Category Archives: Yorkshire Sport and Pastimes
Butterfly Conservation in Yorkshire
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals by Patrick Barkham from Amazon The Yorkshire Branch of the Butterfly Conservation charity is advocating we use our gardens to help butterflies. There are many simple tactics that … Continue reading
Visit Rodley Nature Reserve
Set in an oxbow on the river Aire near Leeds is Rodley Nature Reserve. Close by is a section of the Leeds Liverpool canal and these two waterways attract wildfowl and waders in great profusion. Created on a floodplain this … Continue reading
Green Lanes of Yorkshire with Boats
Green lanes is a term for grouping together the various sorts of tracks, bridleways, and footpaths without a sealed (metalled or tarmac ) surface. These Green lanes that traverse and enhance the Dales landscape and cater for recreation in various … Continue reading
Bempton Birds in Paradise Cliff Hanger
Bempton Cliffs are a paradise for sea birds at this time of year, May. Nesting on the chalk cliff face the gulls are building nests and laying their young. The early starters are already hatching the chicks. The crowds gather … Continue reading
Yorkshire Cricket Slip Catch Dropped
The Bradford League produced some great cricketers and employed others like Sir Leary Constantine. The top star on many peoples list would be Jim Laker 1922-86 who was born in Frizinghall and attended Salt’s school. Jim played at Roberts Park … 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
Bat ‘at Ilkley for Cricket
Where else in Yorkshire should cricket be played if not under the Cow and Calf rocks and Ilkley Moor. Well in the Airedale -Wharfedale senior league you can be traveling to any number of grounds in West and North Yorkshire … Continue reading
Rag Rugs and Ragging
Rag rugs remains have been found in old Celtic and Viking homes and the making of rugs from rags is still practiced in Yorkshire. As the pictures imply there have been style changes as the availability of rag material has … Continue reading
Mosaic and Mosaicing as a Hobby
Mosaics can be a fulfilling hobby, pastime or challenging art project with a 4000 year pedigree Continue reading
Eddie Waring The Voice of Rugby League
Eddie Waring had ‘the uncanny ability of saying exactly what the man on the terraces is thinking’. Michael Parkinson. Born amongst the mundo and shoddy of Dewsbury Eddie managed the Dewsbury rugby team from the late 1930’s through the post … Continue reading