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No even though I live up north I didn't see the Northern Lights so this version taken at Salford Crescent will have to do! 😱👍😁#northernlights

Nik Kershaw Wouldn't it be good, can only post a bit ☹️superb overall at The Manchester Academy Wednesday 9th October 2024 👍😁#NikKershaw #music #musicians

Huddersfield's amazing Grade 1 LNWR station of 1846-50 and Harold Wilson statue visited today along with Costa Coffee and charity shops, bought a stethoscope Alice! #Huddersfield #railways #architecture

Undernourished Warrington residents at a cafe today 😱 #Warrington

Following overwhelming support from the community, we are compelled to make a public statement regarding what has transpired at Haigh Hall.

New addition to the library "Don goes down the mine" , W.G.Moore Hulton Educational Publications Ltd 1965. Illustrated by Trevor Parkin #illustration #artists #mininghistory

Amazing exhibition Warrington Museum & Art Gallery Worlds Worst Record Covers, on until January 2025 #museums #Warrington #music #vinyl #LPs #records

Superb performance of all six of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos at The Bridgewater Hall Manchester by The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment OAE #classicalmusic #musicians

I used to get a lump of coal in my Xmas stocking, did you? All the best 😱👍😁⚒

Interesting occurrence in our garden 😱😁🥶 #ice #frost #winter

Artist L.S.Lowry lived at Pendlebury, Salford for a number of years. The town was close to coal mines, the nearest being Wheatsheaf Colliery. He included pit headgears in his paintings The Accident of 1926 and Street Scene of 1949, at Manchester City Art Gallery #Lowry #Salford

April 1952, one of our local collieries Astley Green, Lancashire awaits a visit from Prince Philip #mininghistory #AstleyGreen Lancashire Mining Museum

1966 Lancashire Miners Gala. Held on the playing field next to Parsonage Colliery Leigh. The politician is Harold Wilson’s controversial right hand man George Brown, he resigned two years later. The Gala Queen is walking down Railway Rd, Leigh #mininghistory #Leigh

At Leigh Boys Grammar, Lancs same time as me, Pete McNeish aka Pete Shelley of The Buzzcocks (far right in photo). Photo taken c 1972 Buzzcocks #PeteShelley #Buzzcocks #PeteMcNeish #musicians

Spectacular lunchtime performance of George Frideric Handel Il delirio amoroso at #RoyalNorthernCollegeofMusic Royal Northern College of Music Incredible vocals 😱👍😁

New scan of an NCB photographer Frank Grimshaw negative. Circa 1967, Lancs Miners Gala, St Helens. Union leader Joe Gormley is talking to a legend, Bessie Braddock (1899-1970), fearless Labour MP for Liverpool Exchange #Liverpool #BessieBraddock #politics #politicians #mining

Newly scanned negative of the 1970 Lancashire Miners Gala sent to me from Canada surprisingly features 15 year old Pete Shelley (Pete McNeish) of The Buzzcocks, in my year at Leigh Boys Grammar #Buzzcocks #PeteShelley Buzzcocks #rock #musicians

There's more to Warrington Wolves than meets the eye, even the shopping arcade doesn't have any closed units. The town hall by famous architect Gibbs dates to 1759, Coalbrook Dale gates of 1862 were made for an exhibition and intended for Sandringham 👍🧐 #Warrington #architecture

Very nice addition to the mining library, 1927 copy of Der Bergmannsfreund, The Miner's Friend, 277 illustrations and descriptions of mining accidents and how to avoid them. Looks like I was lucky 😱⚒ £10 on AbeBooks #mininghistory #German #Bergmänner #kohle

New gates at the Higher Lane Lodge entrance to the grounds of Haigh Hall Wigan. A reminder of the areas 600 years of mining activity. Designers took casts of a pick and shovel I have then cast them in bronze. Bit blingy in gold! 😱⚒ #mininghistory #Haigh #Wigan