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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.
Charlie Spurr - snapped/broke his ankle at bottom of Blockhouse.
Its getting really slippy up there - I was hospitalised with suspected broken neck last thursday and another guy i was with yesterday broke a finger.
Actually steve can you email me matts email address - email in profile.
What's the other way then?
Harragut. Same as Southwell is Sutthel and not South Well.
Charlie Spurr - snapped/broke his ankle at bottom of Blockhouse.
That's some bad news, hope he fixes up quickly.
You have mail.
No I'm on nights heard about it though.
I used to know the Ms Eden.
Think Castle, Vale of, Sir Anthony. She was posh, lord knows why she messed around with us.
This 'North' of which you speak sounds such a quaint place, with it's jovial friendly locals and their peculiar customs. I was told recently that many of them simply refuse to have indoor water closets, and even electric light, preferring the homely glow of a candle. 🙂
I may buy part of it when I decide to retire.
Posh northern ladies tend to wear low-cut tops a lot, I've noticed. I approve wholeheartedly.
You live in Birmingham you might be able to buy a pie up here if your lucky.
Harragut. Same as Southwell is Sutthel and not South Well.
Why can't people speak properly? 🙄
Who cares? Posh people are generally a bit of a pain in the butt, wherever they hail from!
Patrick Stewart - startrek AND shakespearean actor - from Mirfield and supports HTFC !
halifax used to have the highest densities of rolls royces per capita back when there was still a woollen industry
Robson Green, born in Dudley North Tyneside speaks (or trys to) like he came from Windsor (to my northern ears at least)
I'm reyt posh, me. I shop at Booths.
It's where people who do groceries at Waitrose wish they could shop, but they can't cos they aren't Northern. Innit.
Fortnum and Mason.
It's where people who do groceries at Booths wish they could shop, but they can't cos they aren't Southern. Innit. 😉
And don't think you can beat that because you can't so there.
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I say, that Booths does look rather nice. Maybe moving up north wouldn't be quite so squalid! Taar!
I love Booths.
Hubby says I'm posh because I won't eat in the road.
How are we defining posh - money? manners? lineage? or do we mean folk who get out of the bath to have a wee?
Jim Bowen? He's posh for someone from Padiham! 🙂
I have a pet theory that the speed at which one loses their accent in different social surroundings is inversely proportional to their strength of character.
Applied to the OPs question, it is why the north is devioid of 'posh' (defined in this instance by the way they speak) people and full of 'characters' and the south is full of 'social chamelions' trying to be something that they are not! 😉
Booths FTW! The north also features the poshest (and best) services in the country.
I have a pet theory that the speed at which one loses their accent in different social surroundings is inversely proportional to their strength of character.
I had a pet budgie but he made more sense than you.