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111 Places in Yorkshire That You Shouldn't Miss [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 205x135x27 mm, kaal: 462 g, 111 Illustrations, color
  • Sari: 111 Places
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2021
  • Kirjastus: Emons Verlag GmbH
  • ISBN-10: 3740811676
  • ISBN-13: 9783740811679
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 205x135x27 mm, kaal: 462 g, 111 Illustrations, color
  • Sari: 111 Places
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2021
  • Kirjastus: Emons Verlag GmbH
  • ISBN-10: 3740811676
  • ISBN-13: 9783740811679
Teised raamatud teemal:
They call Yorkshire Gods own country. This is because Englands biggest county is also Englands most epic and most historically exciting. It has everything: unimaginably beautiful countryside, derelict castles, cliff-hugging coastlines, brutally bleak moors, quirkily quaint villages, wondrously winding waterways and industrial monsters of cities. Many of the most interesting episodes in English history have happened here: the Wars of the Roses, the English Civil War, the birth of the industrial revolution, the rise of the Labour movement.





But when people think of Yorkshire they also think of the unusual and the unsung: Bettys delightful tea rooms, cricket at Scarborough, the windswept steps of Whitby Abbey, the steam railway of the Railway Children, Mother Shiptons Cave, and racing at Doncaster and York.





Yorkshire has also given birth to some of the greatest and most talented figures in English history: Brian Clough, Harold Wilson, John Wycliffe, William Wilberforce, the Brontë Sisters, David Hockney and Barbara Hepworth.
1 The Aiggin Stone | Aiggin
Welcome to Yorkshire!
10(2)
2 Barnsley Main Colliery | Barnsley
Coal not dole
12(2)
3 Dickie Bird Statue | Barnsley
Beyond the boundary
14(2)
4 Batley Variety Club | Batley
Variety is the spice of live
16(2)
5 Beverley Market Cross | Beverley
Don't make the market cross
18(2)
6 Beverley Sanctuary Stone | Beverley
Give me sanctuary!
20(2)
7 The Five Rise Locks | Bingley
Lock up your boaters
22(2)
8 Dickens' Dotheboys Hall | Bowes
Spare the rod...
24(2)
9 Seductive Silver Swan | Bowes
Awesome antiquated automaton in amazing abode
26(2)
10 Billy Liar's Cemetery | Bradford
William, it was really nothing
28(2)
11 Bradford City FC Fire | Bradford
Grim reminder of an avoidable tragedy
30(2)
12 City Hall Clock Tower | Bradford
The bells, the bells!
32(2)
13 Delius | Bradford
`To be sung of a summer night on the water'
34(2)
14 Museum of the Ever-Changing Name | Bradford
It's all the media's fault
36(2)
15 Old Labour is born | Bradford
Labour was working
38(2)
16 A Revolution in Industry | Bradford
Once the largest silk factory in the world
40(2)
17 Saltaire Workers' Houses | Bradford
Aflavour of a mighty model village
42(2)
18 Doncaster's Winning Post | Doncaster
`I gotta horse'
44(2)
19 Four-Minute Warning Site | Fylingdales
Defence is the best form of attack
46(2)
20 Anne Lister, Shibden Hall | Halifax
The house that Jack built
48(2)
21 Gibbet of Halifax | Halifax
Tortuous topper tells of `Hell, Hull and Halifax'
50(2)
22 The Piece Hall of Halifax | Halifax
Handsome hall for keeping the piece
52(2)
23 Wainhouse Tower | Halifax
World's tallest folly -- no mistake
54(2)
24 Bettys Tea Rooms | Harrogate
`Ooh Betty!'
56(2)
25 Whodunit Author Hideout | Harrogate
Right thriller for thriller writer
58(2)
26 Turkish Baths | Harrogate
Ornate Ottoman decor washed with healing waters
60(2)
27 Cabinet of Curiosities | Haworth
`To cure the soul by means of the senses ...'
62(2)
28 Railway Children Railway | Haworth
Travel back to the golden age of steam
64(2)
29 Bronte's Shooting Range | Haworth
Novel way of redecorating the church wall
66(2)
30 Wuthering Heights Pub | Haworth
Book a place for a visit to the landlord
68(2)
31 Heavenly? Hebden Bridge | Hebden Bridge
Rural Ruritania
70(2)
32 Heptonstall's Abandoned Church | Heptonstall
And the walls came tumbling down
72(2)
33 Sylvia Plath's Grave | Heptonstall
Stasis in darkness for God's lioness
74(2)
34 Ted Hughes' Lumb Bank | Heptonstall
Woodland lair for wild laureate
76(2)
35 Classic Classical Station | Huddersfield
But surely it's the Town Hall?
78(2)
36 Emley Moor Mast | Huddersfield
It's got a TV eye on you
80(2)
37 Harold Wilson on the Go | Huddersfield
A statue is a long time in statuary
82(2)
38 Lions of Huddersfield | Huddersfield
A roaring success
84(2)
39 Fish Trail of Hull | Hull
You batter believe it. Hull's not codding
86(2)
40 Hull's Civil War Pub | Hull
Not so civil history
88(2)
41 Humber Bridge | Hull
Ever so humber
90(2)
42 Land of Green Ginger | Hull
Spicy name, home to England's smallest window
92(2)
43 Philip Larkin in Hull | Hull
Not quite a paragon of virtue
94(2)
44 Mother Shipton's Cave | Knaresborough
`The witch's promise is turning, so don't wait up'
96(2)
45 Town Windows Trail | Knaresborough
When I'm painting windows
98(2)
46 King Billy Bremner | Leeds
Leeds Leeds Leeds!
100(2)
47 Leeds Refectory Stage | Leeds
Another music in a different kitchen
102(2)
48 Luddite Memorial | Liversedge
`The workers, united, will never be defeated!'
104(2)
49 Eden Prisoner of War Camp | Malton
No escape for Tom, Dick and Harry
106(2)
50 Longest Canal Tunnel | Marsden
Longer, deeper, higher
108(2)
51 Tunnels to the Centre of the Earth | Marsden
It's deep, down, dank, damp and devilishly dark
110(2)
52 Tees Transporter Bridge | Middlesbrough
Bridge of size
112(2)
53 Temenos | Middlesbrough
A new infant for Gladstone's `Infant Hercules'
114(2)
54 Iron Man Display | Mytholmroyd
Nobody wanted him; now he just stares at trains
116(2)
55 Tunnellers' Monument | Otley
Train in vain
118(2)
56 Mediaeval Wall Paintings | Pickering
Once idolatrous, now idolised
120(2)
57 Castle of Fear | Pontefract
Perfectly placed former Northern Powerhouse
122(2)
58 Pontefract Hermitage | Pontefract
Remarkable survival of an eerie mediaeval chamber
124(2)
59 Bargate | Richmond & around
Keep out, invading Scots!
126(2)
60 Culloden Tower Folly | Richmond & around
No quarter given at these quarters
128(2)
61 Georgian Theatre Royal | Richmond & around
The playhouse's the thing
130(2)
62 Leper Squint of Grinton | Richmond & around
Look closely for an ancient curse
132(2)
63 Tan Hill Inn | Rich mond & around
England's highest pub
134(2)
64 Jane Eyre Inspiration | Ripon
Mad manic maid's mansion
136(2)
65 Ripon Cathedral Cartoons | Ripon
A maze of moral mediaeval messages
138(2)
66 Smugglers' Tunnel | Robin Hood's Bay
Subterranean setts for seasiders' secret stash
140(2)
67 Needle's Eye Folly | Rotherham
... To go through the eye of a needle
142(2)
68 Tea Party Castle | Rotherham
Boston castle honouring Boston USA & independence
144(2)
69 Monolith of Rudston | Rudston
True grit
146(2)
70 The House Inside the M62 | Saddleworth
Motorway madness
148(2)
71 Moors Murderers Graveyard | Saddleworth
`Dig a shallow grave and I'll lay me down
150(2)
72 Surfers' Paradise | Saltburn
Catch the wave
152(2)
73 Alan Ayckbourn's Theatre | Scarborough
Amazing person singular
154(2)
74 Anne Bronte Dead Wrong | Scarborough
A grave error amended
156(2)
75 Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers | Scarborough
Hero of the concentration camp rescuers
158(2)
76 Grandest Hotel No Longer | Scarborough
Candlelight chandelier silver plate crystal clear
160(2)
77 Jimmy Savile's Missing | Scarborough
From hero to zero -- how's about that then?
162(2)
78 Book Town | Sedbergh
A novel way of branding an old village
164(2)
79 George Fox's Pulpit | Sedbergh
Friends, Yorkshiremen, Countrymen!
166(2)
80 Kings of Israel Window | Selby
The kings are dead; long live their window
168(2)
81 Cholera Monument | Sheffield
Testament to a pandemic killer of the past
170(2)
82 The Hubs | Sheffield
Museum: Don't you want me? Public: No!
172(2)
83 Sex Scandal Church | Sheffield
Church of the poisoned mind
174(2)
84 Freddie Trueman in Flight | Skipton
Fearless in fullflow
176(2)
85 Anti-Virus Tomb | Sledmere
Could tomb of Edwardian aristo solve pandemics'?
178(2)
86 Canal Lock from Hell | Sowerby Bridge
`Drag my canal, you saucy old salt'
180(2)
87 War of the Roses Memorial | Tadcaster
Yorkshire's cross to bear
182(2)
88 White Horse of Kilburn | Thirsk
It ain't no desert, and the horse has a name
184(2)
89 Gaddings Dam | Todmorden
Britain's highest beach
186(2)
90 Stoodley Pike | Todmorden
A monument to peace atop a bleak moor
188(2)
91 The Summit | Todmorden
Summat's oop
190(2)
92 The UFO Pub | Todmorden
It's pub life, Jim, but not as we know it
192(2)
93 Barbara Hepworth's Family of Man | Wakefield
It's a family affair
194(2)
94 Chantry Chapel on Bridge | Wakefield
Give me that old time religion
196(2)
95 The Messiah's Mansion | Wakefield
He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy
198(2)
96 British Library, Boston Spa | Wetherby
`Libraries gave us power'
200(2)
97 Caedmon's Cross | Whitby
Celtic monument to England's first religious poet
202(2)
98 Captain Cook's Endeavour | Whitby
A seaworthy reminder of Cook's travels
204(2)
99 Dracula in Whitby | Whitby
Bring out your dead
206(2)
100 Ruins of Whitby Abbey | Whitby
Magnificent, majestic, monastic
208(2)
101 Whalebones of Whitby | Whitby
`And we did not catch the whale, brave boys ...'
210(2)
102 Wreck of the Admiral von Tromp | Whitby
`Hoist a hand, or drown amidst this stormy sea'
212(2)
103 The Unluckiest Pier in the World | Withemsea
It was long but didn't last long along the seaside
214(2)
104 York's Terrible Tower | York
Apocalypse then
216(2)
105 The Great North Road | Yorkshire
Historic road to somewhere
218(2)
106 Alum Pot | Yorkshire Dales
A subterranean potted history
220(2)
107 Bedale Leech House | Yorkshire Dales
Suck it and see
222(2)
108 Brideshead Revisited | Yorkshire Dales
`O God, make me good'
224(2)
109 Druids' Temple, Masham | Yorkshire Dales
Yorkshire's Stonehenge, 200, not 2,000, years old
226(2)
110 Forbidden Corner Follies | Yorkshire Dales
Fruits of the forbidden follies
228(2)
111 Ribblehead Viaduct | Yorkshire Dales
Vainglorious Victoriana via the valley
230
Ed Glinert was born in Dalston, two miles from the East End. He studied Maths and Classical Hebrew at Manchester University, but not at the same time. He worked for Private Eye magazine for more than 10 years, and has written a number of books for major publishers including The London Compendium and East End Chronicles for Penguin. He is one of Britains most prolific tour guides, working in London, Manchester and Liverpool, and gives talks on cruise ships. He knows who were responsible for the Jack the Ripper murders.