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Yorkshire and folk
Ilkley Moor, to the south of the town, is the subject of a folk song, often described as the unofficial anthem of Yorkshire, " On Ilkla Moor Baht ' at ".
On Ilkla Moor Baht ' at ( Standard English: On Ilkley Moor without a hat ) is a popular folk song from Yorkshire, England.
Some of the Yorkshire press is circulated in the area, owing to both the geographical anomaly and the fact that many of the population still consider themselves " Yorkshire folk ".
Yorkshire has a rich heritage of folk music and folk dance including the Long Sword dance.
Most Yorkshire folk songs were not unique and tended to be adapted to fit local geography and dialect, as was the case with probably the most commercially successful Yorkshire song, Scarborough Fair ’, recorded by Simon & Garfunkel, which was a version of the Scottish ballad The Elfin Knight ’.
The most famous folk performers from the county are the Watersons from Hull, who began recording Yorkshire versions of folk songs from 1965.
Other Yorkshire folk musicians include Heather Wood ( b. 1945 ) of the Young Tradition, the short-lived electric folk group Mr Fox ( 1970-2 ), The Deighton Family, Julie Matthews, Kathryn Roberts, and the Mercury Prize nominated Kate Rusby.
Even considering its position as the largest county in England, Yorkshire has a flourishing folk music culture, with over forty folk clubs and thirty annual folk music festivals.
In 2007, the Yorkshire Garland Group was formed to make Yorkshire folk songs accessible online and in schools.
Some Yorkshire ( and Derbyshire ) folk still associate Mansfield with failure to support the UK miners ' strike ( 1984 – 1985 ); football matches between Mansfield Town: Barnsley, Rotherham United, Doncaster Rovers and Chesterfield and have seen fans of the latter chant " scab ".
Kate Anna Rusby ( born 4 December 1973 ) is an English folk singer and songwriter from Penistone, South Yorkshire.

Yorkshire and song
* April 24 – Germany wins the 27th annual Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Harrogate Conference Centre, North Yorkshire, with the song " Ein bißchen Frieden ", sung by 17-year-old Nicole.
The Yorkshire Dictionary ( Arnold Kellett, 2002 ) stated that the song ( i. e., the lyrics ) probably originates from the Halifax area, based on the dialect used in the song, which is not common to all areas of Yorkshire.
The first published version of the words appeared in 1916, when it was described as " a dialect song which, for at least two generations past, has been sung in all parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire ".
' Iron Wheels ' was released as a single, the song was written about and dedicated to Byford's father who worked in the coal mines of Yorkshire.
The particular clock, in the song, was found in North Yorkshire, England at the George Hotel, where it still stands today.
The song is written in an old form of the Yorkshire dialect of Northern English.
The tune later became associated with the Yorkshire song " On Ilkla Moor Baht ' at ".
In the United Kingdom: the school song of the old Brewood Grammar School for boys, Netherthorpe School, Colyton Grammar School, Dover Grammar School, Woodford County High School in Essex, Beverley Grammar School in East Yorkshire, Bolton School, Manchester Grammar School, High Storrs Grammar School, Sheffield, the now defunct Salford Grammar School, the former Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, Leicester ( succeeded by Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College ) and Harrow School's affiliated school, The John Lyon School.
When passing through the local station in the Yorkshire town of Ilkley, drivers soon began to play the first line of the folk song, " On Ilkla Moor Baht ' at " on their loco / DMU horns, using a series of short blasts: LOW, h-i-g-h high high, LOW, high, until the practice was stopped by authorities.
The name Pianoman was first popularized by the Billy Joel song " Piano Man ", but this was not the reason for Sammon's use of the name, due to the many records he released during the 1990s ( whilst he managed a record shop, and worked on several local Yorkshire pirate radio stations ) that were dance music piano anthems, including " That Whitney Tune " featuring samples from " I Wanna Dance with Somebody ( Who Loves Me )", a Bolton record shop owner would call Sammon ' Pianoman ' whenever they met.
The depopulation of Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire which saw around a third of its housing left unoccupied, was brought into culture by a song by Chumbawamba and David Peace's novel Nineteen Seventy Four.
In 1987, Skellern wrote and performed the theme music and song for the Yorkshire Television series Flying Lady.
Their use is also attested in a knitting song from Yorkshire.
The song was inspired by the George Hotel, a wayfarers ' inn in Piercebridge on the border of Yorkshire and County Durham.

Yorkshire and lacked
Joe Warham came to Leeds as coach in 1958 and a Yorkshire Cup triumph followed, but the side still lacked enough quality to compete at the top of the Lancashire section of the competition in which it was then playing.
By the late 1980s it was realised that South Yorkshire railways had been cut back too far in the 1960s ; in particular, Swinton / Wath-upon-Dearne / Kilnhurst lacked a station.

Yorkshire and unique
The survival of these buildings and key open spaces such as Tong Park, the churchyard and cricket ground and the original pastoral setting makes Tong a unique location in West Yorkshire.
* George Hirst of Yorkshire and England creates a unique record as the only player to score 2000 runs and take 200 wickets in the same season: 2385 runs and 208 wickets.
Opening in October 2005 with funding from the European Regional Development Fund, Yorkshire Forward, Craven District Council and the Arts Council England, it provides a unique rural theatre, events and other facilities within a functioning Auction Mart.
The Arts Council / Yorkshire Museums & Galleries international touring exhibition of Denby's artworks for NMA and their memorabilia entitled ' One Family, One Tribe-The Art & Artefacts Of New Model Army ', is unique in its presentation of the art of a working rock band.
The article had a critical slant on its analysis of the redevelopment, echoing feelings that a unique and historic Yorkshire town centre was replaced by a generic, modernist, concrete shopping precinct.
Its strange Italian style is unique in this part of South Yorkshire and is distinctly odd for a Dearne Valley mining village.
Originally a wapentake or subdivision of the West Riding of Yorkshire it later had a unique status as a rural area controlled by the corporation of the city.
The Ainsty was unique among the wapentakes of Yorkshire in that it was not formally included in any Ridings from 1449 until 1836.
During the 1948 locomotive exchanges, King Henry VI had performed disappointingly using Yorkshire coal, despite demonstrating the 4-6-0 type's unique sure-footedness when climbing out of Kings Cross, where pacific types were apt to slip alarmingly.
* Holderness, between Marfleet and Paull, East Riding of Yorkshire ( near Kingston upon Hull ) " The Walls of Troy " ( this had a unique dodecagonal layout ; illustrated 1815 )

Yorkshire and instrumental
The Aire and Calder and Calder and Hebble Navigations and the Barnsley Canal were instrumental in the development of Wakefield as an important market for corn from Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire supplying the fast growing population in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The A-side was an instrumental composed by Lennon – McCartney called " Thingumybob " ( the theme to a Yorkshire Television sitcom of the same name starring Stanley Holloway ).

Yorkshire and features
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ( 1847 ) transports the Gothic to the forbidding Yorkshire Moors and features ghostly apparitions and a Byronic hero in the person of the demonic Heathcliff while Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre ( 1847 ) adds The Madwoman in the Attic ( Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 1979 ) to the cast of Gothic fiction.
At its west end is the Great West Window, known as the ' Heart of Yorkshire ' which features flowing tracery of the later decorated gothic period.
The fictional French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the setting of Chocolat and Peaches for Monsieur le Curé, also features in Blackberry Wine, and the fictional Yorkshire village of Malbry is the setting for both Blueeyedboy and Gentlemen and Players, as well as numerous short stories.
The series features a small grocer's shop in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire.
The hospital features a rooftop landing pad for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Service which was utilised on September 20, 2006 when the Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was treated at the hospital after suffering critical injuries as a result of a jet power car crash whilst filming at the airfield at ex-RAF Elvington near York.
Interesting features include well-restored living accommodation on two floors, two Yorkshire Rose windows, walled garden, the ruined Starkie wing and several ghosts ( reputedly ).
Produced by Buena Vista International and Touchstone Pictures, it features a screenplay by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi based on a true story of a group of Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research under the auspices of the Women's Institutes in April 1999.
The following features are now confined to older speakers in Yorkshire:
This website features samples of Yorkshire ( and elsewhere in England ) speech in wma format, with annotations on phonology with X-SAMPA phonetic transcriptions, lexis and grammar.
A list of non-standard grammatical features of Yorkshire speech is shown below.
Among the features left behind by the ice are the fjords of the west coast of Scotland, the U-shaped valleys of the Lake District and erratics ( blocks of rock ) that have been transported from the Oslo region of Norway and deposited on the coast of Yorkshire.
Fellwalking is specifically used to refer to hill or mountain walks in the Lake District, Lancashire, especially the Forest of Bowland and the Yorkshire Dales in Northern England as fell is the preferred term for both features in those parts of England.
The Yorkshire Oaks often features horses which ran previously in the Epsom Oaks.
Excavated finds and architectural features, particularly relating to the warming house and late twelfth-century chapter house, are displayed in the Yorkshire Museum, housed on the grounds.
This annual event entices over 10, 000 visitors to the North Yorkshire town and features Michelin-starred and celebrity chefs and patrons.
My bus is a school bus service provided by West Yorkshire Metro with certain features which set it apart from normal school transport services in the United Kingdom:
The main features are a small railway station on the Yorkshire Coast Line, proximity to RAF Leconfield and a red phonebox.
The Children's magazine, Look-in featured a picture-strip of the series each week as well as regular features, while five annuals were released in association with Yorkshire Television.
Anyone familiar with the monks ' cloisters at Ampleforth Abbey in north Yorkshire will recognize the woodwork and other interior features as similar to the decoration in the Abbey.

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