire's true boundary
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"The new county boundaries are administrative areas, and will not alter the traditional boundaries of counties, nor is it intended that the loyalties of people living in them will change, despite the different names adopted by the new administrative counties."
(Government statement, The Times, 1st April 1974.)
"The Local Government Act 1972 did not abolish traditional counties, only administrative ones. Although for local government purposes some of the historic counties have ceased to be administrative areas, they continue to exist for other purposes." (Department of the Environment Sept 1991.)
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