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Category Archives: history
The birthday bridge
According to the 2009 Whitby Calendar up on our wall, today is the centenary of Whitby’s swing bridge. There is some confusion over when the bridge was built but the official celebrations will be next month. Sat 08 Aug 2009 Whitby Swing … Continue reading
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A birthday visit…
When we were in California, we dropped in on the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. It is arguably the most famous Cinema in the world and has hosted hundreds of Premieres since it opened on May 18th 1927. By co-incidence, … Continue reading
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More of Lotherton Hall
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Alternative lifestyles
I was bemused to see a brace of Children’s books in ASDA recently about a little cow called Cushy Butterfield. Indeed, one of them was entitled Cushy Butterfield (She’s a little cow) , cover to the right, image from Amazon. This … Continue reading
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Retrospective photojournalism
I’ve previously blogged about the legendary Leslie Overend, the man whose photographic collection spanned decades of Morley life. Leslie retired in 1983 and died six years later, bequeathing his vast (not too well sorted) collection to Stephen White. his journalist colleague … Continue reading
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