Place explored through a personal selection of the lives, novels, art, architecture, poetry and history inspired by England's industrial era.​

What must the American tourists be thinking as they wait at Halifax station? The train’s late, nowhere to sit, passengers hang around looking washed out, and the platform needs a spring clean and lick of paint.
On the other hand, on the sandstone wall across from platform 2 there’s a poster advertising Shakespear’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at the Viaduct Theatre. Parents shout at their kids in a colourful local accent, and the family group pushing the pram painfully down each step of the footbridge smile at the bottom, possibly in the direction of the Americans and their Cirque De Soleil duffel bag.

* Someone said it, it certainly wasn’t me. But I wish I had. If it was you, let me know…

Source of information on the Rose Window and the Spire:

Click to access Square-roots-heritage-leaflet-2020.pdf

Barnsley Bradford East Lancashire Galloway Goole Halifax Huddersfield Hull Jarrow Kirkcudbright Maltby Nelson Newcastle North Yorkshire Rotherham Scunthorpe Selby Sheffield Social History Southwold The North Todmorden West Yorkshire York