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Well, let's be fair, Yorkshire must surely have at least one good thing to its name; it just happens to be brown sauce! ;)

What about the finest brown sauce ever : Goodhall & Backhouse's 'Yorkshire Relish' ??? (appologies to more er 'local' brown-sauce manufacturers...)

It is all too easy to view the days of Empire as either a joke, or as something inherently bad; it would also be wrong, more often than not. In the days of dog eat dog, the British Empire could be seen as a benign guard-dog. And yes, we could all offer exceptions; but as they say, it is...

It's interesting that as well as the 'idealistic' the covers of the Radio times reflect the Art-Deco and the 'modernist' styles; where these days we just get pics of 'soap-stars' ... although 'Wallace and Gromet' feature currently, which I'm prepared to forgive...

I think the trouble began when Queen Victoria decided that she would be an 'Empress' - which rather tended to alter the bias towards 'domination' rather than of 'co-operation' ... but even so, the history of the 'Empire' is nowhere near as black as 'revisionists' would have us believe. And...

Stitcher, I live in a remote forest, so I don't get to see many women at all! :( As such, I'm VERY grateful for your postings! ;) I'm sure many folk enjoy your submissions enormously, even though the comments are few. As they say, a good picture is often worth a thousand words; so...

Slightly widening the topic here: for anyone interested in the beginnings of overseas trade from the Tudor period onwards, I recommend a super little history book called ''Nathional's Nutmeg'' by Giles Milton ... it is an easy, enjoyable read, and explains the 'accidental' process by which...

Mary Pickford - what a cracker! Swoons .....

The nature, and causes of the 'Agrarian Revolution' was an essential back-drop to the 'Industrial Revolution occurring. From the suffering of those cast away from the land, after the 'Enclosures Act', who then went on to supply the man-power for industry, and the subsequent agricultural...

Re' womens' sport .... I think once sport became a 'big earner' then women lost-out big time. I had rather hoped, that once most sport had been 'stolen' by SKY SPORTS, that there would be a reemergence of female football/cricket on terrestial TV; but no, an opportunity lost etc. Sorry, I know...

Nothing was considered too small for an effort to be made; even a chocolate-bar wrapper, of that period, was a piece of art-work. What price now, in our amazingly 'advanced' technological world! Half the stuff one buys is shoddy, or doesn't work. We buy almost everything from China, and...

To be honest, apart from certain practical advances, we've learned nowt, and forgotten too much. But there again, I was 'old fashioned' even as a five year old ... and now I'm a dinosaur!

Many periodicals were aimed at female sport. We think ourselves pretty advanced these days, but those plucky lasses of the 20's and 30's were way beyond the 'make-up'/'celebrity' obsessed youth of today. It is a crying shame that womens' football is nowhere as developed as it once was, way...

Thanks again, Stitcher .... lots of Mabel Lucie Attwell-type designs and pictures. I read somewhere recently that chidren still love her pictures ... she seems to have a universal, timeless appeal for youngsters. Which begs the question: why is so much crap is produced these days; and with...

I recall several, especially 'Tiny Tots' as I used to have a great heap of 1920's and 30's comics as a child, inherited from my aunts ... I only wished I still had them!

Yep, we used to have several, in Newcastle, complete with cannon-ball, of a slightly larger calibre, wedged in the top.

Shingle beaches .... east/south east coast?

Thanks for that Aidan ... I enjoyed reading the whole of that page, most interesting! If you are a fan of Dickens, I would recommend Dan Simmon's book ''Drood'' ... the story-line is fanciful in the extreme, but it nonetheless works. The novel is supposedly narrated by Wilkie Collins; and...

Great stuff Mike, ta! Interesting to note that a 'Baker's dozen' was 14, and not 13 !

I take Brian's point re' the 'Waterloo' medal, but could this be slightly post-war 'militia' uniform?