| NEW & VIEWS 3 COMMENT Keeping us on the Map 4 DIARY & AGENDA 6 THE WAY I SEE IT Albert Hunt 8 FIFTH COLUMN A Pennine Species Guide 10 SOME YOU WIN SOMEYOU LOSE The death of a mill and the rebirth of mill engines 12 RITES OF WAY Cleckheaton’s campaign to save its viaduct 13 PENNINE WONDERS Ken Stanley rediscovers a fossil forest in Oldham PENNINE IDENTITY 15 BURSTING INTO SPRING Colourful gardens which make a great day out 16 HOODWINKED Robin Hood a Yorkshireman? It’s quite likely says David E. Norris 18 FREEDOM TO ROAM Dave Parrish looks back at the great Kinder Trespass which won us the the right to walk our own moors 19 FACING THE MUSIC Paul Barker tests your musical knowledge 20 POETRY, THE PENNINE WAY Raymond Taylor recalls a great dialect writer Glyn Hughes has compiled a book of his poems 22 FOCUS ON THE FAMOUS Brian Duff’s speciality is photographing the famous. Ann Knowles finds out that this can involve more than you might think GETTING THINGS DONE 26 A FLYING START You’ve seen those ‘birdmen’ in their hang gliders. Michael Patterson tells how this hobby became a new industry in Oldham 28 FRIENDS OF THE EARTH Richard Catlow meets a remarkable couple who have opened an imagi- native countryside centre at Baildon REVIEWS 30 EXHIBITIONS The Costume Gallery at Bankfield Museum 32 EATING OUT At Horsforth 34 PENNINE PUB GUIDE The Sun and The Talbot at Chipping 36 BOOKS & GUIDES PENNINE GUIDE 40 PREVIEWS Best-selling artist/writer Richard Bell spends a day near Hebden Bridge Yorkshire Photographic Union’s annual exhibition 42 WHAT’S ON 46 WHERE TO GO Alan Parker looks at Cowling |
Cover photo: Fitting Time for Cyril Smith by Brian Duff 
EDITORIAL STAFF Editor: Richard Catlow Executive Editor: David Storr Production Editor: Sue Ellis Advertising Manager: Steve Berry Financial Controller: Jennifer Holt Morven Ashley Bernard Barnes Val Blamires Sonia Clayton Yvonne Dumsday David Ellis David Fletcher Chris Helliwell Ann Knowles Lynne Shepherd David T. Shutt Dave Smith Tim Stead Gilly Thornborrow Simon Warner Paul Wilson EDITORIAL OFFICE The Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX7 8DG. Tel. Hebden Bridge 844804 PRINTING Pennine Printing Services Ltd., Blackledge, Halifax. Tel. Halifax 52401 TYPESETTING Bryan Williamson, The Old Fire Station, Rochdale Road, Todmorden, Tel. Todmorden 2338 Pennine Magazine is published by Pennine Heritage Ltd., (Pennine Development Ltd. ), The Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge, West Yorks. Tel. Hebden Bridge 844804 Contributions to the magazine are welcome, but unfortunately no liability can be accepted for loss or damage to contributors’ material. The views expressed in the magazine are not necessarily those of Pennine Magazine or Pennine Heritage Ltd. (Pennine Development Ltd). Subscriptions: Six copies £4.00 (including post- age) Cheques payable to Pennine Magazine. Pennine Magazine ISSN 0261-2836 |
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