chrislock Posted 24 April , 2013 Share Posted 24 April , 2013 Ypres now has a new sister town as confirmed by local media channels. New signage will soon go up around the town confirming the new twinning with the town of WA in GHANA!! The official town magazine called " Iedereen stadsmagazine voor Ieper en deelgemeenten" reveals the full info with images of the new town twinning signage on page 23. Such a glorious sunny day it is today in Wa, er I mean Wipers!! Best wishes Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Posted 24 April , 2013 Share Posted 24 April , 2013 Sounds like the local council has been took over by the Manchester one we had in the eighties when we were twinned with every god forsaken place in the world, as long as it was deemed right and controversial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hone Posted 24 April , 2013 Share Posted 24 April , 2013 When I worked for Coventry Council in the '80s there was a joke that Coventry was twinned with every town where a bomb had fallen in the Second World War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrislock Posted 24 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 24 April , 2013 Perhaps it is to do with legislation concerning the shape of bannanas?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterhogg Posted 24 April , 2013 Share Posted 24 April , 2013 I once heard (an this is not true) that "Wipers" was twinned with Winnipeg. Though there is of course a connection due to the Winnipeg Rifles, but if you have ever spent a winter in Winnipeg, you would find Ypres tropical..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Tulloch-Marshall Posted 24 April , 2013 Share Posted 24 April , 2013 ... new twinning with the town of WA in GHANA ... Chris - some of the doings of the Burghers of Ypres have long since baffled me, especially matters relating to the Great War. Is this in any way related to WW1 ? I can hardly see how, but anyway, Wa is in northern Ghana, the mainly Muslim part of the country. Has any explanation for the twinning been offered or is it something we (on GWF) should just ignore ? Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Morgan Posted 24 April , 2013 Share Posted 24 April , 2013 Wasn't this link between Ypres and Wa set up about 2005? I'm sure I heard of it about then. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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