by Admin | Nov 14, 2025 | Blog
I regularly stop at St.Michael & All Angels Church in Haworth on my Bronte tours. The church is next to the Bronte Parsonage Museum, but all that is left of the church from the Bronte sisters time is the tower, the rest of the church being re-built after Patrick...
by Admin | Oct 31, 2025 | Blog
The former Wool Exchange is one of Bradford’s three Grade 1 listed buildings and perhaps the most iconic reminder of the city’s illustrious past. It is now, possibly, the finest Waterstone’s Bookshop in the land. The Exchange, where wool brokers,...
by Admin | Oct 3, 2025 | Blog
Saint Cuthbert, the North’s favourite saint, is closely connected to Melrose, where he trained as a monk, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne off the Northumberland coast, where he dedicated his life to God as monk, hermit and bishop and Durham Cathedral, where his shrine...
by Admin | Sep 12, 2025 | Blog
The inaugural run of the Stockton to Darlington Railway took place on 27th September 1825 so this year, as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the steam train, we also remember some of the little trains that once clattered along a network of narrow-gauge railways...
by Admin | Aug 22, 2025 | Blog
The town of Knaresborough boasts a delightful Victorian station, with many unusual and original features. It was completed in 1865 and further developed in 1890. Today, the line extends from York to Leeds. Building the railway was problematic. The track needed a...
by Admin | Jul 25, 2025 | Blog
When it was first opened in the 1700’s, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal helped open up the West of England and the great Port of Liverpool to businesses in Yorkshire. When completed in the early 1800’s the canal stretched 127 miles across the Pennines a notoriously...
