[Bob Dobson]

Let's get this reyt.
Lancashire is the same size as it has always been. For some administrative purposes, the 'counties' of Greater manchester, Merseyside and Cumbria were created in 1974 and parts of the Red Rose county were then administered by those bodies. In 1989, Maggie dissolved Greater Manchester & Merseyside when she dissolved Greater London.Certain metropolian boroughs, called unitary authorities, were created ( and later Blackburn & Blackpool joined them ) The fact that they administer themselves or , as in the case of
the Lonsdale area of Lancashire are administered by Cumbria CC, does not take away the fact that these towns such as Wigan, Southport) are still, and always will be, in Lancashire.

Google 'Friends of Real Lancashire'

Red Rose - I applaud you.

I quote you the opening verse of a dialect poem , 'A Lancashire Mon' written by a
Blackburn chap, Henry Yates a hundred years ago:

Ah wer born among th'ills, but Ah'm Lanky
There's no hafe an'hafe abeawt me
It's deawn in mi Granny's owd Bible
-Both sides of a long pedigree.
Ah've no need to simper and' sidle,
Nor finnicky airs to put on-
Ah belong to th'owd palatine ceawnty
Ah'm a streytforrad Lancashire mon.

It goes on to tell the world how bloody good it is to be a Lancastrian