Weren't the original Sheffield Wednesday football team made up of butchers?? They could only play on Wednesdays as that was when the shops were shut?

Seem to remember reading that somewhere...I think.



Mmmm..can I have a pink coconut one please? Or a blue one with the bobbly bits on?

And for which side are you batting that particular ball petal?

No-one in particular....was just posing a question...I seem to remember someone asking "Why Sheffield Wednesday?" and that was the answer...something about butchers...sorry...

Does that mean I can't have an Allsort now...?

You know what they say - if yer not with us, yer agin us

Just remind me, who was it who commissioned white chocolate Yorkie bars earlier in this thread?

I remember, sweet!!

Do you know the answer to me question then, duck?

Sweets all round for members of the Yorkshire contingent - anybody taking one and subsequently not supporting Yorkshire will be deemed a traitor...

Mmmm.. yummy!! Come to my party tonight for goodness sake!!

Half time - so far so good - touch wood but hey anyone mentioned Wainwright? The Blackburnian and Lancastrian who told all you Yorkshire folk how to walk across the fells?

Right - back to the agony. I wonder if Skylark can resist the continued bullying of Appleblossom in my absence? I think she's Appleblossom needs a nice Eccles cake or a hot Chorley cake dripping in butter.

I would if I could but I can't - I've got a date with Gershwin Sorry

Mmm thank you! Are you coming to my party as well?



Ah well- never mind sweet xx Enjoy yourself!

I feel sure Yorkshire hasn't forgotten Peter Sutcliffe?

Humberside comes into Yorkshire doesn't it?

I'm sure we can all think of similar on the other side of the Pennines but I'd rather not descend to that level.

Wainwright and Eccles cakes... two scores there methinks.

oooh !!

quote from post 87: "Still, all fair etc... " who said that?

Lancashire doesn't have ME in it! What more can I say?

Right now I love everyone but particularly the Welsh for producing Mark Hughes! So I'm coming to all your parties!

What about Harry Secombe then??!!

Many of us wish that he had been from Yorkshire! A great goon though.

Yay Yorkshire! BOO LANCASHIRE

Yes! Fantastic rap singer ain't he

A few more Yorkshire born fowk, sorry if they appeared earlier in the thread, but I cant read the whole lot again

Michael Parkinson, Michael Palin, Jeremy Paxman (yes really!), William Hague, Alastair Campbell,
Harold Wilson, David Seaman, Geoffrey Boycott, Dame Fanny Waterman, John Prescott (oh dear!)
Richard Whiteley , Fred Trueman.

Yes, well, with folk like John Prescott coming from Yorkshire, what more can you say???!!!

What about Betty Boothroyd, the Bronte sisters, and Russell Harty?

York- home of the National Railway Museum, the fantastic Castle museum complete with #### Turpin's Condemned Cell, and York Minster. That doesn't include Banks music shop and Betty's tea rooms.

Huddersfield home of the Contemporary Music Festival and a world renound Choral Society. For Brass band fanciers the likes of Black Dyke Mills band are in Brighouse.

Bradford the Film and Television Theatre, Haworth and I haven't ventured yet into the dales with beautiful places like Malham Cove, the Three Peaks (The Lake District is Westmoreland and Cumberland) or over to the East Riding to the glories of the North York Moors and stately homes such as Castle Howard, and the beauty of Sutton Bank.

And anyone who has ever relied on inter-library loans for study purposes: Boston Spa, home of the British Lending Library is in Yorkshire!

Already mentioned!
Anyway a truce has been declared now .

mwahahaha - NEVER forget Boston Spa!!!

What about Alan Bennett?