Funky Fact about Cannock
People from Cannock are known as Yam Yams, because of the phrase with which they reply to the question "how are you?". They'll say: "'yam orite, yam" (think about it!). However, this 'fact' is disputed - see below!
Footballer Stan Collymore and Deep Purple's bassist Glen Hughes came from here.
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The Chase! Views from the hills towards Penkridge are amazing!
Gaza - south Staffs
Staffs has been my home all my life. No better County in all the UK. Central to everything with the transport links via road or rail to anywhere in the UK easily.
Cannock Chase air is terrific (at least now coal mines have diminished & industry has cleaned up its act). The women are the best lookers & most likeable anywhere in Britain. For food & drink there are plenty of places to go from the quiet rural locations to the bustling town centres. True we don't have the nightlife of London, but Birmingham is on our doorstep with a wide choice of entertainment.
In my humble opinion, Staffordshire needs to promote itself more & compete with the Essex set & Yorkshire "big heads". One start would be to hand out free car stickers to all visitors at the gates to Alton Towers, saying for example, "Staffordshire a terrific County", or similar. The traffic that visits Staffordshire can carry the message far & wide. Staffs people remember where you are from & tell others with pride.
Emily
Best Place in Cannock - The train station - it allows for easy access straight out of the town into Stafford or Birmingham - let's face it - a hospital furnace is a better place to be than in this town!
Most famous thing about Cannock - Fred Pritchard, thank goodness (OK so the buildings need you to use your imagination to understand the underlying concepts but hey - who can moan at a guy who is trying his hardest to regenerate an old mining town? not me. Go Fred!!!)
CANNOCK "YAM YAMS"?
Hannah Stevens
Funky fact is incorrect, Cannock people have an accent but yam yams are ppl from wolverhampton/walsall/dudleyway. To my knowledge no-one who is born and bred in Cannock calls themselves a yam yam.
Will Stirling
No Wonder societies intelligence is diminishing when reports on a BBC site thinks Cannock people speak with a Black Country accent. For gods sake! Black Country is Dudley, Tipton, Blackheath and oldbury, nowhere near Cannock. Nowhere have I heard "Yam orite" from a Cannock dwelling person. So BBC please at least talk before creating reports like this
Not William Stirling
I think will Stirling is a very angry man; of course they speak like yam yams in Cannock. They never said people from Cannock were from the Black Country, much like people from Jarrow (it’s in the North East of England, on planet earth) speak like people from Newcastle upon Tyne, but they’re not Geordies....
