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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Oct 28, 2009 14:00:12 GMT
Is Coventry in Warwickshire?
Yes.
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votp
Steaming Bovril
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Post by votp on Oct 28, 2009 23:32:56 GMT
Does anyone care?
No.
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Post by robotsmfc on Oct 29, 2009 0:50:58 GMT
Traditionally - yes
Ceremonailly & Officially - no
That is my answer to both of the above questions.
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Oct 30, 2009 6:26:22 GMT
Answering a question with a question, what is the motivation behind this? I remember that when the County of the West Midlands was formed in the local government shake-up of 1974, sadly for them Walsall, West Bromwich (area since renamed Sandwell) and Wolverhampton were taken out of Staffordshire, Dudley from Worcestershire (which must have been a relief for the locals) while Brum and Cov were stripped from Warks to make up the new conurbation.
i don't know what officially happened when the County of the West Midlands was officially abolished but it left some anomolies. For instance i had a rail card to travel to my previous employer in West Brom and this covered all of the ex- West Midlands places so i could take a ride to Cov which means changing tains at B'ham New Street and is over 30 miles away from my home.On the other hand, i was NOT allowed to use it for travel to Stafford, a trip of all of about 15 minutes up the same line going north.
Why, daza, why?
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Post by robotsmfc on Oct 30, 2009 9:37:55 GMT
Officially abolished?
I thought the council was just shut down by Thatcher for being a beacon of democracy? Has my entire life as a West Midlander been a lie?
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Post by ambersalamander on Oct 30, 2009 21:03:08 GMT
Traditionally - yes Ceremonailly & Officially - no That is my answer to both of the above questions. I, too, ceremonially and officially do not care ;D |
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Oct 31, 2009 7:47:45 GMT
Officially abolished? I thought the council was just shut down by Thatcher for being a beacon of democracy? Has my entire life as a West Midlander been a lie? You were right in that just the Council was shut down in around 85/6 though it was not for being a "beacon of democracy." Ted Heath's new counties wre formed in 1974 as part of the Local Government Act 1972 and at the time there were any number of complaints. We'd just been through the fiddle that was decimilisation. The new authorities were perceived as yet another way of fleecing us and so it proved. Feelings around the time around our neck of the woods were that we in Wednesfield had been better off in Staffordshire but now we had to pay both Wolverhampton which had not long annexed us AND this new authority. Amid the nostalgia for the old counties was the suspicion that the other towns were being subjected to "Brum Rule."In Wolverhampton especially, it was seen by our empire-building council a an obstacle to it's ambition to become a City. There was always the suspicion, never proven or disproven by the way, that the rest of us subsidised Birmingham. Brummies used to moan that they we chucking their money into Cov and the Black Country. Solihull was sniffy about all of us. The Thatcher government saw the creation of the new counties as Ted Heath's way of preparing us for a Federal Europe sometime in the future and this had to be avoided. Some area of local cooperation were kept when the WMCC, largely unwanted and unloved, slipped into oblivion alongside Ted's other "achievements" such as the miner's strikes, the 3day week, decimilasation and getting us into the common market. Of course, like anything that dies, the imperfections of WMCC died with it as people look back through rose-tinted spectacles at the sepia-tinted Socialist golden age we lived through in the mid-late 70's. hence you thinking it was a beacon of democracy. If you are interested i'm sure someone who, unlike me, actually cares will have done research and put something on wiki. I stopped caring about Cov when i stopped paying for it! |
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Post by robotsmfc on Oct 31, 2009 14:24:48 GMT
I'm only going on what I've heard from other people about it.
One person, who has a degree in Politics so I assumed was a trustworthy source on this matter, told me that the county councils of places like the West Midlands and Greater Manchester were closed down for being powerful Labour-held blocs.
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