JIM JARRATT  is a writer, folksinger and Yorkshire Nationalist. Born in Bradford in 1950 this one time actor and countryside ranger has had a somewhat colourful career. In the seventies he worked with folksinger Bob Pegg of  Mr. Fox Fame, with whom he appeared on television and at the Ilkley Festival, and it was around this time thatt he began writing his highly distinctive local songs and monologues. which he frequently showcased as a member of the Waggonners Folk Group. Jim began seriously writing in the 1980s when unemployed, and has written various features in the Guardian, Yorkshire Post, Yorkshire Journal and Pennine Magazine, also appearing with Luke Casey in YTVs  'Dales Diary' (1996). His first two countryside guidebooks 'The Fielden Trail and 'The Watersheds Walk'  were published by Smith Settle in 1988, and 1994 saw the publication of 'Ivory Towers and Dressed Stones' (Cicerone Press), two walkers guides to the follies and curiosities of Yorkshire And Lancashire respectively. Recently Jim returned to the theatre playing his wide range of musical instruments in local productions of  Catherine Cooksons 'The Fifteen Streets' and Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'. Jim Lives in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire with his wife, where he combines the contrasting occupations of freelance sub editor and council street sweeper!

Jim Jarratt

Myrtle Grove Publications/Tringe Records

10, Myrtle Grove, Scout Road,

Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire.

HX7 5JD United Kingdom

Phone: 01422884537