A Taste Of Hartley

A Tribute To That Great Yorkshire Dialect Poet. John Hartley. These extracts are taken from some of his Clock Almanacks The annual publication that was to become something of an institution in Yorkshire a hundred years ago. When many thousands laughed and wept with him, as he sang of the joys and woes of colliers, factory hands, and humble workers. The brave colliers of Tow Moor, the gallant Lifeboat men at Whitby, all and each have known what it is, to feel the warm words of this famous poet of the Yorkshire dialect, as he sang their praises far and wide. What a quality this man had, what a happy smile, in all his beautiful writings. . John Hartleys name was to become an household word in Yorkshire and indeed throughout the country. He was truly a man of the people and ought to be remembered still. But in the passing of time and changing values, I doubt if he ever will!