Brian Groom
@GroomB
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Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' (May 2024) and bestselling 'Northerners: A History' (2022).
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My books 'Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World' and 'Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day' available in paperback and hardback, from bookshops and websites. Publisher @HarperNorthUK
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Kate Lycett Former textile designer turned artist ( thank goodness) Hebden Bridge is home. She arrived to work designing textiles but the palette wasn’t large enough. Creating art full time was a challenge with young children Now she’s a celebrated artists . Love her work
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Good later Afternoon Years ago when I began tweeting art I thought I’d hit the jackpot when i discovered this artist Steven Scholes. Then @GrimArtGroup began posting his work so I sort of gave up posting 😔 I’ve started again ! The clock is ten past four in all his work.
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It’s starting to go dark already this evening and ‘Lighting Up Time’ will soon be upon us. Peter Brook’s title is clearly a reference to the solitary lamp post with its warm orange and red glow transforming what might otherwise have been a somewhat dark and gloomy woodland scene.
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As the busy bookselling season looms, 'Made in Manchester' is still number eight English history bestseller at @Waterstones.
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River Wear, Durham, photo by Kathryn Burrington, travel blogger.
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Detectorist's Bronze Age find in Yorkshire Dales goes on show.
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The gold lunula was found in a stream in Grassington and is now on show at Craven Museum in Skipton.
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Views sought to help conserve Durham's World Heritage Site.
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There are proposals to protect Durham Cathedral and castle's Unesco-designated status.
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Liverpool's oldest cinema to reopen for Christmas.
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Woolton Picture House, which opened in 1927 but shut in 2020, will mark 12 days of Christmas.
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Cumbria schoolchildren raise funds to commemorate Britain's first black policeman, John Kent.
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John Kent, who lived and worked in Carlisle 1837, is buried in an unmarked grave.
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Denys Fisher, the Leeds-born pacifist weapons engineer who changed toys for good.
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Denys Fisher was running a company making weapon components when he had his Eureka moment.
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October Afterglow, 1885, painting by Leeds-born John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-93). #NorthernArt
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#OTD 1951. Churchill back in Number 10. Big crowds gather at Trafalgar as war leaders Attlee and Churchill face off in an election for the 3rd time. Labour wins 13.9m votes - its highest ever vote - but the Tories win a majority.
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The Manchester Carriage Company was founded by John Greenwood, who started the UK's first bus service - between Pendleton and Manchester - in 1824, five years before London's first bus service (Museum of Transport Greater Manchester.)
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Foundation stone for Alfred Waterhouse's Manchester Town Hall was laid on this day 1868. Took almost 10 years to erect at a cost approaching £1m, described as ‘unequalled for size, completeness and adaptability for its purpose among the municipal buildings of Europe’.
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Divk Taverne, founder member of the Liberal Democrats, dies aged 97.
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Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey described him as "passionate, principled and thoughtful".
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