03 April 2011

Swinging Polaroids

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The Polaroid Swinger, the first cheap instant camera, was produced between 1965 and 1970. The Model 20, so designated for its price, was adv...
31 March 2011

BBC2 - And The New

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Bishop Burton College has made happen a £25m development of its campus. Harmonised with the attractive older buildings (YMGW passim ) ...
29 March 2011

Conisbrough

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The original castle at Conisbrough was built around 1070 by the first Earl Warenne, son-in-law of William the Conqueror. The fifth ear...
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24 March 2011

BBC1 - The Old

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Bishop Burton College, the UK's only Centre of Vocational Excellence in Agriculture, and lead college in a CoVE in Equine, has its or...
22 March 2011

Howden Minster

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Howden is an interesting market town, renowned for its Georgian horse fair; once home to the north-west contingent of the Admiralty...

Derelict Brighouse

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Just off the M62, and on the River Calder, is Brighouse - the "h" is silent. The town has clearly seen better days. Curiousl...
19 March 2011

Hack Green, Nuclear War Bunker

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Hack Green started life in 1941 as a fixed radar station. It was one of only a dozen provided with both searchlights and the communication...
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16 March 2011

Crunk Cruckton

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Crunk: slang for exciting. After explaining where it is, the Wikipedia entry for Cruckton gives as the first of its three descriptive...
09 March 2011

The Taj Mahal of the North

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Williamson Park was laid out in the sometime quarries of Lancaster Moor from which was extracted the stone used in many of the city's ...
08 March 2011

Satis House Located?

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The hard winter hasn't been at all kind to Calcott Hall ( YMGW passim ). The walls appear in reasonable shape, although they wo...
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04 March 2011

Karan Anne Porter

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Thursday 4 March 1965 to Wednesday 4 February 2009. Photograph: University of Lancaster, 1984.

Hereford, Not Mappa Mundane

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Hereford's pièce de résistance is, naturally, the cathedral, but the city is home to a number of attractive buildings (and some dire o...
01 March 2011

British Petroliana?

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The Anglo-American Oil Company Ltd was formed in 1888, a British affiliate of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust. This last wa...
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27 February 2011

Sorviodunum = Sarum = Salisbury

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Two miles north of Salisbury is Old Sarum, the original site of the city. Massive Iron Age ramparts, raised five millennia ago, remaine...
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26 February 2011

The Bastards of Blandford

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Blandford Forum, Shottesford Forum in Hardy's Wessex novels, is a market town famed for its Georgian architecture. The market goes ba...
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Edmondsham

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Although closed, the owner of Edmonsham House, a gorgeous Tudor manor house of 1589, with Georgian additions, allowed access to th...

Tidworth and Tedworth

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12 miles south of Marlborough in Wiltshire is Tidworth, and hard by the A338, its spire visible from the road amidst a surrounding sma...
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24 February 2011

Much Wenlock Quarries II

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To one side of the limestone escarpment of Wenlock Edge is Lea Quarry, operated for the production of roadstone until about four years ago...