It's like saying Birkenhead is part of Liverpool ... many people on Mersyside would get irked at that I'm sure.
Certain members of my family who live in Birkenhead would be irked at being described as being on Merseyside, as the Wirral is historically part of Cheshire...
I except they're technically two different places, but I don't think everytime someone mistakenly calls the BBC's current Northern base Manchester, we need someone correcting them or it's going to get pretty tedious.
At the end of the day it's the home of BBC Manchester, it's was only chosen due to the fact it's more or less Manchester, it's part of Greater Manchester, to anyone in London or Glasgow it might as well be Manchester!
So Salford folk might not like being thrown in with Manchester, but it would be nothing without Manchester, certainly not the home of the BBC in North.
And those are my last comments on the matter.
I'm not bothered whether people call it Salford Quays, Salford or Manchester and I don't think a big deal should be made of it.
I except they're technically two different places, but I don't think everytime someone mistakenly calls the BBC's current Northern base Manchester, we need someone correcting them or it's going to get pretty tedious.
At the end of the day it's the home of BBC Manchester, it's was only chosen due to the fact it's more or less Manchester, it's part of Greater Manchester, to anyone in London or Glasgow it might as well be Manchester!
So Salford folk might not like being thrown in with Manchester, but it would be nothing without Manchester, certainly not the home of the BBC in North.
And those are my last comments on the matter.
I'm not bothered whether people call it Salford Quays, Salford or Manchester
and I don't think a big deal should be made of it.
I'm not bothered whether people call it Salford Quays, Salford or Manchester and I don't think a big deal should be made of it.
Ha. Hahahaha. Good one.
Phil, I'm making a big deal out of someone making a big deal out of it, so others don't have to suffer folk making a big deal out of this in the future.
Believe me you'll get tired of people being corrected for branding somewhere in BBC Radio Manchester's TSA as Manchester.
A similar thing ... I live very close to the boundary between Whitefield and Bury. Whitefield is a suburb of Manchester,
with postcodes starting M45, but Bury is officially classed as part of Lancashire, with it's postcodes starting with BL.
Both areas have the 0161 STD code, and ... Whitefield is part of ... the Metropolitan Borough of ... Bury!
Just to clarify Bury is geographically and legally part of Greater Manchester: However Gtr Manc was never adopted as a postal county (to avoid confusion with Manchester itself), so the Royal Mail retained the historic boundaries for postal-counties in the area.
That said postal-counties were officially abolished in 1996 (although various mailing databases still persist with them)-- post is now sorted by post-codes and/or post-towns. AIUI you could write whatever county you like (or none at all), as long as the postal-town and post-code are present and correct on the envelope
Speaking of postcodes, they transcend geographical allegiances-- as they are determined on proximty to sorting offices. For example: Depending where you live in Derbyshire, you may have either a DE, SK, NG or S postcode. It depends whether you are closest to the Derby, Stockport, Nottingham or Sheffield sorting office-- despite the last three not being in Derbyshire!
Perhaps Blue Peter could do a feature on it some day
