I certainly have one of those accents! as Blackpool is about 250 miles north of Watford gap, but as far as "brass" is concerned I have heard the expression "brass neck" to mean cheek or bravado as in "after the way he treated her he had the brass neck to walk back in and think she would take him back"

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