tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820898314167724608.comments2024-03-28T03:47:47.609-04:00CoveyOfCockneysCoveyOf Cockneyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01729646731216512718noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820898314167724608.post-73436099159092648342024-03-26T15:29:24.445-04:002024-03-26T15:29:24.445-04:00HI . I was born at Barts on the 4th Jan 1953. I ha...HI . I was born at Barts on the 4th Jan 1953. I have always known I was a cockney. I lived in Kent until was 18 but can't be a Maid of Kent because I was born at Barts. You can't have it both ways!<br />I went to college in York and stayed in Yorkshire in the county since. I have lived in Halifax, West Yorkshire for 52 years. I have another conundrum. My husband, sons and grandkids are all Yorkshire men and women- you can tell so by their accents. I am not. My mother came from Manchester, which doesn't go down well in this WHITE ROSE county. I was really pleased on disccvering that my great great grandmother came from near Wakefield in what was them the West Riding of Yorkshire. My family all rib me for my southern accent- especially Ba(r)the and Pa(r)th!<br />Ann Biscoe in HalifaxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820898314167724608.post-80530021442160427652024-01-17T08:22:33.888-05:002024-01-17T08:22:33.888-05:00I was also a Barts baby (born 1968). The amount of...I was also a Barts baby (born 1968). The amount of arguments I've had with people born close to the church in Bow, East London. It's now reckoned, with noise pollution and high rise towers blocking out the noise, you'd be lucky to hear the bells of St Mary le Bow Church Cheapside, from any more than two miles away. Anyhow, I'm immensely proud to consider and call myself a cockney. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820898314167724608.post-83614466073102420642024-01-07T09:56:26.048-05:002024-01-07T09:56:26.048-05:00It's only just dawned on me in my 65th year th...It's only just dawned on me in my 65th year that I might qualify as a Cockney! I was born at St. Barts in March 1959 but my parents never once made reference to me being able to call myself Cockney! I think they were ashamed of it as my dad worked for the Inland Revenue and when a promotional move to Norwich was offered, he jumped at it like a shot! I think my parents wanted to 'better' themselves which was fair enough but the consequnce of which deprived me of the self knowledge that I could proudly claim to be a Cockney which I shall now correct. I am James Stephen Driscoll, a Cockney and proud of it!!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820898314167724608.post-46227452860055721272024-01-05T21:03:35.796-05:002024-01-05T21:03:35.796-05:00I too was born at St Bart's. I should think v...I too was born at St Bart's. I should think very few are born within the sound nowadays. An interesting fact (I read online 🤔) that although Guy's Hospital is close to the bells the neo natal unit is on the wrong side of the hospital where the sound could not be heard. 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But at that time we'll within the sound, pre noise pollution. I always said I was a Londoner until a football supporting pal of mine from Fulham (both of us Chelsea), said no you're a Cockney. My Dad hadn't brought it up and he was born in Pimlico.David Webb.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07214696631332838089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820898314167724608.post-62524074183895982842020-04-07T18:00:47.156-04:002020-04-07T18:00:47.156-04:00Hi,
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