Tony Harcup

Enough is enough - good to see #ReclaimTheNight featured in today's Yorkshire Evening Post.

They played anywhere going I think!

Remember going to @nujofficial.bsky.social meetings in the Central back in the 1970s - it was handy for NUJ members who worked at the YP/YEP. The Central also put on music - Snake Davis & his Alligator Shoes, anyone?

LOP 69 (25 Nov 1977) text of story headlined Women reclaim the night. Plus photo of women's march through Leeds, lit by torchlight.

WOMEN RECLAIM THE NIGHT
There are lots of Reclaim the Night events across West Yorkshire this weekend - here's Leeds Other Paper's report of the first one, back in 1977.
#ReclaimTheNight #SaferStreets

Monday!

Same as it ever was

Museum display case featuring assorted Chumbawamba artefacts including a copy of LOP/Northern Star.

LOP/Northern Star 740 (18 June 1992) front page: shhh! it's chumbawamba - popsters parody the 'biz' in hushed tones

Shhh... A copy of Leeds Other Paper/Northern Star with #Chumbawamba on the front page, spotted in the fab @leedsmuseums.bsky.social exhibition on the music scene in Leeds now on at Leeds City Museum.

Congrats Pete! Richly deserved.

An Autumn Lane, 1886, painting by Leeds-born John Atkinson Grimshaw (private collection). #NorthernArt

Booooooooooooooooooooooo

This looks an interesting talk - here's Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the Chapeltown bonfire night events from 50 years ago. #BlackHistoryMonth #LeedsHistory

Shadows on the Park Wall, Roundhay, Leeds John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893) Leeds Art Gallery Leeds Museums and Galleries

John Atkinson Grimshaw was a master of moonlit streets and mist-draped docks, a painter who captured the very texture of the Victorian dream. His cityscapes, illuminated by the soft glow of gaslight, startled viewers with their precision and poetry, scenes where realism met reverie. Though

throve 1. a past simple and past participle of thrive 2. a past simple and past…

Yes indeedy

The past tense of 'thrive', I believe.

Ben Campbell · In the Shoebox: Peter’s Snapshots The snapshots in my father’s book were taken during his first three years in London, after he emigrated from New...

‘The number of Cafe Royal titles has passed seven hundred; together they constitute a singular record of British and Irish vernacular photography between about 1960 and 2010.’

Ben Campbell on a collection of his father Peter’s photographs of London in the early sixties
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LOP 206A (22 Jan 1982) headline: Brain rot city! Plus pic of protest with banner: These children are being poisoned.

'These children are being poisoned' - they used to put lead in petrol, you know? Leeds Other Paper was on the case for years...

'Prospect of Whitby' (wood engraving) by John Bryce
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If “All the President’s Men“ were made today, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward would be sacked by the Washington Post to stop them investigating crimes committed by the President of the United States.

It's a dream I always have.

Street Talk, Hull, 1951, photo by Bert Hardy.

Sheffield Fair: John Simmons (1871–1944) Museums Sheffield

"Bright stalls, bursting with colour and carnival light, defy the smoggy shadows of Sheffield. Laughter and music cut through the gloom, a vibrant, temporary spark in the town's dark expanse."

Sheffield Fair: John Simmons (1871–1944)
Museums Sheffield

Still the only acceptable use of the phrase to 'reach out'.

Still the only acceptable use of the phrase to 'reach out'.

Jarrow ladies fire brigade, 1916 (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum).

Sad that Dame Jilly Cooper has died. She was - among her many achievements - a great @nujofficial.bsky.social member

Look after each other.

Did you miss our online webinar earlier this week? You can now watch the recording of the event via @wcmlibrary.bsky.social's Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2UT...

Sad to hear this - loved her 'The House by the Thames'.