Famous Yorkshire person

[Chriswhit]

[Woody23]

How about Harvey Smith?

[dothawkes31]

Oh I do get back there often!! I won't be going as far as Bradford again though, my Uncle used to live at Thornton and that was close enough!

[craft1948]

I quite like Bradford gran.......I worked there on a project for 3 months and lodged in Baildon......lovely place.

[carlton23]

Wilfred Pickles

[carlton23]

Paul `o` Grady? He`s always going on about Yorkshire.

[chokkie]

Isn't Michael Parkinson from Yorkshire?
And - Alf White - the Yorkshire vet who "All Creatures Great and Small" was based on.

[chokkie]

but it would seem, bibblebub, that there are more famous Yorkshire men (and women) than there are Belgians .... !

[TheOtherHalf]

David Hockney (artist) from Bradford

[piggynose]

hovis

[piggynose]

ecky thumph inventor

[piggynose]

cyril smith

[daftgrandad]

The Grand Old Duke of York and his 10,000 men

[uncle al]

Can I throw in Patrick Stewart?
Make it so....

[kitty1950]

Paul Opacic, actor (Emmerdale, Bad Girls) Used to live in a house across the road from mine before I lived here.

[IrishHeart]

Oh my boss used to live near an emmerdale actor and the other neighbour is a songwriter of very famous songs - he went to the grammys last year

[dothawkes31]

My Mum went to school in Yorkshire with Ted Hughes and Sir Bernard Ingham ( he wasn;t a sir then) and Percy Snow lived in the farm behind my grandma, he owed her 2/6 and never paid her , even after he made his millions. Right skinflint he was, lino on the floor and distemper on the walls.

[IrishHeart]

is Percy Snow the cats eyes man? I remember a programme about him when I was little - he seemed quite proud of his 'careful' attitude to money


Dont lets forget Hannah Hawksworth

[dothawkes31]

aye that's the one, careful indeed, careful not to pay for owt if he could get away with it

[bibblebub]

you mean Percy Shaw - Percy Snow was famous for signing his name in yellow ink

[jackthehat]

Percy SHAW.........