My home town/British terms on the Lexicon

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., catherine at c... wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> > Wellingborough's greatest claim to fame is that it's in the exact 
> centre of
> > England, i.e. the furthest from any piece of coast.  It's a 
market 
> town and,
> > like most of the towns in the area, it's predominated by the boot 
> and shoe
> > trade (my father is a cobbler).  

I know!  And my husband remains very loyal to those Northamptonshire 
cobblers - for years has bought nothing but Church shoes!
Catherine