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
Giving voice to overlooked voices from Wakefield’s five towns. Continue reading All Quiet on the West Riding Fronts
Judy loved this building – had her fiftieth last weekend, bar in the community room, rock band on the alter ‘almost called it a stage…’ Continue reading A rock band on the Altar
Stuart Maconie in Adventures on the High Teas (2009) has this to say about the North: … the worst of the North, who bang on about it being God’s Country. It isn’t. There is no God’s Country. Unless it all is. Or unless it’s Einstein’s Country. Merely coming from the north per se is nothing to be proud of. You have to do something, go … Continue reading The North is not God’s Country
Places and Cultural Traces 