Helen Johnson, Yorkshire Writer
Helen Johnson Freelance Writer
Celebrations! Appleton Wiske Post Office re-opened today. When our former Postmaster retired, I feared that we would lose our shop and Post Office. Indeed, the Post Office closed last Continue Reading →
Pantomime season It’s Christmas, so it’s pantomime season. And in Appleton Wiske, as in many other villages, it’s a home-grown, home-produced Christmas pantomime. But in an age of TV, with Continue Reading →
Back-breaking manual work Once upon a time, potato picking was dirty, heavy, back-breaking manual work. Generations of rural families spent long cold days picking the vegetables by hand from the Continue Reading →
Bob Gallon has worked on the Bell Estate in Thirsk for all his working life, and has witnessed sixty years of change in farming. Farming in the 1940s Bob Gallon Continue Reading →
For Dalesman Feb 2014, Helen Johnson met David Winfield, an artist who is painting landscapes on John Bell’s farm, in all seasons and moods. Continue Reading →
For Dalesman Magazine, November 2013, Helen Johnson met the Champion family, whose garage in Castleton has served motorists since cars first arrived in the North York Moors. Continue Reading →
Helen Johnson met Chris Wadsworth, who works with heavy horses, for Countryman Magazine.
Chris explained how he uses his horses to extract logs from forests, and for non-chemical bracken control. Continue Reading →
Helen Johnson met Grace Thompson, Pat Duggan and Gillian Shepherd to talk about memories of Thompson’s shop of Osmotherley, for Dalesman Magazine. Continue Reading →
Helen Johnson tried to find out what it is like to live near a wind farm Continue Reading →
Helen Johnson met Sue Lawson, landscape artist, and visited Foston School Post Office for Dalesman Magazine, June 2011 Continue Reading →