Yorkshire Day has been marked early with events in Huddersfield.

Tea, cakes and white roses were the order of the day for many.

And there was no escaping the celebrations if you were a rail passenger in God’s own county.

Train operator, First TransPennine Express, decorated stations across Yorkshire to celebrate the August 1 anniversary.

Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Hull and Northallerton are among 11 stations across the operator’s network that are being dressed in bunting containing the Yorkshire white rose.

Station staff are giving out ‘’appy Yorkshire Day’ flags to people passing through the stations, and will also be wearing Yorkshire white rose pin badges in support of the annual event.

Mike Drewery, First TransPennine Express’ Station Manager, said: “We’re very proud of our role in connecting millions of people each year across the Yorkshire region.

“This is our own little of way of celebrating Yorkshire Day with people travelling into the region, and recognising Yorkshire’s fantastic historical and cultural heritage”.

Zosia Sagan tries the lucky dip with Forget Me Not Children's Hospice supporters Sheila Hodson, Alex Bray, Sunny Sandhu, Clem Crowther and Sheila Walker at Yorkshire Day event on Huddersfield Piazza.
Zosia Sagan tries the lucky dip with Forget Me Not Children's Hospice supporters Sheila Hodson, Alex Bray, Sunny Sandhu, Clem Crowther and Sheila Walker at Yorkshire Day event on Huddersfield Piazza.

Elsewhere staff at Huddersfield Tourist Information were to keen to celebrate the day they held a special tea party a day early on Friday, July 31.

Anyone who popped into the centre at Huddersfield Library was welcomed with a free cup of tea or coffee with the Mayor of Kirklees, Clr Paul Kane, pouring the first cup of tea for the Mayoress at 10am.

Library staff handed out white roses and Huddersfield Town Crier Vic Watson livened up the proceedings.

Staff at Switalskis law firm in Queen Street, Huddersfield, raised £300 in aid of the Forget me Not Children’s Hospice with their Yorkshire Day event.

Helped by hospice members they sold cakes, chocolates and beverages on The Piazza.

Trainee solicitor Sunny Sundhu said: “We had tombola and face painting too as well as serving up cups of tea and coffee.”

Yorkshire Day was first celebrated in 1975, by the Yorkshire Ridings Society, initially in Beverley, as “a protest movement against the Local Government re-organisation of 1974”.

A Welcome to Yorkshire spokesman said: “We secretly think that Yorkshire Day should be celebrated 365 days a year. However we’ll just have to settle for August 1 and make it an extra special day.

“It’s a chance to celebrate all things Yorkshire when the UK’s largest county comes together to indulge in vast quantities of regional pride”.