No, I know Halifax a bit, and now you mention it you're right. It didn't feel like Halifax. I just put it down to being 60 years ago and assumed it was a bit of the town I didn't know.… (View Post)

Yes, I believe you (@Leon) have plans to visit the North of England this Autumn? Maybe you could bring her with you. And show her, inter alia, Chester, Nantwich, Clitheroe, Lancaster, Lytham, Kendal,… (View Post)

Well I can't disagree with your middle paragraph. But I don't see why we can't build in the style of 100 or 150 years ago. There's a couple of example near me: one a house which f… (View Post)

True. Streets may have been full of litter, but were, incredibly, even dirtier in those days. That's one of the reasons the shoe polish business is falling through the floor - people simply don&… (View Post)

There was a Nevil Shute book 'In the Wet' in which the 'better' a citizen you were, the more votes you got. The things which got you more votes were generally pretty 1950s conserv… (View Post)