A YORKSHIRE PROTEST.

Northern Advocate, 7 November 1932, Page 3

A YORKSHIRE PROTEST.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Kindly "rant me a little apace wherein to correct the geography of your correspondent, A. Hornet. In your issue of the 3rd inst. ho tells your roadeis that “ By a large Labour vote, Lincoln, before the war, was made member for Parliament for Darlington, in Yorkshire,’’ etc. Then he sneerIngly remarks: “How proud Yorkshi remen must have felt at being represented by a Hungarian of the name of Trebitseb, alias Lincoln.” Yorkshiremcn never wore represented in Parliament by a Hungarian named Lincoln. Darlington is not in Yorkshire. Knowing that your correspondent, A. Hornet, left the Old Land half a century later than I did, I wondered whether, in this age of miracles, they had moved the old borough across the Toes, but, on consulting the latest Gazetteer, I Jlnd that Darlington is still resting quietly in County Durham, just whore I last saw her. Darlington was the homo of the Pease family of Quakers who financed George Stephenson in his application of the steam engine to haulage on rails, and it. was on a section of road between Darlington and Stockton that the world's railway system had its birth. I am, etc., , CONSTANT READER.