Category Archives: Yorkshire Arts & Music
Quilts Museum and Gallery for Quilters
Sadly now closed York was the UK home for the Quilters Guild and their museum. There is always a good selection of varied quilts on display in the gallery. When you visit my experience is that there will be quilters … Continue reading
Contemporary Art from New School House Gallery York
New School House Gallery is a contemporary object and art gallery in York. Through regular exhibitions it shows ‘the best in contemporary art, studio ceramics and the decorative arts’. Paula Jackson and Robert Teed the founders are also active on … Continue reading
Charabanc or Charabang
1914 Ford Model ‘T’ Charabanc by kenjonbro (Celebrating 60 Years 1952-2012), CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The term Charabanc (not Charabang as I thought) comes from the French char-a-bancs, for a “carriage with wooden benches.” The simple design included rows of seats … Continue reading
Bring Back Heartbeat
Yorkshire has been the location and produced the material for some great television series. The latest series is Happy Valley staring Last Tango in Halifax actress Sarah Lancashire. All Creatures Great and Small based on the vet books of James … Continue reading
Yorkshire Hieroglyphics!! by Thomas Rowlandson
The Queens Gallery at Buckingham Palace houses the Royal Collection including a large number of works by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827). We would think of them as cartoons suitable for publication in satirical magazines like The Oldie or Private Eye. The … Continue reading
The Northern Clemency
The Northern Clemency paperback edition is a stonking good read about family life in a Sheffield suburb in the 1970’s-80’s. The hefty tome has a plot involving a mother who commits adultery with a drug smuggler, a slim teenager who … Continue reading
Wakefield Tattoos
When you go to the barbers in Wakefield you may get more than a haircut. This was the second tattoo parlour I had seen within 300 yards and I was nearly tempted to have a piercing (of my own self-importance?). … Continue reading
The Land Girls of Yorkshire
‘Back to the Land Girls’ or ‘Back to the Land, Girls’ is the title of a new comedy based on The Land Girls of Yorkshire. Inspired by war-time reminiscences of various Yorkshire based or bred Land Army girls this play … Continue reading
Brass Bands of Yorkshire and Yore
Where there’s muck there’s Brass Bands and where there is a lot of brass there are Silver Bands. ‘The Cloth-Cap’ music of the working class man has strong links in Yorkshire and with Yorkshire businesses. For up to date news … Continue reading
Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975 and An Eternal Triangle
Hot on the heels of the announcement of a sculpture triangle in Yorkshire I revisited a post from 6 years ago to find it still as appropriate now. ‘Celebrate 200 of the World’s greatest artists at four leading venues.’ some … Continue reading