Ted's fun stuff

trish niagarafalls
a good curry,all the pies,sweets,school dinners,magazines woman womans own chat etc,pubs,country side with hills,oxo cubes,spanish kali,bread,tea(its not the same here)and most of all normal people with good patter ahhh

caroline
chicken and mushroom pukka pies.pacers the green and white sweets from way back

PeterB
Meat and potato pies and Cornish pasties from Glossop market

vivian from aust
i miss pear drops kayly and spanish steak and onion pies food at the bus station cafe in chorley chorley market

vivian harrison
lancasire cheese and dandilion and burdock chorley cakes butter potato pies marsden fruit pies

ed from rochdale
What about Black pea's at the fairground, or Holland meat pies and OXO while watching the football game on saturdays?

donna lupgens in Australia
cheese and onion pastieschicken chow mein english styledonner kebabsbacon buttiesliltrainy days cold christmases my family

ann
Please I need any infomation about the milady toffee's and the Waller & Hartley LTD Blackpool they stop trading in the 1970, any pictures of factory many thanksAnn

Pete Vaiders
Hollands Babies 'eads!!!

Bernard Hall-Falconer
steak and kidney puds, Danny Keg, Sarsperilla from Blackburn market

roly poly shirley
Definitely chips and gravy (what bliss)!

Cameron
I miss the people

Stuart Liver
i miss texan bars

mad angie
i miss the smell of patulia oil,sweat,newcastle brown ale,a top jukebox,in the fobidden vulcan pub,now sadly a car park,if that tarmac could talk,ouch..

Karen Kelly - Australia (Ex Blackburn)
Proper sausages - not snags thrown on the barbie! Good English pubs and my old mates.

kelly from malta
yes hollands pies. the smell off cut grass. chippy. oh even talking about it makes me cry

Gord Blundell
Pork pies and Barm Cakes

hilary duckmanton melbourne Australia
Rain, snow at Christmas black puddings. steak and kidney puddings from the chip shop. lancashire accents hovis bread parched peas. bonfire night rain again, green grass, black clouds. deep rivers. and yes rain again

amanda, canmore, canada
miss real chips and gravy from a chippy, jaffa cakes, gravy granules, galaxy chocolate, staffordshire oatcakes, mushy peas, thorntons chocolates, british sense of humour, paid holidays, swiss rolls, cheap food, indian take-aways, buses never turning up on time.

becky
gravey

rachel goin 2 oz...
il ,miss Reuben Marsdens hot pot and wimberry pies, warm with loads of cream.mmmmmmmmmmarsdens sausages.mmmmmm bacon butties....... n fish n chips from pepper lane chippy.....x

Cath, EX-Blackburn.
Living in Malta, missing black puds,malt loaf,tizer,sasparilla,Tony's dance hall, B'burn market,"me owd mates", and basically the 50's and 60's!

paul barbados
meat puddings chip with grave meat and potato pies and the cold weather and a good pint of bitter

Nutsy
Creamy Lancashire Cheese from Hartley's in Burnley Market Hall. Nuttall's Black Puddings too!

susy jones
The rag and bone man and his horse. "Rag-bone! Rag-bone!" Mum used to give him a few bits of material in exchange for a donkey stone to do't front step wi.

danielle
hollands meat pies! i live in rutland now and i can't get hold of them anywhere. I think i'll have to ask my auntie to send some to me!

Graham from New Zealand
Have to agree with Tony from Blackburn now in New Zealand, the Vulcan dukebox was one of the highlights of my youth. Fantastic pub and regulars. Until they knocked it down...R.I.P Vulcan Pub

Ron Smith
Steak & Kidney puddings. When little me mum would take me to the UCP (i think) near Picc M/C and I'd get to sit on a high bar stool and have 2 puds.Sally army playing outside, can anybody enlighten me more about this place.

Jules Ralph
Agree with everything that gone before and miss some thing so bad thatd when me mum comes down to Brum she has to bring a food parcel Some of the things i really miss are Lemon Cheese not that curd stuff.Greenhalghes' hot cross buns - Easter.Greenhalghes' mince pies - ChrimboFly pies - Chorley cakes spread with butter not to be confused with Eccles Cakes.Lancashire cheese - crumbly, tastey, extra tasty, not creamy that's for girls and babis.Parkinsons of Leyland barm cakes.Parched Peas and those litte boiled potatoes from the man off the Flag Market in PrestonBlack pudding for boiling served with salt pepper, vinegar amd mustard on it,not fried,grilled or sliced with home cut and cooked chips yumm!!! Other Things that I miss but don't travel well chips and gravey,babies yeads(Hollands steak and kidney puddings), pea and ham soup, potatoe pie, proper vanilla slice, custard pie with nutmeg and potherbs from Preston Market for making soup on Mondays with the remains of Sunday dinner. Plate pies. Finally Th'owd Chippy in Leyland.In the midlands the Chippy can be a Fish bar or a Saloon. What's that about?!!! Makes you think your in the lawless Wild West, line em up bar man!! plusd they have no idea what a bag is,also they give you a really queer look when you ask for gravy on your fish and chips Oooh and before I forget curry sauce and chips , all flavours of Seabrooks crisps not just plain and salt and vinegar,the brilliant sunsets in Autum, Robinsons' Ice Cream(only, one flavour, plain)Booths the Good Grocer and of course the folks.

harry gill
left darren 1972 iwas in my mid 30s, just about lived in the new inn and lived on tripe and black puddings happy days was single then miss those days like crazy.

Paul Silverstone
Hi all you lucky people, well I guess I’m a bit of a nomad, born in Bolton raised in Farnworth,Moved to Fleetwood in my late teens moved to Ashton-u-line then Dukinfield and then Stalybridge in my early twenties, after meeting my second wife who is an Australian we moved to Spain, and after two years there, my wife wanted to go back to Oz. And here I am, sun see andSurf. I have family and friends back home, but the things I miss, are Morrison’s, Holland’s, and Pretty much all good pies, burning my fingers on hot chips, and the smell of fresh bread on aVery cold morning, bacon butties, and of corce a full English breakfast, but I have taught my wifeWell, there is still a problem with Yorkshire pudding, Tater hash, and Lancashire hot pot, but weCan’t have everything can we.

Chris Gabrielides
The oven man on Salford market just near the subway entrance that sold cooked little new potatoes in paper bags! Mmmmmm memories

Tony from Blackburn now in New Zealand
1. The Vulcan Pub dukebox2. Pints of mixed (half bitter half mild)3. Hollands meat pies4. Concerts at King Georges Hall

Bill German
all the above and parkin roast chesnuts and fair ground black peas. I'm a southener but my parents were Boltoners

Cathy from Bury now in London
I'm glad someone mentioned mint cracknells. What happened to them? Oh, and, chip barms with salt and vinegar, colt's foot rock, sasparilla drops, broken biscuits from Bury market, a decent brew.... etc (sigh)

Carol Green
Hollands PiesBacon ButtiesTizerLucozade( instead we have that dreadful Gatorade!)Decent sausages!Proper Heinz baked beans.A real English breakfast.Warburtons bread.Now living in Sudbury Ontario,Canada

Deirdre Robinson
Baillies pie shop at Twist Lane Leigh. Pigs Trotters, Cow heel stew, tripe and onions and watching the workers going to work in clogs at the mill

Pat from shropshire
I miss Hollands pies sasprilla cordial/sweetslancashire accent/humour

Jenny Gibbons
I miss Holland meat pies,puddings and half a carling. Can't find any of em in Australia.

John, Blackburn
I miss the Shire Chicken Balti Pies they used to sell at Ewood Park for many a year.

nigel ,salford
me mam used boil sheep's brains, aswell as sending me to the UCP shop on market st manchester for tripe cow heels n pig's trotters. my dad used to tease me that black puddings came from a very dubious part of the bull!

Mo, Blackpool, now living in Brighton.
Bond's ice-cream, nothing like it.Can you still get it?

mac from burnley
lancashire hot pots,my wives a southener,she misses meat and potatoe pies,i miss good old pies and mushy peas.

Carmel
We miss Berrys pork pies..where did they move to?

alex
rain

Tony McN
All that stuff is very nice, but the one thing that tops the lot is bacon ribs!I'm in Canada here, and I am dying for bacon ribs.

Christine Briggs
The worst thing about living in USA apart from missing family and friends is not being able to get a decent loaf of bread. I was born and brought up in Hartlepool, on the coast. I miss the chippie and when we visited last year on holiday for 3 weeks we just stuffed ourselves. I brought back PG Tips T bags and jealously guard them, Paxo stuffing and Autora suet, gotta have them puds.

Gail
I have to agree with all those who say "Lancashire" folk are the friendliest of people ..I live in Bolton and have been to visit other places and not one can live up to the friendliness of "Lanky" Folk. Got to go , I'm just having a cheese Butty ...xx Ta'ra

Sheila
Has anyone said vanilla slice with REAL vanilla, and all the little bakeries selling genuine home-baked cakes. Still get a hankering for my home town of Bury, with it's lovely people, black puddings and black peas. Still haven't found a recipe after buying dried ones from Morrisons.

jeff harvey
i miss wimberry tarts.i've not seen one in ages.

John
Left Burnley when I was seven to live down south but reading this brings it all back, cant wait for this weekend going to Blackpool to seee my aunt Fan (96).

julie alvarez
After almost 20 years in the states....people with a sense of humour!

charlotte rebouse now in Nott's
steak and kidney pudding, chips peas and gravy from chippy. What's with no puddings in the midlands?

tracey doran
the old fashioned cheese and onion pies from hollands were fantastic

Lynn from scotland now Drumheller alberta
I miss,lots of things:haggis,black pudding,a good donar kebab,bisto chip shop curry sauce,branston picklenad irn bru.Going to calgary next wek to a shop called the British Pantry and hope to sake some of my cravings.

Valerie Cottier (Nee Marsden) from the Cayman Isla
Lancashire Cheese from Accrington Market.....Ohhhhh... Crumbly &/or strong. Oh yes, and fresh cockles from the fish market, also Accrington market....My mouth waters just to think !

Polly from Bolton an later chorley
I live in spain and oh I miss the good old Lancashire humour.The luvvies from London just aint got it.I miss a pub quiz thats a laugh and not mini mastermind. I miss The nights at the Queens up th'steps, Astley Park on a sunny afternoon, Marsden's pies and custards, riding my bike down Euxton Lane, going up Rivvy on Good Friday.Hearing y'all reet luv when walking round Chorley Market, an walking home in the rain after a Saturday night "downtown".

Jamie Greenwood
mushy peas as you can't get them in chippys in London

wezzo of irlam
chips and gravy

Peter Kaye
I miss mushy peas and gravy...has thou got owt moist!?

Bill Bradbury
What do I miss - nowt except my Oldham Grandma and Auntie

June Robinson
After 39yrs in Coquitlam BC Canada I still miss Lancashire folk..sasparilla..dandelion and burdock.. vanilla slices.. Tattersall's pork pies ..and of course the Lancashire sense of humour.. still watch coronation street a touch of home.

Sillyhead
I miss Kendal mint cake and Lancashire hotpot and going to Pendle Hill on Hallowe'en!

Elizabeth
Hollands - the king of pies Plate of bread and butter on the tea table Real cups of tea... not that lukewarm dishwater the rest of the world calls "English" tea Marmite - love it or hate it Custards - with lots of nutmeg on the top The humour - no place on earth has humour like it!

DaveE
In Houston you don't get Bury market black puddings, black peas, parkin, oven bottoms with fresh sliced ham, pea and ham soup, hot-pot, meat and tater pies.....

Chorley Girl
Its all about Reuben Marsdens and Greenhalgh' pies!!!

Keith
Hollands pudding, chips , mushy peas & gravy.

simone wearne
my own comfortable bed and chip shops and the old sasparilla stall in blackburn market and gregs cheese and onion pasties and custard tarts

Gill Hatton Western Australia
Hollands Meat Pies(does anyone have a similar recipe)

T'other side of the gap
I wasn't expecting so many Hollands Pies references here - I thought it was just me! HOLLANDS - WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING AT? YOU HAVE AN UNTAPPED MARKET DOWN HERE! Anyone know where I can get some near Wimbledon..?

chris sears in cornwall
warburtons bread and hollands pies.......useless people dont do em down ere.

DUNCAN EDWARDS
EDWARDS PIES OF WIGAN

Mike
chip shop steak and kidney puddings (in the can)Recipe Anyone?

Brian Atkinson
Live in Nottingham, miss Hollands Tata Pies and Thwaites Bitter

Tracey
Now living in Enfield. I miss Marsden's Meat and Potato Pies and the friendly Chorley people.

Barry
Living near Bristol now,come from Bolton. Miss Hollands puddings,meat pies from Nuttals in farnerth,bacon ribs(never heard of them down here!Also of course folk talking proper.

sue searle
broth and dumplings nothing like them proper mushy peas lol

Margaret
All of the above, but would just love a bury black pudding and some barm cakes, I have managed to get English malt bread and most English cheeses Blue Mountains Aust.

Andy N ew Zealand
1Hollands Meat pies 2 Old Buildings ,Mills 3 Worn stone steps 4 Dandelion and Burdock Pop 5 Midgit Gems 6 Lancashire and Cheshire Cheese 7

Jeff Browning
I grew up in Bury but now live in the USA. The things I miss are: 1. Hollands Pies. 2. Fish, chips & Peas 3. Ben Shaws Dandelion & Burdock 4. Vimto 5. The weather 6. Going to a football match. 7. A pint of Carlsberg & Lime on tap. 8. Going to the corner shop and looking at the penny tray 9. Black Pudding. 10. Walls Sausages 11. Pasties from Devon (Bowyers I think)

Bev
I have lived in Brisbane Australia for 23 years. I am from Blackpool and I miss: Steak & Kidney Puddings, Chip Shop Curry, Cheese & Onion Pies, Vimto,Black Pudding, Blackpool Prom, Lancashire Cheese!!

Andrew Rose
We've been in Canada for 25 years. What do I miss? By 'eck. People who say "bah gum" or "well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs". They look at you as if you're three bricks short of a load if you say that here! Vimto Steak and kidney pudding Hollands pies Barm cakes (still looking for a recipe) Teacakes. We get them here but no currants, what's the good of that Terrys "All Gold" Blackpool rock Candy floss Limeade Mr Softee ice cream Custard pies Real bangers Bacon butties ( I mean real bacon not this Canadian rubbish) Chippy's Cowheel pie (just kidding) The Lake District Black pudding And for all you folks fortunate enough to be within travelling distance of Arnside, ( I was there myself a couple of years ago) the best Cornish Pasties anywhere from the bakery on the promenade.

Mike Anderton
In answer to Jean Burley re Hollands meat pies - none in Cornwall. I moved here in 1964 from Bolton, now have a shop, and sell frozen Hollands meat pies, potato and meat pies, and steak and kidney puddings! I miss winberry pies most.

Jason
As above everything about Lanc`s. Rossendale Valley. Born in Bury, Lived in Rawtenstall. 1. Hollands Pies, Puddings, Pasties. 2. Walkers Crisps. 3. Warbies Bread for chip Butties. Moved down Somerset 9 years ago BIG MISTAKE. Asked a local where the telephone box is. He said "There aint one on this side of the road." WHAT!!!!!!. 4. Chippies, Fish n Chips, Fish Bits, Hollands Pies again, Gravy, Peas. Bigger mistake moved to Germany 5 Years ago now Can`t get owd of anything from Lanc`s. 5. Proper Football, Grandstand on Saturday. 6. Bacon Butties of course. 7. Most of all Real Lancashire People hello Mates in Rossendale B+J+P+K+D+J. 8. Rossendale Valley where else do you get 5 Foot of Snow. 9. Lancashire Humour are we the only People that have a sense of Humour??? 10. Lancashire TV and Radio they talk proper. 11. Not enough room for everything. aye up luv. Good to see LFC beat CFC HeHe come on Lancashire. P.s. Last visit to Rossendale stopped at friends in Bacup gained about a stone in weight proper Lanc`s Food

Ants
I'm from Lancaster, at uni in the south. I miss down to Earth friendly people. Everybody seems stuck up down here. Also finding anywhere that sells a decent bacon bun is a chore (the nearest I've come to that was microwaved!!!). I have at least discovered a decent chippy (shock horror).

Irene Libby
I miss scrumpy potatoes with Sunday dinner. also I miss the english accent. and the beautiful country side, picking wild fruits.

kaila
People talking to ya in shops like they know you, vimto! pendle hill and a good laugh with people who can laugh at themselves!! I also miss the rain!! and you are damn right about those bacon butties!!

Paul
The accents - Why can no one else in the world speak properly. Mushy peas in chippies- most places you can only get gravy if you are really , really lucky. The sense of knowing you belong!

Janet in Dallas
Everything!....even the rain

Catherine
I moved down South, and then to New York, and you can't beat the Sasparilla stall on Blackburn Market. Or Holland's Pies. None of that Pukka Pies rubbish for me. There used to be an amazing man as well in Mill Hill who made the best meat and potato pies in the universe, but sadly, I don't think he's there any longer.

southern comfort
The best fry up i ever encountered was in a tiny little builders caff in the back streets of blackpool. The chippies r better too there. & while im on the subject the men up north are better too :o)

Michael Rice
Prestonian living in Bangkok, I very rarely go home now, but when I do I have to do the following..vist Deepdale, have a pint of real bitter and each parched peas from the market. Brill

Benny
I mourne the demise of Marshes Sass and have given up trying to describe what it was to people here in Belfast. I almost wept when Kate Rusby came on stage here and opened the show by saying "How do". No one here says "Our" as in "Our Mam" or "Our Kid" they all say "My" it feels like there are less people involved in the conversation, do Lancashire folk like a crowd or something? I miss being able to order a pint of Bitter and someone just handing me a glass of random brown liquid with no further questions asked. Most of all I miss steak and kidney puddings in the chip shop and I hate having to explain time and again that a steak and kidney pie is just not the same thing, suet is suet and pastry is pastry, how hard can this concept be to understand? One thing I don't miss though is drunk rugby league players going out in a T shirt and stonewashed demin jeans on a Friday night, the centre of Belfast is a lot safer than the centre of Barrow in Furness. Most of all I miss the fact that the Labour government stole my county and made it into Cumbria.

Bill.
Living in Calgary,Canada for 15 years now,after travelling pretty much everywhere for 10 years before that.As I get older the feelings of needing to go back get stronger.Wish I could afford it!What do I miss? My old footie mates,a decent pint,Trough of Bowland,fishing on the Lancaster Canal,the smell of the place,trains,night out in Blackpool,the Lake District,my Brothers and their families,old houses and of course the people and the food.However ,my biggest regret will be not giving my own children a basic down to earth identity.Ta,ta.

Darren Garner
After living in Germany for a few years, Ye Olde Pastie Shop Pasties, ask anyone in Bolton, they will understand. DG in Bolton still Lancashire as far as we are concerned.

Louise
The Green Frog on Preston Docks on a Sunday morning

me
oddies tata pasties!!! yum yum

Joe
Pg Pyramids

john whittles
don't forget fried egg butty

jean burley
hollands meat pies,none in cornwall

Rachel
Lived in Texas for 8 years and miss Blackburn (never thought I'd say that!) My top ten list: 1. real "pull out yer fillings" midget gems 2. bacon with rind on 3. crumpets oozing with butter 4. walks in Witton Park on a frosty, Sunday morning 5. creamy Lancashire cheese 6. mum's Roast Beef & Yorkshire puds 7. Fish, chips & mushy peas with loads of vinegar 8. Bank holidays at the pub 9. good pint of cider - doesn't matter which one 10. last but by no means least - family & friends. Looking forward to visiting soon and enjoying my top ten & more!

Dougie Lawton
I've been living in Stockholm, Sweden since 1969. I now live in Palma de Mallorca and come on friends... MUSHY PEAS, for God's sake!

Soraya & Phil
We've recently moved to Chepstow (Sth Wales) and they can't make decent fish & chips (and you can't buy Hollands Pies!!)

Eileen
the lovely people who will speak to anyone and pass the time of the day with you

Dave Moorhouse
I miss Gamon Ham wimberry tarts Vanilas (cake) Good bitter ale Tripe Black pudings and the green green grass of home. Presanly residing in Mississauga Onatrio Canada for the last 34 years.

sue
Born in Blackpool, live in Hampshire, miss all that's been mentioned, except being cold all the time. If you speak to a stranger down here, without being formally introduced, it's a suspicious act. I also have damaged my native speech beyond repair in order that I shall be understood. It's warmer down here but it's just not .......well, you know.

Lesley from Australia
Been here 25 years now and am still wondering what part of "does e heck" the Aussie's don't get. Still very patriotic after 25 years except when the Aussie's are playing. Miss Vimto and Malt Loaf - or the fact that you can't buy them in a normal shop.

Helen
Have lived in Northants for the last 5 years I miss...Bonds Ice Cream. Proper Trams, Eccles cakes, Barmcakes, Warburtons, People being friendly. Watching Fleetwood Rugby club take their annual new year dip in the sea. Home bakery on Blackiston Street, Salty Air. Chips and Gravy. Going for a walk along the beach at Rossall. Am getting really home sick now!

dom
aye I miss all o this as an expat. london types do me ead in.

Laura
Being away from Lanky for 14 months now, I miss so many things. Perhaps the top would be bacon butties from DD's burger van at Broughton traffic lights, walking around the village picking damsons from the trees and visiting Harrows End with amazing views of Barrow and even Liverpool! Dubai is full of sand and pretentious people who don't live in reality! How I miss going in to my local in Bilsborrow, and buying alcohol from newsagents!

Andy in Canada for 25 years
Fish and chip shops, Heysham and the Lake District. We are spoilt thought, we can get Lancashire & Wenslydale cheese, meat and spud pies, mushy peas, eccles cakes,Fishermans friends, Boddingtons and if you look, Blackpool rock. Just like being at home lad......

susan wait from ashton u lyne
fish and chips

Pete
I worked in Italy for a year and the thing that I missed the most was a nice sliced white loaf, as the only thing available was stale french sticks... oh, and you're dead right about that bacon

helen
i have now lived in the states for 10 years and i miss the great sense of humor and the unique british ability to make fun of yourself and not take yourself or anyone else too seriously. indian take-aways, trough of bowland, beautiful lush countryside and quaint houses, the history, pretty country pubs with hanging baskets full of geraniums, strangers that will gladly call your "luv" without a seconds thought, Coronation Street,marmite,heinz salad cream and real bread. pints of lager and lime, marks and sparks food hall. and most of all my family in Blackpool

Never been to Lancashire
But that's a funny list - well done Dave!

Angela
The things i miss most are Meat and Potato pies from Stonebridge Chippy, chocolate shortbreads from the village bakery and my fellow northerners who can speak properly and know that when you refer to your tea you mean your evening meal! Lovely, lovely northern people, i will be back with you again soon!

Maria from Accrington now in the UAE
Playing with my nephews Having banter with my friends Fish, chips, mushy peas and proper gravy (Bisto granules just aren't the same!) Hollands Pies Greggs pasties Warburtons bread Watching the footy on a Saturday afternoon in the pub in front of an open fire! (saturday here is equivalent to Monday here, still can't get used to that!) Walking in the countryside, even just the Coppice! far too much sand in Dubai!!!

Tracy
Anything from Oddies! I'm at uni and there's no delicious Oddie's baker's down here! And Pendle Hill!

Sarah
Oddies cheese and onion pasty with a custard tart you can't find them anywhere but Lancashire. Turf Moor, Warburtons, Pendle Hill, Gawthorpe Hall and Towneley Hall, people calling you chuck and love. You just can't find friendlier people who will talk to you and not be so stuck up!

Becca
Latham's cakes, Brucciani's coffee, Bond's ice cream!

Ted
Now let me think, I only went to Lundun for one day but I missed all the following: Bacon Butties, Hollands Pies, Northern accents, Sausage rolls, The Manchester Evening news, Southerner Jokes and most of all... no one knew I was insulting them when I said "Ee you're gawmless"

Catartist
Hollands pies, Sasparilla tablets

Duncan Hayes
Most things have already been mentioned, so as i travel the world working for a well known airline suffice it to say that there is nowhere like lancashire or indeed the folk who live in this fabulous part of the country. I can honestly say that i wouldnt swap it for anything you could offer and will always be proud of being one of those lancashire lads born bred and still proud to be living there.

inkylisa
mooshy peas

Paul Walmsley
Used to live in Garstang - miss fish and chips from Baileys in Lancaster. My wife (American) said it was the best British food she has had. Also miss bread and various baked goods from Singletons on Garstang High St

Penny
I'm French and I've lived in Blackpool for two years now, and everytime I visit my family in France, I desperately miss: Blackpool prom, people calling you "love", fish and chips (I may come from the country of fine cuisine, but nothing beats a good trip to the chippy!), Preston, the Bowland Forest, Blackpool Tower, long walks on the beach near the airport (the part of the beach that doesn't smell of donkey), the Syndicate, people saying hello, Stanley Park, proper tea, Chorley cakes, Little Britain, Peter Kay, the crappy train from pleasure beach to fairhaven, spring in Blackpool, the sunset, summer in Blackpool, the jellyfish, chips and gravy (my mum thinks I'm mad), Lancashire hotpot, McVities, a proper tea break, BBC news, and most of all... the lovely people in Lancashire!!!

Sue Hill
Hollands Steak'n'Kidney Puddings and Chippys that open on a Sunday

Peter Smith
A good recipe for parched peas and black pea soup

Tony
I have been living in South Africa for 17 years and I miss... Bacon Butties of course, Pakin, Midget Gems. Decent pork pies. Steak puddings and chips with gravy and trying to eat with a wooded fork. Accent of Gradley Lancashire Folk. Fresh crisp winter mornings and the frost on the grass. Banter of the pubs, markets days or having a laugh on the bus. Christmas time. But most of all I miss the county of my birth and the place I will always call home!!

Peter, Denia, Spain
As a Prestonian who has lived in Spain for 15 years I miss a good takeaway, decent black puddings, Preston North End and the beautiful Ribble Valley with its wonderful walks.

Ivor G Wisdom
I live in Thailand. I love the UK but I cannot afford to live there.

Claire - Up Holland
I'm an escaped Southener, but my partner is born and bred Wigan exiled for 10 years to London now back home. Permanent complaints in London were 1. the chippy was crap didn't do gravy or mushy peas, 2. the bread wasn't Warburtons (occasionally found a diddy version but not often)3. can't get a proper pudding (southeners think you are referring to the afters of your tea) 4. can't get a proper pie 5. can't get a pint of bitter with a head - even the northern breweries are served flat. Every trip to the family involved a bulk order at Pimletts to fill the freezer with Meat and Potato pies. Now he's home for good everyone calls him a southerner especially as he has got used to drinking something other than bitter.

Jeannette Wright
I grew up in Bolton, spent 25 years in exile in Surrey and the last two in Canada, loved reading everyone's comments. I miss people asking 'y'all right love?' 'How are you?' isn't quite the same! Real crumbly Lancashire cheese. Pasties. The rain and grey skies, Plastic macs and rainhoods. Real tea, PG tips or Tetley, here its made with Orange Pekoe yuk... I rely on family to keep me supplied! Sarsaparilla from the Market Hall, real chocolate biscuits, fingers or digestive, fish and chips with malt vinegar, good bacon, treacle toffee, mint cake. Crusty white bread from Greehalghs, talking...nothing like a good natter and comedy, I love Peter Kay!

Joyce Moore
I have been here in South Australia for 39 years and still miss the Lanky accent. Not to mention Whimberry tarts, potato cakes, vimto, Thorntons toffee. There's probably heaps more things.. Oh yes Manchester City as well... Christmas isn't the same when it's 40 degrees either. Most of all I miss the boy I left behind.

Jane Nutt
I have lived in Australia for 34 years, and I miss Blackpool so very much that we have travelled there almost every year since 1986. (we came to Australia 1971) I miss everything that the other people miss, and consider myself fortunate to indulge in some of them on my visits. I shall be there again this October and November. I also miss our friends we had back then before we left, our parents and other family members have since departed this life, but we missed them (and still do) I miss the Tower Ballroom and the Winter Gardens, there is nothing to compare them with here..

Nick
As a Lancashire Expat living in the southern hemisphere (well Cheshire), I miss Vimto Cordial Fishermans Friends and Lofthouse's Apothecary Proper Trams (none of this smooth riding Mancunian guff!) Fleetwood Sea Front, especially the open air baths on a hot summer's day The view from the Mount Mickelbacks Sausages The smell of Isaac Spencer's Fish Meal Plant The deep sea fishing fleet (Thank you EU) The lifeboat flares and seeing the boats launched down the slip Fleetwood Folk in general!

David Aspden
We have been in Canada for over thirty years and still miss - U.C.P. Tripe shops, Pork pies with egg in the middle, and the ony one that really matters - Going to Maine road to cheer the best team in the world.

Ross
I've lived in the Cayman Islands for 7 years now. Just reading all the lists of memories made me more homesick than ever. I miss a meat and potato pie with a vanilla slice for afters, dairylea cheese spread, a good loaf of bread (you cant get that here) for making bacon butties, going to the Lakes and eating mint cake, frosty mornings, Christmas shopping in wigan and Christmas day with my mum and dad and granddad. Loved it all.

Wheldon
I’m originally from Longridge. I’ve been in Western Australia now for 25 years, and there are just two things I miss... the pubs and the football – Come on PNE!

Bob
I have lived in Canada since1967 and I watch the Blackpool tower web cam everyday. The thing I miss most about Blackpool is the people, I had a hotel on Hull Road for years, I have never had so much fun in my life. P.S. I am still unable to talk Canadian.

Ian Hunt
I come for Walton-le-Dale Preston and I've been Living in Munich Germany for 20 Years. I miss just about everything that has already been mentioned, mainly though I miss Meat and Potato Pies, Fish and Chips, Going up to the Lakes on a bleak Winter's day and going up Striding edge. But what I realy miss are people with a good sense of humour who can understand a good joke.

Cheryl
I have lived in Blackpool all my life and would not want to leave Lancashire. It has so much to offer, and I agree I would miss everything that's all ready been mentioned.

Valerie Ford
After 25 years in the USA I still miss... Paxo sage and onion stuffing proper picked onions Branston pickle (original flavour) Christmas Crackers and people who don't think they are some kind of festive biscuit! Twiglets McVities half covered plain chocolate biscuits Refreshers Jelly babies Dolly Mixtures Proper fruit cake with royal icing and marzipan Battenburg cakes Crusty rolls Iced buns Scotch Eggs Pork pies People who don't think steak and kidney pie sounds gross! Treacle pudding Lyle's Golden Syrup Pub Lunches Proper bacon crumpets Marmite soldiers! bread pudding - my mum made the best! Stone's Ginger Wine People who know how to say aluminium and jaguar! Rupert the Bear Annuals Fry's turkish delight Cadbury's Flake bars Figlets Mince pies Christmas pud and non commercial tv

John Turner
I was born in Burnley and have lived in California for 35 years. Most of the things I miss and remember are :Mushy Peas. Burnley on market day. Fish/chips in a newspaper. Double decker bus rides. The christmas hustle and bustle. Playing darts in a pub. Sunday lunch. Morecambe Bay. Racing at Haydock Park. Lancashire accents, Saturday at Turf Moor. The aroma in the air when I would walk by Masseys brewery (is it still there?) Window Cleaners and Chimney Sweeps.

Paul
I live in surrey so I'm lucky that I can get home in 4-5 hours, but when away from the best county in the country I miss... 1. meat and potato pies 2. chip shop gravy (Peter Kay was right they've got nowt moist down here) 3. cold weather (sounds daft but I miss frost and snow - and not just in July) 4. the people (so stuck up down here) 5. bitter 6. the giantaxe (spent many a Saturday afternoon there) and last of all my friends and family

Wilf Brooks from behind enemy lines in Bradford
It's all right for you lot living in all those fabulous far off off places, I live in Yorkshire and you can't get Steak & Kidney Pudding, Chips and Curry Sauce in any of the chip shops. A barm cake here is a nutcase, they call them tea cakes!!! and not a currant in sight. Cod and chips? no chance, it's Haddock or nowt. Still I suppose yon savages have to be tamed, I'll put my pith helmet back on and continue the good fight.

Janet Lofland
Well, you just about got it all. I have been here in the USA for 18 years and I miss all the things that have been mentioned already, it was a lot of fun reading the lists. I look forward to coming back this summer and sampling some of those goodies.

Christine Coates
I've been living in Italy for nearly 30 years but I still miss everything on the list including the cold, damp weather! Trish from a seaside town, Barwon Heads in Australia added these... I left in 1960 with my family, mum, dad, brother and two sisters. I miss... 1. All the family we left behind, many of whom we've never seen again 2. Crisps (Australian 'Chips' aren't the same) 3. Real sausages, mashed spuds and HP Sauce 4. Blackpool illuminations 5. My Auntie Win 6. Wild, windswept walks along promenades, Southport, Morecambe. 7. The accent of Lancastrians - it always makes me feel home when I hear it on telly 8. Family again, there's only three of us left now, three daughters with no root connections 9. If mum was alive she would want me to say- Cliff Richard and Cilla Black!

Dennis Whitehead
I lived in Lancashire in the "good old days", through the Depression and the "Big One" (WW2) and left in '51. Now I live in a pine forest on the West (wet) slope of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Consequently I have a large number of "misses", but I will be brief: 1. Barm Cakes - with any (Lancashire) filling; 2. Black Puddings - Fried or Cold; 3. A decent Shandy (Bitter); 4. Hot Pot at Goosnargh Farm on New Year's Eve with the CTC; 5. Waller & Hartley's Toffees; 6. Sitting in the covered section of the North Prom (Blackpool) in a raging storm; 7. The live shows at the Grand Theatre, ssitting in the "gods"; 8. "Nicky Nook" and the rest of the Bleasdale Fells; And a whole lot more. Whoops! I omitted "Lancashire Cheese" my favourite was made in Gt. Eccleston.

Steve Lee
Well, where do I start? I've been living in Canada for over 13 years now and still miss a lot of stuff. Try to keep it to a minimum... 1 .Bacon butties of course, Canadian bacon doesn't even come close. 2. Fish n chips, malt vinagar. 3. Meat and potato pie. 4. Pork Pie 5. Mushy peas. 6. A decent cornish pasty. 7. Chorley cakes with butter on them. 8. Cheese and onion crisps 9. Any crisps for that matter 10. The smell of sea air on Morecambe prom. Thats where I'm from. 11. The choce of just popping down to your local for a pint with friends, as opposed to driving for 25 mins and you don't know anybody. 12. Morecambe Bay potted shrimps. Well I'm drooling right now so I'd better stop.

Louise Pickford
I used to live in Catterall near Garstang before moving to Calgary, Canada. The things that I miss are... 1) Bacon butties (and people who know what a "buttie" is) 2) Warburton's bread, toastie of course, to make the buttie on 3) fish and chips with malt vinegar 4) the Lake District in autumn with the fallen leaves on the ground and the damp air and the clouds settling on top of the hills 5) our local(s), there are lots of pubs in Garstang, and being able to walk in, order a drink and strike up a conversation with whoever happens to be standing there because everyone knows everyone else 6) walking along Blackpool prom with the wind and the spray from the waves stinging your face 7) Blackpool Illuminations 8) Bonfire Night and treacle toffee 9) Willie Carson and Claire Balding presenting the horse racing (not even sure if they still do) and 10) Seabrooks crisps (ready salted for me, prawn cocktail for my hubby).

Krys
I used to live in Blackburn, what I miss are my fish and chips, apple and cream turnovers, chip butty and a lager and black at the pub, cheese and onion pie. I used to love listening to Jimmy Saville on a Sunday at dinner time - all the revival songs, and last of all nobody can beat English chocolate - it's the best! I miss sitting on Southport Beach among the sand dunes watching the planes from RAF Woodbridge ....Climb in the blue sky ( which can be rare) switch their engines off and slowly descend restarting ( they do this as an exercise)....It's amazing to watch.. ( Must be terrifying to do). I miss the real friendliness of the people to me the salt of the earth) The amazing accent There is something that most Lancies don't notice is the smell of Lancashire. When you are a visitor / foreigner you get it , but the locals don't It a faint " flowery " smell ....very nice ..It's on the Wind ...It is everywhere even in the Cities and towns . I suppose if you come to Ireland you would get a smell too, that we wouldn't. Blackpool ...God I love that place.....I miss the terror of the Pepsi Max.

Patrick Tierney
I'm from Dublin, I go to my friends in Southport on weekends and summer holidays etc I miss sitting on Southport Beach among the sand dunes watching the planes from RAF Woodbridge ....Climb in the blue sky ( which can be rare) switch their engines off and slowly descend restarting ( they do this as an exercise)....It's amazing to watch.. ( Must be terrifying to do). I miss the real friendliness of the people to me the salt of the earth) The amazing accent There is something that most Lancies don't notice is the smell of Lancashire. When you are a visitor / foreigner you get it , but the locals don't It a faint " flowery " smell ....very nice ..It's on the Wind ...It is everywhere even in the Cities and towns . I suppose if you come to Ireland you would get a smell too, that we wouldn't. Blackpool ...God I love that place.....I miss the terror of the Pepsi Max.

Chris Berry
Up north people talk to each other about anything, just being friendly. Down south I get lumped in with Yorkies. I have to ask for Stongbow instead of asking for cider, because they keep giving me Stella! I have to put up with Northern jokes about whippets and flat caps, being asked if I know Peter Kay. Is Preston near Blackpool?! I again miss proper pies and gravy - I even miss the rain!

Craig
Gravy - You never get gravy in Southern chip shops.... everytime I go home, I have chips & gravy

Mervyn Rea
I used to live in Poulton, before moving out to Australia last year. Additional things I miss about Lancashire, and where I used to live are : 1. Standing on top of Rivington Pike on a clear day, and being able to see Blackpool Tower in the distance. 2. Going to the Thatched in Poulton for a real pint of bitter. 3. Going to the Layton Institute on a Saturday afternoon with my mate Billy, drink Guinness and watch the football results. 4. Eating Fish & Chips from paper, soggy with vinegar. 5. Pickled Eggs, and Onions 6. Meat & potato pie with HP sauce. 7. Crisp, frosty mornings, and having to scrape the ice off the car. 8. Snow. 9. Going walking anywhere in Lancashire on clear, but damp autumn days. 10. Colman's English Mustard - on everything !

Mal Walker
Barm cakes hollowed out and filled with butter and hot chips People laughing and joking on a bus, pub, cafe, street, shop etc. etc. Mushy peas Pork pies (with juice inside when hot or jelly when cold) Sitting at Old Trafford in the rain eating a meat pie whilst sheltering under a newspaper. Watching football where the players don't spit, scratch, dive, pull shirts or roll around in agony for ten minutes at a time. Fish & Chip shops - and when you get fish it hasn't got bones in it. Watching lawn bowls on a sunny Sunday afternoon with an icecream. Walking through bluebell wood and listening to a thrush singing. Standing at the top of Blackpool Tower and looking at Pendle Hill in the sunset. Walking down my old backstreet and remembering all those happy days Fresh cooked Black Puddings with mustard, crusty bread and a mug o' tea

Veronica De Sardi
I'm Spanish, but I was working in Blackpool on my Summer holidays in 2003, and I have to say that I miss Fish & Chips,potato pies, and cheese and onion pies. But I think the most important thing I miss, it is the friends I made. I miss you all.

Nicola Billington
I moved from Leigh five years ago now and trust me in Norfolk nothing is the same. No one says chuck or love, no barmcakes in sight, they're known as rolls, so a pasty in a barmcake just isn't the same. They dont do nice chip shop gravy instead they have batterd Mars bars, sausage and pineapple rings, yuk! and there is no Greggs or Greenhalghes bakery which I deeply regret but yep good ol' leigh does have its good points which are sadly missed - enjoy it while you can... and a big hello to all the people who live there xxx

Lisa Smith
Parched peas, vimto lollies, mint cracknells and spanish armada toffee, tobacco in a pouch - bring it all back please

Penny
I caught myself shouting "Mum! There's Blackpool on TV!" this summer when I was in France. yep, no matter what people think about Blackpool, it's the best place on earth!

John Irvin
I'm a St Wullies/St Mary's lad, I started school as a five year old the year St Wulstans opened in 1936 . I have many fond memories of Fleetwood where I called home from 1931 till I emigrated to Perth Western Australia in 1963. I can well remember working hard on the dock all week (six day week then , " they don't know they're born today "), playing football or going to watch Stan Mathews and Morty. Then a night out at the Winter Gardens, fish n chips at Frosts then a race to catch the Blackpool Belle (last train) back to Fleetwood. That's where I met my wife Jean Porter of Hazeldene Road. She was a `Proddy Dog` who attended Bailey school, and later worked at Coal Salt. There's a lot we miss about Fleetwood, but we don't regret our move down under.

Lisa
I've been in Australia for ten years now and every day I still feel homesick for Bolton. The things I miss are bonfire night and black peas (I can't find black peas anywhere here) Warburtons bread Christmas the way it's meant to be (cold) Pot Noodles in any flavour Bolton Markets and good shops, Car boot sales (they don't know how to do it here) Good things on tv. Everything about Blackpool People who can make a decent cup of tea Good magazines (chat,take a break etc) The crisp spring air in the morning, chips and curry sauce, ice cream vans, local pubs, current Coronation St and Eastenders You know I really could go on for ever, I'm thinking about coming home as I miss it that much.

Ian Baldwin
I was born i' Burnley, grew up in Darwen (Darren to thee), and have now lived in California 20 years after years of purgatory in Kent and Surrey before that. Thanks for the great, drool-making lists from everyone so far but let me add: Thwaites original bitter (not that frothy smooth flow rubbish), my first and still the best Droll Lancs humour, the ability to laugh at yersel, not at others less fortunate Dark chocolate Hob Nobs(this is a young country, not yet discovered here) Any Saturday outdoor market (I used to stand on Burnley's old one in 1965), there's something about them that is special Open moorland a few minutes walk away (I know that Darwen Tower is not exactly Yosemite, but I still miss it) Winnberry pie from those same moors Decent cuppa (I have to run the US Customs with tea that puts muscles in yer spit) Long summer nights, new mown hay, midges and cuckoos People who take you into their confidence within minutes of meeting you (and proceed to tell you about their garden, family or trouble they are having with their bottom set) Skylarks (though I think they are gone from most of England now) and Peewits, the best bird in so many categories. India Mill Chimley Fishing fer Chub in a fast running swim in t'Ribble near t' De Tabley Cadbury's Bournville (America doesn't understand...) Co-op fondants The smell at home of mum's Friday night's baking Last and maybe least, suffering every fortnight at Ewood Park (when I think of the miles I walked, the hours I wasted and the money I gave them...come back Fred Pickering all is forgiven!) Thanks BBC for asking, keep up the great work in keeping us all connected! Sincerely Ian Baldwin

Danny
CHIPS AND GRAVY

John Graham
From Adelaide South Australia. Most of the above plus :_ Eccles cakes Cumberland Sausage Brown and bitter Liverpool Another brown and bitter !!

Brian Harper
Steak Pudding Chips and Mushy Peas Daily Telegraph Vimto Dr Thompsons Lozenges Victory Vees Barmcakes Atherton Public Baths George & DRagon Leigh Prince Sax Coburg - no longer exists Atherton Lancashire Greenalls Bitter Black & Tan Black Velvet De Havilland Propellers Lostock Black Peas Glacier Mints Blackpool Rock Manchester Evening News - Saturday Pink Edition

Rachel Vigeon
I was born in Burnley, raised in Bilsborrow and Lytham St. Annes. I have been living in Southern California for ten years and I still miss..... Sunday lunch in front of a roaring log fire in a country pub Walks up Beacon Fell Jam Roly Poly Pudding and Custard Fish and chips in paper on the sea front at Blackpool during the illuminations Bracing walks after lunch on Christmas Day along the sea front at st. Annes on Sea Marmite The accent Back to back terrace houses, cobble stones and the neighbourliness sherbert lemons a proper breakfast - pork sausage, black pudding, fried tomatoes, fried bread and fried eggs Good tea! Pendle Hill at Hallowe'en Townley Hall Museum in Burnley Pork Pies and Oatcakes made freshly at a shop on Garstang High Street Toasted teacakes Hot pot with red cabbage Mushy peas!