Tag Archive | Industrial Revolution
Walking the Mersey: from Stockport to Sale
This leg of the walk along the Mersey from its source to the sea was a pleasant surprise. For here the river winds its way through one of the densest stretches of conurbation in Britain – a tangle of suburban housing, power lines, industrial estates, pullulating arterial roads and motorways, and railway lines. Walking here, […]
Danny Boyle’s Isles of Wonder: Paradise Lost?
I enjoyed Danny Boyle’s ‘Isles of Wonder’ Olympic opening ceremony, pleasantly surprised to see a vision of Britain as a social democratic, caring, inclusive and tolerant place, the result of struggles by trade unions, suffragettes, CND protestors and those who campaigned for a welfare state smuggled in under the noses of corporate sponsors and a […]
