Driving across the North Yorkshire Moors in the early 1990s, the voice of Tracey Thorn boomed out of the car stereo. "I would like to live like anybody else. In One Place". I was on my way home, after another long day trip to North Humberside. I say North Humberside tongue in cheek. The incarnation of the Local Government Act 1972 came into being in 2 years later and was never very popular with the residents. I used to address letters to an office up Holderness Road with the North Humberside postal moniker and the said recipient religiously crossed it out. He would leave envelopes for my future inspection with all references of Humberside replaced with the words, East Yorkshire. The Beverley Ring Road, Wetwang, Norton, Malton, Hutton le Hole and up and over past the
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