Remembering 33 fans who were crushed to death and 400 injured at Bolton Wanderers’ Burnden Park stadium when a barrier and a wall collapsed during an FA Cup game against Stoke City on this day 1946. Worst British football stadium disaster until Ibrox in 1971.
Teatime in Gorton, Manchester, painting by Steven Scholes (b.1952).
A very good evening to whoever organised this billboard outside of Old Trafford.
When The West With Evening Glows, 1901, painting by Joseph Farquharson, Scottish artist. Painted Deeside landscape in various weathers.
Extraordinary moment during miners’ strike when police and pickets forgot hostilities and played football. Nottinghamshire, March 1984, photo by Guardian's Denis Thorpe. Said it reminded him of the Christmas Day truce during WW1.
To ensure that any future socialist government is not undermined by the British establishment as soon as it enters office, we need to build up wider structures of social power capable of sustaining it.
Pie and Peas, Rawtenstall Market, painting by Don McKinlay (1929-2017). #NorthernArt
Manchester Dusk, by Janet Ledger, industrial landscape artist, b.1934 in Northampton. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
Stockport Gloom: From Rostron Brow To St. Mark’s, pencil drawing by Dave Hartley (b.1970). #NorthernArt
The only 3 people to benefit from Brexit were.
Johnson - got to be prime minister
Farage - got himself a cult following
Putin - got himself a weaker UK and Europe.
The rest of us just got poorer, more divided, less rights and for some very angry at the world.
Yates’s Wine Lodge, Bolton, 1983, photo by Martin Parr.
Lead The Way Boy, painting by Mal Burton. #NorthernArt
Did you know that Ramsay McDonald, former Prime Minister, played 5 games at inside left for Blackburn Rovers in the 1905-06 season?
Bob Dylan at Dublin Street, north docks, Liverpool, 1966, by Barry Feinstein.
Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire, 2022, photo by Helen Brown.
Ian Curtis born in Stretford Memorial Hospital, Seymour Grove, one year after me.
Two Drunks And The Last Bus Home, painting by Anthony Marn, Manchester-born artist. #NorthernArt
Street of terraced houses awaiting demolition, Salford, 1979, photo by Denis Thorpe.
Northern Mill Town, by Arthur Delaney, Manchester artist (1927-87). #NorthernArt
Peveril of the Peak, Manchester, painting by Michelle Taube. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
October 2024
Newcastle Central Station in the snow, painting by Peter Burns. #NorthernArt
Flew in the UK for my dad's 90th birthday. Asked a friend to bake a birthday cake. Unfortunately, I asked a dingle to make it!
The Cricket Match, Askham-in-Furness, painting by Bill Bell, 1928-2006, a Barrow shipyard worker. #NorthernArt
River Irwell, Manchester, by Irina Rumyantseva. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
Elswick Kids, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1978, photo by Tish Murtha.
Queen Mill, Dukinfield, by Edna Lumb (1931-92). #WomensArt #NorthernArt
Where is $ 600 billion for nuclear power ?
Harry Berry nails it yet again…
He will set up a working party of 18-24 years olds to downsize the Vatican by 60% as the Priests serve no economic purpose! Then choose his mate!
