This is a personal 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. Names and other details have been changed to avoid difficulties. This page lists and links all posts roughly in chronological order (rather than by posting date).
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 remember 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.
Selective Education 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 writer than Tony.
Past and Future
Hello
Living Memory
Bath Hospital 1839
What Is Wrong In This Room?
What Is Wrong With This Steamer?
What Is Wrong In These Pictures?
Uncle Jimmy +
Mrs Quackworth 1
Pals
The Airship in the Shed
George Gibbard Jackson
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 1
Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible
Tips, Ships and Executorships
Haunted Houses
Drunk
Penistone
The Restless Friend
Teenage Mums
Lost Entitlements
Childhood
Gram Motherem 1
Dad’s Thursday Helper
Pounds, Shillings and Pence
Washing Machines Old and New
Ivy
Little Ships
My Picture Book of Ships
Donkey Stone +
Crossbar Excursions
In praise of bicycles
I am a Mole
Sisters
Rags and Bones
Cartophilic Concerns
Old Tools
The Old Apple Tree
M Dunham Are Crap +
Trump
Haley Paley Snow on the Ground
We Know Where You’re From
Colours I See With
Aunty Bina's Farm +
Talk like a pirate
Hornby ‘O’ Gauge and revisited
Philately will get you nowhere
Be Prepared
Plums
How Well Do You Know Morse Code?
Back In Time For The Weekend 1
Dad’s 1950s Films
Tour de Yorkshire
Bridlington
Filey
Great Yarmouth 1960
Whitby, Staithes and Scarborough
The day we saw the Queen Mary sail +
The Song Book
Cinema Paradiso
Teenage Years
Airfix Modelling
The Yellow Shed
Christmas Tree
Developing, Printing and a trip to London
Doing the Pools
Reel-to-Reel Recordings
Rather a studious kind of boy
Lookin’ for a ‘feet’ +
Selective Education
Knockout, Knowledge and Arthur Mee
Home Chemistry and Explosives Precursors
School Chemistry
Biology Made Simple
School Metalwork +
School Woodwork
School English (Mrs Hird of Cowes)
A Silly Christmas Love Story (repost)
Tackling Rugby
Jim Laker, Mr. Ellis and the Eagle Annual +
Ready Steady Go
In England They Eat Cat Food +
More Memories of 1960s Belgium
Votre Billet, Monsieur? +
Belgian Youth Abroad
Peyton Place and Top Deck Shandy +
Different Lives
Sooty
1966
The Great Cigarette Machine Robbery
Mists: a tale for Halloween
Teenage ‘X’ Certificate
Young Thugs
Hedge Trimmer Safety 1968 +
Hornsea Pottery
Playing With Dictionaries
Beer Mats
Late Teens and Early Twenties
Articled Clerk
Caer Rhun Hall
Ties Teens and Sells
How not to forget PINs
Where were you?
Mickey's Son and Daughter Easter 1971
The Goole to Leeds Train
A Fiddle Too Far
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 +
Twelve Balls
250 Words a Minute
The Play That Goes Wrong
Posters on the Wall +
Brendan and the Shared House 2
Old and New Cars
The Phone Phreak
The Vauxhall Griffin +
Ram
Weekend in College
UMIST
Petrol Rationing
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North Yorks Walks
Kinder Scout +
Short Shorts
Ray Gosling's Goole +
The Old House
One Man's Week 1974
The Compton Road Library
Lost Colour
Not The Best Policy
Brian Cant and Play Away
The Exorcist 3
Back In Time For The Weekend 2
Strange Brew (Back in Time 3) +
Eric Kershaw’s Guitar Class
Tuning Gadget
Road to the Isles
The Ascent of Man
Lytton Strachey
Later
Help, my courgette looks like a duck!
Keith Richard’s Lost Weekend
Bonking +
‘A’ Level English 1977
‘A’ Level Geography 1977 +
Walking In Iceland (series of linked posts)
A Very British Revolution
Recording Artiste
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
Writers At Heart
Philip Larkin’s Foot +
The Mighty Micro
Jumped Down Catholics
Top of the Pops 1983
Acornsoft
Luxury Travel
Rewriting Rewritten Writing
VAX and VAXen
Talbot Samba
Every Car We’ve Owned
Castleford
A Tale of Two Tea Pots 2
Doubters, Doomsters, Gloomsters
From Ferrybridge to Finland
Norn Iron
The Inter-Varsity Club
The Wrong Door
Signalling
Hi there Duggy! +
Significant Plagiarism Detected
The Commercialisation of Universities
Research Before The Internet 1
Sungold
Not Seeing Pink
Recent
Köhler’s Apes
Stair Rail +
Lonely Brown Hair
Checked Out
Strange Conversation
Siemens A55 +
Doorstep Deliveries
Downtown
Dill in Mustard Sauce +
People who can't say 'ul
The Morecambe and Wise IRA Sketch
My IKEA Bekant Sit/Stand Desk
Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome
Blessed By Snowdrops +
A Birthday Surprise
Does Anyone Want Some Drinks?
Get Tret Better
Limerick Leanings
Half Length and Mrs. Rat Poison
Petrol Cans
Parking Machine Tickets
The Peter Rabbit Plate
Kitchens Old and New
Occupational Therapy Corners
On Visiting A Daughter At University
Fish Finger Sandwiches
The Signalman’s Dilemma
Musical Instruments
Easter Hedgehogs 2020
Night Cats
Hedgehog Update 1 and Update 2
Snail Bogeys
Catch Me If You Can
Brain Fog
Health Gadget
Another Health Gadget
Bike Gadget
Trains and Boats
Traffic Cam
Moon
Fort William
The Planets
Come Lasses and Lads to Bangor
Don’t They Know It’s Christmas Time?
Bird Water
Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?
Green Dog
Plagiarised
Council Tax
Brugada Syndrome
Sebhorreic Keratosis
I'm Not A Foxglove
phoebe’s wee blog
A Walk to the Post Office
North Wales
Bouncing Balls
Contrails
Dominosteine
Laid Up
Off Topic and Technical
Adsense, Blogger and YouTube
Adsense Revisited 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
Some Memorable Posts
Blocked!
Scammed
Coronavirus Pacman
Faded Page
Dear Google User...
Colourisation
Facial Animation
Equal Rights for Toes!
The Yorkshire Story of the Creation
Factorials
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1,2 these six items were reposted by Smorgasbord Blog Magazine in 1 June 2019 and 2 March 2020
3 this item was reposted by beetleypete in September 2019
+ these items were reposted as a "New Month Old Post" in 2020, 2021 and 2022
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