“Close the curtains, the train is at Wolverhampton.”
Said Queen Victoria. “The dirt is utterly distressing.”
Still only a child but with an opinion of her own.
She found Wolverhampton enormously depressing.

King James I said the North of England was wild.
And it’s people were barbarous and uncivil.
He never visited again but if he had done.
He’d have be told to sit on it and swivel.

Charles II harboured a long-standing disdain for Hull.
He found it to be a very rebellious place.
No doubt because the good people of Hull.
Had told him to “Stick it Your Grace.”