Yorkshire Day 2009 Events.

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York: The traditional reading of the Declaration of Yorkshire Integrity will take place on Yorkshire Day at four of the Bars (gates) of York. The first reading will be at Walmgate Bar at 10.45. The reading at Mickelgate Bar will be at 11:34 indicating the 1134 years since the first reference to Yorkshire and its Ridings. Further readings will then take place at Bootham Bar and Monk Bar with a final reading in St Sampson's Square, at about 1 PM, where a Yorkshire Day event, featuring two brass bands, has been arranged by York City Council. There is a Yorkshire Day  Beer Festival at the Bay Horse, Marygate which will run throughout the day.

Hessle, East Riding: An East Riding event has been held for a number of years. This year it is at Hessle Square. It will feature music and food as well as the reading of the Declaration of Yorkshire Integrity. Start is around 10.00.

Saltburn: The North Eastern branch of the Ridings' Society is organising its annual Duck Race and a Yorkshire Day Country Fair at Saltburn on Sea.

Pickering: A day of activities including music and dance is taking place in Pickering to celebrate the county's special day.

Leeds: A Yorkshire Day barbeque is being organised at Temple Newsum in the evening.

Sunday, August 2nd, Saddleworth: Yorkshire Day celebrations in Upper Mill with a procession, Reading of the Declaration of Yorkshire Integrity, music and a country fair.

There are many other events taking place all over the county. Details may be in local newspapers or announced on local radio.

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Received from Lees Methodist Church on the edge of Bronte country:
YORKSHIRE DAY - Coffee morning and Bring and Buy. Celebrating all the good things which come from Yorkshire. Saturday 1st August 2009 10.00 - 11.30 a.m. Gift stall, book stall, colour stall (White - to match the White rose of Yorkshire), Refreshments. Admission Free. Lees Methodist Church directly opposite Lees Primary School. Proceeds for Building Repairs/Maintenance Fund

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Received via Jeni Cropper & Associates:
Malton Hosts the Yorkshire Day Procession

Town en fête with great Yorkshire fare for Dr. John Sentamu

August 1st this year will see the traditional Yorkshire Day Procession take place in the idyllic market town of Malton. In celebration of this honour the traders and eatery owners are putting on a great show for visitors in the true Yorkshire manner.

Malton has been selected this year to host the county’s Yorkshire Day Civic Ceremony. The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, and 180 civic leaders from across Yorkshire will take part in a procession through Malton, culminating in a church service at St Michael’s Church. A full programme of activities is being organised by Business in Action, aiming to draw new and regular customers into Malton’s town centre for the special day. Local traders will be entering the spirit with special offers and promotions.

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Received via Andy at the Bay Horse:

We at the Bay Horse, Marygate, York are holding the Yorkshire Day Beer Festival Weekend from 30th July to 3rd August with Yorkshire Day being the main day. Please call in for a drink of one of our 36 Yorkshire ales which will be on offer!

[DIANA JOLLAND]

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[Rachel McAlley, Marketing and PR for Harveys of Halifax]

Harveys of Halifax, the family run department store is playing host to a day of fun and frivolity on Yorkshire Day Saturday 1st August 2009.

With lots of entertainment, freebies to sample, a full Yorkshire Day menu running in the cafe and restaurant, Halifax's very own Town Crier with the Yorkshire Declaration, Forget Me Not Trust holding a tombola, competitions and prizes throughout the store, local radio station Phoenix Radio meeting the customers, White Rose and Yorkshire Day merchandise to buy, meet and greet the Halifax RLFC players and much much more. It's a day not to miss.

We're looking forward to seeing you on Saturday.
www.harveysofhalifax.co.uk

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Received via Lynn Thornborrow:

The West Winds tearoom will mark Yorkshire Day with a Yorkshire dialect menu

A tearoom at the heart of the Yorkshire Dales is celebrating this year’s Yorkshire Day by ‘translating’ its menu into Yorkshire dialect. For a period of one week from Saturday 1 August – Yorkshire Day – customers at West Winds Yorkshire Tearooms in Buckden in Wharfedale will be able to choose items from descriptions in West Riding, North Riding and East Riding dialect (Standard English is provided too!).

On the menu during Yorkshire Dialect Week at the tearooms will be reet gurt Yorksher puddin’s wiv shives ov yam-coddled Whardill kye-meyt (very large Yorkshire puddings with slices of home-roasted Wharfedale beef, expressed in North Riding dialect), goosegog pie med wi’ goosegogs fra Gerston (gooseberry pie made with gooseberries from Grassington, in West Riding dialect), Yorksher crud chissocks (Yorkshire curd tart, in East Riding dialect), Yorksher moggie (ginger parkin), weyky brandy spicecake wi’ shive o’ Yoredill cheese (sticky brandy fruitcake with a slice of Wensleydale cheese, in West Riding dialect), fresh cutten butties i’ carse cake (freshly cut sandwiches in brown bread, in West Riding dialect), a pot of tea that’s despert real an’ strang (really good and strong, in East Riding dialect), and much more besides.

The menu has been translated by Stephen Hounsham and Lynn Thornborrow – who run West Winds Yorkshire Tearooms – with the help of books, internet resources and Lynn’s own recollections from her upbringing at Buckden. In particular, the monumental effort has drawn on the work of dialect expert Dr Arnold Kellett, the former mayor of Knaresborough and Head of Languages at King James’s School in the town, who sadly died in June this year. A factsheet on Yorkshire dialect has also been produced by West Winds to accompany the menu. Stephen and Lynn stress, however, that they are complete amateurs in dialect and hope dialect experts will not be too hard on their efforts, which have relied more on enthusiasm than skill!

Stephen Hounsham said: “Yorkshire dialect is fascinating and a real signpost to our history, yet it is slipping gently out of use. It would be a tremendous loss to our rich culture in Yorkshire if it became something simply of the past. People who are lucky enough to have a grasp of their local dialect should speak it with pride. How boring it would be if we all spoke in Home Counties English.”

The tearooms and guesthouse at West Winds focus on providing a taste of Yorkshire tradition, while meeting modern environmental priorities. The business has been ‘greened up’ substantially over the past three years but without jeopardising its old fashioned charm. Much of the menu is based on traditional Yorkshire dishes and recipes, such as Yorkshire puddings, gammon and eggs, local cheeses and Yorkshire curd tart.

Yorkshire dialect developed when the Angles, settlers from northern Germany, came to England after the Romans departed. Three distinct versions of Yorkshire dialect took shape – West Riding, North Riding and East Riding. In the ninth century Viking invaders added their influence to the language, as did the Normans after 1066, although to a lesser extent. Yorkshire dialect reflects its Germanic and Scandinavian origins in particular with words often similar to their counterparts in those languages. Other words are simply Old English versions of what appears in Modern English. Today the number of fluent dialect speakers is falling, despite the work of enthusiasts like the Yorkshire Dialect Society.

The special menu underlines the depth of Yorkshire culture and tradition celebrated on Yorkshire Day each year. The first day of August marks Lammas, an old custom once held in the Yorkshire countryside when the first loaf of bread was made from the new harvest. It is also the anniversary of the Battle of Minden in 1759, in which an Anglo-German army defeated the French at Minden in Germany. Yorkshire soldiers in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry made an important contribution to the victory. Yorkshire Day was instigated in 1975 by the Yorkshire Ridings Society as part of a campaign seeking the return of the three Yorkshire Ridings, which were abolished the previous year as part of local government re-organisation.

Yorkshire Dialect Week at West Winds Yorkshire Tearooms runs from Saturday 1 August to Sunday 9 August, 12.30pm-6pm (except Monday and Tuesday). Further information is available at www.westwindsinyorkshire.co.uk

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Check out the feature on Yorkshire Day by BBC Bradford and West Yorkshire (they mean West Riding, probably). They even quote the Yorkshire Declaration of Integrity!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/2009/07/27/yorkshire_day_2009_feature.shtml

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The Yorkshire Tourist board have been busy compiling a very full list of events for Yorkshire Day from around the county:

http://www.yorkshire.com/yorkshire-day

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Kirklees Markets will be celebrating Yorkshire Day:

http://www2.kirklees.gov.uk/news/onlinenews/newsdesk/fullstory.aspx?id=1313

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UPDATE: full programme for events at Malton mentioned above:

http://www.ryedale.gov.uk/press_releases/yorkshire_day_event_timetable.aspx

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BBC Leeds have a Yorkshire Day story:

Yorkshire relish
On Yorkshire Day 2009 the Rifles Regiment inherit the freedom of the city and 200 new British citizens will be welcomed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2009/07/29/your_stories_yorkshire_day_feature.shtml

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Top band’s Yorkshire Day visit to South Elmsall

http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/News/PressReleases/news/PR2291.htm

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More Malton news: Yorkshire Day events from the Malton Mercury

http://www.maltonmercury.co.uk/news/Events-for-Yorkshire-Day.5500578.jp

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Swine Flu hits Yorkshire Day plans in Huddersfield

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/local-west-yorkshire-news/2009/07/30/yorkshire-day-celebrations-hit-as-band-gets-ill-86081-24272850/

[Nigel Peter Ferguson]

Hello,
I am a member of the Pontefract & District Amateur Radio Society and every year for the past 5 or 6 years we have obtained a special callsign, GB0YD (Golf Bravo zero Yorkshire Day) for use on the 1st of August. We will be there again this year at Carleton Community Centre, just outside Pontefract from early morning, passing greetings to other radio amateurs throughout Britain and (hopefully) further afield.
A special QSL card has been printed (Based on the pictures of Yorkshire Tea - with their generous permission ) and these will be sent to all contacts, even those who had the misfortune not to be born in Yorkshire. The Yorkshire flag will be flying from the radio mast!

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Hull and East Riding press outline more local events, and give a mention to Roger and Chris, our York to Minden walkers:

http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/news/Hull-East-Riding-ready-mark-Yorkshire-Day/article-1215948-detail/article.html