east anglia....where are we? North? South East?

[campanula]

where do I look? Yes, I know we are all quaint bumpkins but even so...

 

[DotCommunist]

we are the barse of england

 

[neonwilderness]

The Wales of the East

 

[FNG]

Norfolk'n'Gud !

 

[Pickman's model]

i've always thought of east anglia as the counterpart of wales, the two sides of a flasher's mac being held wide.

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[campanula]

yep, I can see why comparisons with Wales might sound appropriate (apart from the flat fens and semi-arid climate)....but this does not answer my query - or does East Anglia simply vanish into a sort of undifferentiated 'midlands' ?

 

[Disjecta Membra]

i'm near ipswich and always thought of myself as a southerner, which is wholely inaccurate. but as long as no-one settles for the "right wing" then i don't mind! ....still no help, soxz campanula

 

[JTG]

where do I look?

Down mostly. There's nothing to look up at

 

[kittyP]

East. The clue is in the name. HTH.

 

[Belushi]

It's Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

 

[JTG]

It's Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

What about Essex?

 

[Belushi]

What about Essex?

Part of the East of England but not East Anglia.

 

[Lo Siento.]

EAST.

(ie. Not the South)

 

[fen_boy]

EAST.

(ie. Not the South)

But not the Midlands or the North. So which forum to post in?
It's a question that's been raised before and never really answered. Except when you think about it if there was an East forum it'd be fucking empty, so I stopped worrying about it.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Part of the East of England but not East Anglia.

However IIRC East Anglia also includes the UA of Peterbrough which is no longer part of Cambridgeshire so should be listed separately.

 

[DotCommunist]

shouldn't really hold to modern administrative or electoral borders spanky, they get jiggered and pokered and end up meaning nothing. We have to go back to pre-unification times imo and judge from the early middle age maps.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

So shall we go back to before Ely was added by the marriage with Etheldreda? Or do we choose post marriage East Anglia?

Personally I would go pre-Angle and bring back the Iceni nation.

 

[stavros]

Part of the East of England but not East Anglia.

Is Essex the South East as well though? It's certainly a Home County. I'm going to be moving there soon, so it'd be nice to know how to culturally class myself.

 

[JTG]

Is Essex the South East as well though? It's certainly a Home County. I'm going to be moving there soon, so it'd be nice to know how to culturally class myself.

Is it?

 

[Belushi]

However IIRC East Anglia also includes the UA of Peterbrough which is no longer part of Cambridgeshire so should be listed separately.

I'm trying to forget about Peterborough.

 

[Belushi]

Is Essex the South East as well though?

No, East of England according to the Government.

 

[foamy]

East Anglian is a boob and Norwich is the areola

-Dan & his wife in Alan Partridge

 

[coley]

where do I look? Yes, I know we are all quaint bumpkins but even so...

South east, poor relations of the lunnerners and other denizens of the 'deep sooth'

 

[coley]

i'm near ipswich and always thought of myself as a southerner, which is wholely inaccurate. but as long as no-one settles for the "right wing" then i don't mind! ....still no help, soxz campanula

Accurate enough

 

[coley]

Down mostly. There's nothing to look up at

Please, pretty please, keep on convincing people of that

 

[N_igma]

I'd hazard a guess at anus horriblis?

 

[JimW]

I'd have had you down as Britannia Prima, but apparently not.