Category Archives: Yorkshire History and Heritage
Yorkshire’s Antarctic Ancestors
If you are shivering and feeling the seasonal cold spare a thought for our Yorkshire forefathers who were early visitors to Antarctica. In 1525 a Spanish captain explored around the Horn. The passage of sea between antarctic and Argentina was … Continue reading
Yorkshire Chimneys Falling Down
Are Yorkshire’s fine chimneys falling into disrepair and falling down? They should be cosseted as important heritage assets reflecting an industrial age that is passing us by. I hope to photograph and catalogue a selection of interesting chimneys and lookalike … Continue reading
Good Old City Variety Days
Do you remember the ‘Come Dancing’ TV series of 1950 or ‘The White Heather Club’ perhaps not but I bet you remember ‘The Good Old Days’. The Good Old Days started in 1953 and was broadcast live from the City … 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
A Different York Pub Crawl
From Leeds to York it is only 22 minutes on the train and the near-by Maltings awaits the thirst traveler. On Tuesday 20th July train enthusiasts steamed in for a quick lunch before a trip back north on the LNER … Continue reading
Wait for Old Yorkshire Music
Royal courts may have had their fools and jesters, Robin Hood had the wandering minstrel Alan-a-Dale and Yorkshire’s mayors had their ‘City Waits’. What was a Wait From medieval times groups of musicians were sometimes organised as waits. The York … 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
Autumn Diseases & Times Past
‘Coughs and sneezes spread diseases – trap your germs in a handkerchief.’ This slogan was first used during the 1918-20 influenza epidemic. Other earlier measures and problems are reminiscent of our own corona virus problems. Medically speaking November has never … Continue reading
My View of National Trust Yorkshire
November 2020 have just cancelled my membership! I gave it thought but the main driver was the abysmal management of the organisation. It is nothing to do with the properties which include many national or international gems (including East Riddlesden … Continue reading