Sunny Bank Mills is where Yorkshire’s heritage and modern creativity meet. Stephanie Smith previews a vintage fair coming to its atmospheric halls of industry. Pictures by Tony Johnson.
He was a David Bailey of the Dales, a down-to-earth photographer who roamed the streets and market squares, taking snapshots of a vanished picture of everyday life.
Harry Potter star Miriam Margoyles is among hundreds of people who have pledged their support for £27m plans to make Hull’s 800 years of seafaring history into an international tourist attraction.
Look at the Wagyu cattle in the barn and this is a simple ‘farm-to-fork’ story: a beef farmer wants a steady market and opens a steak restaurant in the nearest city. Only it’s more modern and involved than appearances suggest and involves 100 farmers around the North.
Walking through the tranquil gardens at Stillingfleet Lodge it is hard to imagine that once they were nothing but farmland where a Jersey cow, sheep and pigs roamed.
David Hinchliffe grew up around Cawthorne, over the fields from Barnsley. His father used to take him there on Sunday afternoons, in an old Reliant three-wheeler with no reverse gear.
