Category Archives: Books Club & Literary Work
Amusing Yorkshire Lines
Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Yorkshire. Scarborough warning – A word and a blow, and the blow first. Richard of York gained battle in vain From Hull, Hell and Halifax lord deliver us Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Out, Out, Out. “Leeds had been the … Continue reading
Discovered Items – Yorkshire Poets
Born in Winestead Holderness Andrew Marvell, a pupil from Hull Grammar school, was an English poet little published in his life time. After Cambridge university he became an MP representing Hull in the House of Commons for periods during 1659 … Continue reading
Found Items – Yorkshire Poets
Not a big surprise but I had never heard of a poetess called Trudy Blacker until I chanced on a neatly transcribed short poem. I put it in my found items collection. Extract From ‘County Treasures’ by Trudy Blacker A … Continue reading
From Mytholmroyd to The British Library
The British Library is another institution that is letting down the silent majority and failing to focus on its prime purpose as a ‘legal deposit library’. It should facilitate research from the published works it maintains in London and Boston … Continue reading
Nostalgia is Bigger Than It Used To Be
Can you remember nostalgia or do you need a reminder of childhood, music, TV and past times…. Continue reading
Songs, Ballads & Poetry from at Least 160 Years Ago
Yesterday during the housebound phase of the day I was furtling around my old bookcase and discovered an 1860 edition of ‘Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire’ by C J Davison Ingledew. I was impressed with the half dozen items related … Continue reading
Bookworms of Yorkshire
You would expect a lot of good books to have been published about Yorkshire and God’s Own County and there are even many great books on our favourite subject and featured here is just one. A lyrical history of England’s … Continue reading
The Halifax Slasher not Barkisland and Ripponden Slasher
Halifax folk dancing Stick men not Sword men In November 1938 Gertie Watts and Mary Gledhill, were attacked by a man while walking in Old Bank Lane, between Barkisland and Ripponden. Local papers at the time christened it the Halifax … Continue reading
Rotherham’s Serious Crimes
For fourteen years Jayne Senior tried to help girls from Rotherham who had been groomed, raped, tortured, pimped and threatened with violence by sex traffickers. Only by becoming a whistleblower, sharing confidential documents to expose the scandal for The Times … Continue reading
Harrogate’s Great War Terriers
Interesting Comment and Facts about The Harrogate Terriers A Roll of Honour and medal lists of 2,000 officers and men known to have served during the war to end all wars is contained in the book. General Haig accused the … Continue reading