Numerous events are planned to celebrate official day for county (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Numerous events are planned to celebrate official day for county

7:00am Saturday 31st July 2010 in

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Events will be taking place across the Bradford district tomorrow to celebrate the county’s 35th official Yorkshire Day.

Town crier Kevin Reid Griffiths will start celebrations in Bradford by reading the Yorkshire Day Declaration on the steps of the Great Victoria Hotel.

The declaration will be followed by a chorus of On Ilkley Moor Baht’at by the City of Bradford Brass Band, after which the Lord Mayor’s ‘Reet Yorkshire Lunch’ will be served.

Guests will dine on traditional fare before listening to tales and anecdotes from writer Ian Dewhirst.

Proceeds from the event, which also includes a quiz and Yorkshire-themed raffle, will be go to the Lord Mayor’s Appeal to raise funds for a new playground at Ilkley’s Nell Bank Centre.

Staff at Asda’s Bradford store in Rooley Lane will be donning flat caps and flying Yorkshire flags over the weekend.

The first 20 customers who walk through its doors tomorrow will receive a white rose while food and drink produced in the county will be available to sample.

Yorkshire Day celebrations will also take place in Haworth with donkey rides, cake stalls and a tombola due to be held in Main Street while a bouncy castle and children’s fairground rides will be available in Haworth Park.

Real ale, brass band music and longsword dancing will be on Birstall’s Oakwell Hall from 11am to 4pm.

There will also be a market with stalls selling produce and crafts including pies, cheese, jams and chutneys.

Meanwhile, the humble Yorkshire pudding has topped a poll of favourite things to come out of the county.

Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire said: “We’re delighted so many visitors love Yorkshire’s signature dish and there’s no better place to try it than here in the county where it was first created.”