Bring back the Yorkshire dialect - ‘A reet gradely idea’

Oct 4 2008 by Barry Gibson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A DAUGHTER wants to revive interest in Yorkshire dialect through her late father’s work.

Golcar man William Beaumont wrote poetry and prose in the Yorkshire dialect.

His 57-year-old daughter, Katharine, wants a new generation to appreciate his writing.

She said: “I would like my father’s work to be promoted because the Yorkshire dialect is important to this area.”

William, who died in 1976 aged 58, was a regular contributor to the Examiner and was best known for his series Yar Joe Willie and Throng as Thropp’s Wife.

Katharine said: “He talked to people all the time and he wrote about local life. He was an intelligent man, but he never lost contact with the common man.”