tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post8660202831960875679..comments2024-03-28T14:01:51.325+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: LetwellYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-68291455545502683112021-08-11T22:33:23.144+01:002021-08-11T22:33:23.144+01:00Glad you read Strumpet: start *The Farewell Compan...Glad you read Strumpet: start *The Farewell Companions* (sequel) one rainy Whitsun when you are trying to lay the glum ghost of the other Larkin.<br /><br />Langold looks well-maintained from the photos. The mining legacy is tiny.<br /><br />Barstow (miner's son from Horbury) thought Sid Chaplin (1916-1986) was the truest of the Northern writers, since Sid was a miner.<br />From Stan's top floor in Ossett you could see the colliery in the distance.<br /><br />I remember Norman Jeffares coming to Glasgow University to lecture on Yeats.<br />He spoke of the broken industrial landscape on his journey here, Scotland's Black Country. <br />HaggertyHaggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13428937273804366081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-90864323817233570402021-08-11T22:14:40.339+01:002021-08-11T22:14:40.339+01:00I read "Strumpet City" long ago. Regardi...I read "Strumpet City" long ago. Regarding coal miners, the literary and artistic legacy is relatively tiny. I was pleased to see that the memorial garden to coal mining in Langold is beautifully kept and the names of the dead are proudly displayed on the wall.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-62247496065590770172021-08-11T21:11:24.668+01:002021-08-11T21:11:24.668+01:00As every schoolboy used to know, the General Strik...As every schoolboy used to know, the General Strike (1926) ended with the miners going back to work and accepting longer hours and a wages cut.<br />It is sad there is no record of your fathers in the coal seams of South Yorkshire. The working class have no history.<br /><br />Ken Loach directed a television drama about the General Strike in four parts, written by Manchester-born Jim Allen, *Days of Hope* available on DVD.<br />I was moved by the portrayal of James Arthur Cook (1884-1931), the Welsh-born miners' leader.<br /><br />As my father observed: *Cook knew the miners had been betrayed by the government, and he did not live for many years after the end of the strike.'<br />Look him up online, Dictionary of Welsh Biography.<br />I always meant to hunt down a biography of Cook.<br /><br />I have a book on Jim Larkin, written by a number of historians of the labour movement, *Lion of the Fold* edited by Donal Nevin.<br />Big Jim appeared as a character in *Strumpet City* by James Plunkett (Plunkett worked with Larkin) and in a novel by J.G. Farrell, *Troubles*.<br /><br />Farrell was drowned while fishing at night in Ireland where he had set up home. It didn't help that he had been weakened by polio.<br />We lost many great novels with his untimely death.<br />I saw Plunkett in the restaurant of Belfast Station in 1973 and wish I had spoken to him. A quiet, grave man. <br /><br />HaggertyHaggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13428937273804366081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-13133132542279147622021-08-11T20:59:28.938+01:002021-08-11T20:59:28.938+01:00Just so you know that I read your comments I wonde...Just so you know that I read your comments I wonder if they might be consigned to history.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-6480204853966812042021-08-11T20:18:20.380+01:002021-08-11T20:18:20.380+01:00On my mother's side my grandfather, great gran...On my mother's side my grandfather, great grandfather and great great grandfather were all coal miners in South Yorkshire. I feel an allegiance with them as you also appear to share.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-77131855904639106922021-08-11T20:15:50.343+01:002021-08-11T20:15:50.343+01:00Don't worry, it's not a real one Ms Moon.Don't worry, it's not a real one Ms Moon.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-38449927408214291122021-08-11T20:15:05.036+01:002021-08-11T20:15:05.036+01:00You mean it's hot?You mean it's hot?Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-18545735800615743822021-08-11T20:14:35.478+01:002021-08-11T20:14:35.478+01:00Huge fan of graveyards! You don't visit them i...Huge fan of graveyards! You don't visit them in the middle of the night do you - with a spade and a lantern?Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-63533677074927846352021-08-11T20:13:25.644+01:002021-08-11T20:13:25.644+01:00Thanks Travel. It was indeed a worthwhile day. I s...Thanks Travel. It was indeed a worthwhile day. I saw many things of interest.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-6719002822671683772021-08-11T20:12:39.928+01:002021-08-11T20:12:39.928+01:00I am glad that that photo caused you to reflect on...I am glad that that photo caused you to reflect on those old independent businesses. Before long they will be resigned to history.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-76795673091866274892021-08-11T17:57:40.127+01:002021-08-11T17:57:40.127+01:00For me the second picture was by far the most inte...For me the second picture was by far the most interesting. These days we see far too few little 'shops' like that. The sort of place where, if you took an old split windscreen Morris Minor (I reconditioned one in the '80s) and asked for a windscreen wiper they would find you one by hook or by crook.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-87671807468828787722021-08-11T15:54:41.065+01:002021-08-11T15:54:41.065+01:00Looks like a nice day out, great photos. Cute Pan...Looks like a nice day out, great photos. Cute Panda. Travelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07787024407420088973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-77483739859968287122021-08-11T15:41:05.460+01:002021-08-11T15:41:05.460+01:00I love that picture. You capture the essence of ti...I love that picture. You capture the essence of times past. I am a huge fan of graveyards.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-28426240693454046312021-08-11T15:29:13.456+01:002021-08-11T15:29:13.456+01:00Not a lot of walking going on here this week. One ...Not a lot of walking going on here this week. One might sink into the soft pavement never to be found again.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214319366049620074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-49777367839393929712021-08-11T15:21:02.827+01:002021-08-11T15:21:02.827+01:00My mother came from a coal mining family so I feel...My mother came from a coal mining family so I feel an allegiance to those who brought the black gold up to the surface.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-3213061567511606162021-08-11T14:13:06.520+01:002021-08-11T14:13:06.520+01:00Good for you for getting out, Mr. P.! You are shar...Good for you for getting out, Mr. P.! You are sharing your world with us and I appreciate that. <br />Not sure how I feel about the panda. Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-85552962532319583832021-08-11T13:46:54.168+01:002021-08-11T13:46:54.168+01:00Thanks to your post, I looked up the names of all ...Thanks to your post, I looked up the names of all the miners who died in that pit:<br />*Firbeck Main Colliery (UK) Durham Miners Museum.* <br /><br />Also, *Completed Firbeck Pit Colliery Memorial Garden Wall.*<br />A peaceful place now. There is no one left to remember the men who never returned home from their day's work. <br /><br />My paternal grandfather was a miner in Uddingston; and my Uncle John, who left school at 13, and contracted double pneumonia at 16, and survived. <br />One day at the coalface was enough for me; and this was in the early 1980s.<br />My mild claustrophobia had to be restrained. Never again.<br /><br />There is a 1972 David Storey novel, *Pasmore*: the hero thinks of his father at the coalface, miles out under the North Sea. <br />The story ends with the son leaving the North for London. <br />Storey's father, like D.H. Lawrence's, was a miner.<br />Haggerty<br /><br />Haggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13428937273804366081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-56609752688647265782021-08-11T12:38:33.014+01:002021-08-11T12:38:33.014+01:00I prefer the unreal thing - less attractive to was...I prefer the unreal thing - less attractive to wasps.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-54970605602903795842021-08-11T12:34:46.147+01:002021-08-11T12:34:46.147+01:00The ancestry that I've been researching has tu...The ancestry that I've been researching has turned up a lot of miners from Scotland, around Airdrie. I can't imagine a worse life, underground, in the dark, black lung and cave ins. <br /><br />I like the middle photo better, the red pops so well but what a juxtaposition between that photo and the panda.Pixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01313413260127376288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-465110119524954892021-08-11T12:32:53.557+01:002021-08-11T12:32:53.557+01:00There's not much point in diet coke if you'...There's not much point in diet coke if you've had fish and chips. Drink the real thing. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-31988968488716379242021-08-11T12:10:54.890+01:002021-08-11T12:10:54.890+01:006221 separate squares but 15413 photographs in tot...6221 separate squares but 15413 photographs in total. In Ordnance Survey mapping, all of Great Britain is divided into 1km x 1km squares. It has become something of an obsession.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-55456759996071206812021-08-11T11:35:34.289+01:002021-08-11T11:35:34.289+01:00How many of the squares on the Geograph project ha...How many of the squares on the Geograph project have you contributed to now?Tigger's Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829665785202495073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-43217204168142815272021-08-11T10:48:22.928+01:002021-08-11T10:48:22.928+01:00When their troops march in with cartons of chicken...When their troops march in with cartons of chicken chow mein to pacify the natives.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-72689737759298739412021-08-11T10:46:56.702+01:002021-08-11T10:46:56.702+01:00Of course the mushy peas... Glad to learn that I a...Of course the mushy peas... Glad to learn that I am not the only one with sophisticated culinary taste.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-23734209809938579692021-08-11T10:46:03.611+01:002021-08-11T10:46:03.611+01:00And it's nice and sunny here on Wednesday morn...And it's nice and sunny here on Wednesday morning too. "Pretty good" is high praise indeed from you JayCee!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.com