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The short route
Saturday morning. 6.40 am. Birds are chirruping, the sun has got his hat on, the sky’s forget-me-not blue. Try as I might, I can’t pretend I’m sleeping. I give up, get up and prepare for a weekend jaunt. Queen Street … Continue reading
There and back. A post-industrial journey, with cake
I used to love seeing labels that said ‘Empire Made’ – engraved on an old pair of scissors or a battered decorative tin. Such a feeling of immensity in that one word, ‘empire’. But I was a little girl then … Continue reading
Posted in Art, jaunts & going out, Britain now & then
Tagged cake, chimneys, Commonwealth, cotton, empire made, mills, silver jewellery, smoke, weavers, wool, Yorkshire
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