Noreen

The second paragraph starts " Saddleworth is an area, an old Yorkshire Parish ..........."
Now much as I like winding people up, even I have to admit that historically Saddleworth is part of Yorkshire, even if it is on the Lancashire side of the Pennines. Some little toe-rag down in Whitehall back in the 70's decided that he would alter more than a 1000 years of history and put it within the electoral of Oldham .. He even tried to tell me that I lived in "Greater Manchester" and not my beloved County Palatine of Lancashire, of course I choose not to believe him and a Friend (Ted Edwards) and I founded the Free Lancastrian Army, we had an Air Arm (Ted's hang glider) and a Fleet (my kayak)together with a transport division (Ted's Moggie 1000, ex GPO van)