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On the main street there is a museum (open Saturday pm) set inside some weavers cottages (with working loom). The
Church itself (open for services and concerts) occassionally has Love Feasts where cake and a drink is shared out amongst
the congregation. Finally we ended up at the graveyard where on Easter Sunday a vigil is kept and
a brass band plays at dawn. There are no upright stones, just small flat grave markers - the local people of Pudsey
thought that they were buried upright!
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Cockersdale is a green valley that acts as a buffer between Leeds and Bradford - it was here in 1754 that Moravians,
persecuted throughout Europe, settled - with a little help from the Methodists. It's a hidden
gem of a place - basically one long street (open to the public) that is largely taken up with the independent Fulneck School.
I went there to meet with Ruth Strong who has done much to record the history of the settlement. We
started on the Terrace that overlooks the valley and she describes the different stages of building - starting in the middle
with the church.
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Yorkshire Day was established by the Yorkshire Ridings Society and I speak with members about the White
Rose, the Ridings and well, naturally, Yorkshire itself!
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Yorkshire Day! We go to Walmgate Bar in York to witness the declaration read in Norse and English
(and a welcome from Lancashire!).
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Filmed on two separate days we are with the Captain on the upper deck watching as he directs the crew
and we're also on ground level showing the ferry negotiate the lock and out into the Humber.
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At one time all ferries had to negotiate locks when leaving Hull to enter the Humber at high tide.
Now with the roll-on, roll-off ferry this isn't the case. But the Pride of York that plies daily between Hull and
Zeebrugge still does and there's only a 9" gap between the ferry and the lock wall on either side - so it takes the
captain great skill.
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6th July 2009 Ypres, Belgium |
Nearby is the Yorkshire Trench and a bit further on the vast Tyne Cot cemetery (pictured above). Although
all trace of war has almost gone, we went to Hill 60 where you can still see the scars of craters - and the scene of fierce
fighting throughout the war - as the area is so flat any rise in the land gave advantage. Finally
we end with the nightly playing of the Last Post at the Menin Gate.
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Increasing number of visitors go the war graves and memorials of family members killed in World War 1
in northern France and Belgium. We travel to Ypres in Flanders, Belgium
to find out about the West Riding Regiment (when the West Riding was the West Riding!) and the actions they were involved
in there from 1915-17. At Essex Farm there is a large memorial,
and is also the place where the poem "In Flanders Field" was composed by Canadian John Mcrae.
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