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Hello fellow forumers.

I have just returned from a wonderful weekend in the most wonderful of counties. Realised whilst I was there that it had been nigh on twenty years since I was last there for any amount of time. It is still all here just how I remember.

Any wa I managed a trip on the KWVR so will post up some pics tomorrow, jus wanted to share with some others who would appreciate it all as much as I did.

Thanks
Simon

Yorkshire tastic.
Thanks
Simon

It's nice to know someone else has seen the light and understands what a great county it is.

Trev

Whilst we are on about our wonderful county let's get something straight

The poem,if you can call it that, is so often mis quoted I feel I must correct it on here

Yorkshire born
Yorkshire bred
Strong int arm [strong in the arm for non residents]
and Wick int thed. [ Thed of course is Head,Wick, not weak, is Yorkshire dialect for clever, not stupid as you Southerners like to think]

Then of course what we always say,

"Some folk were born in Yorkshire,
Some folk wish they had been born in Yorkshire
And the rest have no ambition whatever"

Did you know, it is said there are more acres in Yorkshire than there are words in the Bible.

Of course we welcome visitors as long as they don't have pockets as deep as ours.

Now picks Tetley glass up again

By the way Nice pic's of K.&W.V.Rly

Boris wrote:
Now picks Tetley glass up again

tetley? TETLEY!!! I hope you realise that that STUFF is owned by the Danes and brewed in Staffordshire?
If in K&WVR country, the tipple of choice is Timothy Taylors

Also how dare he visit a Midland branch and post photos of it on a LNER site.


Must admit though I do like the line.

ArgHHH!!!! I have been undone. I must confess I do understand the dreaded two-faced nature of what I have done. I consider Yourkshire in all its parts LNER territory, the Midland were lucky to get the KWVR and any other parts of the pot of gold that was Yorkshire.

I fear I make it worse, but I stayed in Skipton as well, more LMR land but with its closeness to the Settle and Carlisle surely one can be forgiven?

I throw myslef at the mercy of the Moderators.

P.S. I didn't see any Tetley's whilst I was there only Timothy Taylors, and a fine drop it is too. I miss the place on a monday morning wish I was back there.

Some more of me poetry:-

Yorkshire Sir, is neither heaven nor hell but earth
Earth quarried not for mills alone but likewise for York Minster's stone.

I cannot remember the rest.

From a 1960's Yorkshire Post, written by either Northerner 2 or Lightning the milkman's horse.

NG

And the Houses of Parliment Neilgow, stone from Anston in the area now called Anston Stones, alongside the A57 towards Worksop
Taken by horse and dray to Kiveton Park, loaded onto barges near to what is Kiveton Park Station, and taken on the Chesterfield and Stockwith canal to the Trent, thence to London by sea

Permian Magnesium Limestone in both cases (it is that Permian again!). Also used for the lower sections of Kings College Chapel, Cambridge - the King died and they ran out of money, so they switched to cheaper Jurassic oolites (the difference is visible, the oolite weathers a yellowish colour - like most Oxbridge colleges).

It is a good stone if used correctly with the bedding planes horizontal. Unfortunately the builders of the Houses of Parliament built it with a lot of the stones oriented with the bedding planes vertical. In this orientation it weathers much more quickly. In a matter of decades the state of the new building had become quite the political scandal - iirc, Dickens had a few choice words to say on the subject!
Millennium Domes and other over-priced building boondoggles are nothing new...

Richard

Ay up!

Tha can allus tell a Yorkshireman
But that can't tell him nowt!

And a Yorkshireman's advice to his son?

Hear all, see all, say nowt.
Eat all, sup all, pay nowt.

And if tha ever does owt for nowt
Allus do it for thissen!

Marrooned in the Midlands - its a foreign land, tha knows!

Natural Stone at Stanton in the Peak above Darley Dale were a few years ago despatching stone to repair the Houses of Parliament.

neilgow wrote:Some more of me poetry:-

Yorkshire Sir, is neither heaven nor hell but earth
Earth quarried not for mills alone but likewise for York Minster's stone.

I cannot remember the rest.

NG

Not forgetting:

There's nowt as queer as folk,
and they're all queer save thee and me,
and I'm not sure about thee...

Southerner married t'Yorkshire Lass

Hi BB

"Marooned in a foreign land"??

Not really foreign - Yorkshire's North Midlands anyway

Not really foreign - Yorkshire's North Midlands anyway


Hi PP,

Only a real Southerner would say that.