Having just spent a week in a place called Bircham Newton, (somewhere between Kings Lynn and Fakenham) I can tell you travel to and from that part of the world is no fun. How the feck that family from Norwich travel to see pools all over the country is more than impressive.
Anyway, first morning at Bircham (an ex RAF Base now a national Construction College) I am plodding my way toward the house of scran for my brekkie listening to the Norfolk dawn chorus when a voice pierced the early morning mist,

'hey up, what the feck are you doing here and whats Turner done to the team?'...

Gadgie from my local


EDIT
Err to answer your question, no I think i have trodden in all

me dad took me to work In Bacton, Norfolk when i was 18 on a gas plant they were building.

As we were going through the last small village my dad said "well take a look around, say goodbye to civilisation".

We turned a corner to drive out of the village and there was a lass getting fingered off a yokel behind a pub!!!

I have been to them all in England, all on the Scottish mainland and all in Wales. I reckon I've done most, if not all, in Southern Ireland as well.

Does driven through count?

Scandalous like, poor travel record in Scotland....well you don't know what you're going to find, the sweaty socks all leave..........fair record in the southeast but not done much in the west country further south than the Forest of Dean. As for Wales they might mistake you for a sheep.

I don't remember ever going to Norfolk either....... Cornwall was a place I'd never visited until about 9 years ago, quite liked the place.Penzance is a nice little town with loads of bars and restaurants and seemingly plenty of stuff going on, I definitely liked it there.

I honestly don't think that there is an English county that I've never set foot in. A combination of UK holidays as a kid (none of this chavvy package holiday crap), working away from time to time and following Pools all around the country have seen to that. When I get a chance I'm gonna check on a map to confirm but I'd be well surprised if I'm not correct.

same with me, I have lived in a lot of places and the combination of Pools, visiting friends from Uni and my Job honestly can say I have been to them all. I hadnt been to Hampshire but went to Southampton General the other month with work.

talking about counties got an easy question in the pub quiz the other day, name the two counties which only have one football league team in them, also name the club.

thats not what I asked I said that there are only two counties (i think) with only one football league team in them, I got the answers right in the quiz anyway.

Dorchester Town

and Weymouth.


And Poole Town

well it wasnt one of the two answers the gaggie doing the quiz had but looking at the map I think your correct.

thats one I had Yeovil in somerset and another county

think i maybe look a bit silly now anyway I had yeovil and gillingham

theres only 1 team in durham= darlow

so im wrong ripper

Cleveland

So..what's your favourite English county?
A toss-up between Durham and North Yorkshire, for me.

yep - Pools and Sunderland are in Durham, except for about 20 years when there were two artificial counties created called Tyne and Wear, and Cleveland. This has now been rectified and the towns of Hartlepool and Sunderland (now a city) have been returned to the County of Durham for ceremonial purposes and tradition. Although the two local authorities have political independence from any county councils.

Ditto Gateshead.

Come to it, there were a few of those stupid metropolitan "counties" created in 1974 - Avon, West Midlands, Greater Manchester, Greater London, Merseyside, Humberside off the top of my head, where towns and cities from different counties were put together in a new "county".

Clydeside and many others in Scotland were created and classed as regional authorities, ditto in Wales, where the traditional counties were wiped from the maps

Went past the construction college on the way to Wells next the Sea in August ...and Wells in NOT next the sea.

Isle of Wight, Essex(the coastal part, Walton on the Naze) and Hampshire.

And, of course, rhyming slang for tits.

is'nt tranmere on merseyside?

I think they are classed as being The Wirral

Well if you ever visit Halewood don't bring your strimmer. It's likely to get get nicked like mine did.

Oxfordshire, Oxford
Kent, Canterbury

Merseyside is one of the metropolitan counties that everyone hated and was made up of Sefton where Southport is, Kirkby Newtown where Z Cars was, Liverpool where my strimmer is, St Helens where Eddie Waring watched his rugby league and Wirral which is referred to in Liverpool as 'Over The Water' and where Birkenhead and Tranmere is located.

Oh by the way goodbye Rafael Benitez always a loser

I've never been to:
Norfolk and Suffolk
Staffordshire
Derbyshire
Cheshire
North Yorkshire
Cornwall
Warwickshire
Northumberland

I've never been to me.

You lyin' knobhound. I saw you buying a Sun in Matlock, Derbyshire, a week last Tuesday.

Won Spanish La Liga in the 2001–02 season with Valencia. Spanish Manager of the Year. In 2004, another league title and Valencia's first UEFA Cup made him the club's most successful manager.
Liverpool: 2005 Champions League winners, reached final again in 2007. FA cup winner, second in the Premiership last season.

Always a loser?

To be honest I think people might be a little too quick to start to pull the trigger on Benitez. One bad run of games in at least four years and there are people who think that he should go. Terrible.

How did you get to Hartlepool without going through Derbyshire and North Yorkshire.

You're not paying attention, as per my question early in the thread, it's not about 'passing through' counties, but the ones you actually 'visited'.

Thats me fooked then

Croydon is in Surrey, Crystal Palace play in Croydon, hence they have a league team!!!!

I go by "old money" for counties!!!!

Croydon is indeed in Surrey.

The complete shithole end of Surrey. I went to the League Cup match there when we lost 2-1 after being 1-0 up (Eiffion) and that bloke off Stingray was managing them. First time out for the new navy blue shirt and I left the bastad ((c)ADG) in the hotel as it matched the duvet and I never spotted it when I was packing up. Phones up later but the entire place was staffed by Somalians and I had zero chance of ever getting the bugger back.

Next time I stayed there I wee'd on he carpet.......

ONLY wee'd?

Yeah,

I didn't want to set the smoke alarm off.....

Mine's 530022, but I'm not actually in Jiangnan........

And when I lived in Rong He Xin Cheng, it was 530001, but I was south of the University....

Post codes...law of their own..

All Hartlepool postcodes are TS, but I doubt many Poolies consider that they're in Teesside, especially as it doesn't exist anymore.