Letter: Yorkshire Day
The Greenfield Band playing in Uppermill on Sunday.
Below is a letter to the editor about Sunday’s Yorkshire Day event in Uppermill, sent in by reader Michael Pulford. I’ve reproduced it in full. To read Saddleworth News stories about Yorkshire Day, click here.
If you’d like to respond to the points made in the letter then leave a comment below. Or you can send a letter to the editor yourself, about this or any Saddleworth subject, by e-mailing editor@saddleworthnews.com
“I came over to Saddleworth for the Yorkshire Day celebrations in Uppermill and thoroughly enjoyed the occasion. I have never properly stopped off in Saddleworth before and, despite the many roadworks, loved the place.
“I am a cricket fan and also took the oportunity to visit Delph and Dobcross CC and, after a major detour and much help from locals, managed to locate Friarmere CC.
“I am fascinated that there is a part of Yorkshire over the Pennines and that 37 years after county authority changes, delighted that so many Saddleworth people still regard it as proper Yorkshire. You may talk with a Lancashire lilt to my ears but you are a special part of Yorkshire.”
Michael Pulford
Author: Jude Gidney - Editor
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Michael – where are you from? And where the heck is Friarmere?
And are you sure we ALL have a Lancastrian Lilt?
John I am from Yorkshire and currently live near Leeds. Friarmere CC is definitely off the beaten track down one of the narrowest, pot holed roads Ive driven down. Above Delph I think but my route avoiding road works seemed to take through half of Saddleworth. I eventually got there via Denshaw. My interest was that a nineteenth century millowner J.L.Byrom, who played for Yorkshire, developed the ground and had a row of cottages built opposite for his players, still standing.
No I cant say for sure all Saddleworth people born and bred have a Lancshire lilt but Ammon Wrigley, your local writer, was a Lancashire dialect expert and I definitely heard, what to my central Yorkshire ears, was a Lankysheer twang. Perhaps its stronger in Greenfield and Austerlands? It makes the place even more special to a visitor from the Leeds area. Saddleworth needs advertising as a tourist centre in Yorkshire based guides but alas things like that get taken over by Lancs and north-western bodies since 1974. I even read in a magazine called Yorkshire Ridings that Diggle was in Lancs!!