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A Love of Post Boxes
We See These Every Day We pass them most days. We use them regularly. We don’t truly notice them. What are we talking about?Pillar boxes. Or, to use their colloquial titles, post or letter boxes. By the end of this article, you’ll look at our trusty ‘pillars’ of (usually) red a totally different way. As…
Read More10 Years of Faith Young Writer!
Sometimes a work anniversary creeps up on you … I can’t believe Faith Young Writer (that’s me!) has been in business for 10 years! That’s a decade of hard graft supported by amazing, loyal clients. So many things have changed since 2014, too. I would like to thank everyone, past, present and future, who’s used…
Read MoreLawrence Of Arabia and Yorkshire
Lawrence of Arabia’s Visit to Yorkshire Many of us will have heard of Lawrence of Arabia: a figure in flowing white robes, mysterious, a legend to some. Some of us will also know that T E Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia, died as a result of a motorcycle crash in May 1935. He was aged…
Read MorePeasholm Park Memories
Anyone who takes ‘a trip to Scarborough’ will include the North Bay’s Peasholm Park in their list of places to visit. Free Visitor Attraction Peasholm Park is still somewhere I visit regularly, in all seasons and all weathers. I also worked at Peasholm Park Cafe from 1987 to 1990, when Scarborough Borough Council owned most if…
Read MoreThe Shipping Forecast
The Shipping Forecast Do you listen to ‘Sailing By’ as you drift off to sleep in the wee small hours of the morning? Are you a committed landlubber whose only connection with the sea is listening to the Shipping Forecast? The Shipping Forecast is like a lullaby to many BBC radio listeners. Yet the true…
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