Author Archives: tejvan

Yorkshire Airlines Classic

Posted on September 28, 2016 by tejvan

Classic county comedy. “Taking off from Leeds International airport. Landing at Leeds International Airport after 20 minutes. – Because if it’s outside Yorkshire it’s not worth visiting!’ As an airplane is about to crash, a female passenger jumps up … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire Snow September

Posted on September 14, 2016 by tejvan

Yorkshire, like much of the rest of the country, has been hit be heavy snow falls which have left the county blanketed in snow. Gritters are struggling to keep roads open as stocks of salt run low. Scarborough Council … Continue reading →

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Reeth & Swaledale Snaps

Posted on August 17, 2016 by tejvan

Reeth Yorkshire by UGArdener, on Flickr

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Beautiful Iconic Yorkshire

Posted on August 11, 2016 by tejvan

Ribblehead Viaduct by Joe Dunckley, Flickr. Wensleydale by Alden Chadwick Burnsall Lower Wharfedale by Tejvan Haworth Village – Bronte Country

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Buckden Yorkshire Dales

Posted on August 2, 2016 by tejvan

Fork in the road in Buckden. To the right, Leyburn. To the left, a tough climb over Fleet Moss to Hawes A Date with History A Classic car driving through Buckden. Although the village of Buckden was founded in Norman … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire Wrestling Hero Big Daddy – and others

Posted on July 13, 2016 by tejvan

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 →

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Fred Trueman Still Speaks Out

Posted on June 11, 2016 by tejvan

Frederick Sewards Trueman OBE Fred Trueman to All Yorkshire Folk All Yorkshiremen have a favourite Fred Trueman story and mine goes something like this: Opening the bowling as usual from the Kirkstall Lane End Fred’s first ball rapped the openers … Continue reading →

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Sir Fred Hoyle Astronomer, Cosmologist and Sci-fi Author

Posted on June 8, 2016 by tejvan

Sir Fred Hoyle FRS 24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001 a Yorkshire man who coined the phrase ‘ The Big Bang’ and missed out on not one but two or three Nobel prizes for physics. Fred Hoyle was born … Continue reading →

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JWM Turner in Yorkshire

Posted on May 2, 2016 by tejvan

It is said that ‘The beauty of Yorkshire’s landscape moved the great British painter JMW Turner to tears’. No surprise there then for Yorkshire folk who are lucky enough to live and travel in the county. “Turner loved Yorkshire and … Continue reading →

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Tha’s Barns In the Dales

Posted on April 30, 2016 by tejvan

No not that sort of barn -‘Tha’s bahn’ to catch thy deeath o’ cowd’ No not that sort of Streak the Ray Stevens sort ‘….. Oh yes, they call him the streak Fastest thing on two feet He’s just … Continue reading →