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Bolton Abbey (Priory), North Yorkshire. 2022. Tatiana Hepplewhite.
Rotherham, South Yorkshire, UK
2025
April Poetry Challenge, 2026: Day 10: Derek Ibbotson 19 Jul 1957: 3 mins 57.2 seconds
I would been 11, on summer holiday in that caravan park near Bridlington. Ibbotson, born in Huddersfield, was part of the mystique of Yorkshire loyalism that I imbibed growing up. What an evening!
Derek Ibbotson 19 Jul 1957: 3 mins 57.2 seconds
“We didn’t have coaches up North. We just ran for the fun of it.” D. Ibbotson
With Mum and Dad and fifty others
crammed into the bar at Fraisthorpe Caravan Park.
The little b & w TV in the corner
trails him round the White City cinder track
sockless in black spikes, black shorts, no logo.
He’s Yorkshire, you see,
pride of a kingdom within a kingdom
so, one of ours; hoarse shouts of encouragement
make this the best place in the world to be
as the world mile record is broken.
We’re all on our feet
and not a shadow of doubt cast amongst us.
I could cry.
CR 10.04.26
Some photos from my easter road trip

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A 1911 Request: Rocks, Rivers, and Raincoats
Check out this beautiful monochrome postcard of Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge, printed by Valentine’s Series.
Sent on September 20th, 1911, the sender (Amy) writes to Miss Balderstone, a dressmaker in Yattendon. The urgency? A weekend trip!
“Dear Dot, Could you let me have my coat well next Friday? I am going away for a weekend. Trusting you are better. With much love, your affect. Amy.”
There is something so deeply human about sending a postcard of a massive rock formation just to ask if your tailoring will be finished in time for your holiday.
Read more on the blog: Postcard Postscripts: A Glimpse into Edwardian Yorkshire: A 1911 Postcard from Hardcastle Crags
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Romans in British Folklore
My initial plan was to make a post on British folklore involving the Romani. However, since most of it is pretty bigoted, I felt uncomfortable making it, but in searching "Roma" on the Word document that contains my folklore notes, I found a bunch of references to Romans. Hence, they get this post. Tagging @ivgaoriole (my number-one folklore post fan) and @laurasimonsdaughter (I wonder if the Netherlands, as a fellow former Roman province, also has folklore about them).
Folklore from the Romans: The Romans contributed a few bits of folklore to Britain - the belief that meeting a hare on the road is unlucky [1] and the practice of selecting passages of the Bible at random as a form of divination - although, or course, the Romans did it with the Aeneid [2]. Norwich Cathedral in the county town of Norfolk has several curse inscriptions that read like Roman ones [3]. However, due to how old they were and Britain being on the margins of the Empire, folklore from the Romans is much rarer than folklore about the Romans.
Roman Ghosts: Britain has several ghostly Romans, all of the ones I know of being Roman soldiers. Sometimes, they are solitary, such as at Tring in Hertfordshire [4], Lympne Castle in Kent [5] and the hillfort of Buckland Rings in Lymington, Hampshire [6] and the centurion in the George and Dragon Inn, Chester, Cheshire [7], and other times are found in groups, such as on the M6 motorway [8], at Cherhill Down in Wiltshire [9], Flower's Barrow, Dorset [10], Miswell, Hertfordshire [11] and at Trelawynd, Flintshire, where they were led by a centurion on a white horse [12]. Patty's Bottom, Boverchalke, Wiltshire was haunted by sounds of a battle between Romans and Britons [13] and in 1826 a man in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire dug up a Roman skull, and a headless skeleton appeared to him that night to ask for the skull back - he obliged [14].
Roman Sites: In Yorkshire, a Roman road was credited to a giant couple called Wade and Bell [15] and one in Northumberland was credited to Michael Scot, a sorcerer and folk hero in northern England and the Scottish Lowlands famous for outwitting the Devil [16] and in 1890 a black dog appeared on a Roman road in Ravensthorpe in the same county [17], while another black dog haunted a Roman lookout post in Somerset [18]. A Roman mosaic discovered by antiquarians in Painscastle, Radnorshire was believed to have been made by faeries and so reburied to avoid offending them [19].
Roman Coins: In Hertfordshire, Roman Coins were considered lucky amulets [20] and in Northumberland, the Black Penny was a Roman coin used to cure mad cows by dipping it in their water [21]. In Herefordshire, faeries were said to dance in the Roman ruins at Kenchester, and so Roman Coins found there [22] and at Bolitree Castle [23] were credited to them.
Miscellaneous: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae claims King Arthur fought and won against the Roman Empire [24] and knockers (Cornish mine spirits) were said to be the ghosts of Roman mine slaves [25].
Bibliography
William Henderson, 1879, Notes on the folk-lore of the northern counties of England and the borders, Nichols and Sons, p.204
Tabitha Stanmore, 2024, Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, Penguin Random House Ltd., pp.184-185
Ronald Hutton (editor), 2015, Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Witchcraft and Sorcery in Christian Britain: A Feeling for Magic, Palgrave Macmillan, p.16
Doris Jones-Baker, 1977, The Folklore of Hertfordshire, Batsford, p.86
Marc Alexander and Paul Abrahams, 2012, In Search of Britain's Haunted Castles, The History Press, p.94
Brice Stratford, 2022, New Forest Folklore, The History Press, p.208
Jo Bourne (editor), 2009, The Most Amazing Haunted and Mysterious Places in Britain, The Reader's Digest Association, p.160
Leo Ruickbie, 2013, A Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting, Robinson, p.153
Ralph Whitlock, 1976, The Folklore of Wiltshire, Batsford, p.118
Bourne 2009 p.15
Jones-Baker 1977 p.86
Thomas Gwynn-Jones, 1970, Welsh Folklore and Folk Custom, Redwood Burn Ltd., p.xxx
Whitlock 1976 p.118-119
Bourne 2009 p.107
Rosalind Kerven, 2019, English Fairy Tales and Legends, Batsford, p.152
Jeremy Harte, 2022, Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape, Reaktion Books, p.145
Mark Norman, 2015, Black Dog Folklore, Troy Books, p.113
ibid p.35
Jacqueline Simpson, 1976, The Folklore of the Welsh Border, Batsford, p.77
Jones-Baker 1977 p.34
Henderson 1879 p.163
Janet Bord, 1997, Fairies: Real Encounters with the Little People, Michael O'Mara Books, p.154
Simpson 1976 p.77
Geoffrey Ashe, 1990, Mythology of the British Isles, Guild Publishing Ltd., p.206
Marc Alexander, 2002, A Companion to the Folklore, Legends and Customs of Britain, Sutton Publishing Ltd., p.156

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I try and walk on the moors whenever I'm back in the area; ma has been bringing me up here since I was tiny. So much saffron, terracotta, carmine and maroon in the landscape at this time of year. On the first day it was too stormy, but in the morning the air cleared and there was a beautiful diffused light in the clouds, so we walked through the heather and watched paragliders jumping from the rocks into the valley
surely there has to be somebody on the internet who wants to give me $500,000 in exchange for nothing at all
萩原 卓哉/Hagihara Takuya
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The nipples are the eyes of the face, right?
Repeating pattern that looks right back at you!
Here's looking at you, kid.
Aye. And after they go to t’pub
Last weekend one of my customers at the market was inspired by my stall to tell this one to his teenage son. There was much eye rolling, but I thought it was funny :)

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An experiment in language change
Nifty little language game here.
I can read back to 1500 with basically no difficulty
at 1400 I have to read slowly and carefully, but I can understand all of it save a couple words
at 1300 I can still comprehend most of it if I read slowly, but a much larger percentage of the words are unfamiliar to me, even with context
1200 and earlier are almost totally unintelligible
Up to 1300, ok, particularly if I read out loud.
Most of 1200
1100, bits and pieces
1000, odd words