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Brian Groom

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New book 'Made in Manchester' due out May 23rd, available to preorder from bookshops and websites. Bestselling 'Northerners: A History' available in hardback and paperback. Publisher @HarperNorthUK . Agent @andrewlownie .

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When David Hockney's mother Laura first visited him in Beverly Hills, after two or three days out on the patio, she delivered her verdict on his lifestyle: “It’s strange – all this lovely weather and yet you never see any washing out.”

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Pupils at Manchester Grammar School wearing owl costumes (the school's insignia), 1920s.

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Holy Island, Northumberland, by Emma Rothera, Lindisfarne-based landscape and nature photographer.

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Fish and chip shop, Leeds, 1970s, by Peter Mitchell.

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Victorian 'spite wall', Silverdale, Lancs. House on left was built first, objected to loss of privacy. Built a wall two stories high on the edge of their property to block the view from the new house's windows.

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4 years

The north seems to have noticed that two weeks ago extending furlough from 67% to 80% wasn't possible, but now the south is involved, it is.

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The Office at Night, a homage to Edward Hopper by Phil Lockwood, retired Sheffield art teacher.

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4 years

Others could learn from Greggs. Gives 1% of profits to foundation, feeds 36,000 children free breakfast every school day, gives work experience to prisoners. Pays above minimum wage, no zero-hours contracts, provides regular shifts.

Greggs has baked in responsible capitalism

Charity work and staff profit-shares show others how ethical business can reap rich rewards

www.ft.com

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Roofscape, Whitby, north Yorkshire, 1959, by Edwin Smith (1912-71). Noted for capturing the spirit of the places he photographed.

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Snow falls on the Beatles statue at Pier Head, Liverpool.

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Working men’s club, Middlesbrough, 1976, by Philip Jones Griffiths.

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New York doesn't have a monopoly on this kind of picture. Construction of Co-operative Insurance Society tower, Manchester, 1960s.

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North of England, 1965, by John Bulmer.

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Giving a talk today. Is this the right gear?

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Buses in the 1950s were specially designed to fit under Beverley’s medieval North Bar Gate, East Yorkshire.

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Northerner of the Day: Hull-born Amy Johnson (1903-41) was a pioneering pilot who became the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia. She went on to break many long-distance records. 1/10

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Ideally this shouldn't need saying.

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Terry’s of York’s famous Chocolate Orange was born in 1932. Its Chocolate Apple, launched in 1926, was discontinued in 1954 to allow more Oranges to be produced. 1/2

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It's Friday! Fish and chip shop, Leeds, 1970s, by Peter Mitchell.

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Publicity drawing for Forton services on the M6 near Lancaster, 1963.

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A researcher for a 1930s street directory knocked on the Hulme front door of Matt Busby, then a Man City player, and asked his occupation. It appeared in the directory, due to his Glaswegian accent, as 'fruit broiler'. (h/t @andyspin Manchester Unspun).

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L.S. Lowry walking through the back streets of Salford, August 1957. In the background are Oldfield Road Dwellings.

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Never mind grandparents, I did this.

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Who remembers there Grandparents doing this ? 🔥

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Dick Clement from Essex, Ian La Frenais from Monkseaton, Northumberland. Both now 85. Porridge, The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Auf Wiedersehn, Pet. Feature films including The Commitments.

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Booths supermarket chain, with stores in Lancs, Cumbria, Yorks and Cheshire, becomes first in UK to go back to fully-staffed checkouts, axing almost all its self-service tills.

Self-service: Booths supermarket puts staff back behind its tills

Booths says removing its self-service checkouts is the right thing to do and what customers want.

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Robin Hood's Bay, circa 1900.

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At the Midland Hotel, Morecambe, for a family lunch. Fine art deco building, once starred in an episode of Poirot.

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Bryan Ferry in the Crown, Newcastle, 1975, by Brian Aris.

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Newcastle Quayside, 1978, by Trevor Ermel.

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Emily Williamson, a solicitor’s wife, founded what became the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in February 1889 at her home in Didsbury, Manchester, originally as the all-female 'Plumage League' to campaign against use of plumage in women's clothing.

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Tripe and heels and chipped potatoes, Castle Street, Edgeley, Stockport, c.1900s.

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Leeds, 1954, by Marc Riboud. Lowryesque. Young French photographer on his first assignment for Picture Post.

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Manchester, 1976, by John Bulmer.

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A football match in 1599 between men of Bewcastle, England, and Armstrongs of Whithaugh, Scotland, was followed by ‘drynkyng hard’. Final score was two dead, 30 taken prisoner ‘and many sore hurt, especially John Whytfeild, whose bowells came out, but are sowed up againe’. 1/5

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Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire, by landscape photographer Paula Beaumont.

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No agreed scientific definition of second wave. WHO: “It’s going to be one big wave. It’s going to go up and down a bit. The best thing is to flatten it and turn it into just something lapping at your feet.”

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First Light on Primrose Lane, 2022, by Peak District artist Clare Allan. #WomensArt

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Pascal Lamy, former head of WTO: this will be the first negotiation in history where both parties started off with free trade and discussed what barriers to erect.

The buck stops with Johnson now Britain is out of the EU

PM has no one else to blame as he juggles trade deals and regional inequality

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Girl on a Bradford street corner, 1969, by Nick Hedges.

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The Russian ambassador wanted freedom for all people enslaved by imperialism. The UK’s representative, Sir Oliver Franks, said: “Well, it’s very kind of you to ask. I’d quite like a box of crystallised fruit.” 2/2

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Two Alsatians on the roof of The Windmill pub in Kirkby, Merseyside, 1985, by Magnum photographer Peter Marlow.

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Black Gate, spire of St Nicholas Cathedral and Dog Leap Stairs, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1889.

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Teresa May was a porn star. Who does Trump think he's meeting?

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WH: Pres. Trump holds joint press conference with UK PM "Teresa May" at 1:00 pm ET - misspelling her name 3x on the guidance just sent out

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Working men's club, Middlesbrough, 1976, by Philip Jones Griffiths.

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Building the Angel of the North, 1998, by Trevor Ermel.

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The Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria from the early 7th to the late 9th century arguably had greater political power, and certainly greater autonomy, than northern England has ever seen. 1/7

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Crooked House: owners of demolished pub ordered to rebuild.

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4 years

Is there anything more British than an estimated 55,000 dead and people obsessing about when garden centres will reopen?

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3 years

Always good to repeat my favourite Christmas story. In 1948, a Washington radio station contacted ambassadors in the US capital, asking what each most wished for Christmas. The French ambassador said he would like to see peace throughout the world. 1/2

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OUT NOW. 180 million years of history and culture: how northern England's people have shaped Britain and the world in unexpected ways. Publisher @HarperNorthUK . Agent @andrewlownie .

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The Corner Shop, 1962, by Steven Scholes.

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Street Talk, Hull, 1951, by Bert Hardy.

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Yates’s Wine Lodge, Liverpool, 1983, by Martin Parr.

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Adolphe Valette's 1910 painting of Albert Square, Manchester, alongside Emily Allchurch's 2015 photo recreation.

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'Hot Bank Farm in the snow, a very cold day on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland', by Jake Thomas - and other cold weather photos.

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North-east England is one of the most beautiful regions of Europe, yet has one of the smallest tourist economies. 'The rest of the country should wake up to what it has been missing.'

The Guardian view on the glories of the north-east: deserving of a wider audience | Editorial

Editorial: One of the most varied, fascinating and beautiful regions of Europe has one of the smallest tourist economies

www.theguardian.com

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Liverpool, 1984, by Martin Parr.

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Starry Night, by Spennymoor-born Norman Cornish (1919-2014). He was a coal miner for 33 years.

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Children somewhere in the north of England, 1965, by John Bulmer.

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Driving Home for Christmas, by Philip Meadows, Teesside/Yorkshire artist.

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Liverpool, May 1966, by Barry Feinstein. When Bob Dylan was playing the Odeon Theatre.

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Brexit talks begin.

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L.S. Lowry's hallway at Mottram in Longdendale, by Guardian photographer Denis Thorpe. Taken on February 24 1976, the day after Lowry died aged 88.

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Rochdale chippy owners Jimmy and Elsie Greenwood with their coal-fired fryer, May 1973.

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Whereas Manchester United's George Best had a city-centre boutique, Denis Law had a shoe repair shop in Moston Lane, Blackley, north Manchester. Here he is opening it in March 1964.

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Woman in a purple hat, Manchester, 1985, by Shirley Baker (1932-2014).

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4 years

Beth Rigby is one of the best journalists I've ever worked with. So lay off.

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Manchester, 1970, by Dragan Novakovic. Serbian photographer who settled in England.

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Quiet Tuesday, by Scarborough artist and gallery owner Tracy Savage, who draws inspiration from the fragile Yorkshire coastline and landscape.

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Arguments Yard, Whitby, c.1890.

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Child in a back alley, Manchester, 1972, by Nick Hedges. (What I would have called a back entry).

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Winter Has Arrived, by Malcolm Teasdale, north-east artist, b.1944.

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Cycling Home, by Simon Palmer, who has lived and worked in Wensleydale for 40 years.

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My forthcoming book Made in Manchester ( @HarperNorthUK ) has another great illustration by David Wardle, who did the cover for Northerners. Book for launch event May 23rd @WaterstonesMCR :

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Cotton worker Alice Nelson sets out for work at Lilac Mill in Shaw, Lancashire, January 1955, by Bert Hardy for Picture Post.

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Happy 75th birthday to punk poet and ‘bard of Salford’ John Cooper Clarke. Made his name giving rapid-fire renditions of poems, performing alongside bands such as the Sex Pistols, The Fall and New Order. Still performs regularly.

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Higher Tunstead, Saddleworth, by Russell Howarth, 1927-2020.

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Manchester Guardian editorial, September 11 1908: 'We cannot understand to what practical use a flying machine that is heavier than air can be put.'

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Delighted to say that my book 'Northerners: A History. From the Ice Ages to the 21st Century' will be published in April 2022 by @HarperNorthUK , a fab new imprint of @HarperCollins . Aimed at anyone interested in British history, society and culture. Agent @andrewlownie .

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View from a Train, by Geoff Butterworth. Rochdale as in the 1960s, copied from an old black-and-white photograph. #NorthernArt

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Near where my nan lived. The alley at the back of Claremont Road, Moss Side, Manchester, 15 December 1969, by Stephen Dowle.

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Stockport Viaduct, by Arthur Delaney, 1927-87 (private collection).

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Liverpool, 1955, by Bert Hardy (1913-95).

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180 million years of history and culture: how northern England's people have shaped Britain and the world in unexpected ways. Published April 14 2022 by @HarperNorthUK . Agent @andrewlownie .

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Middlesbrough, 1976, by Chris Steele-Perkins.

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The "Why I Have Moved Back To London" pieces have started.

I moved to the coast for a better life – now I’m back in London where I belong | Laura Barton

Last spring, just when everyone else was fleeing the capital, I was returning, hungry for all its glorious chaos, says music writer Laura Barton

www.theguardian.com

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Albert Jones Textiles, Manchester, 2023, by @ruxxnaqvi .

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HS2 reaches Birmingham.

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Boys playing football on a hill above Oldham, 1982, by Don McPhee.

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Fishermen playing football during their dinner break, Scarborough, 1967, by Don McCullin.

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Rainy Night Walk, Slaithwaite, west Yorkshire, 1984, by Michael Kenna, Widnes-born photographer.

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Rag and bone man, Manchester, 1976, by John Bulmer.

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Opening night at the Hacienda club, Manchester, 1982. I wasn't there.

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In Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais’s television comedy Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, first broadcast in 1973-4, beer-drinking, traditional male Terry Collier (James Bolam) returns from five years in the army to a Tyneside rapidly becoming unrecognisable. 1/7

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Happy 91st birthday to Michael Caine.

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Here is the lovely cover for my book 'Northerners: A History', due out in April from @HarperNorthUK . 180 million years of northern England's history, encompassing lives, words and deeds of fascinating northerners. Agent @andrewlownie . Can be pre-ordered:

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Snow over the Potteries, by Salford-born Edith Le Breton ((1912-92). #WomensArt

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If Labour pledged to reverse this, would it not be hard to sell the land?

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