Should urban Britain have also been shown?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/3yub4j2

These new passports will be issued in October, they will represent an idealised picture of pastoral Britain, complete with the images of sundials, narrow boats and windmills.to represent rural scenes from across the UK, images of urban Britain are nowhere to be seen.

[Xaviour]

i wuld have said lncashire , yorkshire but certainly not up bnorth. up there they are almost jocks and i guess run about in skirts ? sorry if i have upset any sweaties but im speaking up for england and the working man not our ccrazy neighbors up north

[Bobbisox]

theres north of England past Yorkshire lol

[Xaviour]

sorry never been up there i hear i used to be very nice. do you have a glut of narrow boats and sundials because here in the south we dont . well i havent seen any put it that way.

[Bobbisox]

yes there are a lot of narrow boats on the Leeds to Liverpool canals and those dotted in and around the yorshire dales, sun dials, yes, up the Northumberland coast in the castles up there

[Xaviour]

leeds isnt north is it? im sorry i dont have a catsle where exactly are you not your house number but town or city?

[Bobbisox]

Leeds is North Xaviour ..lol
I am in Newcastle but often go up to Alnwick and Druridge Bay, very beautiful and I am about 98 klm from Edinburgh

[Xaviour]

newcastle? i see it on tv a lot seems a place that youngsters travel to at weekends to get bladdered and throw up . and theres an abundance of sundials and narrow boats? im surprised but there cant be any sundials in scotland because i thought italways rained there do they have rain dails you think ?

[Bobbisox]

ha-ha Newcastle on a Friday night is not for the faint hearted Xaviour
have you been to Scotland?

[Bobbisox]

http://www.google.co....qi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
take a look at this Xavier

[Xaviour]

thanks bobbisox i havent been to scotland but i have seen it on the telly and ive seen russ abbot hes quite funny see you jimmy

[Xaviour]

nicepictures bobisox but not a sundial or narrow boat in them im disappointed there not british enough for aog .

[Bobbisox]

right ok...lol
you taking the Fosters xavier...

[ludwig]

//brass bands. did you know that 20 years ago there were over 20 thousand of them and now theres only 500//

Great, only 500 to go.

[ludwig]

..hang on, at that rate if we're lucky we'll be rid of them all by Christmas.

[daffy654]

We have a few windmills in my area... mind you I am in rural Britain. The windmill in Marton, Blackpool is not far from me, neither is the one on Lytham Green.
We also have a few award winning brass bands around here and they parade past my house every year on Club Day. Any scenes of urban Britain would not be things I am familiar with on a day to day basis.
It works both ways AOG, not all Brits live in towns and cities.

[Booldawg]

LOL Ludwig - I'd LOVE to see you say that to the Royal Marines!

[tigerlelly]

For windmills - Norfolk
Narrow boats - London or anywhere with a canal
Sundials - 1000s of private gardens and parks. I've got one.

[sp1814]

Yes, it would be a nice idea to get images of urban Britain into the passports, but the passport office would have to be careful not to make it too 'London-centric', because so many of Britain's key architectural images are in the capital city (Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, Nelson column etc).

I'd suggest the Angel Of The North as a good starting point.

Windmills...well that's just weird. I bet if you asked 100 people "Which country do you associate windmills with?" the vast majority would answer, "Holland".

[jno]

yes, sp1814, and I can never figure out what anyone does with a sundial in Britain, however useful they may be in Italy. Hang flower baskets from them?