The school TV series How We Used To Live used Bradley as the name for a whole town, clearly located in West Yorkshire.

It was during this period that his voice was heard in the Yorkshire Television children's series The Giddy Game Show as well as Yorkshire TV's long running schools series How We Used To Live.

A 1973 Yorkshire Television documentary and " A Kind of Alaska ", a 1985 play by Harold Pinter, were also based on Sacks ' book.

In the English Reformation, all monasteries were dissolved and their lands confiscated by the Crown, forcing their Catholic members to flee into exile on the Continent, although during the 19th century they were able to return to England, including to Selby Abbey in Yorkshire, one of the few great monastic churches to survive the Dissolution.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

Caving was pioneered by Édouard-Alfred Martel ( 1859 – 1938 ) who first achieved the descent and exploration of the Gouffre de Padirac, France as early as 1889 and the first complete descent of a 110 metre wet vertical shaft at Gaping Gill, in Yorkshire, England in 1895.

The first programme to air on the channel was the teatime game show Countdown, at 16: 45 produced by Yorkshire Television ; it is still running as of 2012.

Elsie and Frances were interviewed by journalist Austin Mitchell in September 1976, for a programme broadcast on Yorkshire Television.

Following the Seven Years ' War, empty Acadian lands were settled first by New England Planters and then by immigrants brought from Yorkshire.

Many words derived from Norse, such as " gate " ( gade ) for street, still survive in Yorkshire and the East Midlands ( parts of eastern England ) colonized by Danish Vikings.

The suffix "- by " for ' town ' is common in place names in Yorkshire and the East Midlands that is, Selby, Whitby, Derby and Grimsby.

A former ICI plant in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, now owned by Syngenta.

Indeed, Baron Fauconberg rewarded Sterne by appointing him as the perpetual curate of Coxwold, North Yorkshire.

Manchester United was formed in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR Football Club by the Carriage and Wagon department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ( LYR ) depot at Newton Heath.

His grave has been claimed to be at Kirklees Priory near Mirfield in West Yorkshire, as implied by the 18th-century version of Robin Hood's Death, and there is a headstone there of dubious authenticity.

Another well-known theory, first proposed by the historian L. V. D. Owen in 1936 and more recently floated by J. C. Holt and others, is that the original Robin Hood might be identified with an outlawed Robert Hood, or Hod, or Hobbehod, all apparently the same man, referred to in nine successive Yorkshire Pipe Rolls between 1226 and 1234.

This is reinforced for some by the alleged similarity of Locksley to the area of Loxley, South Yorkshire, in Sheffield, where in nearby Tideswell, which was the " Kings Larder " in the Royal Forest of the Peak, a record of the appearance of a " Robert de Lockesly " in court is found, dated 1245.

In Barnsdale Forest, Yorkshire, there is a well known as Robin Hood's Well ( by the side of the Great North Road ), a Little John's Well ( near Hampole ) and a Robin Hood's stream ( in Highfields Wood at Woodlands ).

In the city centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, at 71 Vicar Lane, is a retail clothing store operated by Hugo Boss.

The telephone service in the United Kingdom was originally provided by private companies and local city councils, but by 1912 – 13 all except the telephone service of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Guernsey had been bought out by the General Post Office.

Wallace's accent ( voiced by Peter Sallis ) comes from the Holme Valley of West Yorkshire.

A very prescient comment was made by the laconic Yorkshire and England fast bowler Tom Emmett who, after playing against Grace for the first time in 1869, called him a " nonsuch " ( i. e., a nonpareil ) who " ought to be made to play with a littler bat ".

On Valentine ’ s Day, February 14, 2003, on the eve of the Iraqi invasion by the Americans and the British, Ono heard about a romantic couple holding a love-in protest in their tiny bedroom in Addingham, West Yorkshire.

The region includes parts of three National parks ( all of the Lake District, and small parts of the Peak District and the Yorkshire Dales ) and three areas of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( all of Arnside and Silverdale and the Solway Coast, and almost all of the Forest of Bowland ).

* Clifton, South Yorkshire, a small village in Doncaster, South Yorkshire

* Clifton, West Yorkshire, a small village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, near the town of Brighouse

* South Milford, a small village in North Yorkshire, England

* Real Yorkshire Wensleydale is usually shaped into a variety of weights moulds ranging in size from a small flat disc known as a " truckle " that is highly pressed, and preserved in wax, to several larger cheeses — it is a mild cheese with an acidic-honeyed flavour

The programme which drew the highest ratings of the series focused on Burnlee Working Men's Club, a club in the small West Yorkshire town of Holmfirth and Took saw Holmfirth's potential as the backdrop of a television show.

Holmfirth is a small town located on the A6024 Woodhead Road in the Holme Valley, within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

Day-to-day operations are run from the Board's headquarters in Bradford, West Yorkshire with small regional offices in Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland.

Peter Langtoft, also known as Peter of Langtoft (; died 1305 ) was an English historian and chronicler who took his name from the small village of Langtoft in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The Yorkshire Motor Museum has a small but varied collection of cars dating back to 1885, and reflecting local car makers as well as more famous marques.

Byland Abbey is a ruined abbey and a small village in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England at.

Fairburn is a small village and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England.

Guiseley is a small town in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.

Mirfield is a small town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England.

Heptonstall is a small village and civil parish within the Calderdale borough of West Yorkshire, England.

Meltham is a small town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England.

Stanbury is a small village in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, west of Haworth, close to the Pennine Way, and on the River Worth.

The custom has since been revived in numerous villages and small towns in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, South Yorkshire, Cheshire, and even as far afield as Much Wenlock in Shropshire and Malvern in Worcester.

In 1847 John Smith purchased the Backhouse & Hartley brewery, a small, run-down brewery in Tadcaster, Yorkshire.

Attending Prague was also a small group specifically calling itself " Tactical Frivolity ", which consisted of a Samba band plus thirteen women from Yorkshire dressed as pink fairies.

Arthington is a small village in Wharfedale, in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.

The series features a small grocer's shop in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire.

After his fall Loftus lived at or near his small property at Coverham in Yorkshire.