tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post6429960508529383773..comments2024-03-28T16:18:17.778+00:00Comments on A Yorkshire Memoir: Luxury TravelTasker Dunhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-47438552369268590472022-04-16T20:27:22.458+01:002022-04-16T20:27:22.458+01:00Our dear Pat is not fluent in sarcasm, Tasker!Our dear Pat is not fluent in sarcasm, Tasker!Debbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09531125606268748793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-64995316594000283642022-04-16T16:44:33.547+01:002022-04-16T16:44:33.547+01:00Is that not what I meant? Is that not what I meant? Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-11149993211214618582022-04-15T18:55:18.465+01:002022-04-15T18:55:18.465+01:00On the other hand one could ask Tasker - who would...On the other hand one could ask Tasker - who would want to watch a video when they could be looking what was going on out of the window.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-73933054239497038032022-04-14T11:37:09.781+01:002022-04-14T11:37:09.781+01:00It probably still is a fantastic bus ride from Yor...It probably still is a fantastic bus ride from York to Goathland. When driving that way we've seen buses from York to Whitby and wondered what it was like to be on them. I've also heard lots in favour of the routes through the Yorkshire dales - Wensleydale and Teesdale. I really should make the effort - I think they would be free with my old gits bus pass. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-53884208602310321882022-04-14T10:36:50.512+01:002022-04-14T10:36:50.512+01:00My first journey up North, was by train and bus. F...My first journey up North, was by train and bus. From Bath to York station, watching my teenage son as we waited at the bus stop for a long while being chatted up by a young girl. She was after her 'bus fare'and I didn't half get a dirty look when I moved in ;)<br />Then the glorious bus ride (probably two hours) through the Vale of York, turning off for the villages to drop people off. Arriving in Goathland and then driving down that little steep lane by the railway station and always thinking of 'Postman Pat and his black and white cat'<br />Bus journeys are fun as long as you don't feel sick.thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-42358719486349335172022-04-13T18:50:29.559+01:002022-04-13T18:50:29.559+01:00Blimey. I took cloud factories as a metaphor.
I th...Blimey. I took cloud factories as a metaphor.<br />I thought you were observing atmospheric conditions, over the Vale of York, which gave rise to cloudscape like snowy mountains.<br /><br />Now I am reading about cloud computation, resenting the way that computer language appropriated words from the natural world.<br /><br />*Go into the cloud* : An expression I hope will fade away.<br />I liked Fred Hoyle's novel The Black Cloud.Haggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03878998597580981583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-44745834099383760352022-04-13T17:10:34.731+01:002022-04-13T17:10:34.731+01:00The Elloughton bus garage is still on Streetview b...The Elloughton bus garage is still on Streetview but you'd be hard-pressed to identify the location of the Leeds Wellington Street bus station as it has been built over. It was in the middle of what is now the Leeds legal district. For crossing the Pennines search for images of Scammonden bridge. Pleased you appreciated cloud factories. They have mostly been blown up now except for Drax. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-5785642190323560192022-04-13T16:12:50.307+01:002022-04-13T16:12:50.307+01:00First two photographs remind me of the England I k...First two photographs remind me of the England I knew and loved.<br />The bus garage at Elloughton reminds me of the garage at Knightswood, Glasgow when I spent a year working before going into journalism.<br /><br />Your bus journey between Manchester and Hull reminds me of the first pages of Maurice Gee's novel *Going West* : Gee's description of coming into Auckland is one of the great tributes to any city.<br /><br />Climbing Saddleworth Moor to the Pennines is better than New Zealand.<br />As for the cloud factories of the Vale of York ...<br />O to be in England<br />Now that April's there.Haggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03878998597580981583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-90554230472674143492022-04-13T08:58:53.258+01:002022-04-13T08:58:53.258+01:00The journey a like a space/time dividing wall betw...The journey a like a space/time dividing wall between two different elements of my life. I would find it fascinating to make that trip through Ohio, though I know I never will. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-39845701766094652882022-04-13T08:56:17.608+01:002022-04-13T08:56:17.608+01:00Seeing my parents' house after travelling abou...Seeing my parents' house after travelling about 80 miles, when I might not have actually seen them for two or three months, was very odd, especially as I knew they could well be in the house. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-82468576137605980042022-04-13T08:51:45.944+01:002022-04-13T08:51:45.944+01:00If things had turned out different I could easily ...If things had turned out different I could easily have ended up at university on Preston, or Preston Polytechnic as it was then. What an awful thought. They now try to disguise it by calling it UCLAN! Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-160771728534440832022-04-13T08:47:24.795+01:002022-04-13T08:47:24.795+01:00Students in Newcastle are notorious for never wear...Students in Newcastle are notorious for never wearing coats, even when there is snow on the ground. We must be hardier in the north east. Perhaps we probably best remember journeys in daylight; I don't tend to remember travelling in the dark so well. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-57902096748202066332022-04-13T00:15:33.707+01:002022-04-13T00:15:33.707+01:00I often took the Greyhound home from college on a ...I often took the Greyhound home from college on a weekend. This was pre interstate days, early 1960'. The ride took me through downtown Cleveland, past Cleveland's steel mills with tall, steaming towers, through the affluent suburbs of Cleveland, the countryside between the two cities, and into downtown Akron. It was an almost two hour ride with never ending vistas. My parents always drove me back to college, and I doubt I would enjoy the ride after dark.Joanne Noragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16601010208310707750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-31926218466790384192022-04-12T20:48:34.137+01:002022-04-12T20:48:34.137+01:00Your past weekly travel does sound enjoyable. It&#...Your past weekly travel does sound enjoyable. It's so nice when someone else is driving and you can take in the sights and daydream. I can relate to the sensation of traveling past your parents’ house and seeing it as it would appear to a traveling stranger. You know it well yet it is strangely out of your reach.Bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17738727252267659979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-64963456825388557082022-04-12T19:40:21.987+01:002022-04-12T19:40:21.987+01:00My abiding memory of long-distance coach travel wa...My abiding memory of long-distance coach travel was of an overnight trip returning to the South East from my brother's wedding in Lancaster. Firstly, what should have been a proper coach with fully reclining seats for the overnight journey was just a standard coach with not particularly comfortable upright seats, we had a nearly 1 hour wait just before midnight at Preston coach station - at that time a singularly unprepossessing brutalist concrete monstrosity, not helped by the unrelenting rain. We picked up additional passengers there, including one woman who took the seat next to me and proceeded to talk virtually the whole way down to London Victoria coach station. After that, the journey home on BR Southern Region electric train was bliss!<br />Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06715674477635617592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-23836898006020936512022-04-12T17:46:34.864+01:002022-04-12T17:46:34.864+01:00I used to live in North Yorkshire and travel by tr...I used to live in North Yorkshire and travel by train to uni at Manchester. I mainly remember in winter the white landscape east of the pennines, and the rainy one west. For my first winter in Manchester I never put my coat on, so mild by comparison. After that I guess I lost my moor hardiness and wore a coat in winter. The actual travel has vanished from memory. Boudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-49406458659851286742022-04-12T15:06:58.711+01:002022-04-12T15:06:58.711+01:00I noticed two or three years ago how much better t...I noticed two or three years ago how much better the trains in Kent are. They are longer, faster, more frequent, all-electric, even on lines where there are only a few minutes between stops. In Yorkshire at that time we had ancient diesel Pacer trains, sometimes with only one carriage like a bus, and then they wonder why people don't use them. Even so, like you, I can completely lose myself looking at houses and wondering what it would be like to live there, wondering about the people seen inside and outside, and so on. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-28783508523515533262022-04-12T13:59:31.632+01:002022-04-12T13:59:31.632+01:00I didn't ride a bus, but we took the train qui...I didn't ride a bus, but we took the train quite a bit. There is a real difference between the Midland trains and the running in the south eastern part of the country in terms of cleanliness. The London trains almost always had a place to charge phones. The Midland trains usually didn't. It was a wonderful way to travel though, and I did like sitting by the window and gazing out at the little towns and fields and rolling hills. Even on the way to London and back, I was gazing at the houses we passed and daydreaming about the people who lived there. Planes though? I appreciate that little screen in the back of the seats. I never had a window seat, and you can only gaze past your seat mate for so long, before you start to get the uneasy feeling that he might think you're trying to catch his eye. Debbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09531125606268748793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-53754003372787013832022-04-12T13:00:55.149+01:002022-04-12T13:00:55.149+01:00I spent a year at UMIST. Manchester really was awf...I spent a year at UMIST. Manchester really was awful. Some years later I applied for a job there, but driving through the place reminded me just what it was like and I withdrew the application. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-60216383937871486662022-04-12T12:54:34.428+01:002022-04-12T12:54:34.428+01:00Manchester to Hull was definitely a good one unles...Manchester to Hull was definitely a good one unless it was dark. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-63154805817163132702022-04-12T12:54:26.764+01:002022-04-12T12:54:26.764+01:00What had you done wrong to be sentenced to time in...What had you done wrong to be sentenced to time in Manchester? Must have been something truly awful.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-48498231316032901742022-04-12T12:53:40.680+01:002022-04-12T12:53:40.680+01:00There is a lot to be said in favour of that point ...There is a lot to be said in favour of that point of view. Our attention is now a commodity to be monetised. I like the Jenny Eclair quote (which I've mentioned before): Children these days should spend their Easter holidays sitting on a wall - preferably in the north of England. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-78764966602464769802022-04-12T12:50:21.784+01:002022-04-12T12:50:21.784+01:00I doubt a video would have helped much.
It wasn&#...I doubt a video would have helped much. <br />It wasn't me! I have a keen sense of smell and am sensitive to things like that too. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-13162483736788464912022-04-12T12:49:11.940+01:002022-04-12T12:49:11.940+01:00Books OK. The trouble with videos is that the flic...Books OK. The trouble with videos is that the flickering disturbs passengers on nearly seats. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023204082711630211.post-37549210154122233182022-04-12T12:48:20.237+01:002022-04-12T12:48:20.237+01:00It was an interesting route, probably because the ...It was an interesting route, probably because the stops weren't too frequent but enough to break up the journey. I don't believe the route still exists in the same form. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.com