Category Archives: History

NC 500 The End of the Road

Posted on August 7, 2021 by charliecountryboy

It was time for the final part of our journey and so we aimed for Culloden to see the place where the Scottish, well the Jacobites to be specific, stood against the English for the last time. You can’t really … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, History, Life, Opinion, Scotland | Tagged Blogging, Charlie Robinson, Culloden, Holidays, Interest, Kelpies, Life, nature, NC500, Opinion, Scotland, Travel | 25 Comments

Wild in the Country Day 2

Posted on October 23, 2020 by charliecountryboy

The majesty of the wilds encourages you to reconsider values. These rocks, these meadows, along the coastline, formed between 200 and 145 million years ago, are totally untouched by our present situation. They don’t care if we have a bad … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Blogging, Freedom, History, Humour, Life, Lifestyle, Opinion | Tagged Alum Works, Browns of Robin Hoods Bay, Coast Walks, East Yorkshire, Hiking, Hot Chocolate, Raven Hall Hotel, Ravenscar, Robin Hoods Bay, Trekking, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Coast | 31 Comments

Are You Naughty?

Posted on September 26, 2020 by charliecountryboy

I’ve been called ‘Naughty’ many times. Obviously to spare the innocent I couldn’t possibly recant them all, Dick Emery springs to mind😂 Our illustrious leader has told us not to be naughty, fat chance there Toryboy. So it looks like … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Blogging, Family, History, Humour, Life, Opinion | Tagged Family, Humour, Life, Naughty, Social Distancing | 44 Comments

Seaside, Smugglers, a Dragon or the Devil

Posted on September 19, 2020 by charliecountryboy

There is something quite romantic about white horses, not the majestic, virile stallions. I mean the oceanic type, whipped up by the breeze. Although I’m sure there are a few mares who would disagree. Today we went to Filey and … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, History, Humour, Life, Travel | Tagged Beaches, Blogging, East Yorkshire, Filey, Humour, Life, nature, Opinion, Travel, Yorkshire | 18 Comments

Show Us Wot You Got

Posted on July 11, 2020 by charliecountryboy

“Bring her to Thornton-Le- Dale,’ said the big brusque North Yorkshire farmer as he slapped Crystal on the rump. Any other site and you may be wondering exactly what I mean? This particular Crystal was a 300-kilo heifer who my … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Farming, Freedom, History, Life, Opinion | Tagged 1980's, Agricultural Shows, Animal Feeding, Butchers, Cattle, Cattle Shows, Farming, Food, Kids Farming, Knavesmire Butchers, Life, Reflections, Reflective Life | 23 Comments

A Rat, A Pea Man and a Bit of A.I.

Posted on July 4, 2020 by charliecountryboy

Five am, the sun rises over the cornfield and the last thing you need to see is a drowned rat in a cattle trough. But hey ho, it happens. As I fished the rat corpse out of the trough I … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Farming, History, Humour, Life | Tagged Agricultural Shows, Animal Feeding, Animal Raising, Artificial Insemination, Blogging, Cattle, Cattle Shows, Cattle-feed, Country, Country Folk, Country Life, Farming, Humour, Life, Reflections | 21 Comments

What’s So Special About the Past?

Posted on June 20, 2020 by charliecountryboy

The alarm clacks its two bells at six am and I can hear Chuck Berry’s, ‘My Ding a Ling’ playing somewhere in the house. Normally I go back to sleep – I am only fifteen and a full day in … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, History, Humour, Life | Tagged 1970'S, 1972, Child Labour, Chuck Berry, Days Gone by, Engineering, Factories, Factory Work, Fifteen, Glory Days, Life, My Ding a Ling, Remember, Reminiscing | 61 Comments

Memories, Smells and The Bus

Posted on June 6, 2020 by charliecountryboy

The aroma of the bus. I have never been able to identify it. Plastic seats soaked in decayed human sweat, a definite metal acidity and stale smoke? But at six o’clock in the unearthly hours of 1973, it was easy. … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, History, Humour, Life | Tagged 1973, Albert Finney, Bus, Embassy, Parkdrive, Peter Stuyvesant, Players No6, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Senior Service, Smoking, Smoking on a Bus, The Brotherhood of Man, The New Seekers, Woodbines | 73 Comments

Oh! The Working Men’s Club

Posted on March 28, 2020 by charliecountryboy

Picture this. A warm alluring bar, rich, mellow music, intimate seating and culinary delights to tease your taste buds into a frenzy. Well, a Working Men’s Club wasn’t quite like that. When I was a lad this was our Sunday … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Dancing, History, Humour, Life, Opinion, Over 50's, people | Tagged 1970'S, Bingo, Humour, Life, Northern Dance Bands, Pie and Peas, Social Clubs, Tetley Bitter, Working Class, Working Men, Working Men's Club, Working Women | 35 Comments

To Flee or to Fight

Posted on March 21, 2020 by charliecountryboy

The sun creeps over the mountain ridge, casting its first shadow deep into the canyon – far away in the distance a blur is moving fast with the speed and agility of a Pronghorn. Look closer and you see someone … Continue reading →

Posted in Athletics, Blogging, Freedom, History, Life, Mexico, Opinion, Running | Tagged Athletics, Blogging, Born to Run, Charlie Robinson, Christopher McDougall, Copper Canyons, Life, Mexico, Opinion, Running, Tarahumara, Travel | 23 Comments