Author Archives: tejvan
Yorkshire Snow September
Yorkshire, like much of the rest of the country, has been hit be heavy snow falls which have left the county blanketed in snow. Gritters are struggling to keep roads open as stocks of salt run low. Scarborough Council … Continue reading
Reeth & Swaledale Snaps
Reeth Yorkshire by UGArdener, on Flickr
Beautiful Iconic Yorkshire
Ribblehead Viaduct by Joe Dunckley, Flickr. Wensleydale by Alden Chadwick Burnsall Lower Wharfedale by Tejvan Haworth Village – Bronte Country
Buckden Yorkshire Dales
Fork in the road in Buckden. To the right, Leyburn. To the left, a tough climb over Fleet Moss to Hawes A Date with History A Classic car driving through Buckden. Although the village of Buckden was founded in Norman … Continue reading
Yorkshire Wrestling Hero Big Daddy – and others
Celebrate all that was great about British All in Wrestling. ‘Nine and a Half Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s and early ’80s’ by Luke Haines is an affectionate homage to the old wrestlers profiled below. The free … Continue reading
Fred Trueman Still Speaks Out
Frederick Sewards Trueman OBE Fred Trueman to All Yorkshire Folk All Yorkshiremen have a favourite Fred Trueman story and mine goes something like this: Opening the bowling as usual from the Kirkstall Lane End Fred’s first ball rapped the openers … Continue reading
Sir Fred Hoyle Astronomer, Cosmologist and Sci-fi Author
Sir Fred Hoyle FRS 24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001 a Yorkshire man who coined the phrase ‘ The Big Bang’ and missed out on not one but two or three Nobel prizes for physics. Fred Hoyle was born … Continue reading
JWM Turner in Yorkshire
It is said that ‘The beauty of Yorkshire’s landscape moved the great British painter JMW Turner to tears’. No surprise there then for Yorkshire folk who are lucky enough to live and travel in the county. “Turner loved Yorkshire and … Continue reading
Tha’s Barns In the Dales
No not that sort of barn -‘Tha’s bahn’ to catch thy deeath o’ cowd’ No not that sort of Streak the Ray Stevens sort ‘….. Oh yes, they call him the streak Fastest thing on two feet He’s just … Continue reading
Boroughbridge & The Great North Road
The Great North Road has been in use for centuries. Romans used it when they set up in nearby Aldeborough, , Highway robbers sought out travellers between Scvotland and London and motorists have driven many a mile on … Continue reading