@daveproudlove
Writer - urbanism, place, football, buildings, music | Published by Pitch Publishing | Appears in Tribune, Football Heritage, Brum Dispatch, & others | Socialist | #MDANT | LM ♥️ | Dad to Dylan 'King of obscurity' - KFC
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The #ArchibaldLeitch scheme for #Anfield #LiverpoolFC
- Brutal Land -
Festival Drayton Centre. Market Drayton
Now open .. all welcome!
www.festivaldraytoncentre.com/index.php
St. Edward Street - the townscape of Leek
#Leek #NorthStaffordshire #UKTownofCulture2028
Pitch and Page - my latest for @footballheritage.bsky.social
Explores the relationship between football and literature
www.footballheritage.co.uk/pitch-and-page
#ArchibaldLeitch sketch of Ayresome Park that he built for #Middlesbrough in 1903
Somerton Park, home of #NewportCounty until the demise of both
📸 Peter Robinson
#TheRollingStones played the old Leek Town Hall on Christmas Eve 1963
But Christmas was ruined for Jagger, Richards and co when they came down with food poisoning after eating locally produced pork pies
#Leek #NorthStaffordshire #UKTownofCulture2028
- Brutal Land -
Festival Drayton Centre. Market Drayton
Now open .. all welcome!
www.festivaldraytoncentre.com/index.php
One of the oddest features of the Coalition is that they delighted in criticising the civil service’s lack of skills whilst cutting back on civil service training. www.ft.com/content/3599... The UK’s public leadership pipeline has fallen into disrepair
New Podcast: Football Tourists
We’re joined by Hijab Shah to talk about the concept of ‘football tourists’ and the connotations those two words can have.
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If I was the Housing Secretary I’d probably google something like “is making cement energy intensive?”
That's true. But part of his job is to have a deep understanding of the environment he's working in. This smacks of him paying lip service to it. Hopefully he'll learn!
When non-football people have their hands on important levers at football clubs....
#WeShallNotBeMoved
North aisle window - All Saints Church, Leek by Morris & Co.
#Leek #NorthStaffordshire #UKTownofCulture2028
📸 the Victorian Web
Kerry Davis of #StokeonTrent blazed a trail for the Lionesses
#InternationalWomensDay
The early days of #OldTrafford #ManchesterUnited
#ArchibaldLeitch
The Hill Top Pottery #Burslem #ThePotteries #StokeonTrent
Waterloo Mills, designed by James Gosling Smith for his brother-in-law, silk manufacturer William Broster
The building was completed in 1894
#Leek #NorthStaffordshire #UKTownofCulture2028
Everyone in British politics lining up behind this recklessness are taking a massive risk...
Billionaires should be limited in their influence on political parties
Indeed there should be maximum financial limits set on all political donations
Money should be used to buy
Influence
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Pitch and Page - my latest for @footballheritage.bsky.social
Explores the relationship between football and literature
www.footballheritage.co.uk/pitch-and-page
Bar’s open! A woman sits alone in a bar, with a bottle of stout and one glass at the table. Her hair in curlers under a headscart. At her feet is a large shopping bag. The woman looks so sad. Photographer Martin Parr.
Bar’s open!
Cheers all, raising a glass to all the women and the debt we owe them.
Feature in Bennett's work as 'Bursley', named after a house in Longport, though the name 'Port Vale' possibly originates from the Midland & Port Vale Tileries who made Port Vale bricks (buried beneath the D Road), while the name also adorned a flour mill in Middleport
Happy International Women’s Day!
We’re highlighting the pioneering women footballers who played their game despite oppression and stigma.
From Rutherglen Ladies to Rose Reilly, there are hundreds of female role models from throughout football history ⚽️
#ArchibaldLeitch sketch of Ayresome Park that he built for #Middlesbrough in 1903
Petrol forecourts 'profiteering' as fuel prices jump nearly 9p a litre.
Opportunistic profiteering
Companies quick to increase prices, slow to bring them down.
Govt must act. Also clawback excess profits through windfall taxes.
Somerton Park, home of #NewportCounty until the demise of both
📸 Peter Robinson
#TheRollingStones played the old Leek Town Hall on Christmas Eve 1963
But Christmas was ruined for Jagger, Richards and co when they came down with food poisoning after eating locally produced pork pies
#Leek #NorthStaffordshire #UKTownofCulture2028
Kerry Davis of #StokeonTrent blazed a trail for the Lionesses
#InternationalWomensDay