Category Archives: Yorkshire Sport and Pastimes
150 Years at the Top for Yorkshire Cricket
2013 saw Yorkshire county cricket club celebrate 150 years as a club and team which has given so much pleasure to the folk of God’s Own County at home or abroad. We forgive them the occasional lapse in performance knowing … Continue reading
Yorkshire Dart Boards World Champion
‘Yorkshire darts (no triples) at the Arncliffe Arms in Glaisdale… they do a good burger.’ Interesting and Unusual Facts About Yorkshire Dart Boards Early London dart boards were divided into 12 segments with each segment worth 5,10,15 or 20 with … Continue reading
Tags Tagged and Tagging or Tig
Playground Game of Tag or Tig The rules for Tag are simple. First decide who is ‘it’ and everyone else run away. If the person who is ‘it’ tags or touches you, you are ‘it’. When you are ‘it’ try … Continue reading
Norman Yardley’s Contribution to Music
Yorkshire Cricket Captains, Including: Geoffrey Boycott, Darren Gough, 7th Baron Hawke, Norman Yardley, Ray Illingworth. Norman Yardley of Royston near Barnsley was ‘Cricketer of the the Year 1948’ and this is how it was reported in Wisden In 1950 he … Continue reading
Jolly Boating Weather
I put the registration number of a canal barge into a search engine and this is what I discovered ‘Length 15.25 metres (50 feet ) – Beam 1.99 metres (6 feet 6 inches ) – Draft 0.92 metres (3 … Continue reading
Walk Your Dog in the Dales
After a long walk my favourite dog is a large Bordeaux Collie. It makes a change from ‘Hair of the Dog’ brew dog beer and Laika, a fine Russian Imperial Stout named after the first dog to orbit the earth. … Continue reading
Sunset at Hawksworth Fishery
Hawksworth on the edge of Rombalds Moor has a small private fishing lake that looks inviting in the evening sunshine. Another area near Leeds is called Hawksworth and there is this walk around Horsforth incorporating Hawksworth Wood. A couple of … Continue reading
Horological Tempus Fugiting
John Dyson the jeweler’s created Time Ball Buildings in Briggate, Leeds in around 1865 with its clock and facade that now seems to be under threat. Leeds other famous clock monument is in Thornton’s arcade opened in 1877 by Charles … Continue reading
Clever Little Tit or Bird Brain
Tim Birkhead has produced a brainy book on ornithology as you would expect from an academic. However he has also been very clever in making it accessible to all ornithologists. Continue reading
Nine Race Course Yorkshire
What do Catterick, Doncaster and Wetherby have that Beverley, Pontefract, Redcar, Thirsk, York and Ripon do not have? The answer is Jump racing or National Hunt meetings at these race courses. Wetherby only hosts jump racing but Catterick and Doncaster … Continue reading