Our Great Yorkshire Life

Yorkshire Vet Peter Wright is helping out wife Lin in the kitchen as they prepare to serve up Sunday lunch for his visiting brother David and his wife Denise. Then Peter and Lin visit Malton, the market town that locals proudly proclaim to be the gastro capital of Yorkshire. They meet up with craft brewer Howard Kinder and help him create a beer with Yorkshire puddings.

On the east coast, we catch up with fifth generation fisherman Will Jenkinson. In summer and spring Will spends most days at sea but in the colder months when crabs and lobsters are hibernating, Will and crew carry out important repair work in their warehouse. At home we meet Will's family and discover if there will be a sixth generation of Jenkinson's fishing off the coast of Scarborough in coming years.

In Southowram, West Yorkshire twenty-five-year-old farmer Stephen Short is enjoying the fruits of his hard labour. His flock of 200 sheep has been bolstered by 150 new lambs and in his calving sheds, there are 18 new calves. But his focus today is with new sheep dog pup Whin, she's a bit of a loose cannon and Stephen needs to train her up if she is to become a fully-fledged member of his workforce.

And in the Yorkshire Dales, off-grid living Adam and Moira Domican-Gough are making progress at Crina Bottom, a remote 17th century farmhouse tucked away in a corner of the Dales near the village of Ingleton. Today, they are putting the finishing touches to their tea and cake kiosk that they hope will tempt in passing tourists and they are preparing for a VIP guest as 105-year-old Margaret drops into Crina Bottom, which was her mother's childhood home in the 1890s.

In Dewsbury, Jo Ounsley, husband Phil and concierge Sally are preparing for the first-time visit of Bengal Romeo, whose owner is jetting off to the Maldives to celebrate her birthday. The team are working hard to make sure Romeo will be pampered during his stay and are also entertaining regular visitor Lola whose owners are heading off for an east coast break. Jo, Phil and Sally are decking out Lola's room with a coastal theme and they've shipped in fresh fish from Whitby as an à la carte treat.

In Wakefield, model railway enthusiast Simon George is putting the finishing touches to his 200-foot-long replica of a 1.5 mile stretch of real track he remembers from his childhood in the 1980s. The detail in Simon's work is jaw-dropping, with over 100,000 individual components, all created from diligent research and personal memories. Once complete, Simon plans to break down his model and transport it for a display in Wakefield centre but moving this huge, fragile railway could easily hit the buffers.

Journalist Christa Ackroyd visits the Wentworth Woodhouse stately home near Rotherham, which is twice as wide as Buckingham Palace and is the largest single house ever built for a private family in the whole of Europe. With an amazing 365 rooms and five miles of corridors this 1730s stately home had fallen into disrepair but it's now undergoing a complete restoration by a team led by facilities manager Julie Readman and Dame Julie Kenny.

And the village of Crakehall is the location for a feisty competition when Jonathan Firby's team take on local rival Dickie Broach in a game of Quoits. The traditional northern game was popular among the Yorkshire mining communities in the 1880s and is now enjoining a resurgence.

Gaynor Faye overcomes a lifelong fear of horses with gentle therapy, while farmer Steven Short hopes his lambs fetch strong auction prices. At Castle Howard, restored rooms reopen after decades, and craftsman Tom Addison completes a historic church restoration, celebrating Yorkshire's resilience, heritage, community spirit, and determination.