When the song was written Manchester was part of Lancashire and still is, the 1974 boundary changes were only for political considerations, i.e.local government, the actual county boundaries remain the same and as I, like Rosie, was born in Urmston (the cottage hospital back in 1955) I too am a child of Merseyside and a Lancastrian. (Bernard, ask Ted about the Free Lancastrian Army that we jointed formed with others, notably Bob Marshall, in 1974. We even had a Airbourne division, Ted's hang glider and a Naval division, my Kayak, the Armoured division was Ted's Ex GPO Moggy Thou)