Heartland

Just curious is the sisters claim to The Peoples Republic based on being founded in Leeds and/or maintaining a base there?
Of the many people that have gone through the ranks - would any one know how many can claim a full Yorkshire descent?

Gary Marx, Craig Adams and Chris Catalyst are all definitely Yorkshire lads.

Ben Gunn is a possible. AFAIK he was at 6th-form at Leeds Grammar when he joined the Sisters, so chances are he's a local too.

gary is from wakefield
chris is from hull

not sure about craig, but the ben story sounds feasible

I always thought Craig was from Otley?

Hull is either in Yorkshire or Humberside, depending upon how the locals want it and which way the wind is blowing. Strange lot. Similar in a way to Middlesbrough and North Yorkshire - but I digress.

Norman Hunter wrote:Hull is either in Yorkshire or Humberside, depending upon how the locals want it and which way the wind is blowing. Strange lot. Similar in a way to Middlesbrough and North Yorkshire - but I digress.

Try Belgium any time you like! We even disagree on which language to use when writing official letters to citizens in some towns around Brussels...

IZ.

Norman Hunter wrote:I always thought Craig was from Otley?

Me too.

Norman Hunter wrote:Hull is either in Yorkshire or Humberside, depending upon how the locals want it and which way the wind is blowing.

Meh. Newfangled "Humberside" isn't a county. Hull is in the East Riding and there shall it stay!

Norman Hunter wrote:Hull is either in Yorkshire or Humberside, depending upon how the locals want it any which way the wind is blowing.

Meh. Newfangled "Humberside" isn't a county. Hull is in the East Riding and there shall it stay! [/quote]

Spliters! What chance of the glorious republic with such internal struggles!

Is there any history behind the peoples republic in yorkshire or is does it just look good on a t-shirt!?

Christ, this old chestnut again?

Kingston-upon-Hull (Hull is the river, not the city, we don't call Newcastle 'Tyne' do we?) isn't in Humberside (1974-1996 RIP) OR East Yorkshire (Riding is a word only used by the Council and nobody else).
It's a seperate urban unitary authority under a City Council, whilst East Yorkshire is governed by the ERYC or East Riding of Yorkshire Council, from Beverley.

The two aren't connected except geographically, and for good reason. Who wants the albatross of that City of the Dead?

Historically, (i.e. prior to the 1974 boundary changes) Kingston upon Hull was part of the East Riding.

And as it happens, Chris is from Beverly, not Hull itself.

All I know is that prior to Hull being in the Premier League, they wanted nowt to do with Yorkshire - then as soon as they were promoted (and Leeds were in Div 3), they were the "biggest team in Yorkshire".

Like I say, funny lot.