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BLAKEY
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Uno Hoo wrote: Back in the 1950s there was a regular anti-smoking correspondent who signed himself (or herself) "Fresh Air, Shadwell". Gained quite a cult following. "Fresh Air Shadwell" was actually a practising GP in that area, so knew what he was talking about.
There's nothing like keeping the past alive - it makes us relieved to reflect that any bad times have gone, and happy to relive all the joyful and fascinating experiences of our own and other folks' earlier days.
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blackprince
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Uno Hoo wrote: When I was a kid in Calverley, households were divided between the YEP or Bradford's Telegraph & Argus. We were YEP, (altho' Dad now gets the T & A), even though he used to work on the Yorkshire Post. The Yorkshire Evening News didn't seem to feature in any households I knew.Back in the 1950s there was a regular anti-smoking correspondent who signed himself (or herself) "Fresh Air, Shadwell". Gained quite a cult following. There was also a series of sketches of Yorkshire locations by an artist called 'Thack', and every year a small paperback book of them would be published.BTW, Dad, a retired printing compositor & newspaperman grumbles about the state of the T & A, so it's not just the YEP. As it happens Uno I have an example of a Thack sketch from the YEP Mon Nov28th 1955, which i tried to post here but the resident site gremlins wouldn't let me ( a sea of red error messages on yellow). I'll try again later.
It used to be said that the statue of the Black Prince had been placed in City Square , near the station, pointing South to tell all the southerners who've just got off the train to b****r off back down south!
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blackprince
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chameleon
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blackprince wrote: Still having problems posting a pic- sorry for the dud posts Are you getting an error message, I was yestewrday, or is it something else?see also -http://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Mess ... eadID=2159
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blackprince
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chameleon wrote: blackprince wrote: Still having problems posting a pic- sorry for the dud posts Are you getting an error message, I was yesterday, or is it something else?see also -http://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Mess ... eadID=2159 Hi Chameleon,Yes - it was a whole page of error messages ( more of an error essay than a message) which only came up when I was attempting to post the picture. It allowed me to go all through the process of adding the attachment & then the screen was filled with error messages - some red on a yellow background. What i didn't realise that when i cancelled this page it still went ahead and posted the text without the pic. I have noticed that this site is often "buggy" at weekends. I'll try posting the drawing by Thack again on Monday. One of my pet hates about computers in general and I have been using them almost since the dawn of time (I wrote my first program for an English Electric Leo Marconi KDF9 using a magnetic pencil on cards in 1966) is the lack of meaningful error messages.
It used to be said that the statue of the Black Prince had been placed in City Square , near the station, pointing South to tell all the southerners who've just got off the train to b****r off back down south!
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blackprince
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blackprince wrote: Uno Hoo wrote: When I was a kid in Calverley, households were divided between the YEP or Bradford's Telegraph & Argus. We were YEP, (altho' Dad now gets the T & A), even though he used to work on the Yorkshire Post. The Yorkshire Evening News didn't seem to feature in any households I knew.Back in the 1950s there was a regular anti-smoking correspondent who signed himself (or herself) "Fresh Air, Shadwell". Gained quite a cult following. There was also a series of sketches of Yorkshire locations by an artist called 'Thack', and every year a small paperback book of them would be published.BTW, Dad, a retired printing compositor & newspaperman grumbles about the state of the T & A, so it's not just the YEP. As it happens Uno I have an example of a Thack sketch from the YEP Mon Nov28th 1955, which i tried to post here but the resident site gremlins wouldn't let me ( a sea of red error messages on yellow). I'll try again later. An example of a Thack sketch from 1955
It used to be said that the statue of the Black Prince had been placed in City Square , near the station, pointing South to tell all the southerners who've just got off the train to b****r off back down south!
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blackprince
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blackprince wrote: blackprince wrote: Uno Hoo wrote: When I was a kid in Calverley, households were divided between the YEP or Bradford's Telegraph & Argus. We were YEP, (altho' Dad now gets the T & A), even though he used to work on the Yorkshire Post. The Yorkshire Evening News didn't seem to feature in any households I knew.Back in the 1950s there was a regular anti-smoking correspondent who signed himself (or herself) "Fresh Air, Shadwell". Gained quite a cult following. There was also a series of sketches of Yorkshire locations by an artist called 'Thack', and every year a small paperback book of them would be published.BTW, Dad, a retired printing compositor & newspaperman grumbles about the state of the T & A, so it's not just the YEP. As it happens Uno I have an example of a Thack sketch from the YEP Mon Nov28th 1955, which i tried to post here but the resident site gremlins wouldn't let me ( a sea of red error messages on yellow). I'll try again later. An example of a Thack sketch from 1955 Enjoy!
It used to be said that the statue of the Black Prince had been placed in City Square , near the station, pointing South to tell all the southerners who've just got off the train to b****r off back down south!
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BLAKEY
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Two more unbelievable careless errors in last night's edition, and one of them is so insensitive as to be really reprehensible !!First one - after a long running domestic dispute at Ireland Wood the lady victim is quoted as saying :-"I'm glad its all over now, and I hope we can get back to LEAVING peacefully."The insensitive one concerns the nineteen year old soldier hero from Upton who was repatriated yesterday. Its incredible that his surname was spelt wrongly, once in the text and again underneath his photograph - this is truly abominable.
There's nothing like keeping the past alive - it makes us relieved to reflect that any bad times have gone, and happy to relive all the joyful and fascinating experiences of our own and other folks' earlier days.
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leedslily
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I'm an editor/proofreader by trade, and from my experience I'd say that it's a common belief that we are no longer needed nowadays because most computer software includes a spellchecker.However, the spellchecker won't pick up words that are spelt correctly but used wrongly (e.g. 'leaving' instead of 'living' in Blakey's example above, or common typos like 'you' instead of 'your'), nor just plain bad writing; and even the most careful writer can make mistakes, which are usually only visible to a different pair of eyes.I don't know for sure if it's the case at the YEP, but getting rid of 'unnecessary' proofreaders is often seen as an easy way to cut costs.