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© the artist's estate, Images courtesy of Leeds Museums and Galleries.

I love these Raphael Tuck and Sons postcards, part of a set of six under the title 'Work-a-Day Sheffield' by artist Walter Hayward-Young (1868-1920) under the pseudonym 'Jotter' They date from around 1908.

Visiting Scarborough in 1839, Augustus Granville was very impressed with the breakfasts at The Bell Inn which served not just excellent 'tea, teacakes, muffins and new laid eggs, but also 'cold beef and raised pies, and shrimps and potted and marinaded fish of many kinds!'

"Burlington Bay, Scarbrough and Hartlepoole" (1702-1707) Samuel Thornton from "The Sea-Atlas: Containing an Hydrographical Description of most of the Sea-Coasts of the Known Parts of the World" Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library.

Yet in the British Senate men rise up,
(The freeborn and the fathers of our land!)
And while these drink the dregs of Sorrow's cup,
Deny the sufferings of the pining band.
(A Voice from the Factories: In Serious Verse - Caroline Norton -1836)

Another example of the work of Francis Elizabeth Wynne from her sketchbook, this time of Runswick Bay dated 29 September 1865.

'Artist Clare Leighton, best known for her wood engravings, produced 12 dramatic, brooding illustrations to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights in 1931. They are said to have inspired a set designer for the 1939 film version of the novel starring Laurence Olivier.' #Bronte

'The Collier' is my favourite of all the plates in George Walker's 'The Costume of Yorkshire,' (1813) featuring the Middleton Colliery and associated Railway near Leeds. It became the first to commercially use steam locomotives including the locomotive Salamanca (1812)

The Rowntrees were a Quaker family with strong beliefs which are still evident today in the work of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. They built a chocolate empire and helped create the relationship we have with chocolate today. #York #chocolate

From the Costume of Yorkshire by George Walker (1814) ‘Haver Cake......is almost exclusively made in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and constitutes the principal food of the labouring classes in that district. It is a thin cake, composed of oatmeal and water.’