New book 'Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World' out now, available from bookshops and websites. Bestselling 'Northerners: A History' available in hardback and paperback. Publisher @HarperNorthUK. Agent @andrewlownie.

RT @GroomB: Gateshead, 1936, by Edwin Smith (1912-71).

RT @GroomB: Romiley, Cheshire, 1916, by Adophe Valette, 1876-1942 (University of Salford). He didn't just paint Manchester.

RT @GroomB: What a lot of trams. Piccadilly, Manchester, 1926 (Manchester Transport Museum Society Archive).

RT @GroomB: Leeds back-to-back housing, Cross Oswald St, 1970, by Nick Hedges. via @aflashbak

RT @GroomB: Leonora Carrington, born near Chorley, Lancs, was expelled from two convent schools (including once for exposing herself to a p…

@GME_1970 We've tried that.

@DebsHol50 I imagine I wouldn't either.

TBF a northerner, L.S. Lowry, is said to hold the record for rejecting British honours (five), including a knighthood (1968).

Blackburn with Darwen: £750,000 Arts Council England grant will help pay for 250 volunteers and 12 paid workers, avoiding 'creatives having to move away to further their careers'.

@JohnClarke39 It's a Premier Inn.

RT @PennineThe: On a cold damp Sunday afternoon ‘Red Sails in the Sunset’ on Scammonden Dam near Huddersfield is a welcome reminder of warm…

Young boys play on the street, Salford, 1964, by Shirley Baker.

From last September at Chorlton Book Festival @ChorltonBF.

@Philmac100 Good point. I must have read it too quickly.

RT @labour_history: #OTD 1948. Nye Bevan announces that the NHS will start in July 1948. He takes aim at BMA leaders: “From the very beg…

Watch Out Mister! by Leeds-born Geoffrey W. Birks (1929-93). #NorthernArt

@MichaelHack4 @TomTheProducer1 I used to go in for a meat and potato pie at lunch time when studying at Central Library.

Tuesday.

Apparently he was Jimmy Murray from the demolition company, R&M Developments, Miles Platting.