GET out your flat caps and your whippets - it’s time to celebrate God’s Own County.

Yorkshire Day events will be held around the district tomorrow, highlighting all that’s great about the region.

Ilkley’s summer festival kicks off tomorrow, with an opening Yorkshire Day-themed ceremony at 11.30am.

Ilkley’s town crier and chairman of the parish council will lead the event, with music and entertainment provided by the Phoenix Jazz Band, which will play and march round the town.

Historic East Riddlesden Hall is also staging an event. Local award-winning baker, Mike Armstrong, will be exploring Lammas, a traditional festival that celebrates the annual wheat harvest.

He will be at the hall from 11am to give talks and answer bread-related questions. A bread-making demonstration will take place at 1pm in the kitchen.

A display of bread will be laid out on the Great Hall’s banqueting table, and tiny bread mice will scatter the floor waiting to be discovered. Normal hall entry fees apply.

The display of bread will remain in the Great Hall until August 13, to mark the two week-long celebration.

This year’s official Yorkshire Day celebrations will be taking place in the south of the county, at Sheffield.

Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Abid Hussain, will be joining other civic figureheads for a breakfast reception in Sheffield’ Town Halls council chamber before a parade forms up and departs to reach the Yorkshire Day service at Sheffield Cathedral for 11am.

The party will return to the Town Hall, where a menu of Yorkshire produce will be served to commemorate the occasion.

And officials at Bradford Council will be marking Yorkshire Day a day early, by bringing back the district’s historic crest as the authority’s official logo.

The traditional crest will gradually replace the more modern blue-and-orange Council logo as new documents and stationery are produced when current stocks run out and new signage is required.

The crest is based on Bradford’s coat of arms which was granted in 1976, but has origins as far back as 1847. It features a boar’s head, a stag and an angora goat, and the shield at the centre incorporates two bugle horns, a fleece, a fountain and eleven white roses. The roses represent the eleven town councils that all came together to form the Bradford district in 1974.

To mark the occasion, the Lord Mayor will today cut a special cake adorned with the civic crest.

Cllr Hussain said: “ The crest reflects our civic pride and the wonderful history of our city and the entire district.”

The logo change was sparked when officials from other councils visited Bradford for a peer review, and said that the authority seemed to be using both logos. The review team urged them to pick just one.

Bradford Council’s leader, Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe, said: “The motto is ‘Progress, Industry and Humanity’ which we still very much value today. I like the fact that different elements of the civic crest represent different parts of the district coming together.”