Category Archives: Yorkshire Facts – Interesting and Unusual
Ripon Of Men and Fishes
The founders of Ripon St Eata and St Wilfrid were fishers of men in the Middle Ages. The Cathedral, containing one of Europe’s oldest crypts, was founded on the ruins of St Wilfrid’s Abbey about 672 AD, the small crypt … Continue reading
Slack Bottom and Slack Top Facts
If you have a ‘slack bottom’ worry not. Slack is a hamlet approximately 2 miles from the centre of Hebden Bridge. From the Halifax direction there is no right turn up the hill at the Slack traffic lights so you … Continue reading
Aldborough Facts Interesting and Unusual
Aldborough is a pretty village 15 miles northwest of York and just to the south-east of Boroughbridge. It has a village green and Maypole but is famous for having being built on the site of a major Roman town, Isurium … Continue reading
Skelmanthorpe – Interesting and Unusual Facts
The Skelmanthorpe Band is one of the oldest brass bands in the country founded in 1843. They came first in the 2011 Holme Valley contest and are up for the Grand Shield on 14th May 2011. Skelmanthorpe History. Skelmanthorpe is … Continue reading
Not Dull Hull – It’s a Hell of a City
The Maritime Weekender at Hull Marina drew me to a City I normally only pass through on the way to the Ferry. Despite cool blustery weather the Sea Shanty singing along the Marina wall was in full flow despite the … Continue reading
Fireworks in Barnsley – 1868 Explosion
This is a sad tale from October 1868 when an explosion wrecked a Barnsley fireworks factory killing eleven men, women and children. On Taylor Row there was a plot of land with a small detached building licensed for the making … Continue reading
Bolton Abbey Priory through the Seasons
In 1155 Augustin monks based in Embsay opted to build an Priory on a rise near the river. 400 years or so later in 1539 Henry Vlll caused its dissolution. The ruins of Bolton Abbey are situated on the lower … Continue reading
York and it’s Rivers
Boating on the Ouse on a bright winters day is not for the faint hearted. These hardy souls were traveling up-stream in the face of a cold westerly wind. At least the high water and flood dangers had passed for … Continue reading
Sheffield Murders and More?
The Chinese Laundry Murder of 1922. Sing Lee had carried on a laundry business living above the shop at 231 Crookes, Sheffield in 1922. Lee Doon entered his employment only a few days earlier (don’t you just love these Chinese … Continue reading
Adam Sedgwick of Dentdale and Cowgill
Dent Village and Dentdale ‘The Dent Fault cuts across the valley close to the village of Gawthrop, marking a geological boundary between the carbonferous limestone of Deepdale and the Craven Dales to the south and the older Silurian and Ordovician … Continue reading