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Busbys Bradford Cultural Icon

Posted on January 8, 2025 by Hortoris

Three brothers and Pater were the Busby family that built and ran a Bradford based departmental store chain. An other brother Clifford died in infancy and a younger sister Rita was born in 1907. But it was Dad, aka ‘Pater’ … Continue reading →

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Stubbs Means Horse Painting

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Hortoris

This painting looks like   a bit of an old nag nearly ready for the glue factory. So where is this going on a Yorkshire blog? Well the nations best and most accurate equine painter of horse flesh learnt his … Continue reading →

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AI Aye is Yorkshire

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Hortoris

Since Goole.com beat google to the search engine market so Yorkshire rightfully claims credit for AI. Some, mainly digital intelligence, may be fantastic but Yorkshire folk have long been champions at the Aye game. There is nowt artificial about Yorkshire … Continue reading →

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MPs We Voted In

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Hortoris

To calm the Rwanda crisis  down we need an anti-inflamaTory? Chance would be a fine thing. Yorkshire return 54 members of Parliament  and unless there have been any ‘overnight’ changes to party allegiances 24 are represented by Conservative MPs and … Continue reading →

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Tilting at Yorkshire Windmills

Posted on August 20, 2022 by Hortoris

Firstly we exclude the modern wind farms, wind turbines and their ilk designed for energy production and despoiling  the landscape. Windmill has the clue in the name, a mill that uses wind! Which area of the county has the greatest … Continue reading →

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Windmills Of Yorkshire

Posted on August 14, 2022 by Hortoris

History The first written record from 1185 is of a Yorkshire windmill near South Cave in Weedley. The land was owned by the Knights Templar who may have been copying a 9th Century Iranian design. The 13th century saw an … Continue reading →

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Do Not Level Up Yorkshire

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Hortoris

Boris, thanks but no thanks, keep you gerrymandering and  self serving for the so called social and political elite. Yorkshire doesn’t need leveling up we are already at a terrific pinnacle and have been for many centuries. We would rather … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire Before 1066

Posted on February 24, 2021 by Hortoris

Yorkshire folk are a hardy species with a long and fascinating historical past these are just some indicative seminal times. Jurassic period 140 million years ago between the Mesozoic era, Triassic and the Cretaceous period with marine conditions in Yorkshire … Continue reading →

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Peter Sutcliffe

Posted on November 13, 2020 by Hortoris

No more oxygen of publicity for the Yorkshire Ripper

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Yorkshire Grace and Favour

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Hortoris

Yorkshires new archbishop Stephen Cottrell and  his grace’s God bless us all, an’ mak us able Ta eyt all t’ stuff ‘at’s on this table… We thank the Lord for what we’ve getten: But if mooare ‘ad been cutten Ther’d … Continue reading →

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