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The final beacon at Bowness on Solway North West Scenes chose the symbolic end of Hadrian’s Wall at Bowness on Solway to watch Saturday’s illumination spectacular.Nigel Barlow reports as the line of reaches its final destination. Little would the Romans, who built the fort at the Western End of the wall at Bowness, have thought that [...] The Roman fort at Castlefield In the first of a series of articles we look at the Romans in the North West of England and today their origins in Manchester at Castlefield. As one surveys the scene in Manchester’s Castlefield,it is difficult to imagine the landscape that Agricola’s soldiers would have seen 2000 years ago as [...] Immortalised in bronze From small acorns,says the famous phrase as Bill Cubin’s collection of Laurel and Hardy memorabilia grew to such an extent that by 1983 his little room was given an official opening by Jeffrey Holland of Hi-Dee-HI fame. Last year it reopened in Ulverston’s Roxy cinema.Although Bill died in 1997 the museum continues to [...] It’s national chip week this week,celebrating a British institution that first became popular in the 1860’s when railways began to bring fresh fish straight from the east coast to the our cities over night. The fish and chip shop market is worth over £1.2b to the country roughly translated that means £1 of every £100 spent [...] I hope readers will forgive from celebrating an institution outside of our boundaries but today marks the 251st Robbie Burns birthday of Robbie Burns,a night when Scots around the world hold a toast for their celebrated Bard. Burns immortalised haggis in verse he created and the ritual of the Burn’s supper was started by his close [...] St Chads Rochdale According to legend, the Saxon Thane Gamel Lord of Recedham ,otherwise known as Rochdale,was ‘minded for the fear of God and the salvation of his soul, to build a church to St Chadde nigh on the banks of the Roache’ If you go the church today,it does not sit on the banks of [...] Five hundred and forty nine years ago today,the Lancastrian army won a decisive battle in the War of the Roses. The battle of Wakefield The battle of Wakefield was fought on the 30th December 1460 in a conflict that raged for 30 years between 1455-1485 as members of the House of Lancaster and the House of [...] Lake Windermere from Orrest Head Wordsworth may have been against it but the beauty of the branch line into Windermere is that within 20 minutes of leaving the station you can see one of the best views across the Lake District. Orrest Head,high above the town of Windermere gives fantastic view of Lake Windermere,but also on [...] There has been much publicity about this year being the 50th anniversary of the Motorway with the opening of the M1 but Lancashire beat the south to the award by nearly a year. Today is the 51st anniversary of the opening of the Preston bypass soon to be incorporated into the M6. Today you can find it [...] |
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