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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

Tag: Barnsley

Barnsley

Barnsley: Kes, Coal and Covid

The world depicted by Barry Hines 1968 novel ‘A Kestrel for a Knave’, and recreated by Ken Loach in his 1969 film ‘Kes’ has long passed but coal’s legacy remains with us. Continue reading Barnsley: Kes, Coal and Covid

Placesandculturaltraces29th Apr 202228th Apr 2022Leave 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://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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