| News and views 3 COMMENT Unco-operative? 4 DIARY & AGENDA 6 THE WAY I SEE IT David Wild 7 FIFTH COLUMN 8 HOW THE WEST WAS WON Richard Catlow looks at a developing regional park 10 GRAINS OF TRUTH Bernard Barnes finds that pollen can tell us a lot about our history Pennine Identity 13 INTERPRETING EMILY M. Blosfelds says what we read and the Bronte’s wrote aren’t necessarily the same thing 16 GETTING INTO A SPIN (pdf) Brian Curzon comes up with some surprising facts about our oldest industry 19 THE RISE AND FALL OF VICTOR GRAYSON Mike Shaw recalls the MP who disappeared 20 THE LARKS OF DEAN The Rev Anthony Linnell recalls them in verse and Helen Catlow has some good news of the chapel they built 22 MUSCLE POWER C.W. Mitchell on the men who conquered the Pennines 24 BLACKBURN IN KIRKLEES David Storr looks at the way in which Huddersfield’s Harold Blackburn was influenced by work and industry Getting things done 28 THAT GREAT CAR PARK IN THE SKY Steve Berry visits a museum with a difference 30 JUST FOR FUN Sam Dixon tells how singing for fun became a very serious matterReviews 32 EXHIBITIONS Bolling Hall Museum, Bradford 34 EATING OUT At Whalley and Denshaw 36 PENNINE PUB GUIDE The Floating Light, Standedge 38 BOOKSPennine Guide 40 PREVIEWS Centenary Celebrations 42 WHAT’S ON 46 WHERE TO GO David Ellis gets involved in mysterious goings on in Marsden |
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