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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. |
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
| January |
The Millennium. Pantomime in
Harrogate. Snow and Sledging. |
| February |
Wainhouse Tower, Halifax.
Snowdrops in the park. Tyres in Cragg Wood. |
| March |
The
Synod of Whitby. Settle-Carlisle railway. Ribblehead Viaduct. |
| April |
Saltaire and Titus
Salt’s great mill. Wharfedale. The Princess. |
| May |
Bob’s Day Out. Bluebell wood
near Otley. Leeds United. Fountains
Abbey. |
| June |
Yorkshire Football. Lister's
Mill
. Rainfall in the West Riding. |
| July |
Summer weekend at Bolton Abbey.
Rugby League. Desert Island Discs. |
| August |
Waterstone’s bookshop. The
Wool Exchange. Leeds City Library. Cornish Holiday. |
| September |
JMW
Turner in Yorkshire. 'Welcome to Leeds' signs. Cricket - The Headingley
Test. |
| October |
USA give Britain a thrashing
in Yorkshire. Fuel Protest. The Naked women of Rylstone. |
| November |
Castle Carr & Joseph
Priestley Edwards. Castle
Bolton. Yorkshire Floods. More on Leeds signs. |
| December |
Remembrance Day. Yorkshire’s Three Peaks.
Beverley Minster and Selby Abbey. |
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