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Title: Yorkshire man here
Post by: redshift on December 04, 2012, 11:37:41 AM

Just posted an answer to another post so I thought I had better say hello here.
I have been reading this forum for a while and joined a short while ago. As it says in the header, I am from the South Yorkshire area and am a true yorkshireman by nature. ( Careful with money and careful with strangers)
I prefer big old cast iron machinery as opposed to modern "bent tin" machines. In my untidy workshop I have 1962 Adcock & Shipley Bridgeport miller, a Harrison M300 lathe, and a Qualters & Smith power hacksaw from around the same period in time as the miller and a few other bits.
I am looking forward to becoming involved here as everyone seems very kind and helpful.
I,ll leave it at that for now.
Regards
Dave

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: DavidA on December 04, 2012, 12:21:52 PM

Hi Redshift,

Good to see you here.

From South Yorkshire ! Well,  I suppose some one has to be.

Dave
Keighley. :wave:

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: saw on December 04, 2012, 12:39:30 PM

Hi and welcome to us  :wave:

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: Raggle on December 04, 2012, 02:54:45 PM

A true Yorkshireman is a  Scot with the generosity squeezed out of him.

Ray

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: redshift on December 04, 2012, 02:57:41 PM

Oddly enough I am 1/4 Scottish as well so I guess that proves your point
Regards
Dave

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: awemawson on December 04, 2012, 03:00:23 PM

Nowt wrong with Yorkshire men! I originate from the West Riding even if they have done away with it <G>

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: SemiSkilled on December 04, 2012, 03:10:29 PM

nother  yorkshireman here, further north in Leeds,

 :worthless:

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: Stilldrillin on December 04, 2012, 03:50:39 PM

Hi Dave.
Welcome to the Collective.  :borg:

You'll do!  :thumbup:

Join in. Have fun. Enjoy......

David D.

(Born, N Derbyshire. Raised, Brighouse. Back here, for the last 44 yrs).

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: AussieJimG on December 04, 2012, 04:12:28 PM

Welcome Dave, from the other side of the world (where it is warm)

Jim

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: DavidA on December 04, 2012, 04:27:28 PM

awemawson,

.. I originate from the West Riding even if they have done away with it..

It was still there last time I looked out of the window.  Sure you don't mean the East Riding ?

Dave

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: krv3000 on December 04, 2012, 05:41:44 PM

hi and welcum

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: redshift on December 04, 2012, 06:12:09 PM

Thanks for the warm welcome, now  I have seen  the baby I feel totally at home
Regards
Dave

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: awemawson on December 05, 2012, 12:43:10 PM

I thought that the sobriquet 'Riding' had been dropped from the local government dictionary ?

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: Yorkshireman on December 05, 2012, 02:31:42 PM

Hallo
I think I should welcome my impersionator, too. :beer:
Johannes

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: redshift on December 05, 2012, 04:32:29 PM

Johannes, sorry about that!!
awemawson:-  The riding bit has long been gone in local government use but yorkshiremen of  a certain age still use the term, as you may well know the term riding is derived from the word thirding or third. This is why there was a west, east and north riding but no south riding.
Probably to create more administration the county was carved up into four parts north,south, east and west yorkshire and is as it is now. Somwhere along the way we then had north humberside creep into the equation and n. humbs resides in east yorkshire. All a bit confusing
Sorry to have rambled on.
regards
Dave

Title: Re: Yorkshire man here
Post by: slowcoach on December 09, 2012, 08:41:40 AM

welcome To the forum Dave, I'm in South Yorkshire  :thumbup:

Rob