A Yorkshire Memoir: List Of All Posts

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. I started in 2014 with the notion of accumulating some kind of printable book, possibly private rather than published.

This page lists and links all posts roughly in chronological order (rather than by posting date). Some posts recall people and experiences, others try to take a humorous view, and some are of the “look how the world has changed” kind. Essentially, I am interested in how Britain and the world have changed during the decades I have lived through, and the effects of what happened then upon the present day.

List of posts to 25th September 2023

Late Teens and Early Twenties

Accountancy:
Articled Clerk
Clients and Further Thoughts Amout Clients
Caer Rhun Hall
Ties Teens and Sells
Agents of Maths Destruction
Vulgar Money Bags
Partners and Seniors
The Old House
One Man's Week 1974
The Compton Road Library
The Vauxhall Griffin
The Shared House:
Brendan and the Shared House
Jokers Wild
Not The Best Policy
Posters on the Wall
Back In Time For Tea
Strange Brew (Back in Time 3)
Barclay James Harvest (for Northsider)
Drought
How not to forget PINs
Where were you?
Mickey's Son and Daughter
Easter 1971
The Goole to Leeds Train
A family tragedy
Playlist: Fixing a Hole
Heathkit AD-27
The Ghost of Airmyn Crossings
The Real Marigold Hotel
Twelve Balls
250 Words a Minute
The Play That Goes Wrong
Old and New Cars
The Phone Phreak
Ram
Petrol Rationing
Short Shorts
Lost Colour
Brian Cant and Play Away
The Exorcist
Back In Time For The Weekend 2
Influences:
The Ascent of Man
Ray Gosling's Goole
Eric Kershaw’s Guitar Class
Lytton Strachey
The Mighty Micro
Working Class
Walking:
North Yorks Walks
Kinder Scout
Road to the Isles
Walking In Iceland (series of linked posts)
Loch Muick

Later

College and University
Weekend in College
‘A’ Levels Again
‘A’ Level English 1977
‘A’ Level Geography 1977
Night Cleaner
The Canning Factory
Mature Student
Philip Larkin’s Foot
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
Research Before The Internet
Acornsoft
Rewriting Rewritten Writing
VAX and VAXen
Castleford
Bonking
The Wrong Door
Hi there Duggy!
Significant Plagiarism Detected
The Commercialisation of Universities
UMIST
Academics
Mick Copier
Help, my courgette looks like a duck!
Recording Artiste
Writers At Heart
Jumped Down Catholics
Top of the Pops 1983
Luxury Travel
Talbot Samba
Every Car We’ve Owned
A Tale of Two Tea Pots
Doubters, Doomsters, Gloomsters
From Ferrybridge to Finland
Unprincipled Spivs
Norn Iron
The Inter-Varsity Club
Signalling
Sungold
Not Seeing Pink

Recent

Home and around
Stair Rail
Doorstep Deliveries
Kitchens Old and New
Contrails
A Walk to the Post Office
Garden
Köhler’s Apes
Bird Water
Don’t They Know It’s Christmas Time?
I’m Not A Foxglove
Leek
Red In Beak And Talon
Pumpkin? Gourd? Giant Puffball?
Garden Birds
Night Cam
Easter Hedgehogs 2020
Night Cats
Hedgehog Update 1 and Update 2
Snail Bogeys
Pigeon For Breakfast
Fox in the Night in the Rain
Catch Me If You Can
Foxy Is Injured
Foxy Is Back, Foxy Is Better
I Hate Hedgehog Biscuits
Holidays
Checked Out
Trains and Boats
Fort William
North Wales
Family
Strange Conversation
People who can't say 'ul
Molly's Family and Molly's Twin
Accents and Subtitles
Downtown
Dill in Mustard Sauce
Blessed By Snowdrops
The Peter Rabbit Plate
On Visiting A Daughter At University
Fish Finger Sandwiches
Dominosteine
phoebe’s wee blog
Phoebe
Airmyn Clock
A Birthday Surprise
Hobgoblin, For Foul Fiend
Things
Siemens A55
My IKEA Bekant Sit/Stand Desk
Occupational Therapy Corners
Musical Instruments
Bike Gadget
Television and Media
The Morecambe and Wise IRA Sketch
Keith Richard’s Lost Weekend
A Very British Revolution
Health
Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome
Lonely Brown Hair
Brain Fog
Health Gadget
Another Health Gadget
Brugada Syndrome
Sebhorreic Keratosis
Laid Up
Cancer Treatment
Morbid Statistics and the NHS
Green Dog
Music
Come Lasses and Lads to Bangor
Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?
Other
Does Anyone Want Some Drinks?
Get Tret Better
Limerick Leanings
The Signalman’s Dilemma
Traffic Cam
Moon
The Planets
Plagiarised
Council Tax
Bouncing Balls
Memoir and Blogging
Nice Little Earner

Throw or Keep? (old items no longer used)

Mum’s Little Bear
Old Tools
Old Wires
A Fiddle Too Far (The Carriage Clock)
The Mirror
Petrol Cans
Parking Machine Tickets
Panora
Oil Lamp
Tuning Gadget
My Very First Mother Goose
Cameras
Lenses and Tubes
Slide Copier
Slide Projector
Strings
The Songwriter