In the July issue:

Flown the coop
B Webster recalls the enterprise that sustained his family for years and the sad day when Grandma finally gave up her chickens.

Summat fer nowt
Jacqueline Buksh relishes picking nature’s free bounty.

Lock, Stock and Barrel
Aurea Smith recalls Moving Day in 1936 when three farming families upped sticks from Acomb as their land was needed for York’s housing.

The old ones are the best
Maggie Poppa talks to barry cryer about his six decades writing and performing comedy.

‘Haven’t you homes to go to?’
Elaine Wortley tells of the West Riding pub landlady’s forty glorious years as Queen of the Nags Head.

Last days of the pea pickers
Peter Flanagan believes he learned a lot about country life and growing up when joining women and children pea-picking.

King of the leeks
Jill Allison deems it a privilege to have known a committed allotment holder.

End of the horse and cart
Jill Stuart sees one old farmer reconciled to the coming of the mechanised age.

Home brew
John Hullah was glad to see the end of an all-consuming, ginger beer making experiment.

Scent of new mown hay
Jean Grace Pedelty tells how one smell transported her back to summer schooldays in the late 1940s.

Rural smiles
David Watkins looks at how card manufacturers viewed country life .

Life with aunt Lilian
Marion Smith recalls leaving Liverpool by train, as a lone ten-year-old, for holidays in North Yorkshire.

Fragrant times
Patricia Roberts says flowers arouse so many memories.

Cabbages and kings
Freda McDonnell recalls neighbours sowing the ‘grow veg, not flowers’ message long before war broke out.

In shops 25th June.

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