| NEW & VIEWS 2 COMMENT Pitting our Wits 3 DIARY and AGENDA 6 THE WAY I SEE IT David Shutt looks back at a year as a mayor 7 FIFTH COLUMN 8 PENNINE WONDER Richard Catlow Visits Wine Wall and Radcliffe 10 GOING THIN ON TOP David Fletcher calls for new trees to be planted PENNINE IDENTITY 14 NOT SUCH A BLACK HILL Richard Mackrory looks at a maligned mountain 15 HOW GREEN OUR VALLEYS Ken Spencer discovers a Pennine Architect 16 MECHANICAL MISSIONARY Alan Hitch looks at a Rossendale man who took the Industrial Revolution to the world 18 THE NAME GAME Bernard Barnes looks at the origin of Pennine place names 20 THE LAST VALLEY Arnold Downsborough visits Tong Hall PENNINE LIVING 22 WHAT’S BREWING IN BURNLEY Graeme Fort tells a remarkable story of a tiny Burnley brewery 24 A PINT FROM THE PAST Philip Tordoff looks back at Whitakers of Halifax GETTING THINGS DONE 26 THE HUDDERSFIELD NARROW CANAL Liz Rushton looks forward to the canal festival at Tameside 29 THE SETTLE-CARLISLE LINE Geoffrey Dickinson on the fight to save the Settle-Carlisle Line REVIEWS 33 EATING OUT in Bradford 35 PENNINE PUB GUIDE in Blacko 36 BOOKS PENNINE GUIDE 38 WHAT’S ON 45 WHERE TO GO Visits Holmfirth craft market |
Cover Photo: Rodger Birch ‘Fred Pinnington — Clogger’s Shop, Burnley Road, Todmorden. 
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