Here's why Yorkshire Day is celebrated today
The location for Yorkshire Day 2022 is Keighley. So where might it be in 2023? “Ah”, says Geoff Walsh, the deputy chair of the Yorkshire Society. “That is a secret – until the day itself, which is when we will be revealing the location for next year’s hosts.” The society is a companionable mix of ordinary citizens and corporate members who represent various Yorkshire businesses and organisations.The Town Mayor of Keighley, Coun Keith Maunsell, is really looking forward to the big day.
“The sense of community spirit has grown and grown, and it really is a time when neighbours can take the opportunity, as so many do, to pass a cup of tea over the fence, enjoy a piece of parkin or a slice of cake, and maybe a sliver of cheese, and enjoy everything that is Yorkshire. Not just on this special day but throughout the year”.Walsh, who was Cheshire born and raised, arrived in Yorkshire nearly 20 years ago, settling in Pontefract.
One was the Battle of Minden, a decisive action in the Seven Years War. It is now largely forgotten – except by military historians, but at the time it was an event which, with several other victories around the world from India to the West Indies and Canada, marked Britain’s takeover from France of being the leading global power. The year was 1759, and central Europe was growing weary of the toing and froing of the armies of France on one side, and Prussia, Hanover and Prussia on the other.
The Yorkshire Regiment rose of today is grown by RV Roger Ltd, which is based in Pickering, and it took a full four years for it to be cultivated and approved. It is a hybrid tea rose, with a very tight bud and a very faint fragrance – presumably because no traditionally bluff Yorkshireman would want to be caught walking about in a heady fug of overpowering scent.
And the other major event associated with August 1? That is linked to one of the county’s most dedicated and stubborn sons, Hull-born William Wilberforce. His dedication to the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire was tireless, and he campaigned so hard that it ultimately cost him his health.
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