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Read More… from Crime Statistics for Marton Grove, Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough, 2024
I grew up in the small village called Carlin How and I can say that I had a great childhood there, playing down the woods and camping up at “Texas” and all that, it was great! Yet to my surprise, going back there this year I was in shock and awe at what I had […]
Read More… from Carlin How: it’s now like walking through Beirut
Having read articles on Hull, Sheffield, Bradford, Leeds and Middlesbrough, I think that it’s about time to redress the balance. For the uninitiated, in 1979 a new Prime Minister was elected in the UK. Immediately she set about doing what her party did best. And she was best at it out of all of them. […]
It angers and saddens me a great deal to read the many obituries of once proud working and mining towns like Barnsley, Rotherham, Sheffield, Middlesbrough, Sunderland etc on this site. These were all places I was familiar with as a very young man back in the late 1970s and places I loved to visit and […]