Yorkshire

Who said Yorkshire was all smoke?

July 27, 2011

One of the great mistakes made by people who know of the northern counties of England as the cradle of the industrial revolution, but have never visited, is to assume that they are “wall-to-wall” blackened dereliction. Not one bit of it! I must protest, and often do, at such caricatures. Not only do we have [...]

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A Lancashire Surprise

February 12, 2011

This morning I decided to take a look at the visitor statistics for the Around-England blog, and got some surprises. The most visited places on the blog Previously, if anyone had asked me which had been the most popular items I might have guessed at some of my posts about the Lake District.  For example, [...]

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The Yorkshire Coast at Bridlington

February 5, 2011

I haven’t written here for a few days but while sorting through some photos I came across this one that I took while on a few days’ break in Bridlington last April. All too often the northern counties of England are portrayed as full of smoke-blackened mills and abandoned coal mines, but this is far [...]

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Around-England 2010: Extending Our Coverage

January 4, 2010

When I launched this blog just over eighteen months ago my plan was to start with the Lake District. I was also at the time developing a ‘non-blog’ site about the Lake District so that made logical sense, quite apart from the fact that along with Lancashire it’s the part of the country with which [...]

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