Talk:Yorkshire Ridings Society
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[edit] "Government statement"
As we have discovered, there was no Government statement as such, just a quote from an unnamed civil servant (I've cut and pasted this from Historic Counties of England):
Quoted in The Times of 1 April 1974:
| “ | According to a Department of the Environment official, the new county boundaries are solely for the purpose of defining areas of first-level government of the future:"They are administrative areas and will not alter the traditional boundaries of counties, nor is it intended that the loyalties of people living in them will change."
Citing Middlesex as an example, he said that although that county had been swallowed up in Greater London in 1965 and disappeared for governmental purposes, the name still exists for postal and other reasons. "Similarly the broad acres known as Yorkshire will remain unaltered despite the different names adopted by the new administrative counties." [1] |
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Trying to figure out how to incorporate this into the article, which at the moment contains a mis-quote
Lozleader 11:41, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Copyright violation?
Actually the whole article is almost word for word taken from [1]. The article was deleted last week for copyvio of that site. Lozleader 11:50, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Colin Holt
Mr Holt is deceased. He had an obituary on Radio 4 last May. [2] Lozleader 11:58, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Formation
Would it be original research to note this seems to have been the earliest such county group formed? (or at least the earliest to appear in the Times - the Lancashire group seems to pop up in the 1980s/1990s, Huntingdonshire in 1997). Alas, I think it probably would be. Morwen - Talk 12:13, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
- interestingly, enough it seemed more radical in its early days, calling for extensive local government reform. In 1977 they were calling for a provincial assembly and tha abolition of north, South and West Yorkshire county councils.Lozleader 12:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Date of founding
I get 877 by subtracting the "years of existence" from the current year on the website. However, nothing especially interesting seems to have happened to Jorvik in 877 as opposed to the year before, 876, wherein the throne was taken. The "Yorkshire Code" claims that the boundaries and Ridings date back that far - I'd be interested in knowing when the first actual historical record of the ridings is. How do they deal with Yorkshire's extent in the Domesday Book? Morwen - Talk 14:26, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] YRS Website no longer updated?
I notice the YRS site is listing events in August 2003 as in the future.Lozleader 15:11, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
