Video: How you celebrated Yorkshire Day

As Yorkshire Day, August 1 provides an opportunity for residents to mark what is great about living, working or visiting the county.

In Filey, Responsible Fishing UK, an arts collective, created a large-scale sand drawing on the beach. Working in the early hours of the morning, a team of artists used rakes to mark out the sand drawing, which included a Yorkshire rose.

They were washed away later as the tide came in.

Skipton hosted the “official” celebrations this year.

There, civic dignitaries from all over the county marched through the town.

Celebrations and events continue in the market town today, tomorrow and Sunday with attractions including an urban beach in the canal basin.

Details have been published online – at www.yorkshireday2013.co.uk

Meanwhile the Bard of Barnsley, Ian McMillan, chose the day to help promote the Alzheimer’s Society Memory Walk with a bit of fine verse he has crafted.

His poem Walking for Memory, Walking from Memory promotes the Alzheimer’s Society Memory Walk which will be taking place in partnership with Bupa Care Homes at Wentworth Castle Gardens near Barnsley, on Sunday September 29.

The Yorkshire Post columnist and Radio 3 presenter took to the steps of the Rotunda temple in the gardens to perform the poem and to urge people support the event by visiting the www.memorywalk.org.uk website

The Yorkshire flag was flown on buildings including Halifax Town Hall – as Calderdale Council announced that Halifax will host the official celebrations in 2016.

And, at Stockeld Park, near Wetherby, Sam Speight tried out a tea pot slide at the countryside attraction while Holly Thornton was treated to a cup of Yorkshire’s best brew.