Happy Yorkshire Day!

[davywavy]

Might I wish you all a Happy Yorkshire Day, and offer commiserations to all those of you who had the misfortune to be born in any of the less good parts of the world.*

August 1st holds a special place in Yorkshire's history for, on this day in 1759, soldiers from Yorkshire regiments who had fought in the battle of Minden, in Germany, picked white roses from bushes near to the battlefields as a tribute to their fallen comrades.

There's been a lot of talk about how England should have it's own National Day (like the Scots, Irish and Welsh do), and I don't think we could do better than make Yorkshire Day a national holiday. After all, it does celebrate the very best thing about this country.

^{*i.e. all of them.}

Comments

[chrisvenus]

There's been a lot of talk about how England should have it's own National Day

There has? Isn't that what St George's Day is or am I being confused here?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Not as a national holiday, no.

[chrisvenus]

ah, I see. Bloody northerners just looking for more excuses not to work... :)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yes, as opposed to Southerners, who never needed an excuse in the first place.

[chrisvenus]

Weirdly though having checked by Irish is best for holidays. The welsh get the same as us. The northern irish get the same but with an additional st patricks day.

The scottish get much the same as us - they get an extra day at new year but they don't get easter monday...

Ref: http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html and http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/01/bankholidays

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

Its not a public holiday though, which is whats being suggested.