Monthly Archives: June 2014
Stout or Mild Ale from Cragg Vale
A beer for the Tour ‘d’Yorkshire one of many on the route, try Ginger Pale Ale at 4% At 4.8% abv this Little Valley stout will make you stout if you don’t watchout. It is too late for me but … Continue reading
Yorkie Pie Joke
News Flash! I have just got round to it (or round tuit) An explosion in pie factory injures 3.1415926…. people Some suffered fractures of the radius… ..but most employees are squared serious injury before going off at a tangent sorry.
Yorkshire You are Welcome to It!
Taciturn, dour, gruff even but Yorkshire folk have infinite pride in their county. For that reason you are welcome to visit or live in the area but do not expect full acceptance to take less than a generation or three. … Continue reading
Vote Yes for an Independent Yorkshire
This coming September, Yorkshire has the unparalleled opportunity to seek its own future – independent of Westminster and those London folk! – Vote Yes, for a free and democratic Greater Republic of an Independent and Proud Yorkshire! It’s time for … Continue reading
Welcome to Wetherby – LS22
Weatherby whaler fish and chip shop is very popular on Thursday’s the local market day in town. The free riverside car park gets busy but you can usually find a space. A market town, with a Charter since 1240, Wetherby … Continue reading
Cat and Mouse Inventions
Yorkshire is full of inventive and innovative characters and none more so than the Inventors and Entrepreneurs of the Little Nipper mouse trap and Cats Eyes. James Henry Atkinson was born in Leeds (1849-1942) filed applications for patents on several … Continue reading
Danger from Cows in Field
Beware cows are not Tour de Yorkshire friendly as even Limousin cattle in the dales don’t moo in French. This shot of Yorkshire cows is taken in the Wharfe Valley between Grassington and Burnsall. Generally speaking cows are placid animals … Continue reading
A Sheffield Football Club is Oldest in the World ?
Football clubs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes but our two Football league teams in Sheffield have a combined 242 years experience behind them. The grounds at Bramall Lane (Sheffield United) and Hillsborough (Sheffield Wednesday) have a combined … Continue reading
Boulby for Mines and Underground Laboratories
Boulby is a working potash and rock-salt mine with hundreds of miles of underground roads, tunnels and caverns. Alum was also mined near by to supply the die industry but potash and rock salt are now the main products taken … Continue reading
Yard of Ale at Whitelocks The Turks Head
Leeds Pubs hide there light under a bushel or in a back yard in the case of Whitelocks. Run by the Whitelock family for 90 years during the 19th century Whitelocks was renamed from the original ‘Turks Head’ but the … Continue reading