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

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  • Fiction, memoir, and travel writing from the industrial era
    • Bradford: What ship is this?
    • Bradford: Edge lands
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    • English Journey: Beryl Bainbridge
    • Bloomsbury via Middlesbrough and Jarrow: Clash
    • Goldthorpe: The Valley
    • Maltby: Brother to the Ox
    • Thurcroft: weekend in Dinlock
    • Todmorden: I Haven’t Unpacked
    • Gainsborough: The Mill on the Floss
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    • Malvern: Hills, Rocks and Forts
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  • Newcastle & Newbiggin: Art for Today
  • Huddersfield postman’s inspiration from the ordinary
  • CLR James’ “Minty Alley”
  • Orwell in Southwold
  • Morning in the City: JB Priestley
  • The Rocket
  • Ellen Wilkinson, in 1932, described the Boris Johnson playbook
  • The Division Bell Mystery (1932)
  • Goole Dock
  • ‘These days our hometowns are often more exotic and full of new curiosity than Timbuktu or Easter Island’ *
  • All Quiet on the West Riding Fronts
  • ‘Get Carter’, and ‘Manuscript in a Red Box’
  • ‘Newcastle… sucks you in like a vortex’
  • Huguenots in the stockade building scaffold to hang the arsonists
  • A rock band on the Altar

Category: North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire, Northallerton, Social History

Northallerton Prison, treadmills, Sophia Constable and Little Dorrit

Reacting to our shock at the image the volunteer told us treadmills in prisons weren’t always a negative thing… Continue reading Northallerton Prison, treadmills, Sophia Constable and Little Dorrit

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North Yorkshire, Social History

J L Carr: The Vale of Mowbray

Another literary outing…this time to Thirsk in the Vale of Mowbray in pursuit of a 1920 Oxgodby where the damaged Birkin – inexperienced restorer of medieval murals and veteran of Passchendaele, and Moon, nascent archaeologist with a Military Cross and Court Martial – were healing through flights of fancy.  Continue reading J L Carr: The Vale of Mowbray

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North Yorkshire, Selby

Beauty in the eye of the beholder…

Which beautiful Abbey is a short distance away at the opposite end of the street from this beautiful industrial era configuration? Continue reading Beauty in the eye of the beholder…

Unknown's avatarPlacesandculturaltraces10th Apr 202214th Jan 2025Leave a comment

Newcastle Metroland

https://youtu.be/sFsss7qgdCQ

Bradford City Centre

https://youtu.be/My0bivM_AWY

Scunthorpe: Get Carter, Manuscript on a Red Box

https://youtu.be/yTnDUdbHZWw

Get Carter and Ordinary Places

https://placesandculturaltraces.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/get-carter-copy-2.mp3

Get Carter and Ordinary Places

https://placesandculturaltraces.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/get-carter-copy-2.mp3

Bradford City Centre

https://youtu.be/My0bivM_AWY

Newcastle Metroland

https://youtu.be/sFsss7qgdCQ

Scunthorpe: Get Carter, Manuscript in a Red Box

https://youtu.be/yTnDUdbHZWw
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