One Last Thing
Martin Wainright Says One Last Thing...
W HEN Napoleon derided the English as ‘a nation of shopkeepers’, he exposed the fact that he obviously didn’t have a good spy network in Yorkshire. Ever since the first Romans arrived and were offered a decent price for baps by the locals in Eboracum, our region has been a county of shoppers. They need shops, of course, and over the years we have produced some fine ones including Marks & Spencer. But the real energy, the galvanism which is part of our Yorkshire makeup, lies in the buying rather than the selling.
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Martin Wainright Says One Last Thing...
I WAS talking to the Headingley Afternoon branch of the Townswomen’s Guild the other day and the conversation naturally strayed to fish and chips. I say ‘naturally’ because I have yet to meet a fellow Yorkshireman or woman who doesn’t enjoy the meal (even if we all have strongly-contested differences about whether to fry the cod or haddock in its skin).
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Martin Wainright Says One Last Thing...
I HAVE never been much of a Zodiac man because May seems so obviously the paramount month, blessing everyone and everything associated with it. The closest rival is probably early autumn, which has to be shared because its finest spell varies between late September and early November. But making every allowance for the loveliness of Keats’ mists and mellow fruitfulness, who wouldn’t opt in the end for Shakespeare’s darling buds of May?
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Martin Wainright Says One Last Thing...
I ’VE got an unusual pair of famous Yorkshire personalities to tell you about this month, and neither of them is called Sidebotham or Sykes or one of our other ethnic Tyke names. The first is Pablo Fanque, two words which will resonate if, like me, you remember Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Summer of Love in 1967.
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Martin Wainright Says One Last Thing...
WHEN you drive out of Leeds on the Wetherby road, just after the ring road roundabout on the left, there's a big redbrick house called The Red House which always sets me thinking. This is partly because Leeds parks department had a base there and I was once sworn to secrecy about a story that they were secretly supplying Brighton and Hove with bedding plants; an excellent piece of Northern aid to the less fortunate South which I wanted to publicise.
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Martin Wainright Says One Last Thing...
FOR my birthday treat this year, I was spirited down to a country pub between Oxford and the Cotswolds, manned by very pleasant young staff who were clearly from that part of the world. They had a mixture of the soft local accent and what used to be called ‘BBC English’ but, interestingly, they were refreshingly direct. Had some strain of Yorkshire crept into the gentle character of the rural Midlands, where the feudal system was that much stronger and ‘ordinary’ people more inclined historically to kow-tow? Indeed it had.
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