SWEEPING UP THE STREET Jim Jarratts 1990s Yorkshire Post articles present a grimly humorous and often philosophical look at the day to day realities of cleaning the streets of Calderdale, West Yorkshire. Also features words and music to the STREET SWEEPERS SONG!

BRIGANTIAN WHISPERS A collection of creepy and unusual tales from northern england. By Jim Jarratt. Visit if you DARE!

THE MAN FROM WIBSEY SLACK Jim Jarratts personal website - songbooks, cds, walkers guides and the YORKSHIRE NATIONAL ANTHEM!

MYTHOLMROYD YOUTH ACTION Site run by and dedicated to the youth of Mytholmroyd West Yorkshire. Details of youth activities and fundraising events to raise money for Roof over Youth Development, which aims to construct a purpose built youth centre in the village.

BURNLEY TO BINGLEY A Transpennine Challenge Walk by Jim Jarratt. Everything you need to do this Lancashire-Yorkshire hike you will find on the website. If you complete the walk and enter your details in the guestbook you will be sent a certificate of merit!

WOODEN DOLLS - Autobiography of A.E. Jarratt. Annie E. Jarratt grew up at Featherstone in the Yorkshire Coalfield in the 1920s. Poverty and hardship forced her and her family to seek work in the booming textile mills of Bradford, where she was, after a brief sojourn in the Land Army, to meet her future husband. This is her story ....

THE PATHFINDER - The story of a journey, by Jim Jarratt & Mal Laws. The folk rock epic that never was. In 1975 seven musicians set out to record The Pathfinder, a folk/rock oddysey along an imaginary mystical 'ley line' across Northern England, loosely based on a real life journey on Alf Wainwrights now famous 'Coast-to-Coast Walk'. No-one at the time would have thought the 'journey' was to involve numerous setbacks, and would be 25 years in the making! This site is best appreciated with a full screen and your speakers switched ON!

RAMBLES ROUND JUDY WOODS A ramblers guide to this fascinating area of broadleafed woodlands to the South of Bradford, West Yorkshire.

IVORY TOWERS AND DRESSED STONES Comprehensive (previously published) walkers guides to the Follies and Architectural curiosities of Lancashire, Yorkshire and the North Midlands. This site is a must see resource for anyone interested in 'rogue architecture'.

JANNOCK! Support Site for Audio CD 'JANNOCK! Songs, Dances and Romances of the Striding Dales'- Lile Vixen. Tringe Records. Contains detailed sleeve notes and source info. Also sublinks to 'Song of the Dale',an orchestral midi composition based on the traditional music featured in 'Jannock!'
'Jannock!' is available from Jim Jarratt price 7.00

THE BEACONS WAY- A Discoverie of Witchcraft A long Distance footbath from Whalley in Lancashire to Otley in Yorkshire, via the three beacons of Pendle Beacon, Pinhaw Beacon and Beamsley Beacon.Tells the story of the Pendle Witches along with that of the lesser known Timble Witches of Washburndale.Contains a wealth of material relating to North Country traditions,history, folklore, lead mining, and ancient prehistoric carvings.Mysterious stuff!

Jim Jarratts Domain at jimjarratt.co.uk offers a comprehensive index of Jims websites!

Jim Jarratt
Mytholmroyd. 1988

Copyright Jim Jarratt. 2006 First Published by Smith Settle 1989