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Places and Cultural Traces

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

  • Places and Cultural Traces
  • About: Places and Cultural Traces
  • Good Companions: eight industrial era towns and cities
    • Barnsley
    • Bradford
    • Hull
    • Nelson
    • Newcastle
    • Scunthorpe
    • Sheffield
    • Rotherham
  • Psychogeography
    • Bradford: What ship is this?
    • Bradford: Edge lands
    • Bradford: Undercliffe Cemetery
  • Fiction, memoir, and travel writing from the industrial era
    • 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
  • Fragments
    • Nelson
    • Selby
  • Stone
    • Thetford: Flint
    • Oxenhope: Stone Surprises on Nab Hill
    • Malvern: Hills, Rocks and Forts
    • Upper Nidderdale
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • 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 creates Boris Johnson
  • 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

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Todmorden: High Ho Trigger

In Glen Hughes’ ‘Yorkshire Millstone Grit’ there is a photograph of Billy Holt steering Trigger down a beck over broken millstone as the Lone Ranger steered Silver down a gulley between boulders in dusty Nevada. The Lone Ranger, the TV vigilante from the 1950’s, had a different adventure every week, but in damp Todmorden… Continue reading Todmorden: High Ho Trigger

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Selby to Hull in 1836

“Having passed the night at the George Inn at Selby I was somewhat surprised in the morning at the extraordinary anxiety of the landlord…in defiance of all rational objections…the steamer intended to carry us to Hull…” Continue reading Selby to Hull in 1836

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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://culturalgeographycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/get-carter-copy-2.mp3

Get Carter and Ordinary Places

https://culturalgeographycom.files.wordpress.com/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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