Following on from the Radio Cleveland thread how many of you out there actually feel your from Teesside?? Because everyone keeps telling me Gods country is in Teesside but since when?If you go past the College of FE there's a big road sign there stating Teesside 11 miles?How far are we from Wearside? Why can't we just be from F@#king HARTLEPOOL
Sorry about that getting a little carried away there but are we from Teesside or not ?????

I was born and grew up in Hartlepool, Co Durham. I have as much connection or empathy with Teesside as I do with Timbuctoo.

me!!!
and i won't pretend any other way, but I'm pretty proud of it too.....

apart from the shitty bits and chavs an that like

Hartlepool, South East Durham

Doesn't Teesside indicate on or near the river Tees? I know the Tees estuary is close but I don't think it counts.

I am from Hartlepool but I have no affinity with Teesside. It was Cleveland when I was a boy!

I love how the Echo likes to refer to Hartlepool as a Teeside town ...my arse it is. Hartlepool is just Hartlepool and always will be.... Teeside is defined as being the area where you consider yourself a Boro supporter...! What's getting on my tits is all these signs about the 'Tees Valley' ...'Welcome to Hartlepool in the Tees Valley'....I'd love to drive a tank transporter over every scummy one and then reverse over them

I hate the fact that we are no longer in cleveland politically but need to keep a TS postcode and it's hard not to see you address with cleveland on it.

i dont like paying for the inept cleveland polis when we can pay for our own inept polis.

i want our own flag and province just like cornwall - except the ruling by charles tack.

I was talking to an antipodean ex reporter t'other week and she stressed that she has never ever in all of her travels come across people who are passionate and proud of their heritage and place of birth than us hartlepudlians.

she damn right of course.

It is true. How many tiomes have you asked someone where they are from. Near Leicester, a village near Manchester, etc. You then have to ask exactly where. Like everyone on this board, when asked where I am from, Hartlepool is always my reply, not near Sunderland or just past boro.

No Cleveland,Teesside or Durham.Not even England,Britain or Europe.

The Peoples Republic of Hartlepool.

Thatll do me.

independent please

durham ok mate - just that it tars us with the collieries

but prefer the independence

Independent Peoples Republic of Hartlepool it is then.
Mutley for president ?

My auntie Flo, who went off to live in Yorkshire for some reason, insisted until the day she died on addressing all post home to : West Hartlepool, Co Durham.

PS Grantully

you shall find in time if I allow you to know me more that

I AM ALWAYS FOOKIN RIGHT

Both are true. Hartlepool people are fiercely passionate about the town, much more that I've witnessed anywhere else but fatty is right too, people are very insular.

It's down to geography, Hartlepool is not a place you can pass through on your way somewhere. You have to be going to Hartlepool to go to Hartlepool (if you know what I mean). Take Nottingham for example; sat on the M1 and lots of people use it for a meeting place, the shops are exceptional and there are lots of other reasons why you might go there.

Hartlepool pre Marina hardly ever had outsiders stray into it. Add to that a reputation second only to 1930's Chicago and you can see why its evolved with very little outside influence.

JUST THE WAY I LIKE IT........................

OI DIBBS - I was replying to Mr I then before you interjected!!!!

to summerise then ....

"it's a local town for local people........"

And i'm a Yakker, so i'm proper Durham....

Couldn't be much else with THOSE teeth

does living in trimdon class me as a yakker ive never worked down a pit before, its like calling people from hartlepool monkey hangers even though they have never hung a monkey