I was saddened to hear about a month ago that West Yorkshire Cameras is closing down. Over the years I’ve sold and brought many cameras with them. They were always fair on price, both buying and selling – and they did both with a sense of humour and style that I shall miss. Being from Yorkshire translation was sometimes needed…. (Said the person from Dorset!)
My 5×4 outfit was both purchased from and sold back to them, this lead to my Leica M6 coming from them. I also brought my “Texas Leica” from them, both a Rolleiflex and Chord. When I purchased my Leica M6 with a Summicron 50mm I joked with them that I would have to live on pasta for a month. The camera duly arrived with some tomato pasta, noodles and tea bags! I liked their humour.
I shall miss looking at their “new arrivals” almost on a daily basis and dealing with them. I wish the whole team great success in the future! – Si’ thi’ later and thank you!
S.H.O.U.T. 
As a resident of South Yorkshire, there are regional differences to the dialect used by my West Yorkshire brethren…
Now then – Nah then – same meaning
Ginnel – Jennel – Same meaning
Maungy – Mardy – Same meaning
This’sen – Same
On Ilkley Moor Bah’t At – Same 🙂
People from Sheffield are sometime known as “Dee-Dahs” because of the local dialect, as in “Nah den, dee, what’s tha doin?” = “Now then, you. What are you doing?”.
I walked past the West Yorkshire Cameras shop a week or so before Christmas. While it was no longer ope to customers, there was activity within, and a large cardboard box in the window with a handwritten sign that read “Box of Leica lenses and cameras (to put in bin)”, so the humour remains. 🙂
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Hi!
I love all that sort of stuff – where I’m from (Dorset) the “real” dialect is most famously recorded by poet, priest and school teacher William Barnes. An example would be: EASTER ZUNDAY.
Last Easter Jim put on his blue
Frock cwoat, the vu’st time—vier new;
Wi’ yollow buttons all o’ brass,
That glitter’d in the zun lik’ glass;
An’ pok’d ’ithin the button-hole
A tutty he’d a-begg’d or stole.
It’s better understood when just read quickly without thinking about it!! Spell check goes mental!! lol Of course the other common dialect around here is “Posh retired Buckinghamshire”! but that’s another story!
I once copied an audio cassette for an old chap of spoken dialect from Norwich – to my ear it may as well have been Bolivian!!
Cheery bye Andy.
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Spell check goes mental even when I *don’t* use local dialect, such is my increasing inability to hit the right keys!
Happy New Year Andy. Hope it’s a good one!
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