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The Yorkshire Diary
2008
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February |
Dog bites two Otley
rugby players. The winter of 1963. Prime Minister Gordon Brown
has been banned from 105 pubs and clubs in and around Skipton.
Yorkshire Dales Kissing Friday. Street lights in Leeds.
Yorkshire Ridings Magazine. Yorkshire is under threat. Michael
the decorator. |
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Spring |
Earthquake
in Yorkshire. Durham Cathedral in Yorkshire? Both coasts at the
same time. A couple of days in London. Yorkshire Soul Food.
Closure of English pubs. Cancellation of the Ripon pancake race. |
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Summer |
Morris Dancers. Road
signs. Sheriff Hutton
Castle. Barnsley gets some stick. Road accidents. Cooling towers
next to the M1 between Sheffield and Rotherham. Direct line to
God. |
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Autumn |
Admiration for the
residents of Birks Road, Huddersfield. Tourism now employs
10,000 people in York. Brideshead Revisited. Hebden Bridge.
Battle of Towton. British Naturist Society at the Tan Hill Inn. |
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December |
Morrison’s in Yeadon. Lancashire Day.
Britain’s best town halls. Yorkshire’s wapentakes. Holy Trinity
Church, Leeds. The Great East Window of York Minster. A
Yorkshire Miscellany. |
2007
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January |
Warmest January
night ever recorded in Yorkshire. Travelling through South
Milford. Unmitigated England by Peter Ashley. Bill Bryson. West
End Golf Club in Halifax. Visit to Lord’s. Sheriff Hutton. |
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March |
A little snow fell
February. Stuart Reid holidaying in the Yorkshire Dales. BBC
Radio 2 disc jockey. A raconteur from Barnsley.
County Watch.
Hellifield Peel. JCT 600 headquarters. The Taj Mahal. |
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Summer |
Yorkshire Culture.
Moira and Wendy, the ladies who lunch. River fence in Otley.
Runaway cow shot dead by police. Stepping-stones at Studley
Royal. Football in Yorkshire. Barcelona. The Rhubarb Triangle. |
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Late
Summer |
Summer
floods in Yorkshire. James Herriot. Texts for today. The
Ridings. Spurn Head. The West Wing. Remembrance service at York
Minster. Butcher in Barnsley. William Wilberforce. Geoff
Boycott. |
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November |
The most horrid
place to live in the UK. Spence Broughton and the Sheffield to
Rotherham mail coach. Monkey hangers. Robbie Coltrane. Miles
Coverdale. Carelessly discarded yesterdays. Affordable towns. |
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December |
A new dustbin. New
offices in Leeds. The Oldie magazine. James Toseland. Hull’s
Victorian railway station. Vicar suspended from his parish near
Whitby. Fish and chips from Murgatroyd’s, Yeadon. |
2006
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January |
Strictly Come
Dancing. Willis Hall & Keith Waterhouse. Richard Whiteley’s
memorial service. White Truffle Yorkshire Pudding. High Royds at
Menston. Lassie in the Yorkshire Dales. Market Weighton. |
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Spring |
A whale in the
Thames. Crowing cocks. Kirkstall Abbey. Thornborough Henges. Old
cobbles in Beverley. England and Englishness. Leeds Town Hall.
The meretricious Yorkshire Life Magazine. |
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Summer |
The Kaiser Chiefs.
Constantine proclaimed Emperor at York. Sheffield United.
Yorkshire’s identity. Craven Herald and Pioneer. The USS
Bonhomme Richard. Whitby, Britain’s top seaside resort. News in
brief. |
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August |
Hottest
July ever recorded in England. Fred Trueman died at the age of
75. Yorkshire Day celebrations. Giant Bradley Day. Westminster
Abbey. Discovery trips with Alistair Hall. Earthworks at
Stanwick Camp. |
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December |
Betty's Ilkley.
Jenny Agutter. Paul Hunter. Butcher in
Yeadon. Christmas lights in Scarborough. Clive Sullivan Way,
Hull. Ilkley Bookshop. United States flag. |
2005
February |
Woman
attacks her brother with sticks of rhubarb. Filey - the truth is
out there. Archbishop of York. Allerton Castle partly destroyed
by fire. Trouble at Ilkley railway station. |
Spring |
Exotic
birds in Huddersfield. Snape Local History Group. Bradford
Grammar School. Yorkshire Tourist Board - 'Make Yorkshire
Yours'. Kingston upon Hull. Maundy money at Wakefield cathedral.
News in brief. |
Summer |
General
election. John Prescott. Middlesbrough Football Club. Boll***s
to Alton Towers. The Pennine Way. St George’s Day. Favourite
market towns. Holidays at home. |
August |
Richard
Whiteley, 1944-2005. Royal Ascot at York. The New Yorker
encourages Americans to visit Britain. Best of the Worst in
British Shop Names. Violent thunderstorms in Yorkshire. Portrait
of Britain. The Gunpowder Plot. |
October |
Storms in Wharfedale. The Ashes series. False Tooth Bridge. The
BBC’s Coast. Market towns. The Pork Pie Appreciation Society.
‘Rhubarb woman in custody’. |
2004
February |
Richmond, N. Yorks. Yorkshire Flag in
Sproxton. The wonders of Holly. The Hubberholme Triangle.
England’s Thousand Best Houses. American F15E Strike Eagle. |
Spring |
Woman
married to four men at the same time. Couple marry in
supermarket. Favourite English market town. Theft of Yorkshire
stone. Was Leeds a Roman settlement? Civil War battlefield. |
Summer |
Yorkshire’s flower. English Bluebell. Yorkshire football clubs.
Robin Hood Airport. Yorkshire Universities. The Flying Scotsman.
Alistair Cooke. Washing line war in Skipton. |
August |
Yorkshire Day. Redevelopment in Bradford. Local elections.
Racecourses in Yorkshire. Cotswolds. The Grammar School at
Leeds. Washing Line War in Skipton (continued). |
Autumn |
Yorkshire comedians. Devonshire Arms at Bolton Abbey. Kildwick
Hall. Arkengarthdale. Swaledale. Carved stones found in Burnsall.
Harrogate stolen painting. |
December |
Trouble at t’cathedral. Bill Foggitt. Michael Theakston.
Regional assembly. Ascot races in York. Wheel clamping in
Haworth. University College, Durham. The Yorkshire Post. David
Rogerson’s mechanical terrier. |
2003
February |
Staincross. Leeds City Square. Harrogate. Stonegate, York.
Hunchbacked
dwarf of Bradford. |
Spring |
Yorkshire - Queen of counties. Devonshire Arms, Bolton Abbey.
Yorkshire pubs. Henry VI & more... |
June |
Australia. Radio 4.
M62 motorway. The Rhubarb Triangle. English eccentrics. Pateley
Bridge. Agatha Christie. Giles Coren and Betty's. Prince
Charles. Newby Hall. Allerton Park. Halifax fire. |
Late
Summer |
'Over the Hills and Far Away'. Britain’s most loathed towns.
Halfcrowns. Famous Yorkshiremen and women. York Minster. War in
Iraq. A naked man walking through the Dales. |
Winter |
Autumn colours. Motorway signs. Leeds voted England’s favourite
city for visitors. Calendar Girls. 'Crap Towns.' Regional
assembly for Yorkshire. Bradfield. The Princess. Ripon. |
2002
January |
'Britain in Snow Hell.’ The Church of England. The Prince of
Wales. God has to be a Yorkshireman. |
February |
Boy
King of England. Pontefract Castle. The British Currency.
Saltaire. Stoodley Pike. A Parrot. |
March |
Molesworth books. 450th anniversary of Leeds Grammar School.
Ripley Castle. Rawdon. |
April |
Black
Dyke Band. The Yorkshire Post. 'The Deep' submarium. David
Puttnam. The West Wing. |
May |
St
George’s Day. Scarborough's Grand Hotel. Prehistoric Ilkley.
Poor old soul from Huddersfield. |
Summer |
The
Great Yorkshire Show. The Pennines. Listers Mill. Global
Village. The Luftwaffe and York. |
September |
Rawdon
firemen. European City of Culture. The Queen in Yorkshire. The
A1. World-Wide holidays. |
Autumn |
The
annual Ilkley Literature Festival. Earthquakes in Yorkshire.
Tetley Tea. Last Tango in Whitby. |
December |
1853
Gallery at Salts Mill. Harrogate Railway AFC. Growing up in
York. Hammond's 'Chop' Sauce. |
2001
January |
Snow in
Yorkshire. The Bronté Birthplace.
Whale Jawbones in Whitby. American words |
February |
Weekend
in London. The Lourdes
of south Yorkshire. Bingley’s finest Victorian church. |
March |
Holiday
in Wales. Very old Halifax sundial. Far Headingley. Great Heck. |
April |
Yorkshire Studies degree course. Bill Bryson. Harry Ramsden's.
Worrying times at The Local. |
May |
Iron
Age warrior queen. Barwick-in-Elmet. Walk within the City of
Leeds. Forced Labour in Ilkley. |
June |
Shops
in York. Battlefield at Towton. The bloodiest battle on English
soil. Football. Halifax. |
July |
Bill
Clinton. Richard Whiteley. Giggleswick School Chapel.
Christianity. Our Freda. Saltburn. |
August |
Holidays in Chipping Campden. Washing machines and Motorways.
Yorkshire number plates. |
September |
Cricket
& Sir Leonard Hutton. Bradford City Fire Memorial. Booming
Leeds. American buses. |
October |
The New
Yorker. Manhattan. Galaxy M31. Betty's Tearooms. Bolton Old
Hall. Daytime television. |
November |
'Plot
Night.' Guy Fawkes. Haworth & the Brontës. Remembrance Sunday.
Local Newspaper. |
December |
Selby
Abbey. The Star-Spangled-Banner. Harry Potter. Yorkshire
quotations. Dad's Army. |
2000
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January |
The Millennium. Pantomime in Harrogate. Snow and Sledging. |
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February |
Wainhouse Tower, Halifax. Snowdrops in the park. Tyres in Cragg
Wood. |
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March |
The Synod of Whitby. Settle-Carlisle railway. Ribblehead
Viaduct. |
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April |
Saltaire and Titus
Salt’s great mill. Wharfedale. The Princess. |
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May |
Bob’s Day Out. Bluebell wood near Otley. Leeds United.
Fountains Abbey. |
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June |
Yorkshire Football.
Lister's Mill
. Rainfall in the West Riding. |
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July |
Summer weekend at Bolton Abbey. Rugby League. Desert Island
Discs. |
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August |
Waterstone’s bookshop. The Wool Exchange. Leeds City Library.
Cornish Holiday. |
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September |
JMW Turner in Yorkshire. 'Welcome to Leeds' signs. Cricket - The
Headingley Test. |
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October |
USA
give Britain a thrashing in Yorkshire. Fuel Protest. The Naked
women of Rylstone. |
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November |
Castle Carr & Joseph Priestley Edwards. Castle Bolton. Yorkshire
Floods. More on Leeds signs. |
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December |
Remembrance Day. Yorkshire’s Three Peaks. Beverley Minster and
Selby Abbey. |
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