Posh northerners

Do they exist? Can you name any? We are struggling to think of a single one but there must be some out there?

Michael Parkinson?

Duke of York?

😉

No.

Just like southerners with manners, it's a myth. 🙂

Brian Blessed's Dad was a miner. Not sure if he's just well spoken or "posh" though. RP is the VW Golf of accents 😆

I know Geordies are Posh Jocks….but no, that still doesn't count does it

Michael palin
Frankie Howerd
Jeremy paxman
Ewan Mcreggor (not northern but scottish)

Nope we take pride in our roots and don't try disguise it with a false accent.

I have impeccable manners you c##t!

Ben Kingsley, Judi Dench, Daniel Craig,

There are a few wannabee posh Geordies (the worst type) in Beadnell – aka North Jesmond.

Robert Lindsay's from Ilkeston too if I recall correctly. Not that you'd guess.

I suspect we'll have someone from Pity Me posting up about "the real north" in a few minutes.

And yes, Pity Me is a real place.

lol @ Carbon it's true but sadly Beadnell is full of Southerners trying to be Northumbrian.

Plenty of posh snobs in Cheshire, bit like Surrey really…

Melvin Bragg

Parky is a good one, cheers 😀

Harrogate. Or, Harrow Gate as some like to pronounce it.

Met some recently at a garden party of some posh friends of ours, gentlemen farmers from yorkshire somewhere or other, posh and rich. However I think posh as a strata is seperate from a northern or southern identitity as they're posh/gentry first northern/southern second.

why would a somebody from the south want to be northern?
is it the blue and white synthetic sportswear and breathing through your mouth that's so attractive?

Its bloody rediculous up there nowadays….some of my "friends" from Warkworth have accents that would put an Etonian to shame with. FFS your bloody Northumbrians – I cana bide it.

I've always thought of Jonny Vegas as a posh northener.

I like being common 🙂

Compared to Londoners we all are. Just look at Eastenders for proof, no-one has a washing machine there, whereas in Corrie and Emmerdale launderettes dont exist.

FFS your bloody Northumbrians – I cana bide it.

Ah divant either wiv their muckle posh accents, it's canny bad.

why would a somebody from the south want to be northern?

Jealousy usually.

Parky isn't a northerner any more – just like anyone who moves south, he's dead to us now.

And if by posh you mean tasteless, pretentious, ostentatious displays of ill gotten wealth, we do have Cheshire.

However, if you mean the true wealth only obtainable by being born and raised in the most beautiful part of the United Kingdom, well it's just our birthright and we don't really like to go on about it…… 😀

Plenty of posh snobs in Cheshire, bit like Surrey really…

All I know about Cheshire I learned from Hollyoaks….are there really no people with scouse accents? For many years I thought cheshire was somewhere near london.

i'm pretty posh

i'm pretty posh

All 'fur coat and no knickers' that one………..no better than he ought to be.

Jealousy usually.

of what?

of what?

You'd really need to ask them that.

LOL @ Drac and Carbon

the missus calls Beadnell 'Jesmond on Sea'

You'd really need to ask them that.

i'm working in manchester later in the week, i'll see what they say.
is manchester northern enough?

William Hague has his own man-servant. Mind you. He can't afford to put him up in a separate room, so not that posh

is manchester northern enough?

urgh thats not even the North – thats the Midlands.

i'm working in manchester later in the week, i'll see what they say.
is manchester northern enough?

In just squeezes into the North but I was talking about the Beadnell types, there may be areas around there though.

It's true though greyman, check the property prices out compared to just going a few miles either way.

drac – were you caled to the place that cant be mentioned yesterday?

Air ambulance, normal one and a Paramedic were there for one of the trail builders who broke his leg.

One of the poshest people I have ever met (remembering I have had the benefit of a public school education), was a lady I worked with who was from Northumberland.

Mind you, she and her husband did own about half of it.

(The north, especially the old money of Cheshire and Yorkshire, has its fair share of posh.)

Duke of Westminster is quite posh.

Or, Harrow Gate as some like to pronounce it.

What's the other way then?

What's the other way then?

Everyone in the North who doesn't live there pronounces it "aragit".

Apart from the Duchess of Devonshire, who has a lovely little misunderstood German chap to do it for her.

Air ambulance, normal one and a Paramedic were there for one of the trail builders who broke his leg.

Who was that? Are they OK? I had to work Sunday so couldn't go.