My Dear Gordon!!!!The Wirral short for The Wirral Peninsula. I was born and brought up on THE Wirral and deliberately use the THE word to denote for me THE most important place in my world!! Jackie I'm sure meant The names 'in Wirral' not 'the Wirral' names. Subtle difference I believe!! Be like me Jackie and call it The Wirral if that is what you want!! Re Merseyside. How I hated it when The Wirral was no longer a place in Cheshire in it's own right but was replaced by Merseyside!! I still address letters to my sister in Wirral, Cheshire, England. Always have and always will! Just my little protest! However she is glad of the transport arrangements like so many others. Margaret in Australia

Be reminded that Merseyside is an 'administrative county' only. TheWirral is geographically still in Cheshire. Liverpool and Southport are still in Lancashire. The Royal Mail accepts the use of old county names without conditions. Ray Fowler. ----- Original Message ----- From: "margaret davies" <maglez@bigpond.com> To: <ENG-MERSEYSIDE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 7:51 AM Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] The Wirral > My Dear Gordon!!!!The Wirral short for The Wirral Peninsula. I was born and brought up on THE Wirral and deliberately use the THE word to denote for me THE most important place in my world!! > Jackie I'm sure meant The names 'in Wirral' not 'the Wirral' names. Subtle difference I believe!! Be like me Jackie and call it The Wirral if that is what you want!! > Re Merseyside. How I hated it when The Wirral was no longer a place in Cheshire in it's own right but was replaced by Merseyside!! I still address letters to my sister in Wirral, Cheshire, England. Always have and always will! Just my little protest! However she is glad of the transport arrangements like so many others. Margaret in Australia > To go to the site, click on > http://lists9.rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >