Talk:FY postcode area

regarding the map showing the borders with other postcode areas, offshore the northern border of the FY6 postcode district is with the LA postcode area. While the map only shows borders with the PR area.

FY0 non-geographical?

Is FY0 a non-geographical outward code? I live in FY and have only come across it in conjuction with the NSandI office FY0 1YN. A Google search shows this code applied to the Moorland Road St Annes address in FY8, and the Mythop Road Marton address in FY4. These two sites used to have an internal inter-site mail service, and probably still do. Rugxulo (talk) 20:03, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

It is - according to Royal Mail[1] it's in FY3 Sector 9, which is the same sector as Mythop Road. Peter E. James (talk) 00:36, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Alf Was Here

According to The Guardian, "Alf Goldberg, who has died aged 89, was one of the dwindling band of veterans of the struggles against British fascism in the 1930s. His death came a month after publication of the paperback edition of his acclaimed book World's End for Sir Oswald, a portrait of working-class life before the rise of the British Union of Fascists (BUF).

As a young Jewish socialist, Alf was at the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, when an estimated 100,000 protesters gathered to stop Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts marching through the East End. The BUF leader was forced to abandon the march, and it marked the beginning of the end of his movement.

Alf was born in an area of west London where poverty and conspicuous consumption coexisted uncomfortably, providing a fertile breeding ground for the BUF, whose "Black House" HQ was near the Goldberg home in World's End, Chelsea. A champion boxer in his youth, he left school at 14 to become an apprentice motor mechanic in a West End garage, where he saw the Mosley set at close range. They kept several vehicles there and, on late shift, Alf would sometimes see them sent out to collect high-ranking Nazi visitors from Croydon airport.

During the second world war, he was a flight sergeant at RAF Weeton, near Blackpool, volunteering to help form the West Africa Air Corps on the direct orders of Churchill. He moved to the Fylde in Lancashire after the war, but always kept his London accent. He worked as a transport manager for almost 20 years and, in 1971, started his own service station and garage business.

Alf was a champion of the Labour left, and numbered MPs such as Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn among his friends. A long-standing member of the former Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical union, he had a Stakhanovite stamina and an irrepressible commitment to the movement, despite his differences with New Labour. With the resurgence of fascism through the BNP, he was much in demand as a speaker to remind younger audiences of its perils.

Always courteous and immaculately turned out, he was a familiar figure at Labour and trade union conferences and marches in Blackpool, and was also a leading light at the annual national pensioners' convention. He always arranged office accommodation for the Campaign group of leftwing Labour MPs during conferences.

A former Labour group leader on Fylde borough council, Alf had once been its only Labour member, but was respected by the dominant Conservative group for his good-natured single-mindedness. His ward, in an otherwise solidly Tory area, was dubbed "the socialist republic of Staining". He was a past president of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre trades union council, and a former chair of Fylde Labour party and Blackpool and Fylde Co-op party.

Alf was a man of high principle and integrity. As his co-publisher, who accompanied him to many book-signings, I can also testify to his energy, enthusiasm and salesmanship skills. As Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden, whom Alf helped early in his career, said: "It's not the big names that local MPs remember but the Alf Goldbergs of this world, who inspire Labour to keep true to its roots."" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.141.12.191 (talk) 07:24, 21 May 2013 (UTC)