He said he’d show me dinosaurs, but with visibility down to just a few feet, there could’ve been brontosaurus having a garden party and we wouldn’t have known anything about it… Leo Walmsley lives at the Old...
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‘You can’t sit there.’ I’d just got a pint at the Corporation and was about to sit down in the corner chair. ‘Why not?’ I said a bit perplexed. ‘That’s Albert’s seat’ ‘There’s no-one here’ I said...
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If from the public way you turn your steps Uip the tumultuous brook of Greenhead Gill. No habitation there is seen but such As journey thither find themselves alone With a few sheep, with...
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Our taste for exotic and alternative food isn’t new. Curry was a popular dish in this country in the late eighteenth / early nineteenth century: the first vegetarian restaurants also opened around that time,...
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The searchlight followed her, and a shudder ran through all who saw her, for lashed to the helm was a corpse, with drooping head, which swung horribly to and fro at each motion of the ship. No other...
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Traditionally the Lake District’s economy was sustained by farming and heavy industry. Wool, heavy metals, slate, coal and graphite were processed here and exported around the country and beyond, but...
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John Dixon was a publisher, author and historian who, in the spirit of notable Blackburn writers Alfred Wainwright and Jessica Lofthouse created a series of historic walks through the Lancashire...
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I’ve just returned from Blackburn: my hometown and a place we’ll revisit a number of times over the course of this blog. My parents, grandparents and generations of my family lie in its cemeteries. Tim and...
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Catherine Kay is the Education Officer at the Wordsworth Trust. She read Romantic literature at St Andrews and has an extensive knowledge along with a love and passion for her subject. Away from...
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