This is a list of all posts on my main blog (A Yorkshire Memoir). It may not be quite up to date.
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 write out of interest in how things have changed, not out of nostalgia. I grew up in Yorkshire and worked in Leeds before going to university late, and then lived in various places around the U.K. before returning to Yorkshire where I now live with my wife and sometime boomerang family.
In April, 2022, without any prior symptoms or warning, I had a seizure caused by a brain tumour. I have no idea how much longer I have.
List of posts to 30th July 2025
The Past
Living Memory - BathHospital 1839 - What Is Wrong In This Room? - What Is Wrong With This Steamer? - What Is Wrong In These Pictures? - George Gibbard Jackson - Carolus II Dei Gratia Mag Br Fra et Hib Rex - Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible - Drunk - Penistone - Cinema Paradiso - Wainwright’s Mardale Green - Ashby Decoy - Reginald - Edwards’ “Harlene” -Childhood
Home and School:Gram Motherem - Colours I See With - Pounds, Shillings and Pence - Washing Machines Old and New - Donkey Stone - Farmwashing - Housewives’ Choice - Dirty Old Town - Hartlepool, 1963 - In praise of bicycles - Rags and Bones - The Old Apple Tree - M Dunham Are Crap - The White Stool - My Brother The Engineer - We Know Where You’re From - Class Journey - Talk like a pirate - Too Much Television - The Horse Race Game - Plums - Haunted Houses - Christmas Tree - Trainspotting - Coal
Family and Friends:
Follow The Moon - Doreen - Uncle Jimmy - Mrs Quackworth - Pals - Didlem - The Restless Friend - Do Elephants Get Seasick? - The Man With The Hebrew Bible - Tips, Ships and Executorships - Teenage Mums - The R100 - Georgina Pockington - Ivy - Please Help The Children - Cartophilic Concerns - Aunty Bina’s Farm - Warp Land - The Village - The Carnival Is Over - Premium Bonds - A Family History Mystery
Dad at Play:
Lost Entitlements - Dad’s Thursday Helper - A Practical Wife - Little Ships - My Picture Book of Ships - Crossbar Excursions - Haley Paley Snow on the Ground - Hornby ‘O’ Gauge and revisited - Dad’s 1950s Films - The Song Book - I Haven’t Time To Be A Millionaire
Holidays:
Trump - Bridlington - Filey - Great Yarmouth 1960 - Whitby, Staithes and Scarborough - The day we saw the Queen Mary sail
Childhood Music:
I am a Mole - Sisters - Windmills Of Our Minds - Bangers And Mash - Uncool Singers - Flanders And Swann
Teenage Years
Home, Hobbies and Reading:Sooty - Bright in the Background - Hedge Trimmer Safety 1968 - Developing, Printing and a trip to London - Doing the Pools - Reel-to-Reel Recordings - Guitar Books - Knockout, Knowledge and Arthur Mee - How Well Do You Know Morse Code? - Back In Time For The Weekend 1 - Be Prepared - Philately will get you nowhere - Airfix Modelling - The Yellow Shed - Playing With Dictionaries -
School:
Selective Education - Lookin’ for a ‘feet’ - 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 - Tackling Rugby - Jim Laker, Mr. Ellis and the Eagle Annual - Pythagoras - Proof of the Pi - Factorials - Different Lives
1960s Belgium:
In England They Eat Cat Food - More Memories of 1960s Belgium - Votre Billet, Monsieur? - Belgian Youth Abroad - Peyton Place and Top Deck Shandy - 1966
Out and About:
Brylcreem - Rather a studious kind of boy - A Body Like Mine - Ready Steady Go - The Great Cigarette Machine Robbery - Mists: a tale for Halloween - Teenage ‘X’ Certificate - Young Thugs - Hornsea Pottery - Shoot The Ruddy Sods - Beer Mats - Tour de Yorkshire - Hand Signals and Semaphor Indicatory - Teenage Part-Time Jobs
Late Teens and Early Twenties
Accountancy:Articled Clerk - Clients - Further Thoughts Amout Clients - Caer Rhun Hall - Paranoia? - 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 Cats With A Bank Account - Career Analysts
The Shared House:
Brendan and the Shared House - The Beatles Song Book - Jokers Wild - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Not The Best Policy - Posters on the Wall - Back In Time For Tea - Strange Brew (Back in Time 3) - Drought - The Clergy House
Music
Mickey's Son and Daughter - Barclay James Harvest (for Northsider) - Playlist: Fixing a Hole - Heathkit AD-27 - Paul McCartney's RAM - Andrew Lloyd Webber - Recording Artiste - Top of the Pops 1983
Influences:
The Ascent of Man - Ray Gosling's Goole - Eric Kershaw’s Guitar Class - Lytton Strachey - The Mighty Micro - Working Class - Stiff Upper Lip
Walking:
North Yorks Walks - Kinder Scout - North John Merrill, Alport Castles and the Horbury Cut - Road to the Isles - Switzerland 1975 - Walking In Iceland (series of linked posts) - Compass - Loch Muick
Other:
How not to forget PINs - Where were you? - A Visit From The Police - The Goole to Leeds Train - Signal Boxes - A family tragedy - 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 - Petrol Rationing - Short Shorts - Lost Colour
Brian Cant and Play Away - The Blue Mini (previous title "Back In Time For The Weekend 2") - Pour The Macallan on my grave
Later
College and UniversityWeekend in College - ‘A’ Levels Again - ‘A’ Level English 1977 - ‘A’ Level Geography 1977 - Night Cleaner - The Canning Factory - Mature Student
Professional Foul - Philip Larkin’s Foot - Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny - Research Before The Internet - Infallibility - Acornsoft - Computers, Education and the Conservatives - Grandad Dunham’s Flight Simulator - Rewriting Rewritten Writing - VAX and VAXen - Full Circle? - Castleford - Bonking - The Wrong Door - Hi there Duggy! - Marie Tidball - Significant Plagiarism Detected - The Commercialisation of Universities - UMIST - Snowing Like Buggery - Academics - Mick Copier - Giants
Computing Industry
Information Systems - From Ferrybridge to Finland - Unprincipled Spivs - Norn Iron
Other:
Writers At Heart - The Nineteen-Eighties - Jumped Down Catholics - Luxury Travel - Talbot Samba Every Car We’ve Owned - A Tale of Two Tea Pots - Doubters, Doomsters, Gloomsters - The Inter-Varsity Club - Signalling - Not Seeing Pink - Wise Words - Jokes
Recent
Home and aroundStair Rail - Doorstep Deliveries - Kitchens Old and New - Contrails - A Walk to the Post Office - Knitted
Garden
Help, my courgette looks like a duck! - Sungold - 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 - Half a Brick - Last Apple - Carrot Tub - Cheery Little Pansy
Garden 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 - Bathtime Fun - Late Fruit
Holidays
Checked Out - Trains and Boats - Fort William - North Wales
Family
The Exorcist - Don't Tell 'Em - Strange Conversation - People who can't say 'ul - Molly's Family - Molly's Twin - Accents and Subtitles - Downtown - Dill in Mustard Sauce - Blessed By Snowdrops - On Visiting A Daughter At University - Fish Finger Sandwiches - Blue Star - Dominosteine - phoebe’s wee blog
Phoebe - Airmyn Clock - The Eccentric Great Aunt: the Painter - Great-Grandma: Another Painter - A Birthday Surprise - Hobgoblin, For Foul Fiend - A New Job - Pottery - Hello, Cheeky!
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 - Julius Caesar - Solar System
Health
General: Green Dog - The Peter Rabbit Plate - Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome - Lonely Brown Hair - Brain Fog - Health Gadget - Another Health Gadget -Brugada Syndrome - Sebhorreic Keratosis - Physician Heal Thyself
Cancer: Laid Up - Cancer Treatment - Morbid Statistics and the NHS - Exon 14 -Wilson Keppel and Betty - Breasts - Mutations - Diverticular Disease - Ten Years - Politically Incorrect - Not So Smart - Metastatic Lung Cancer - Not Wall - Chest Drain - Brain Inflammation - Streptocarpus Blue Leila - Oedema - Sodium, Seizures, and Oedema
Music
Come Lasses and Lads to Bangor - Buddy Can You Spare a Dime? - Musical Snobbery - Folk Ensemble
Other
Does Anyone Want Some Drinks? - Get Tret Better - Limerick Leanings - The Signalman’s Dilemma - Traffic Cam - Accident - Moon - The Planets - Plagiarised - Council Tax - Bouncing Balls - Memoir and Blogging - Nice Little Earner - Powerlessness
Throw or Keep? (old items no longer used)
Record Box:
1-Beethoven,
2-Classical,
3-The Who,
4-The Beatles, 5-Jethro Tull, 6-Female Singer-Songwriters
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 - Pocket Hand Warmer - Deaf Duster - Template
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 - Pocket Hand Warmer - Deaf Duster - Template
Off Topic and Technical
TechnicalAdsense, Blogger and YouTube - Adsense Revisited - Blog Address - Side by Side Images in Blogger - Alt-0247 and Rule - Blocked! - Scammed - Faded Page - Dear Google User... - Inflation - The Prophets of Profit
Just Playing
The Riddle of the £30 Restaurant Bill - Supermarket Loyalty Badge Scheme - Trump and Tusk - This Hi-de-Hi Government - Some Memorable Posts - Coronavirus Pacman - Colourisation - Facial Animation - Equal Rights for Toes! - The Yorkshire Story of the Creation - Sunday Silliness - Have Fun With Your Tax
