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The Great British Talkshow Host – Sir Michael Parkinson
With Sir Michael Parkinson due to receive his Lifetime Achievement Award at the Yorkshire Awards in March 2022, it seemed like a good...
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Dec 9, 20213 min read
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The Multangular Tower - an insight into Roman York
With lockdown restrictions starting to ease, I have been lucky over the past week, to have completed 3 virtual tours of York for US...
timbarber
Apr 5, 20213 min read
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Percy Shaw – the Yorkshire inventor of the “Cat’s Eye”
The “Cat’s Eye” was invented in 1934 by Yorkshireman Percy Shaw and has no doubt saved thousands of lives on the roads over the years....
timbarber
Feb 4, 20213 min read
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Did you know Britain’s tallest ever man was a Yorkshireman?
William Bradley – often known as “The Yorkshire Giant” or “Bradley the Giant” was born in Market Weighton in the East Riding in 1787 and...
timbarber
Jan 4, 20213 min read
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So what is the link between an elephant, the artist JMW Turner and Otley Chevin?
On one of my favourite dog walking routes on Otley Chevin there is a wood carving by local sculptor and teacher Shane Green of an...
timbarber
Dec 22, 20203 min read
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William Wilberforce – The original Black Lives Matter Campaigner
After the recent Black Lives Matter protests around the world it was quite apt when one of my fellow guides, Nick Smith, the owner of Yor...
timbarber
Jun 23, 20204 min read
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Titus Salt - How Alpaca and Donskoi wool lead to his success
Industrialist Titus Salt will forever be remembered as a Yorkshire industrialist who pioneered the use of the model village for his...
timbarber
Apr 14, 20203 min read
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Alf Wight - the "real James Herriot"
A modest, self-described ‘run-of-the-mill’ country vet, James Herriot (pseudonym for Alf Wight), became internationally famous as the...
timbarber
Mar 26, 20205 min read
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Barbara Hepworth - “One of the most important sculptors of the 20th Century”
The Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield was opened in 2011 and is one of the corners of the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle. It was opened to...
timbarber
Mar 21, 20202 min read
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