Helen Johnson, Yorkshire Writer
Helen Johnson Freelance Journalist
2019 sees Dalesman celebrate its 80th anniversary, and for twenty of those eighty years, I have been a contributor to Yorkshire’s favourite little magazine. I have had the pleasure of Continue Reading →
For Dalesman this Christmas, I investigated the origins of Scroggling the Holly, a Christmas tradition unique to the Bronte village of Haworth, West Yorkshire. Early in December, people in Continue Reading →
For the December Dalesman Magazine, I visited Julie Haigh’s Christmas Fairy Factory in West Yorkshire, where Christmas Fairies are born. A Christmas Fairy is the finishing touch for many a Continue Reading →
For Dalesman Magazine this month, I visited Eric Marshall, of Bagby, whose displays of Christmas Lights attract visitors from far and wide. Eric, of Bagby, near Thirsk in North Yorkshire, Continue Reading →
This year marks the centenary of the founding of Catterick Garrison, today, the biggest military base in Western Europe. Linda Turnbull, of North Yorkshire County Records Office, has been recording Continue Reading →