YORKSHIRE SPOTLIGHT
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OUR LOVE OF ALL THINGS YORKSHIRE!
Yorkshire is a county of characters but those who live there don’t mind that at all – in fact they don’t even mind being laughed at!
PEOPLE, PLACES AND PUDDING! Yorkshire people are proud of Dickie Bird, Lesley Garrett, Michael Parkinson, Roy Castle, Jeremy Paxman, Michael Palin, Darren Gough and Henry Moore…and Marks and Spencer didn’t start in just any county, but in Yorkshire.
Famed for Yorkshire Pudding, Yorkshire Parkin and fish and chips, Wensleydale cheese, rhubarb, liquorice, as well as Rowntree’s chocolate and Yorkshire Tea.
There are more dry stone walls than in any other place in the UK – 18900 miles of them and also England’s largest waterfall on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
There are 38 Dales, the Three Peaks, the Moors and coastline with 12 lighthouses, 8 Cathedrals, 10 Abbeys (Whtby’s dates back to 657AD).
GLOBAL CONTRIBUTION
Yorkshire people have contributed greatly to the world – Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen and John Harrison solved the riddle of longitude. The spring-loaded mousetrap, the hansom cab, cat’s eyes, the kilner jar, the glider, the Bailey bridge, the crow’s nest and Sheffield steel were all invented by Yorkshiremen.
The wool textile industry which had previously been a cottage industry centred on the old market towns moved to the West Riding where budding entrepreneurs were building mills that took advantage of water power gained by harnessing the rivers and streams flowing from the Pennines. The developing textile industry in general helped Wakefield and Halifax.
SPORT
Famous for cricket, Yorkshire was home to Herbert Sutcliffe (who scored 38558 runs in his career), Freddie Truman, George Hirst, and Geoffrey Boycott.
Len Hutton said: “In an England cricket eleven, the flesh may be of the South, but the bone is of the North and the backbone is Yorkshire.”
Yorkshire is the birthplace of both rugby league and quoits and after the 2012 London Olympics you had to look hard to find a red pillar box – Yorkshire had had so many painted gold in commemoration of the local gold winning Olympians.
LITERATURE & ART
Yorkshire has produced some of the greatest writers: Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, WH Auden, Ted Hughes, JB Priestly, Arthur Ransome, Alan Bennett and Ian McMillan, to name but a few.
Artists Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney and John Atkinson Grimshaw were all Yorkshire born and bred.
POLITICS
Yorkshire has also produced three Prime Ministers, arguably none were very great! Ironically Guy Fawkes was a Yorkshireman so maybe politics is not one of our strengths.
Enjoy the spotlight – if you enjoy it half as much as we did researching and publishing it you will not be disappointed. We are however, headquartered there so we may be a bit biased!
Duncan McGilvray Editor Wind Energy Network
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