In Barnsley's final home game of the season, a Yorkshire derby against Bradford City, the team knew a win would be enough to secure promotion to the top tier of English football for the first time in the club's history.
In fact it was another ten years before the former connected to Yorkshire and the east coast.
The origin of Manningham Road's name is unconfirmed, but it would most likely be from the region of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, as the name Doncaster is also from Yorkshire.
By the time he retired from television in 1993, Leach was the chairman and chief executive of Yorkshire Tyne Tees plc.
Dierama pulcherrimum, characterized by drooping flowers of silvery-gray pink, was introduced to British gardeners in 1866 by the celebrated Yorkshire botanist James Backhouse; it is today the most commonly-seen dierama in cool-temperate gardens.
In a major national boundary change in 1958 the former Great Central network except those lines in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire transferred to the London Midland Region; in return the Eastern gained the former LMS lines in Lincolnshire and the present-day South Yorkshire.
Pictoral representations of Osborne's feat are preserved at Clothworker's Hall and at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, the seat of the Duke of Leeds.
Although connection to the River Colne at Huddersfield was authorised by the Act, the upper terminus was a basin at Apsley, where Ramsden built wharves and warehouses.
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The Huddersfield Narrow Canal provided a heavily-locked Western connection to wool-weaving towns of the upper Colne valley (Golcar, Linthwaite, Slaithwaite, and Marsden) and across the Pennines to Saddleworth, Stalybridge and Manchester via Standedge Tunnel.
Robinson was born in Yorkshire, England in 1930 and left for the United States in 1952 with a classics degree from Cambridge University.
He was the oldest of five children born to carpenter Charles Bell (1881–c. 1958) and Edith Bell, both from Yorkshire, England.
The settlement was named by Joseph Baldwin, and was named after his hometown Loskie in Yorkshire, England.
In return the London Midland gained the lines of the former Great Central Railway that lay outside Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
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LMR lines in South Wales and south-west of Birmingham were transferred to the Western; lines in Lincolnshire and the present-day South Yorkshire went to the Eastern Region and in the present-day West and North Yorkshire to the North Eastern Region.
Maria met Patrick Brontë in 1812 when visiting her aunt Jane and uncle John Fennell in Yorkshire after four family deaths between 1808 and 1812; two of the deaths were her mother's and father's, and aunt Jane was her father's sister.
A County level amateur player in his youth, Rawding turned out for Ancaster FC and RAF Hemswell in Lincolnshire, then Haltemprice AFC and Ainthorpe Old Boys in Yorkshire.
So far the label has concentrated on bands in the Yorkshire region and has committed itself to promoting and supporting quality metal music.
With the completion of the East Stand, Barnsley FC became the first football club in Yorkshire to incorporate 'executive boxes' into their stadium.
The Wine Haven profile near Robin Hood's Bay (Yorkshire, England) has been appointed as global reference profile for the base (GSSP).
This apple was grown in 1708 from one of three apple pips (seeds) sent from Normandy to Sir Henry Goodricke of Ribston Hall at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and the original trunk did not die until 1835.
Beverley was the second of three sons born to Major Robert Beverley of Yorkshire, England and his wife, Margaret Boyd.
Silverwood Colliery was a colliery situated between Thrybergh and Ravenfield in Yorkshire, England.
Yet, while the band felt they weren't making any progress on their musical path and had disbanded, their English manager, Kevin Jennings, took the demo to a small Yorkshire record label, Making Waves, who liked the material and released the demo as the Keep the Faith EP in 1985.
(Constance hails from Durham and speaks with a Yorkshire accent throughout the play – making her a northern lass. Hers is not the only dialect material in Brome's text: the minor comic character Sir Salomon Nonsense is from Cornwall and speaks with a Cornish accent.)
As is common in Celtic Mythology, it is possible that Vinotonus was a local deity of Yorkshire.
Wakefield council joined with other councils from Yorkshire to run a television advertising campaign in an attempt to increase turnout.
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The 2008 Wakefield Council election took place on 1 May 2008 to elect members of City of Wakefield Metropolitan Council in West Yorkshire, England.
The Earldom of Albemarle which he inherited from his mother, included a large estate in Yorkshire, notably the wapentake of Holderness, including the castle of Skipsea, and the honour of Craven, as well as estates in Lincolnshire and elsewhere.
With the purchase of both Stagecoach and K-Line, Centrebus Holdings became the second largest bus operator in Huddersfield after First West Yorkshire.
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In January 2010 Centrebus Holdings took over some contracted services previously run by First West Yorkshire in the Calderdale area, including Greetland, Halifax, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge and Stainland.
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At around the same time Centrebus Holdings purchased Stagecoach Huddersfield it also concluded a deal to buy K-Line.
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In April 2010, Centrebus Holdings obtained another service under the Huddersfield Bus Company division, taking over routes 435/436 from Arriva Yorkshire.
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Arriva Yorkshire already operated services in the town, so purchasing Stagecoach's operations would enlarge their presence.
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The Aberford Dykes are a series of archaeological monuments located around the valley of the Cock Beck, where it runs just north of the village of Aberford on the border between North and West Yorkshire, England.
Bamford has four public houses, the Derwent Hotel (closed), the Anglers Rest, the Ladybower Inn and the Yorkshire Bridge Inn, the latter once home to former Blue Peter presenter Peter Purves.
Before becoming hangman, Binns was employed as foreman platelayer at Dewsbury by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, but after he got the post he no longer worked anywhere.
Beeby was born in Meanwood, Leeds, Yorkshire, and emigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1906.
In 2013 he appeared with Barry Cryer in Richmond, Yorkshire, as part of the Swaledale Festival, performing jazz and blues and songs of his own composition.
Gayle retired from the Yorkshire Ballet Seminars in 2005, handing over the directorship to Marguerite Porter, a former senior principal ballerina and guest artist with the Royal Ballet.
Jowett was born in Yorkshire, England, at Bradford, on 6 January 1858 to Joseph Jowett and Sarah, née Craven.
They have never achieved representation in the House of Commons, although they have had a number of local councillors in some inner-city areas of east London, and towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire, such as Burnley and Keighley.
Born in Langley Green (then in Worcestershire), Wheldon made his debut in Worcestershire's maiden first-class game, against Yorkshire in May 1899.
Using characters inspired by Nick and Nora Charles, the detectives in the film The Thin Man (1934) and its sequels, Plater sought to juxtapose the conventions of the hardboiled thriller, as expounded by the likes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett, with the mundanity of life in Yorkshire.
During the Second World War, Balcombe was stationed in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, where he continued to develop his diving equipment, which was put to use at local sites such as Alum Pot, Keld Head and Goyden Pot.
Built in 1745-54 as World's End Inn, and the first house in Yorkshire to have gas lighting and heating, today it is a convalescence and old aged persons rest home, owned and operated by the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB).
Wolverhampton Corporation took one identical body on a Guy Arab IV whilst another but with half-cab and exposed radiator went to Samuel Morgan of Armthorpe Yorkshire.
The film was adapted from a popular novel of the same name by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and was shot on location on the Pennine moors around Heptonstall and Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, which Carnie Holdsworth had used as the setting for her novel.
Hensall, North Yorkshire, a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England
The Huddersfield Broad Canal (also known by its original name, Sir John Ramsden's Canal) is a wide-locked navigable canal in Yorkshire in northern England.
He has met the Loch Ness Monster, had a close encounter ('of the 22nd kind, That's when an alien spaceship, Disappears up your behind!'), seen unicorns in Burma, met a working Yorkshire miner and had sunstroke in the Arctic, but despite all these exotic experiences, he has never met a nice South African.
Over the years many famous players have played for and at Illingworth; Tom Emmett (England), Alex Lees (Yorkshire), Gary Fellows (Yorkshire), Stuart Law (Essex, Queensland, Lancashire & Australia) and Robin Uthappa (India).
Inga Brooksby (born October 29, 1988) is an English actress from Barnsley, Yorkshire.
Sir John William Ramsden, 5th Baronet (1831–1914), MP for Taunton, Hythe, the West Riding of Yorkshire and Monmouth, Under-Secretary of State for War from 1857–1858
Being dedicated from his birth to the nonconformist ministry, he was placed under the tuition of Richard Frankland, of Attercliffe in Yorkshire, on 15 Nov. 1686.
He was married twice: by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Nettleton of Earls Heath, Yorkshire, he had a son, Clifton Wintringham (1720–1794) who himself had a distinguished medical career, becoming joint military physician to the forces in 1756, Physician general to the forces in 1786 and Physician to George III in 1792.
Langstrothdale, a valley in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England
He retired as Master in 2007 and was succeeded by Felix Stephens and became parish priest of St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Easingwold, Yorkshire.
Leeds Inner Ring Road, a motorway and A-road circling Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Lund was born in March 1965 in Horbury, Yorkshire, and is a graduate of mathematics and applied physics at the then Manchester Polytechnic and holds a masters in pure mathematics from the University of Liverpool.
In the Yorkshire Cricket Board's successful chase, he took the wicket of John Proud to finish with figures of 1/38 from nine overs.
Chiefly bred in Yorkshire, it was common in the north of England, but below the River Trent the similar Southern Hound was more abundant.
Locations used for outdoor filming of the series were in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire and Elvington, North Yorkshire, while indoor filming was done at Yorkshire Television Studios, "Kirkstall Road, Leeds" themselves.
RAF Oxenhope Moor was a British Second World War radio station, located on Cock Hill Moor near the village of Oxenhope in Yorkshire.
(Yorkshire, Britain's largest county, is broken into three administrative areas known as the Ridings — North, East, and West.
Next day he embarked at Rye along with John Whitby, prior of Gisburn in Yorkshire, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
However, during his long career he had been well rewarded with a number of church benefices and in 1328 being appointed Archdeacon of Richmond, Yorkshire.
Despite this, nudes by foreign artists were keenly collected by the court circle, and this painting was hung in the houses of Spanish courtiers until 1813, when it was brought to England to hang in Rokeby Park, Yorkshire.
Born Adrian Hill in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hilton left school at 14 and worked in an aircraft factory at the beginning of the Second World War, before being called up into the Highland Light Infantry.
Sheffield Park Academy, a secondary school in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
Sir Edward had bought and rebuilt Wortley Hall, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, which also passed to his daughter.
Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet (14 October 1619 – 13 October 1688), was an English parliamentarian, of Carbrook and Badsworth, Yorkshire.
While on honeymoon in Switzerland John Smedley had become seriously ill and returned to England to recuperate at the hydropathic establishment at Ben Rhydding, in Yorkshire, and later to take the waters at Cheltenham.
Easterby took over the Habton Grange stables in North Yorkshire from his father, Peter Easterby, in February 1996.
In 1588 he dedicated his treatise Characterie to Queen Elizabeth, who on 5 July 1591 presented him to the rectory of Methley in Yorkshire, then void by the death of Otho Hunt, and on 30 December 1594 to the rectory of Barwick-in-Elmet, in the same county.
Tony Hannan (born 11 June 1963 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England) is an author, journalist and publisher who specialises in British popular culture.
The River Ribble runs through Preston from North Yorkshire and the estuary enters into the Irish Sea near Lytham, and used to transport ships from the cotton mills.
was a canon regular of the Augustinian Gisborough Priory, Yorkshire and English chronicler of the fourteenth century.
William Jackson (born 9 January 1815 in Masham, Yorkshire, England; died 15 April 1866 in Bradford, England) was an English organist and composer.
Despite its title that implies the paper is Yorkshire wide it is a Leeds-based paper, still widely circulated in Bradford, Harrogate, Huddersfield and Wakefield as well.
Alongside Leeds United commentaries, Yorkshire Radio also carried coverage of Super League, Leeds Carnegie RUFC and Yorkshire County Cricket Club.