Now! Then! 2025! - A Yorkshire Almanac

Yorkshire On This Day, Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

31 October 1967: First broadcast of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, on the At Last the 1948 Show

Tim Brooke-Taylor and others. 1967. Four Yorkshiremen. At Last the 1948 Show. Palo Alto, California: Issuu, Inc. Issuu publishes pirated content, so this may disappear. Get it:

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Hezekiah (Marty): Aye and you try and tell the young people of today that and they won’t believe you.


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Now! Then! is an almanac portraying Yorkshire on this day. Now! lists modern happenings in the heavens and on earth. Then! consists roughly of 961 historical serendipities (762K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,631 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,856 subjects, such as (automated list!) Leeds, York, West Riding of Yorkshire, Church of England, London, Sheffield, poetry, Kingston upon Hull, Bradford, Horse ... Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder has been compiling and coding Now! Then! The Yorkshire Almanac at bedtime to educate himself about his new home since moving from Hackney to Headingley in April 2021. It will soon be available in printed and e-book editions. You can also book a performance with barrel organ of The Yorkshire Almanac Songbook.

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