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National Parks

2007-03-07T18:29:00.000+01:00

The Yorkshire Dales

The Yorkshire Dales is an area of great natural beauty in northern England; a large part of which has been designated as one of England and Wales protected national parks.
The area which is broadly known as the Yorkshire Dales includes the countryside lying generally
to the north of the towns of Settle, Skipton, Ilkley and Otley.
The typical Dales landscape of dry stone walls and field barns came about gradually, as land-owners enclosed the open fells for their livestock.
The natural features of the Dales are the result of erosion by glacier ice. Weathering of limestone, shale, sandstone and millstone grit laid down about 300 million years ago has created the scenery that we see today.

North York Moors

near Stape, north of Pickering
One of the most popular dales with visitors is Farndale, where the springtime daffodil displays bring people flocking to the walk between Low Mill and Church houses.
For a memorable walk, trace the course of the defunct Rosedale Railway over the moors from Rosedale to Ingleby Greenhow. These high moors are home to a variety of birdlife, including curlews, golden plovers, and merlins.
Wheeldale Moor
The Cleveland Way National Trail hugs the rim of the moor, and a trip along it provides excellent views. Along the trail is the distinctive Roseberry Topping, which looks, if you use your imagination, like a miniature version of the Matterhorn. This region is home to Captain Cook, whose father worked on a farm at the foot of the Topping.
Worth Seeing:
Moors Centre (Danby) - information centre for the park, with 13 acres of woods and meadow walks.
Esk Valley Walk - 33 mile trail between Farndale Moor and Whitby following the route of the Esk Valley railway and the Esk river to the sea.
Ravenscar Geological Trail - walks of 2.5 and 4.5 miles following the course of the Peak Fault, past disused alum quarries. The area is rich in fossils.
Rievaulx Abbey - this extremely popular medieval abbey sits in woodland bisected by 12 lovely walks.
Hayburn Wyke (Staintondale) - path beside Thorny Beck, with its series of waterfalls, through a nature reserve to the sea.

made by Kolja and Samu

About Yorkshire Pudding

2007-03-06T11:54:00.000+01:00

2007-03-06T11:50:00.001+01:00

The Rules of Bowls .
There are many varieties of the game of bowls. For the purposes of this document, three of the most popular variations are given, Lawn Bowls, Crown Green Bowls and Table Bowls. In all, the basic rules of the game are exactly the same - it is only the equipment and the playing area that differ. Accordingly, the descriptions of each game are given separately but the common rules of play are given only once. As in all such games, specific rule variations abound according to the area and the club or pub. These rules are comprehensive instructions for friendly play. They are not a complete set of standard regulations encompassing all situations that might be encountered. If in doubt, players should always abide by locally-played or house rules. Please note that 1 metre = 100 cm = 3.28 feet. 3 feet = 1 yard.
Bowls - Basic Play
The Equipment
Each person has a set of uniquely marked bowls called "woods" which are slightly eccentric balls - each bowl is a tad less than spherical on one side. The resulting weight differential is called the "bias" and woods are rolled with the bias on the left or right side so that the bowl adopts a curved path towards the target. In the past woods were normally made from lignum vitae but these days hard rubber or a compound material is often used. The target is a smaller ball, usually white, called a "jack".
The Play
A coin is tossed to decide which player will start the first "end" or "leg". After that, the player who won the previous end bowls the first wood of the next one.
To start, players take turns to bowl the jack until one bowls it to a position that is in accordance with the rules. The player who is to bowl the first wood of the end is the player who has the first chance to bowl the jack. Under most circumstances, the first try is all that is needed.
Once the first wood has been bowled, the other players then take turns to roll their bowls towards the jack. Woods are not always played with the aim of being closest to the jack - they are often played to knock opposing woods out of contention or to move the jack or other woods of the same team into a more advantageous position.
The winner of the leg scores one point for each wood that is closer to the jack than the opposing team's closest wood. The player or team that first reaches 21 points or some other amount agreed up front, wins.
The Equipment
A standard bowling green is a flat square lawn between 33 and 44 yards long. Delimiting the edge of the lawn is a ditch. The surface is divided into strips or "rinks" 19 to 21 feet apart so that multiple games occur across the whole lawn, one in each rink.
The unbiased jack is 2 1/2 inches in diameter while the woods are 4 3/4 - 5 1/8 inches in diameter and weigh 2lb 12oz - 3lb 8oz.

From Philipp and Marian

2007-03-06T11:43:00.000+01:00

Ladies and gentelmen,

This is the weather forecast for tomorrow and the following days.

On wednesday morning it will be grey and rainy at about 6°C. In the afternoon we'll have 9°C and once in a while some showers. At night there're several showers with about 4°C.

The next days we'l have temperatures about 5°C to 8°C. it will be rainy and chilly as on wednesday. on sunday we' ll have maxime temeratures of 17°C and it will be a little sunny but also sometimes cloudy.

Now the weather forecast for the next 2 weeks. Until the middel of march it will be changeable to rainy. The maxime temperatures are about 4°C to 16°C. Chill is rare.

Thank you for your attention, and don't forget, turn on the tv at 6 o'clock every evening.

Yorkshire - Weather forecast

2007-03-06T11:38:00.000+01:00

GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME TO THE WEATHER FORECAST FOR TODAY IN YORKSHIRE !!

Today it will be cold and mostly cloudy, a bit windy and in some parts there will be snow. The temperatures are between 3°C and 7°C. In some parts of Yorkshire it wil be very windy!

In North Yorkshire there will be light rain , light *sleet and in the south the rain will be on and off. The temperatures are in the average 6°C. A light wind will blow from the North-East.

In West Yorkshire the sun will shine a bit and it will be partly cloudy. The average of the temperatures is 3°C. A sweet wind will blow from the North-North-East.

In South Yorkshire the sun will shine and it will rain a bit. The average of the temperatures is circa 7°C. A wild wind will blow from the North-West.
BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR THINGS IN THE GARDEN !!!

In East Riding there will be light *sleet and the average of the temperatures is circa 7°C. The wind is very light and blows from the North.

Tonight it will be cold and it could snow, there could be sheet ice on the streets.

GOOD-BYE AND THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION !!!

*sleet= Eisregen/ Schneeregen

by Nadine & Sara

Geography of the beautyful county of Yorkshire

2007-03-06T11:34:00.003+01:00

Geography of the beautyful county Yorkshire

Yorkshire is the largest historic county of England and Great Britain.
1974 Yorkshire became divided in the new counties West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, East Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.
The area of Yorkshire is 15.420km² where 4.064.383 people live.

The parts of Yorkshire

North Yorkshire:

North Yorkshire borders on Cleveland, Durham, Cumbria, Langcashire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and East Yorkshire. In North Yorkshire are big parts of the famous Yorkshire Dales.
They're high mountains of sandstone with abrubt territory of mountains, moors and big areas of feedlot for sheep. It's dividing in pictorial dry-stone walls. The dales are valleys in form of a U and a V in the north of the river Wharfe which were formed of glaciers from the ice time.
Two other rivers Ouse and Derwent flow through North Yorkshire, too. Famouos for Noth Yorkshire are also the North York Moors which are pulpy moorlands.
The Yorkshire three peeks Whernside (736m), Inglborough (723m) and Pen-y-ghent (694m) which are in the Yorkshire Dales are very famous, too. The material from the peeks is on the whole from fine and coarse limestone. For this reason the peeks have a look like steps. The three peaks are a part of the Pennies (mountains in noth England), and arrange around the region of the river Ribble in the Yorkshire Dales in the north of England. In the reagion are famous cavern and the highest waterfall (Fell Beck, 110m) of England. On the peak Ingleborough are also big hills for tress from the ice time.
(area of North Yorkshire: 8654km²)

South Yorkshire:

South Yorkshire which was educated fromthe south part of West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England. It borders on Derbyshire, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.
The Peak District is a sight in South Yorkshire. It' s a Highland area in central- and north England. The Peak District streches across Deryshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire as soon as West- and South Yorkshire. The first part of the Peak District became the first National Park of England.
(area of South Yorkshire: 1552km²)

East Yorkshire:

East Yorkshire is a part of the traditional county Yorkshire. It borders on the ceremonial counties North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Earlier East Yorkshire was called "East Yorkshire and the Humberside" after the devisions in ridings.
The Humber is a river on the east coast of north England and goes from the North Sea through East Yorkshire and is originating from the rivers Ouse and Trent. Earlier the name "Yorkshire and the Humberside" was also called from the river Humber, but today the county only is called East Yorkshire.
(area of East Yorkshire: 2479km²)

West Yorkshire:

West Yorkshire borders on Lincolnshire, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire and North- and South Yorkshire.
Emely Moor which is a moor area lies in West Yorkshire. Before the Emely Moor was a place for transmitters (19565), there stood a 135m high tower of steel. Til 1964 it has been the highest building of Europa, but then a higher mast od steel was built.
The river Aire which is 259km long is the fourth biggest river in Great Britain. It flows through West Yorkshire and through the town Leeds and Airedale.
Another famous sight to visit is Kristall Ebbey, a huk in Leeds which was started to be built in 1152 and was finished in 1182.
(area of West Yorkshire: 2209km²)

Yorkshire and the Humberside

Humberside which was from 1974 to 1996 a county in England has been since 1996 disabanded, again.
The county was built around the estuary of the river Humber in 1974 and is placed at the side of North, South and West Yorkshire. The administrative office was in Beverley a town in Humberside.
On the east of Humberside is the North Sea. It borders on the the biggest city of the Humberside: Kingston-upon-Hall
Today Kingston-upon-Hall is the most important seaport of the middle-english North Sea.

Susanne Bayer, Beate Hummel

Yorkshire's history

2007-03-06T11:34:00.002+01:00

Yorkshire has a fascinating and interesting history, with romance, violence and royal stories over 2000 years. It has also been important to British Monarchs from the earliest times. A legend says that King Arthur is buried underneath Richmond Custle. Richard 3. grew up at Middleham Castle and Zorkshire has played a very
srategic role in the history of England and for a succesion of medieval Kings. Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire ended the long Viking threat to England and the region was pivotal during the War of the Roses, which broke the country in two parts.
It has alwazs been a place of great industry, fishing and steel. The mighty Industrial Revolution was born in Yorkshire with Industrial centres such as Bradford, Halifax, Hebden Bridge and Huddersfield prospering during the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century.

The White Rose

The White Rose is the symbol of Yorkshire. In the 14th century the origions of the symbol are somewhat unknown, but it is said to have first been adopted by Edmund of Langley, the first Duke of York. It represents the Virgin Mary, who was often called the Mystical Rose of Heaven (while beeing a symbol of putity). During the civil was in the 15th century, the White Rose of York was the opposite of the red Rose of Lancester which was the rivals symbol. The oppostion of the two roses gave the Wars their name: The wars of the Roses. King Henry 7. of England finished the conflict and united the two roses to a 3rd rose: The Tudor Rose

Yorkshire day

Yorkshire Day is celebrated on 1st August to advance the historic English country of Yorkshire.
In 1975 it was first celebrated by the Yorkshire Riding society. It is the anniversary of the Battle of Minden which was in 1759. It is also celebration of Lammas a harvest festival when the first bread was made from the new corn.

by Julia K., Laura W., Lisa W., Yasemin K.

Yorkshire Agriculture

2007-03-06T11:34:00.001+01:00

Agriculture in YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire is an traditional sheepfarming country since 1800. The moors in Yorkshire are good reasons because the sheeps are grazing there. But Yorkshire farmers have also dairy cows. Many farmers have over 150 dairy cows and sell their cheese which is made of the dairy cows milk and sell it all over britain.

From Marc and Tobi and the fantastic, wonderful and green/god-like

Frogger-Blogger

2007-03-06T11:34:00.000+01:00

Yorkshire Industry

Sheffields geographical advantages were very useful for the steel- and coalindustry. All around the town are rivers and at the beginning the coal could be produced ouf of the hills.
With many water-wheels the industry could grow up and later on produce ammunation for the war. It was also known for the knives made in Sheffield.
Now the industry in yorkshire is just very small. Most of the factories were knocked down and other buildings were built.

Yorkshire and Sheffield are popular for their Steel- and CoalIndustry.
In 1912 stainless steel was invented by Harry Brearly in Sheffield.
The Textileindustry in Yorkshire was also important for the town.
Here are some pictures of factories which are now not used anymore.

posted by tobi and micha
made 6th march 2007

School in Yorkshire!!! =)

2007-03-04T21:41:00.000+01:00

School in Yorkshire

A student of the school…

Hi I am Paul
I go to school since I am thirteen years old. Now I am fifteen years old. And I like the school very much. In the morning, I stand up at half past seven because the school starts at 8.30 am. The first half of the school day, I have six lessons until 12.40. Then I have 1.20h lunchbreak. After the lunch at the canteen, I have again two lessons until 13.40.

I receive an education in the school subjects: English, English Literature, French, Mathematics, Religious Studies, Science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics).
And I have also to choose five subjects of these:
· Art and Design
· Classical Civilation
· Drama
· Geography
· German
· Spanish
· History
· Latin
· Music
· Design and Technology

I took Drama, German of course, History, Music and Design and Technology. At the St. Peter’s School there are also many sport activities like:

· Rugby
· Hockey
· Tennis
· Rowing
· Athletics
· Basketball
· Badminton
· Climbing
· Fenching
· Shooting
· Schwimming
· Squash
· Weighttraining
· Aerobics
· Trampolining
· Cricket

I am very active in sports. I took five sport activities. So I have every afternoon sport.
We wear a very nice school uniform which you can see on the picture, on top of the page.

posted by Adi & Peter

2007-03-02T12:56:00.000+01:00

Yorkshire food

In the north of England (Yorkshire) one eats gladly pudding and cake,
Before all if it is prepared with dark syrup (dunklem Sirup) and ginger (Ingwer).
For example:
Yorkshire Pudding but it is not the same as in Germany. Here we eat pudding sweetly but in Yorkshire it is still cooked around the meat and is traditionally served as a first course, filled with gravy, before the meat and vegetables.
It´s a traditional Sundays-eat.

Ore Yorkshire Parking but there are many kinds of it. Sometimes sweetly and sometimes sourly. But it´s a classic Yorkshire ginger cage and this fits very well a cup of tea.

Yorkshire has a completely special cheese. The Yorkshire Blue.
Yorkshire Blue´s recipe was developed from the traditional blue Wensleydale recipe,which had been extinct (ausgestorben) since the 1960s.This cheeses is made of the fresh milk by cows an is very popular there.

Also famous in Yorkshire is the Rhubarb (Rabarber)
In 1877 began the cultivate of rhubarb in Yorkshire. The Whitwell family of Leeds is regarded as one of the largest grower (Züchter).There was the first place in the world, were special halls for rhubarb were built. So the quality of the Yorkshire crop (Getreide) became famous. The producers were centralised between Leeds, Wakefield and Bradford, which became known world wide as The Rhubarb Triangle, the centre for the rhubarb in the world.

made by Jessica

2007-03-02T10:19:00.002+01:00

Servus
hello and welcome to our new blogger.
I write something about school in yorkshire.

posted by Adi

Yorkshire Pudding recipe

2007-03-02T10:19:00.000+01:00

INGREDIENTS:
3 eggs
1 cup whole milk
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup flour
3 Tbsp. reserved beef drippings
PREPARATION:
Combine all ingredients except beef drippings in medium bowl and whisk together until blended. Set aside.
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Fifteen minutes before the roast is done, place a heavy-duty cast iron skillet or heavy-duty 9" baking pan in the oven to heat. Ten minutes before the roast is done, place beef drippings in the preheated skillet or pan and put back into the oven to heat. When the drippings are hot, remove pan from oven and pour batter into the hot drippings (be careful - this can spatter!!). Bake at 450 degrees F for 10 minutes, then lower the heat to 350 degrees F, turn pan around front to back, and bake for another 10-12 minutes until the pudding is high, puffy, and brown. Serve immediately with the roast, which has been resting under foil before carving. Serves 6

Yorkshire Music

2007-03-02T10:17:00.000+01:00

Hi here are Max and Joni about music in Yorkshire. It was a very difficult topic but we found some information about the music scene and the brass band in Yorkshire.

1.)Max Schäfer: Yorkshire music, Brass Bands, YBS
2.)Jonathan Schopp: Museum of Instruments and Yorkshire Wind Orchestra

Part number one by Max Schäfer:

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Yorkshire Music

Sheffield is the home of several well-known bands and musicians. In 1989 the techno label Warp Records was founded in Sheffield. It was the central pillar of the Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass scene of the 1990s and has become one of Britain’s oldest and best-loved dance music labels. The city is also the home of a lot of nightclubs including Gatecrasher One, one of the most popular nightclubs in the north of England.

Also some popular people were born in Sheffield, like Def Leppard, Joe Cocker, The Longpigs, and the free improvisers Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley.

In 1998 Gomez won the Mercury Music Prize award. Some of the founding members went to Sheffield University. The Arctic Monkeys, who have recently exploded onto the UK music scene and won the Mercury Music Prize for the fastest selling debut album of all times.

The City is also the base for a well developed and thriving unsigned music scene.

Sheffield also has a small Hip/Hop and R’n’B music scene and is home to artists like:

NoXcuse, Hoodz Underground, The Red Eye Knights and Constant Creation, they are part of the Yorkshire Hip Hop scene.

In 1999 the National Centre for Popular Music, a museum dedicated to the subject of popular music, was opened.

Sheffield has a number of local orchestras including the Hallam Sinfonia, Sheffield Symphony Orchestra, the Sheffield Chamber Orchestra, the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra and the City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra. There are also many choirs within Sheffield including Sheffield Cathedral Choir, The University of Sheffield Singers' Society, Hallam Choral Society, Sheffield Bach Society and Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus.

Brass Bands

The brass bands are famous in Britain but in the north of England (Yorkshire) the brass bands are as famous as the football teams. Many factories and coal mines have their own bands. In 1996 the film director Mark Hartmann made a film about one of these bands. Brassed Off is set in the imaginary Yorkshire village of Grimley in 1992 and tells two stories: one of the village’s pit, which is going to be closed, the other of the pit’s band and the national competition they are taking part in, which finishes at the Albert Hall in London.

The British music scene is extremely varied. There are many different types of music and groups that you can enjoy. If you want to, you can go to a techno night at the local club on Friday, a classical concert on Saturday and see a reggae band live on stage on Sunday.

It’s difficult for groups in Britain to have lots of fans or sell lots of records because there are so many different types of music. There are even more types than are listened above. Bands do not last long and very few groups stay in the Top 20, a list of the best-selling records, for more than one or two weeks. Even if they are in the Top 20, it does not necessarily mean that they sell many records.

YBS

YBS – the former Yorkshire Building Society Band has, for the last decade, been the most successful of all contesting brass bands. It has also been amongst the most innovative with its highly acclaimed CDs and its concert projects, created through close collaboration between conductor and the various composers.

Yorkshire Building Society Band grew out of the former Hammonds Sauce Works Band when, in 1993, this band’s 33-year sponsorship ended. There were, at the time, three Hammonds bands and the Building Society, whose headquarters were quite close to the location of the sauce works, agreed to sponsor them all. With slight name changes there were now, in addition to the main band, YBS Hawley Band and YBS Juniors. The name Hawley referred to the former managing director of Hammonds . The first conductor of Yorkshire Building Society Band was Geoffrey Whitham, who had been associated with Hammonds Sauce Works Band for almost 30 years. He was succeeded by the young Australian conductor, David King, who was to lead the band to unprecedented heights.

‘YBS’ has an impressive pedigree, with an unbroken sequence of 73 years under various names, and roots going back 150 years to when, in 1855, a brass band was formed as one of the amenities for the people of Saltaire. This was one of the famous ‘model villages’ built during the first half of the 19th century by wealthy industrialists and was the brainchild of Sir Titus Salt, a philanthropic mill-owner and one-time Mayor of Bradford.

Part number two by Jonathan Schopp:

Hello Form 9c

2007-03-02T00:37:00.000+01:00

Welcome to our brandnew blogger,
Let's begin with an online version of our wall journal on Yorkshire.
Please post your texts, indicate your first name or nickname and don't make any anonymous postings, please.
We will also respect our old agreement:
no spamming, no offensive or foul language. Fair play.

With kind regards

Emil Veit