Penistone. The Chase

I do believe he was born in Barnsley, Tarn.

 

It belongs to barnsley council but unfortunately the official address is penistone, dee dah land. God only knows why. It is even a barnsley phone number but yes the address is Sheffield

 

No , deffo barnsley but deedahs cannot abide having their name on everything

 

Explained this a thousand times in other threads. Thats just Royal Mail and the way their postcode system works. Not all post towns align with the geographical boundaries. Mail for Penistone goes via Stocksbridge so it has a postcode to send it there. All stocksbridge postcodes have Sheffield as their post town as most areas are in Sheffield.

Thurnscoe, Goldthorpe, Bolton-on-Dearne all have Rotherham as their post town but they’re still in Barnsley.

 

Just what i have been saying, but there is nothing wrong in taking the mick out of the dee dahs

 

Often thought it strange that Barnsley (in fact most of South Yorkshire) has a Sheffield post code whilst Doncaster has it's own DN postcode.

 

Because Doncaster originally had its own Mail Centre and the DN postcode covers a huge area.

A better comparison would be Halifax. Similar size, plenty of available codes to be able to use HD as the prefix, but they got their own. It was probably political.

 

Glad that he said he was from near Sheffield because he was as thick as pigshit didn’t last long

 

There's a clip on YouTube of a conversation between Stones and Kyle Walker of him trying to get John to admit he's from Sheffield needless to say he's having non of it. Worth a look if it's still available think it was to do with England rather than City.

 

Seen it a few times

 

https://www.barnsley.gov.uk/barnsley-maps/barnsley-interactive-map/

 

2 minutes in

 

Oh there's a lot of those, unfortunately I live among them. Ignorant too.

 

Clearly, Penistone lies within the Metropolitan Borough Of Barnsley, but I think that whether you regard Penistone, and other places mentioned, as belonging in Barnsley, may well depend on your age. I was born and grew up in the County Borough of Barnsley, in the very centre of town. Penistone, Goldthorpe, Hoyland etc. were places in their own right and never regarded as being part of Barnsley until the huge local government reorganisation took place in 1974, which included the creation of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough. This embraced a lot of places which had never previously been regarded as being in Barnsley, because they were not in the county borough. The change was an administrative change. Similarly, until April 1974, Middlesbrough was part of Yorkshire. Then, at a stroke, it suddenly became part of Teesside. There is a sign on the A628 Woodhead road, about 15 miles from the town centre, welcoming people to Barnsley. This was obviously not there before 1974, and the very idea would have seemed ridiculous. When the administrative system was brought in, a lot of people who had been moved from Yorkshire into North Humberside, or from Grimsby into South Humberside, for example, were very cross about the changes.

 

Bang on. I can’t describe the stupidity of people who assume their postcode determines which town they are in.

Post codes are relevant to royal mails postal system, and it’s been adopted by every other delivery company. I can see why there’s confusion, but I get fed up of explaining this to people.

 

Indeed, Mexborough has a sheffield post code like S64 - but no one from Mexborough claims they live in Sheffield. Although helpfully Sheffield have sent their gang wars from Pitsmoor over to Mexborough.

 

The bloke on The Chase is a farmer from Flouch area of Penistone. In their spare time they play banjos and are quiet good seeing as they have extra fingers. Going in their local is like the scene from American Werewolf in London.

 

Mexborough was originally meant to be allocated the DN13 postcode but it wasn’t used in the end.

 

Parts of Grimsby have the DN postcode and no-one would suggest they’re part of Doncaster. Same with Skegness, that has PE postcode, Peterboro’ As has already been said it’s not Geographical, just for administrative purposes.

 

I can't believe that people still watch The Chase, and they probably even still think that Bradley Walsh is funny.