Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
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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Some years ago I lived in the sprawling metropolis of Sowerby Bridge, which is high in the Pennines just the other side of Halifax. Yes Leodians, there is something on the other side of Halifax. Being in the Pennines the terrain is not exactly flat, in fact my house had three floors at the front…
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I was recently asked to cover a street food event at the iconic Piece Hall in Halifax. In common with a few other wonderful buildings in Halifax, such as Wade House Tower and the Square Chapel, it is not very well known outside of the town. Visit Yorkshire and other tourist organisations seem to concentrate…
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Tyke It To The Limit 