Down Your Way magazine

Down Your Way is a unique publication.

An electic mix of personal nostalgic memories from the 1930s/40s/50s/60s written by Yorkshire Folks for Yorkshire Folks. Many have never written a contribution before, but with guidance from its Features Editor Kevin Hopkinson, a previously untapped source of Yorkshire social history has emerged. This is social history at its best, first-hand experiences written in the authors’ own language and style and often accompanied by nostalgic images from the era.

Each magazine has a personality of its own and over the years has reunited many friends and relatives and helped those looking to trace their Yorkshire ancestors. From its colourful front cover to the vintage image on the back page, this magazine is pure nostalgia from start to finish; articles, images, letters, poems, competitions and even a crossword – each one guaranteed to take you on a trip down memory lane.

In the February issue:

Peach of a role
Roy Hampson meets entertainer wendy marshall (below) who joined the cast of Coronation Street in 1973 and celebrated her eighteenth birthday at the Rovers Return

Sacred choruses
Godfrey Holmes sings the praises of the gospel words that were belted out in the nonconformist Mount Tabors or Citadels of the North

Just champion
Rita Pygott tells of her grandfather, Leslie Hofton, a miner, who reached the pinnacle of the professional game of football with Manchester United prior to the Great War

Celebrating twenty years of a unique northern voice

Why do your mum and dad talk funny?
Patricia Meader recalls meeting Yorkshire relatives for the first time and the trauma of a trip to the outside loo

Record breaker
Rugby League’s top points scorer ever Neil Fox is still having honours heaped on him from becoming a Freeman of Wakefield to having a bus and a housing estate named after him. maggie poppa hears of growing up in a sport-mad family and his memorable moments in the game

A perfect place for fantasy
Brian Hudson’s adventure playground as a child was the fields around his home, acting out the films he’d seen at the local pictures

Marking two hundred years of a literary genius ... Dickens in Yorkshire

When boys wore pinafore dresses
Daphne Clarke reflects on how fashions change over the generations while mulling over a picture of her father as a toddler in 1909

‘Horrendous’ washday for mining mother of ten

‘The navy’s here’
Annie P Smith recalls the dramatic rescue involving her father which freed merchant seamen from the prison ship Altmark seventy-one years ago this month

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