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The Story of Titus Salt and Saltaire
Salts Mill in Saltaire, Bradford is an iconic Yorkshire building. Built by businessman and philanthropist Sir Titus Salt it has ... -
The Victoria Quarter, Leeds – History and Profile
The Knightsbridge of the North The Beatles once played there, top stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Gracie Fields have ... -
Historic Leeds Pubs
Paul Chrystal’s book ‘Central Leeds Through Time’ (Amberley Publishing, 2016, £14.99) charts Leeds’s evolution through a collection of captivating photographs. ... -
Haunted York – A Journey Through York’s Criminal Haunts
Author Summer Strevens investigates York’s murderous and supernatural history… Serving a Spectral Sentence… It is said that powerful or traumatic ... -
A Brief History of Bradford
By Alan Hall One of the problems that confronts me as the author of Bradford in 100 Dates is knowing what ... -
Mary Tuke – The Mother of York’s Chocolate Industry
By Summer Strevens If we are to examine the true circumstances surrounding the ‘birth’ of York as ‘Chocolate City’ we ... -
Yorkshire’s Cistercian Abbeys & The Wandering White Monks of Yorkshire
By Richard Smyth Life is seldom comfortable when you’re a monk. Lots of praying, lots of work, not much in ... -
Jowett Motor Company, Bradford – The History of a Car Cult
By Paul Chrystal The Jowett Motor Company was a prestigious motor car company operating from Bradford from 1901 to 1954, ... -
Scarborough Hotel Landslide Remembered
The Hotel That Slid Into The Sea by Colin Philpott For several days in early June 1993, the country – ... -
The Battle of Orgreave
The story of an infamous and pivotal confrontation between striking miners and police in Yorkshire… by Colin Philpott If ever ... -
Burton Menswear – A History
‘Gone for a Burton’ Montague Burton’s ambition was not only to clothe the nation, but to raise the bar on ... -
Avro Aircraft Factory, Leeds – The Story of Yeadon’s Hidden War Effort
A Hidden Aeroplane Factory During World War II by Colin Philpott Today it is an anonymous looking industrial estate alongside ...
