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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
Fiction, memoir, and travel writing from the industrial era
Fragments
- Nelson
- Selby
Stone
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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Bradford, Psychogeography

What Ship is This?

Maybe Bradford Interchange is not the blight on the spirit that it thinks it is. Continue reading What Ship is This?

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Scunthorpe: Get Carter, Manuscript on a Red Box

Get Carter and Ordinary Places

Get Carter and Ordinary Places

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Scunthorpe: Get Carter, Manuscript in a Red Box

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