Town or City

[mw0njm.]

sat was shopping day in the bullring and lewis's for mom,she would say "i am going to town shopping any one want to come with me" she always called the city town

 

[Astonb6]

sat was shopping day in the bullring and lewis's for mom,she would say "i am going to town shopping any one want to come with me" she always called the city town

Yes, it was always called "Town" in our house in Aston.

 

[Brianbrum]

Yes, it was always called "Town" in our house in Aston.

Yep Sat shopping with mom and auntie ' up town ' or meeting my mates or a girlfriend it was always called uptown

 

[paul stacey]

Always "Town " in our house!!

 

[A Sparks]

Town in our house too, I don't remember anyone calling it the City.

 

[Brianbrum]

I don't know what it's like now, I haven't lived there for 3o years but it used to feel like a town

 

[michaelwicks54]

It was always called town in our house too, when we lived in Aston. I never heard anyone call it city. My mum always used to take me wheh she went shopping on a Saturday. Used to spend lots of time in the old bull ring, Lewis@s & Henry's.

 

[John L]

It was always "town" for me too. I expect it's because that was what members of our family had referred to Birmingham as over the years, particularly if a family, or part of it had lived in the same location before it became a city in 1889, so "town" got and still gets passed on. I still refer to it as "town", as does my wife and son.

 

[Lloyd]

It was 'Town' to us too, but my parents only came to Birmingham in the teens / twenties, so it was a common turn of phrase obviously. Bus stops said 'To' or 'From city', and sometimes you'd see a bus destinated 'City' but I learned from an early age that 'Town' and 'City' meant the same place in Birmingham.

 

[mikejee]

I think it is general to refer to it as "going to town". Having experience of birmingham, wolves, leeds, chichester, certainly. Cannot remember what it was in other places

 

[mw0njm.]

we are drifting now way ot

What does town mean in UK?


a place where people live and work, containing many houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, etc., and usually larger than a village but smaller than a city:
City status in the UK can be associated with having a cathedral or a university, a particular form of local government, or having a large population.

 

[John L]

This is the Town Hall rather than City Hall, so we are all still OK to say we are going to "town".

 

[Vivienne14]

Always ‘Town’ but with a Yorkshire twist as Mum was from Yorkshire. So for us it was tut’Town.

So we’d go tut’Town ont’ bus

And as a teenager we’d meet friends ‘up Town’.

Viv.

 

[Covroad]

Yes, it was always ‘going up town’

 

[MWS]

This is the Town Hall rather than City Hall, so we are all still OK to say we are going to "town".

Birmingham wasn't city until 1889, so when it was built Bham was a town. Though, I suppose they could have renamed it.

Always/still say going to town.

 

[Nick Phillips]

sat was shopping day in the bullring and lewis's for mom,she would say "i am going to town shopping any one want to come with me" she always called the city town

In our house town was Birmingham, City was London.

Nick.