The new Yorkshire sign at Grains Bar.
Facing the other way it's the new Lancashire sign, on the side of the old toll building.
Two new signs marking the traditional boundary between Yorkshire and Lancashire have gone up at Grains Bar. They’re on either side of the A672 Ripponden Road.
Despite the local government reorganisation which put Saddleworth into Greater Manchester and the Borough of Oldham back in 1974, the old border between Yorkshire and Lancashire remains unchanged. The Saddleworth White Rose Society, which has campaigned for our area’s Yorkshire roots to be preserved, was one of the prime movers behind the new signs.
The signs were paid for by the White Rose Society along with the Yorkshire Ridings Society, the Association of British Counties and the Friends of Real Lancashire. Various local dignitaries attended a ceremony over the weekend during which the signs were officially revealed.
The Lancashire sign is on the side of the old Grains Bar toll building. And if you want to know what the phrase ‘County Palatine’ means, there’s an explanation at a helpful Wikipedia page here.
You can read more about the signs at the Yorkshire Blog here, and there’s also a post on the blog of Chris and Glynis Abbott here.
Well done to the people who worked to get theses signs up at Austerlands and Grains Bar and good work by the white Rose Society. Its time the Red Rose Society worked it out that Saddleworth and area are Yorkshire and always will be. The person who keeps going on about they talk different over the hill form Marsden, she go and live some where else. These places are Yorkshire and always will be and sooner they get rid of the Oldham Boro Council and let Yorkshire take back control the better, because they seem to scew everything up.