Brian Groom
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Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' (May 2024) and bestselling 'Northerners: A History' (2022).
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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
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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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Made in Saddleworth, Oldham and Manchester: Annie Kenney (1879-1953), born in Springhead, started working in cotton mills at age 10 and became a leading suffragette in the Women's Social and Political Union. She was jailed 13 times and repeatedly force-fed. 1/9
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Holy Island, Northumberland, by Emma Rothera, Lindisfarne-based landscape and nature photographer.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Made in Manchester: Emily Williamson (1855-1936) co-founded the Society for the Protection of Birds at her home in Didsbury because she was angry about being barred from the all-male British Ornithologists’ Union. 1/6
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Actor Albert Finney at his dad's betting shop, Broughton Road, Salford, 1970s.
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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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Buses in the 1950s were specially designed to fit under Beverley’s medieval North Bar Gate, East Yorkshire.
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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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Actor Harry H. Corbett visiting his childhood area, Ardwick, Manchester, early 1970s (Mirrorpix). He lived on Earl Street and later in Wythenshawe.
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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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L.S. Lowry sketching Stockport Viaduct, 1962, by Crispin Eurich.
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Never mind grandparents, I did this.
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.
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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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Worker carrying a tube of rolled glass at Pilkington Glass of St Helen's, Lancashire, 1918. Photo by George P. Lewis.
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Made in Manchester: comedian Les Dawson (1931-93), a bricklayer’s son from Collyhurst who grew up in poverty, became known for his curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife. 1/7
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Tripe and heels and chipped potatoes, Castle Street, Edgeley, Stockport, c.1900s.
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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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Leeds, 1954, by Marc Riboud. Lowryesque. Young French photographer on his first assignment for Picture Post.
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Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire, by landscape photographer Paula Beaumont.
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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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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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Made in Manchester: Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) was a suffragette and socialist who fell out with her mother Emmeline and older sister Christabel over the direction of the movement. 1/8
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Made in Salford, born in Stretford: L.S. Lowry (1887-1976) remains the artist most closely associated with the north. ‘My ambition was to put the industrial scene on the map because nobody had seriously done it,’ he said. Incredibly, nobody had. 1/6
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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.
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Made in Manchester and Leigh: Kathleen Drew-Baker (1901-57), a star botanist at the University of Manchester, made breakthroughs in cultivation of seaweed that saved Japan’s multi-billion pound sushi industry, for which she is commemorated there as ‘Mother of the Sea’. 1/6
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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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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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Dusty Springfield exhausted after a show at Wythenshawe's Golden Garter cabaret club, Manchester, 1968, by Ian Berry.
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Teresa May was a porn star. Who does Trump think he's meeting?
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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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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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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Is there anything more British than an estimated 55,000 dead and people obsessing about when garden centres will reopen?
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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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Rochdale chippy owners Jimmy and Elsie Greenwood with their coal-fired fryer, May 1973.
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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.'
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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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Driving Home for Christmas, by Philip Meadows, Teesside/Yorkshire artist.
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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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Liverpool, May 1966, by Barry Feinstein. When Bob Dylan was playing the Odeon Theatre.
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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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Children somewhere in the north of England, 1965, by John Bulmer.
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John Cooper Clarke reading at the Lass O'Gowrie pub, Charles Street, Manchester, 1976, by Phil Portus
@PhilPortusPhoto
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Woman in a purple hat, Manchester, 1985, by Shirley Baker (1932-2014).
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Manchester, 1970, by Dragan Novakovic. Serbian photographer who settled in England.
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Beth Rigby is one of the best journalists I've ever worked with. So lay off.
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Made in Manchester: radio astronomer Bernard Lovell (1913-2012) created Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, the world’s largest steerable dish radio telescope at the time (now the third largest). 1/6
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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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Made in Manchester: Caroline Aherne (1963-2016) - born in London, raised in Wythenshawe - wrote and performed as acerbic chat show host Mrs Merton and played Denise in The Royle Family, which she co-wrote. 1/6
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My forthcoming book Made in Manchester (
@HarperNorthUK
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@WaterstonesMCR
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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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Cycling Home, by Simon Palmer, who has lived and worked in Wensleydale for 40 years.
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Winter Has Arrived, by Malcolm Teasdale, north-east artist, b.1944.
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Stockport Viaduct, by Arthur Delaney, 1927-87 (private collection).
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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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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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