Yorkshire Day

[Ming the Merciless]

So its Cayley we have to blame for global warming, eh?

In Yorkshire it's Global Gurning

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Remember the elite rescue squad are on standby if anyone is being held hostage in Yorkshire and needs rescuing.

 

[mudsticks]

Remember the days when to be able to play cricket for Yorkshire you had to be born in the county?

Yes, but they still didn't ask me.

Tbh my almost total lack of bat n ball skills, may also have had some bearing on the decision

 

[classic33]

All those who mock Yorkshire, remember this. The last man to enter the houses of parliment, with honest intentions, came from The North Riding.

 

[marshmella]

A fine day when, on Yorkshire Day a Yorkshire man is England captain on the first morning of the Ashes series.

However, let us remember, Its not just cricket ....

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I suppose ideally today the opening test should have been at Headingley; but "lucky" Edgbaston is where you want to start to stick it to the Aussies.

 

[classic33]

There are more acres of land in Yorkshire than there are words in the bible.
2,941,947 acres as opposed to 805,649 words in the bible(King James version)

 

[Venod]

 

[tom73]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx4TSXJT1CE


The 3rd part get's me every time.

 

[tom73]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7XajPVtpKQ


Look's even better on 2 wheels

 

[DRM]

Hey we have estates like that,Gipton ,Seacroft,Miggy and Chapeltown.

Yes it’s on the signs as you go onto those estates enter at your own risk & abandon hope all ye who enter here

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Rather oddly the first person I saw today, on arrival, was one of the Lancastrians I mentioned in my original post, who stated "Happy Yorkshire Day!"
(the one married to a Wakefield girl)

I'm not sure if he believed me, when I stated that on 1st August (only), it was still legal to shoot any Lancastrians found within the (pre-1974) West Riding boundary

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Think of "Blind Jack" as you ride in to work. And perchance if you look up, and see a plane passing overhead, remember George Cayley.

Indeed!!
Blind Jack Metcalfe
What is now, the A59 (Skipton - Harrogate stretch) is his work, I believe

Lets not forget our exiled countymen, who now find they are in other counties through no fault of their own. I sold a frame to a bloke from Barnoldswick who still regards himself as a Yorkshireman.

The other Lancastrian, who went to Leeds University is from there

 

[classic33]

Was he born before or after though?

 

[classic33]

Not forgetting Percy Shaw.

 

[kynikos]