Category Archives: Books Club & Literary Work
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
The Shepherd Lord Fact or Fiction
A Bank holiday read or a book for Fathers Day, this Faction is an interesting cross between fact and fiction. The historical embellishments are entertaining. Product Description from Amazon ‘Young Henry Clifford, heir to vast estates in the North of … Continue reading
More Books than Bookings for Mike Pannett
He may have been a great copper for 20 years until he took up writing, about the police, about his life and crimes in the Yorkshire Countryside. However his books are coming to book shops thick and fast and he … Continue reading
What is it about Scarborough and Fiction
The Last Train to Scarborough is a Jim Stringer Steam Detective novel by Andrew Martin. Hot on the heels of our review of the murders in Scarborough in ‘The Other Child’ by Charlotte Link is another book in Andrew Martin’s … Continue reading
In the Shoes of J B Priestley
J B Priestley in vogue or brogues either way Bradford needs a shoeshine person Continue reading