Not such good fun as the "North-o-meter", but worth a look, perhaps?
www.gotoquiz.com/results/how_essex_are_you
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>> Not such good fun as the "North-o-meter", but worth a look, perhaps?
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>> www.gotoquiz.com/results/how_essex_are_you
you are 22%
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No, Zero; I am zero.
Last edited by: FocalPoint on Mon 11 Nov 13 at 21:08
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no you are 22% - you left your score up on the web link you gave....
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As a Yorkshireman working in London and living in Northants I'd hope not at all but I guess I'll have to try.
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There must be some quiz I can get a score on.
After correcting the URL to take the test I got...0%.
www.gotoquiz.com/how_essex_are_you
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I get the feeling you are not really trying here.
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You are 0% Essex!
Well done you have managed to shake off the Essex ness! You have maybe visited or driven through on the way to catch a ferry at Harwich
Quiz URL: www.gotoquiz.com/how_essex_are_you
Travelled through Essex a couple of times, but I don't think I have ever stopped there, in fact the East End is probably the nearest I have been.
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Bizarre, Zero. I see what you mean.
However, I have just re-done the quiz, given the same answers as before, and my score is 0%.
(Sorry I got the URL wrong.)
Last edited by: FocalPoint on Mon 11 Nov 13 at 21:22
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In spite of positive answer to how I might refer to London and admitting to occasional use of 'I ain't joking but' I came out as predicted - 0%
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Zero here too. Hardly surprising - passed through a few times but don't think I've ever spent a night there.
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I was born on the outskirts of essex, Lived there for 16 years, still got family there. And I still only managed 37%
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Phew - I got 0%, and I only live next-door in Suffolk!
I wasn't sure what they meant about 'the Airshow'. I went to the Mildenhall Airshow a couple of times, but I can't see what relevance that has to 'coming from Essex'. Could someone please enlighten me?
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I guess the clacton airshow. Its quite a good one as it happens, been going for 20 years or so.
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"I guess the clacton airshow"
Ah, thanks, that'll be it. I was thinking that it might be some special Essex hairstyling event - i.e. 'airshow - stuff to turn your hair blond etc.
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You are 4% Essex!
Well done you have managed to shake off the Essex ness! You have maybe visited or driven through on the way to catch a ferry at Harwich
And I went to grown-up school there and lived in Clacton.
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Only 10%, although I admitted to saying 'innit' without specifying that it's a sort of joke.
Yet I am deemed to be 40% northern and to hail from Wolverhampton.
I ain't being funny, but that's well out of order that is. Somefink dodgy about it, knowImean?
Bleedin quizzes...
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Is Essex and its inhabitants the most maligned area of the country? It certainly has its rough parts and serves as a dormitory for London but its a large county with some beautiful countryside, a wild coastline and interesting towns and villages.
Last edited by: CGNorwich on Tue 12 Nov 13 at 09:07
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I managed 0% despite knowing someone who used to work for Ford...
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0% despite having lived in Westcliffe and attending Sarfend Grammar, briefly.
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0%, despite having (once) done some Christmas shopping at Lakeside (going to a very nearby car club that evening).
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0% Essex here as well..... despite the fact that I have friends in Billericay who I visit regularly and did once visit Basildon ...and have also have taken the ferry from Harwich to Denmark in the past.....
Just a question for any full on Sarfend Essex types then .... I do not recall Peter Pans Amusements in Southend but do vaguely remember visiting the Kursaal from forty odd years ago ......are they the same venue?
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>> Just a question for any full on Sarfend Essex types then .... I do not
>> recall Peter Pans Amusements in Southend but do vaguely remember visiting the Kursaal from forty
>> odd years ago ......are they the same venue?
No. Peter Pans was on the hill side by the Pier, the Kursaal was further along the front towards shoebury
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i lived in basildon ( laindon) for 6 months around 1983 and when i went back to leicester everyone thought i was a lovable cockney because my accent and choice of words were so different, i gave dick van dyke a run for his money
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22%, grandparents were Essex based so I remembered Peter Pan's, and parents lived in Chalkwell in later years. I also lived in Billericay for about 5 years, so plenty of Essex heritage.
There was a Southend Air Show, so I said Yes to that one, saw it once from the garden... recall the Tornado doing a vertical climb which shook absolutely everything.
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>> >> Just a question for any full on Sarfend Essex types then .... I do
>> not
>> >> recall Peter Pans Amusements in Southend but do vaguely remember visiting the Kursaal from
>> forty
>> >> odd years ago ......are they the same venue?
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>> No. Peter Pans was on the hill side by the Pier, the Kursaal was further
>> along the front towards shoebury
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Peter Pan's was to the west of the pier, the western half of what is now Adventure Island which goes both sides of the Pier.
Zero, think what you're thinking of on the Cliffs by the Pier was Never Never Land, lots of model castles and various fairytale creatures which were illuminated at night, pretty magical to a young Cockle back in the day.
The airshow could refer to either Clacton or Southend, Clacton's is still going but Southend scrapped theirs last year after 26 years, although there are plans for a return next year.....
Got 75% which is pretty disappointing really seeing as I am Southend born and bred from good, oldish, Essex stock and have never lived anywhere else and have also followed the Shrimpers since I was 8 years old, even have a little bit of old South Essex 'burr' rather than Estuary English; perhaps that's the 25%......
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>> remember visiting the Kursaal
I can remember that, had a 'wall of death' IIRC and some rides I'd never seen any where else. Whatever happened to large, fixed fairgrounds like Margate's Dreamland and Battersea Park?
Anyone else recall a helter skelter with a bowl at the bottom? I suspect it may have been Clacton or Southend. I remember as a young child taking a load of marbles along with me and letting them go from the top.
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How Essex is this .... although Ian Dury was apparently born in Harrow...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-JIzWFfsPk
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>> How Essex is this .... although Ian Dury was apparently born in Harrow...
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>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-JIzWFfsPk
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He always said that he caught his polio in a swimming pool at Westcliff.
Was never sure whether he meant the Westcliff open air proper swimming pool or one of the sea water paddling pool type pools on the beach.
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>> >> remember visiting the Kursaal
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>> I can remember that, had a 'wall of death' IIRC and some rides I'd never
>> seen any where else. Whatever happened to large, fixed fairgrounds like Margate's Dreamland and Battersea
>> Park?
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>> Anyone else recall a helter skelter with a bowl at the bottom? I suspect it
>> may have been Clacton or Southend. I remember as a young child taking a load
>> of marbles along with me and letting them go from the top.
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Kursaal had a 'wall of death', the lady rider used to live opposite me, the famous rider there was 'Tornado' Smith, he used to ride Indians due to their low centre of gravity and was renowned for riding the wall with his pet lioness on his handlebars; now that's a showman!
There was and still is a helter skelter at Southend but the more famous one was on Clacton Pier until we had a little storm the other weekend when it became probably the most famous casualty and ended up over the side.....
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Cockle, I don't know whether I've asked this before but what became of the Lady Savile, the mini ocean liner beached at right angles to the prom and used by the yacht club, I think. When I last went to see my Aunt, who lived in Chalkwell, in '96, it was gone and another ship in it's place. I've googled the old ship but haven't had any luck
Spent all my childhood holliers at Auntie May's, first in Broomfield Ave and later in Leighcliffe Road. Sandwiches, tea and wasps on the beach by Chalkwell station with steam trains running past ! Trips on the pier on the green and cream trains.
Steam from Manchester, tube to Fenchurch St then on to Chalkwell. Happy days. All her generation gone now.
Ted
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>> Cockle, I don't know whether I've asked this before but what became of the Lady
>> Savile, the mini ocean liner beached at right angles to the prom and used by
>> the yacht club, I think. When I last went to see my Aunt, who lived
>> in Chalkwell, in '96, it was gone and another ship in it's place. I've googled
>> the old ship but haven't had any luck
Broken up it seems.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Western_Railway_ships
look under 'SS Sir Richard Grenville'
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Thanks Tony. I'd been thrown a googly by her name. I'd assumed she was something to do with the Shaw Savile line.
Sad end, wish I had a photo of her at Leigh on Sea.
Ted
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www.essexyachtclub.co.uk/eyc-history.html
Lady Savile is about the third picture down
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Never fail to be delighted in the range of knowledge, sometimes useless, but hardly ever uninteresting, that we get here.
And all free!
8o)
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I got 79 per cent in the 'How Westcountry Are You' quiz, even though I've been away a long time. And one of the questions was about my brother-in-law's brother-in-law's brother. Which must confirm something they say about the Westcountry...
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Ted, I think swisstony and CGN have answered your query but just a nice little aside; the current Essex Yacht Club HQ is Wilton, formerly HMS Wilton, she was the first GRP warship built for the RN and went by, I think, the nice charmingly humorous nickname of 'HMS Tupperware'.
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My good friend, Col, is a real Essex boy - he drives a Smart new BMW 520, he wears white socks, and he plays golf. Once, we left our old Mondeo at his house when we flew from Stansted - we placed a prominent note on the windscreen declaring "PLEASE NOTE - THIS CAR IS NOT MINE - IT BELONGS TO SOMEBODY FROM SUFFOLK".
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4%, but only because my Granddad and Dad both worked for Fords (Granddad pre WW2 up to about 1970ish at Dagenham in accounts, Dad progress chaser at Basingstoke (?) tractor plant, up to 1968.
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>> 4%, but only because my Granddad and Dad both worked for Fords (Granddad pre WW2
>> up to about 1970ish at Dagenham in accounts, Dad progress chaser at Basingstoke (?) tractor
>> plant, up to 1968.
Think you mean Basildon, not Basingstoke.
Easy mistake to make tho, they are very similar in many respects.
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Alastair, Is your Grandad still alive.....I wonder if he knew of my uncle, Sidney Phillips, he was in charge of the apprentices at Dagenham. Married to my Mum's sister May and living in Broomfield Ave, as mentioned before. He was born in 1904 and died of the cigarette in 1965...still working. Came up from South Wales to work at Ford, Trafford Park where he met my aunt. Transferred to Essex.
PS..How's the railway progressing ?
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I made 10% Essex because as well as saying innit, I have met someone who worked at Ford's. A charming chap from university days, of noble Russian émigré descent, who loved cars and had all sorts of club-racing friends some of whom became eminent in VSCC circles. I gave or sold (for 25 quid, he claims) him the first car I ever owned, a pre-war Fiat, which he revived and used for a few months.
Later he was an executive of Ford Europe after other car-related jobs. You couldn't hope to meet a nicer man. His sister was my landlady for a few months. She was a sweetie too.
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Thankfully I am Zero too:-)
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The posh quiz is rather let down by first asking what shoes I "were" and then suggesting "learnig" to ride a horse might help.
66% posh was the result.
Last edited by: No FM2R on Sun 17 Nov 13 at 13:11
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2% posh. U R CHAV! I THINK YOU IS WELL COOL BRUV.
I beg your pardon!!!
This sits strangely with my 'elite' score in the social re-classification survey earlier in the year.
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73%
Goodness knows these things are horlicks !
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49% posh.
Governed by the fact I care little for any sport involving the kicking, running with or hitting of balls.
I can ride a horse though.
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23% posh.
As my friend Jackie has just pointed out on Facebook chav is not the antonym of posh.
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53%....neither posh nor a chav...probably accurate then
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fifty free % posh 'ere 'an'all gov.
It woz shoppin at waitroze wot dun it.
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>> It woz shoppin at waitroze wot dun it.
Aldi wasn't an option so had to go for Coop/Asda.
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>> It woz shoppin at waitroze wot dun it.
No doubt it was my admission of shopping at Tesco that knocked my score down to 73%.
Of course I 'know how to' ride a horse, but I've only done it twice and you would have to put a gun to my head more or less to make me do it again. Nor would I want to repeat the boring experience of watching Polo again. I do my best to be a chav.
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0% posh..as I expected. 63% Cheshire, though. Live half a mile from the county boundary..The Mersey.
Ted
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How Essex are you? - Zero
