Round Yorkshire With A Knife: It’s So Bracing!

Jack, your narrative and photos are stunning as usual! You make me want to visit, and make me feel as though I am there already! Thanks for the great introduction to Yorkshire, its people, culture and history! Much appreciated.
 
Many thanks for the tales and the treasure report Jack. The Albert Oates MOP knife is very sweet. Nice to see the Panther bikes as well ... I am an old [ex] British-biker myself. I have had a few good finds too lately which I would like to post-up but I can't spin a yarn like you do.
Best regards..
 
Some good scores there Jack. Pity you didn't get any of the "special" cookies from the sweet shop. Ned sounds like a champion apart from being a Kiwi (please understand I'm required by Australian lore to say that).:D
I'd never seen anything like an English beach on a sunny day(not warm just sunny) until I was in Padstow a few years ago. The beach was packed like a Japanese train. Yet no-one had entered the water beyond knee depth. It was flat as a tack, no sharks ,no tiny little jellyfish that are so venomous as to kill you in screaming agony before make it back to shore,no Stonefish, no Crocs, no rip. So I thought I'd swim out to the marker buoy and back.As I was bobbing around at the marker buoy I could see the life guard scoping me with his binos.I waved -big mistake.He was running for the water baywatch style.I immediately struck out for the beach a distance of 100 meters. He had barely made it through the crowd by the time I got to the shore -I think he realised I was OK by that stage.
I was wearing my AUSTRALIA scunnohs. "They never go out that far." he said in an Aussie accent.
 
meako said:
Some good scores there Jack. Pity you didn't get any of the "special" cookies from the sweet shop. Ned sounds like a champion apart from being a Kiwi (please understand I'm required by Australian lore to say that).:D
I'd never seen anything like an English beach on a sunny day(not warm just sunny) until I was in Padstow a few years ago. The beach was packed like a Japanese train. Yet no-one had entered the water beyond knee depth. It was flat as a tack, no sharks ,no tiny little jellyfish that are so venomous as to kill you in screaming agony before make it back to shore,no Stonefish, no Crocs, no rip. So I thought I'd swim out to the marker buoy and back.As I was bobbing around at the marker buoy I could see the life guard scoping me with his binos.I waved -big mistake.He was running for the water baywatch style.I immediately struck out for the beach a distance of 100 meters. He had barely made it through the crowd by the time I got to the shore -I think he realised I was OK by that stage.
I was wearing my AUSTRALIA scunnohs. "They never go out that far." he said in an Aussie accent.
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Very good Meako! :D I remember being on the beach at Whitby on the North Yorkshire Coast, way back in 1984, when there was a load of commotion, with lifeguards running around and then standing on the edge of the water, shouting for someone to come back in. It turned out the source of all the activity was my then girlfriend, who had swum out about 20 yards! She wasn't too happy with them, and gave them some choice invective as she walked back out of the water! :D
 
Jack Black said:
"As the gentleman/con-man opens his shop only one day each week...."
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Very interesting description Jack and it appears that the "Quest" may not yet be over! :D

I loved the story, the knives, and the photos. :thumbup::)
 
I am braced! I am transported!:)

My desk is overflowing with half-completed projects! I really have to get some work done, but instead I sit here reading the wonderfully illustrated scribblings of that great adventurer, Jack Black!
Somehow my work is a pale image in my brain, by comparison!:rolleyes:

And now, I sit here musing about obscure British motors, driven by a roly-poly iron-pounder, who runs on pure sugar, and sounds just like Duncan on the telephone!! He must be driving a Wolseley, wonderfully British, with pieces carefully forged back in place to keep it running!!:D
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Let the desk spill over, I say!
 
Bill Bryson eat your heart out. I just read through it all a second time - you have a talent my friend!
 
Excellent reading Jack. Enjoying the heck out of the pictures too. One thing though. That's a Wolf not a bear. I wouldn't be able to see it in person with my old eyes but I can see the computer screen.

On another stall, I came across this small Sheffield Lobster. Unfortunately, it’s hard to make out the cutler’s name on the tang stamp, though it could be Taylor. I don’t know if the symbol and the picture of what looks like a bear are connected to the cutler or not.
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Thank you for taking the time for the report and storyline. It's almost like being in the back seat watching. :)

Joe
 
Primble said:
Very interesting description Jack and it appears that the "Quest" may not yet be over! :D

I loved the story, the knives, and the photos. :thumbup::)
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Thanks a lot Primble, the Quest may be over, but the Hunt never ends! :D

waynorth said:
I am braced! I am transported!:)

My desk is overflowing with half-completed projects! I really have to get some work done, but instead I sit here reading the wonderfully illustrated scribblings of that great adventurer, Jack Black!
Somehow my work is a pale image in my brain, by comparison!:rolleyes:

And now, I sit here musing about obscure British motors, driven by a roly-poly iron-pounder, who runs on pure sugar, and sounds just like Duncan on the telephone!! He must be driving a Wolseley, wonderfully British, with pieces carefully forged back in place to keep it running!!:D
Wolseley1_zpsb6cd8ecf.jpg

Let the desk spill over, I say!
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Thanks Charlie, your posts always put a big smile on my face :)

pmew said:
Bill Bryson eat your heart out. I just read through it all a second time - you have a talent my friend!
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Thanks pal! :D

The Mastiff said:
Excellent reading Jack. Enjoying the heck out of the pictures too. One thing though. That's a Wolf not a bear. I wouldn't be able to see it in person with my old eyes but I can see the computer screen.



Thank you for taking the time for the report and storyline. It's almost like being in the back seat watching. :)

Joe
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Thanks Joe, and thanks for the heads-up on the wolf :) :thumbup:
 
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