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Stubbs Means Horse Painting
This painting looks like a bit of an old nag nearly ready for the glue factory. So where is this going on a Yorkshire blog? Well the nations best and most accurate equine painter of horse flesh learnt his … Continue reading
AI Aye is Yorkshire
Since Goole.com beat google to the search engine market so Yorkshire rightfully claims credit for AI. Some, mainly digital intelligence, may be fantastic but Yorkshire folk have long been champions at the Aye game. There is nowt artificial about Yorkshire … Continue reading
MPs We Voted In
To calm the Rwanda crisis down we need an anti-inflamaTory? Chance would be a fine thing. Yorkshire return 54 members of Parliament and unless there have been any ‘overnight’ changes to party allegiances 24 are represented by Conservative MPs and … Continue reading
Tilting at Yorkshire Windmills
Firstly we exclude the modern wind farms, wind turbines and their ilk designed for energy production and despoiling the landscape. Windmill has the clue in the name, a mill that uses wind! Which area of the county has the greatest … Continue reading
Windmills Of Yorkshire
History The first written record from 1185 is of a Yorkshire windmill near South Cave in Weedley. The land was owned by the Knights Templar who may have been copying a 9th Century Iranian design. The 13th century saw an … Continue reading
Do Not Level Up Yorkshire
Boris, thanks but no thanks, keep you gerrymandering and self serving for the so called social and political elite. Yorkshire doesn’t need leveling up we are already at a terrific pinnacle and have been for many centuries. We would rather … Continue reading
Yorkshire Before 1066
Yorkshire folk are a hardy species with a long and fascinating historical past these are just some indicative seminal times. Jurassic period 140 million years ago between the Mesozoic era, Triassic and the Cretaceous period with marine conditions in Yorkshire … Continue reading
Peter Sutcliffe
No more oxygen of publicity for the Yorkshire Ripper
Yorkshire Grace and Favour
Yorkshires new archbishop Stephen Cottrell and his grace’s God bless us all, an’ mak us able Ta eyt all t’ stuff ‘at’s on this table… We thank the Lord for what we’ve getten: But if mooare ‘ad been cutten Ther’d … Continue reading
Trees of Yorkshire Museum Gardens
St Olav’s Church – York Museum Garden I intended to write about six Champion Trees of Yorkshire but discover the subject is fully covered in the Yorkshire museums own web site. Champion trees are the biggest examples in Yorkshire identified … Continue reading