Pentagon appointment for Tim Howard of Everton
A grateful US citizen briefly used Wikipedia to show America’s World Cup gratitude to Everton’s goalkeeper. Jimmy Wales, founder of the free encyclopaedia, commented graciously. The Everton and former...
View ArticleWainwright’s 2015 calendar takes young walkers and climbers in footsteps of...
Proceeds from next year’s best-selling Wainwright Calendar will fund the kind of ‘moment of magic’ that persuaded the great artist and fell-walker to take a pay cut and live in the Lake District. On...
View ArticleMalcolm Hollingdrake wins North West Writer of the Year
Lancashire and North West Magazine judges have awarded our 2014 prize to Malcolm Hollingdrake. His entry, Another Time, Another Place, wins our two hundred pounds prize for a fictional story of less...
View ArticleHarold Elletson’s Northern Notebook
Why Your Council Tax Is So High Dr Thomas Stockmann, the hero of Henrik Ibsen’s great play An Enemy of the People, discovers that the mayor of his town has covered up the fact that the water in the...
View ArticleManchester: the guide’s guide
Imagine Pevsner meeting Betjeman drinking in the Peveril of the Peak with Doctor Bronowski and Tony H Wilson. That’s what it can feel like when you settle down in a Manchester pub with the city guide...
View ArticleHarold Elletson’s Northern Notebook
Wilhelm II, German Kaiser and King of Prussia, visited the North West of England 120 years ago. He travelled from the east coast by train to Penrith where he was welcomed by his friend, the Earl of...
View ArticleHarold Elletson’s Northern Notebook
Was Emmeline the Greatest Lancastrian of All Time? Chief Inspector Francis Harry Rolfe of the Metropolitan Police had little trouble lifting up the elegant, well dressed woman at the head of a group...
View ArticleHarry Yeadon, civil engineer, 1922 – 2015
Born in Accrington, educated at Accrington Grammar and Manchester University, Harry Yeadon saw his first autostrada on wartime service with the Royal Engineers in Italy. He joined the highways and...
View ArticleHarold Elletson’s Northern Notebook
Is my house cracking because of your fracking? An old house is a never-ending labour of love. No sooner have you fixed one problem than another appears and, sometimes, what seemed at first to be a...
View ArticleHarry Yeadon, engineer, 1922 – 2015
Born in Accrington, educated at Accrington Grammar and Manchester University, Harry Yeadon saw his first autostrada on wartime service with the Royal Engineers in Italy. He joined the highways and...
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