Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
I have just seen a feature on Breakfast about the Sunday headline act at Glastonbury, SZR, being the lowest attended for many years, if not ever. Well, if they will insist on staging their do to clash with Harrogate’s Food and Drink Festival, what can they expect. Not only is there a huge choice of…
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When I got an invitation to a Scratch Night in Harrogate I thought, great, it is years since I went to a club with a cool DJ using a couple of decks to create a unique sound – it still is! Apparently, a scratch night in a theatrical context, is an event where writers and…
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Even though it is my local theatre, it is not often I get a chance to visit this Harrogate gem. As it happens I didn’t get to see any of the splendid auditorium this time either, as the function to which I was invited was held in the Stalls Bar, located in the cellar! It…
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Anyone thinking of visiting the lovely spa town of Harrogate should make sure that they arrange their trip to coincide with the Harrogate Food and Drink Festival. Not only because it is a great event for all the family but they seem to have a knack of picking the best weather. That’s next year’s event…
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There’s an old saying that it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good and there was no better place to ratify that theorem than Harrogate Real Food Market. Covid has caused all kinds of devastation but it also seems to have provided the enterprising folk I met on Sunday with an opportunity, and…
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It was lovely not to have to catch a bus to get to an event, but to be able to walk there and back and still not rack up the total of my daily average step count. As well as that, the weather was just about perfect with lots of sun but a few passing…
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If it’s the third Sunday in the month then it has to be Harrogate Real Food Market. From 10.00am until 3.00pm Crescent Gardens becomes home to a selection of independent artisan food producers displaying their products which they have so lovingly created. And what a diverse bunch they are! My first port of call was…
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That wonderful actress and comedienne, Kerry Godliman, is coming to Yorkshire with her BOSH Tour. I’m not sure what BOSH stands for, I can imagine you all rolling your eyes in disbelief at that, but I am sure that it will be made clear on the nights. The press release for the tour contains a…
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No Horizon is a new musical by Andy Platt about Nicholas Saunderson. Who? I hear you ask. Well he was a scientist and mathematician born in 1682 in Thurlestone, Yorkshire, who worked as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge, a post also held by Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage and Stephen Hawking. Not at the…
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Tyke It To The Limit 