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Please do. I'd like to see them.

That's right. The school had three parts: girls, mixed infants/juniors, and the boys' section towards Blackman Lane. Jacob Kramer Art College was built on the site of the girls' school, lost to fire 1971-ish. The other two buidings closed in 1975. A new middle school was built near Woodhouse Street.

2/2. The point where you took the photo is roughly the spot where Bagby Sq stood: Leicester Pl not visible until Bagby Sq demolished - only the courtyard of the Craven Dairies (Leics Pl/Devon Mt) from attic skylight. Mrs Derek's daughter was called Elizabeth not Ann. Thanks for posting your photos.

1/2. "Islands of almost intact buildings in a sea of rubble when I walked around." Beautifully phrased.

I came home from school one day to find Leicester Terrace had been demolished. Blenheim School ran alongisde the Churchills and Marlboroughs. Leics Terrace to the right of the chip shop.

A Year of Convulsions in New York’s Prisons Jennifer Gonnerman reports on how two murders and a strike exposed a system at its breaking point.

Incarcerated people have long talked about a “blue wall of silence” in prisons: an unspoken agreement among correction officers to cover up for one another’s abuses. A report filed after the murder of Robert Brooks exemplifies this phenomenon.

Aye, there's plenty of lashing out going on there. 😀

The sample used is Classical Gas by Mason Williams.

Thanks Helen. Fingers crossed for you.

Thinking aloud really, and I'm wondering if it's worth dipping into The Illustrated London News/Illustrated Police News/Police Gazette to see if there are other accounts of the attack or Wm Symonds' retirement? A sketch or artist's impression being better than nothing in the absence of a photo.

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The Who, Who's Next, Baba O'Reilly.

Great photos! The chippie on Leicester Pl. was run by Mr Ashton, assisted by Mrs Derek and her daughter Ann - big orders from George Bray's factory nearby. The building at the opposite end (St Mark's Road) was a hairdressers; Holborn Towers in the background. The area was demolished c. 1974.

In 1916, Edvard Munch bought a property known as Ekely in the town of Skøyen, near present-day Oslo. The two-story villa served as his house and studio, becoming for Munch what Giverny was for Monet. This self-portrait was painted while he was visiting Bergen for an exhibition.

a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on

Maximum respect to the guy who just emailed me « Sorry for the late reply… », replying to an email sent on 15 May 2020.

YouTube video by mouffy patricia routledge the beggar's opera

Patricia Routledge as Mrs Peachum in The Beggar's Opera (1983).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExD1...

Full version www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDin...

50 years on: Caribbean women and the Chapeltown bonfire night incident 1975 Marking 50 years since the Bonfire Twelve, this talk explores the women's role in resisting racism and injustice in Leeds.

In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Chapeltown Bonfire incident, I’ll be talking about Black women’s community activism in Leeds at Leeds Beckett University.

⏰ 18:00 - 19:00
📍 Rose Bowl, City Campus
🎟️ bit.ly/480KUUD

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBritishHistory

We are immensely saddened by news of the death of Tony Harrison, aged 88, who had been unwell for some years. A tribute has been published on our website.
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It would - and may I add Stevie Wonder's Innervisions every couple of months?

Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo Court said five women were victims of ‘systematic kidnapping’ by state over forced removal from mothers as small children

The forced removal of “mixed” children from their mothers between 1948 and 1953 in Congo was traumatic and inhumane. These practices found their origin with Belgium’s 🇧🇪 King Léopold. The Belgian colonial state has now been condemned for crimes against humanity..👇🏼 www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

You know you’re living in strange times when Last Night of the Proms feels like the least jingoistic thing happening in Britain at the moment.

Art Deco-style public house. The Blue Peter, Derby.

The Blue Peter, Derby. The things you see on the top deck of a bus! More on the Blue Peter, Blue Pool, and Blue Boy below.

www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2570842

#ArtDeco #PublicHouses #Derby

Promotional poster for War Horse at the Leeds Grand Theatre, Wednesday 20 August 2025. A National Theatre production.

Promotional poster for War Horse featuring Joey and Topthorn

War Horse, Leeds Grand Theatre.

#NationalTheatre #Warhorse #Leeds

Title page of the graphic novel “Gods’ Man" framed by "Welcome to the Public Domain" text and graphic. Text reads: God's Man, A Novel In Woodcuts by Lynd Ward. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York.

A woodcut illustration from the graphic novel “Gods’ Man. The figure in black in the foreground as two men in the background have their backs to him.

A woodcut illustration from the graphic novel “Gods’ Man. A man with a peg leg sits, hands spread apart as he looks up.

A woodcut illustration from the graphic novel “Gods’ Man. Close on the hands of people holding up their hands with varying numbers of fingers extended.

Welcome to the public domain, GODS’ MAN (1929) by Lynd Ward. 🖋️📖 A haunting, wordless story told through woodcuts, this early graphic novel follows an artist’s Faustian bargain.

Read it here ➡️ archive.org/details/gods...
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#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #GraphicNovel #ArtLiterature

Leeds Film Welcome to Leeds Film

LIFF returns from 30 Oct to 16 Nov 2025! 🎬

Join the 39th edition of Leeds International Film Festival for an epic film selection over 18 days, at venues including Hyde Park Picture House, Vue in The Light, Everyman Cinema, Howard Assembly Room and Cottage Road Cinema. 🎉

leedsfilm.com

The BBC used to play the National Anthem at the end of the day's broadcasting. Closedown was usually around midnight in the 1970s - earlier if watching BBC2.

My favorite JEKYLL AND HYDE is Stan Laurel's DR PYCKLE AND MR PRYDE, which features a diabolical Hyde character who terrorizes London with petty pranks, gags and practical jokes. (And, ironically, is probably one of the more faithful versions.)

Would look good on the dustjacket of a revived John Wainwright crime novel.

Rethinking Migration Rethinking Migration - Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race; This collection investigates how to rethink migration without reinforcing it as a problematic subject. The book illustrates that conce...

'Rethinking Migration', the edited collection from
@mmbuob.bsky.social is out!

A real feat of interdisciplinary collaboration. Availble for free download from the @brisunipress.bsky.social site.

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/rethinking-m...

It is a pity about the delay, although I think Spring 2026 is probably worth the wait, and would perhaps make a nice long wekend for anyone wanting to visit Hull. I quite fancy the Spurn Nature Reserve. A visit to the Spurn Lightship and the Maritime/Transport Museum/Old Town would tie in nicely.

The Red Horsman (1974), Roy Lichtenstein.

Carlo Carrà, The Red Horseman (1913).

Saturday vibes. Roy Lichtenstein, The Red Horseman (1974) and Carlo Carrà's original from 1913.

Engineering the Penguin Pool at London Zoo · V&A A shelter for penguins, an aquatic sculpture, and an impressive feat of engineering

A 'rubber beach' was a feature of the new Penguin Pool built at the London Zoo in 1934. The examples given in the article mention 'plastic rubber made of cork chippings', reinforced concrete and cement. Could be worth checking RIBA for other examples at home or abroad.

www.vam.ac.uk/articles/eng...

The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Bridge Between New Wave & Noir In this article we discuss the classic 1970s crime thriller The Friends of Eddie Coyle starring Robert Mitchum and Richard Jordan.

Remembering the sublime Robert Mitchum on his birthday 🎂 🎬
Here's a few thoughts on The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) and how Mitchum is the link between the 70s New Wave and traditional film noir.
#filmsky #moviesky #cinema
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