Introduction and list of all posts

This is a memoir about growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and later. It is not always about Yorkshire, nor is it entirely memoir, but most of it is. This page lists and links all posts roughly in date order. Some names and other details have been changed to avoid difficulties. 

Some items recall people and experiences, others try to give things a humorous slant, and some are of the “look how the world has changed” kind. Among my favourites are Dad’s Thursday Helper and M Dunham Are Crap which cover some of my earliest times and Uncle Jimmy which is more journalistic. I enjoyed researching and writing The Exorcist which I hope is at least mildly humorous. Lookin’ for a ‘Feet’ is more polemical. So far there are couple of stories which, although fictional, are based on real-life situations, such as A Silly Christmas Love Story. Probably none of my posts are really ‘finished’ – they never are. As I said at the beginning, you think you are going to be the next Alan Bennett but soon come to realise you’re no better than Tony.

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Separate list of book reviews 

(items in progress are not yet linked)

Past and Future  Hello Bath Hospital 1839 What Is Wrong In This Room?  What Is Wrong With This Steamer? Uncle Jimmy Mrs Quackworth The Airship in the Shed Mum's Little Bear The Man With The Hebrew Bible Carolus II Dei Gratia Mag Br Fra et Hib Rex Grandad Dunham’s Flight Simulator Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible Tips, Ships and Executorships Haunted Houses Penistone The Restless Friend  Childhood Gram Motherem Dad’s Thursday Helper Little Ships My Picture Book of Ships Donkey Stone Crossbar Excursions In praise of bicycles Cartophilic Concerns Old Tools The Old Apple Tree  M Dunham Are Crap Trump Haley Paley Snow on the Ground  Colours I See With Get back on t’land whe’re y’belong Talk like a pirate Hornby ‘O’ Gauge - and revisited Philately will get you nowhere Be Prepared How Well Do You Know Morse Code?  Back In Time For The Weekend 1 Dad’s 1950s Films Tour de Yorkshire  The day we saw the Queen Mary sail  Teenage Years Airfix Modelling The Yellow Shed Developing, Printing and a trip to London Doing the Pools Reel-to-Reel Recordings Lookin’ for a ‘feet’ Knockout, Knowledge and Arthur Mee Home Chemistry and Explosives Precursors School Chemistry School Metalwork School Woodwork  A Silly Christmas Love Story Tackling Rugby Jim Laker, Mr. Ellis and the Eagle Annual In England They Eat Cat Food Votre Billet, Monsieur? Belgian Youth Abroad Peyton Place and Top Deck Shandy 1966 The Great Cigarette Machine Robbery Mists: a tale for Halloween Teenage ‘X’ Certificate Hedge Trimmer Safety 1968 Hornsea Pottery

Late Teens and Early Twenties Articled Clerk The Goole to Leeds Train Agents of Maths Destruction  A family tragedy Vulgar Money Bags Jokers Wild  Back In Time For Tea Playlist: Fixing a Hole Heathkit AD-27  The Ghost of Airmyn Crossings The Real Marigold Hotel Partners and Seniors The Play That Goes Wrong Posters on the Wall Old and New Cars The Phone Phreak The Vauxhall Griffin  Ram Weekend in College Kinder Scout Ray Gosling's Goole The Old House One Man's Week 1974  Brian Cant and Play Away The Exorcist Back In Time For The Weekend 2 Strange Brew (Back in Time 3) Eric Kershaw’s Guitar Class Road to the Isles Later The Ascent of Man  Lytton Strachey Help, my courgette looks like a duck!   Keith Richard’s Lost Weekend Bonking ‘A’ Level English 1977 ‘A’ Level Geography 1977 Recording Artiste Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny  Philip Larkin’s Foot The Mighty Micro Jumped Down Catholics Top of the Pops 1983 VAX and VAXen  Talbot Samba Hi there Duggy! Not Seeing Pink Recent Stair Rail Siemens A55 Doorstep Deliveries Downtown Dill in Mustard Sauce People who can't say 'ul  My IKEA Bekant Sit/Stand Desk Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome Blessed By Snowdrops   A Birthday Surprise Off Topic and Technical Adsense, Blogger and YouTube Side by Side Images in Blogger Alt-0247 and Rule The Riddle of the £30 Restaurant Bill Supermarket Loyalty Badge Scheme Trump and Tusk   This Hi-de-Hi Government

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