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Originally Posted by GeoffC
we've got to be famous for something, other than cricket !
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Well....
Jarvis Cocker, Ted Hughes, Alan Bennet, Tony Harrison, Diana Rigg, Patrick Stewart, the Brontes, Joseph Priestley, Captain Cook, the setting for Bram Stoker's, William Wilberforce, Fred Hoyle, Malcom Bradbury, A.S. Byatt, Dame Judi Dench, Charles Laughton, Artic Monkeys, ...
Yorkshire Puddings
Yorkshire dales and moors (God's Own Country)
Whitby Abbey, Castle Howard, York Minister, Wentworth Woodhouse, Fountain's Abbey, Bolton Abbey, Humber bridge....
Terry's Chocolate, Rowntree's chocolate...
(guess whose better half comes from Yorkshire, and should know better than to ask certain questions....)