Ahead of St George’s Day, Leeds locals talk about the Georges in their lives, past and present.
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00:00 I've got a friend called George, I go climbing with him weirdly enough and I also work with him.
00:03 Lovely guy, so big shout out to George. He's getting a lot better at climbing, not as good as me I will say, but he's a lovely guy.
00:10 My brother's called Georgie, he changed his name to George. I think he felt that Georgie wasn't as strong as George.
00:17 And he's a very beautiful, big, handsome boy doing his thing.
00:21 One of my father's best friends was a chap called, we called him Uncle George.
00:25 It was not a relationship, he was just a good friend.
00:27 And he was an upholsterer, a dying craft. And I used to go around to his workshop and watch the magic.
00:35 I mean he was extraordinary, tapping away at leather and things.
00:38 I had a friend called George and he was, I'm a secondary school, he was a fantastic blogger, was really lively, life of the party kind of thing.
00:50 George Allen, good friend of mine, known him two year, around two year now almost. Good friend from Grimsby, but moved.
00:58 I know a couple of Georges, it's a world wide name George. I remember a Polish kid at school was called George Abaniak.
01:09 I think it's not quite as popular as it used to be. It's a bit of an old fashioned name.
01:15 My partner's birthday is St George's Day and he is really disappointed that it's actually not properly celebrated.
01:23 Obviously I'm Irish so back home we have St Patrick's Day which is a massive big day and it's celebrated all over the world.
01:29 But for a national day in England I don't think it's celebrated enough personally.
01:34 Yeah, I don't have any Georges in my repertoire.
01:38 The video clip I watched when I was learning English when I was a kid, that was the King George's song from Horrible Histories, that was before I moved to the UK.
01:47 I can't think of anyone else, I must know some people called George.
01:50 I must know someone called George. I knew a George back in secondary who played trombone, shout out to that George.
01:56 I haven't seen you in five years, how are you doing?