Monthly Archives: April 2006

On the Flat

Posted on April 24, 2006 by John

Leav­ing Selby on the Trans-Pennine trail does not inspire the lyric muse. Only the know­ledge that up and down this nar­row tidal ditch came Vik­ings, Hugen­ots, voy­agers of every ilk, right up to the last cen­tury, in their hun­dreds of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Two Blacksmiths and a Tiger

Posted on April 24, 2006 by John

The first ped­al­lers’ out­ing of the year took us from the Blacksmith’s Arms in Hunt­ing­ton — where one of our num­ber was served with the world’s longest chip (pos­sibly an extru­sion) via the slippy banks of the Foss to the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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War through Artist’s Eyes

Posted on April 15, 2006 by John

One of my favour­ite books to look through when I was a kid (in the 50s) was a col­lec­tion of the works of the WWII War Artists — which included Paul Nash and Henry Moore (Moore’s massive, sculp­ted draw­ings of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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