Category Archives: Yorkshire History and Heritage

What makes us what we are if not our history, heritage and heredity.

Yorkshire’s Antarctic Ancestors

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Hortoris

If you are shivering and feeling the seasonal cold spare a thought for  our Yorkshire forefathers  who were early visitors to Antarctica. In 1525 a Spanish captain explored around the Horn. The passage of sea between antarctic and Argentina was … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire Chimneys Falling Down

Posted on February 14, 2023 by Hortoris

Are Yorkshire’s fine chimneys falling into disrepair and falling down? They should be cosseted as important heritage assets reflecting an industrial age that is passing us by. I hope to photograph and catalogue a selection of interesting chimneys and lookalike … Continue reading →

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Good Old City Variety Days

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Hortoris

Do you remember the ‘Come Dancing’ TV series of 1950 or ‘The White Heather Club’ perhaps not but I bet you remember ‘The Good Old Days’. The Good Old Days started in 1953 and was broadcast live from the City … 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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A Different York Pub Crawl

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Hortoris

From Leeds to York it is only 22 minutes on the train and the near-by Maltings awaits the thirst traveler. On Tuesday 20th July train enthusiasts steamed in for a quick lunch before a trip back north on the  LNER … Continue reading →

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Wait for Old Yorkshire Music

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Hortoris

Royal courts may have had their fools and jesters, Robin Hood had the  wandering minstrel Alan-a-Dale  and Yorkshire’s mayors had their ‘City Waits’. What was a Wait From medieval times groups of musicians were sometimes organised as waits. The York … 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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Autumn Diseases & Times Past

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Hortoris

‘Coughs and sneezes spread diseases – trap your germs in a handkerchief.’  This slogan was first used during the 1918-20 influenza epidemic. Other earlier measures and problems are reminiscent of our own corona virus problems. Medically speaking November has never … Continue reading →

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My View of National Trust Yorkshire

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Hortoris

November 2020 have just cancelled my membership! I gave it thought but the main driver was the abysmal management of the organisation. It is nothing to do with the properties which include many national or international gems (including East Riddlesden … Continue reading →

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