John F. Kennedy carried on a lifelong love affair with England and the English. From his speaking style to his tastes in art, architecture, theatre, music and clothes, his personality reflected his deep affinity for a certain kind of idealised Englishness. Setting his work against a backdrop of some of the twentieth century’s most profound […]
Decorator Cynthia Weber talkes about a shop she loves in Bayfield Ontario Canada, The Turner Gallery & Urban Farm provide an eclectic mix of treasures.
The World, a 300-island chain laid out in the shape of the world's continents and made out of sand off Dubai, has only been partially developed after the lavish project ground to a halt in 2008.
Born in 1943, Peter Mitchell joined the Ministry of Transport as a trainee straight from school, but thought better of it and went to study art at Hornsey College of Art in north London instead, specialising in silk-screen printing. Then, in 1973, he travelled to Leeds to visit friends living in a squat in the city's northern suburb of Headingley, and chose to stay. "I set up a silk-screen studio in the basement of where I was living," he says. He has lived in Leeds ever since, and for most of that time has been earning his living as a graphic designer. But to pay the rent in 1973, he got a job as a lorry driver with a company called Sun Electrical. For the compulsive I-Spyer, it was a dream position. "I delivered electrical items such as fridges and heaters to factories and homes all over the city," he says. "For a couple of years, every day I went all round Leeds." In place of the I-Spy books, he took his photographic equipment and a stepladder. Ready Mixed Concrete Ltd, Elland Road, summer 1977 Mr Pearson, steam-grab driver, Victoria Bridge, spring 1974 Mrs Collins and Mrs Clayton, Robinsons' Famous Fisheries, Beck Road, summer 1974 Mr Reuben, Rugby Cabinet Co Ltd, Lucas Court, summer 1974 Mr Gower, Cabin Cafe, Upper Wortley Road, winter 1975 Tivoli Cinema, Sissons Lane, summer 1976 Eric Massheder, dripping-refinery worker, Vulcan Street, spring 1975 Raine Bros Ltd, plumbers' merchants, Crown Street, spring 1974 View to the West, Quarry Hill Flats, summer 1977. 'The Kitson House telephone was the only one on the estate,' says Mitchell Francis Gavan, ghost-train ride, Woodhouse Moor, spring 1986. 'Francis built this apparition himself and was stuck in Leeds for the next three days with a broken generator' Elaine Whitehead & Linda, Red Brick Cafe, Dewsbury Road, summer 1992. 'Sandwiched between the tarmac and the sky, and with those red bricks, Elaine's cafe is so Leeds' Noel and his lads, demolition men, Quarry Hill Flats, summer 1978. 'The last arch of Quarry Hill. Noel, with a real sense of occasion, got his men to pose for posterity' (via The Independent)
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Hello friends! I'm Lorene, and I'm an intermittent (self-invited) guest here at Housewife Eclectic (my blog lives over at just Lu, but I'm only there very intermittently between wrangling 3 kids and running my own virtual assistant business). Today I've invited myself here to take over so that Debra
Union Jack quilt pattern - kind of a Cath Kidston meets Andy Warhol look with Union Jack flags in a variety of red, white, and blue combinations.
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Readers' photos on the theme Jubilee.
Relive the moments that went down in history at the 2012 summer Olympics in London. Access official videos, results, galleries, sport and athletes.
