Archive For The “Culture” Category
Yorkshire is always being named among the best places to holiday in Britain. 216 million people visit the region every year. Yorkshire folk are proud of their roots but sometimes even we take for granted what’s under our noses. I was born, grew up and have nearly always lived here but there are still things [...]
An exhibition in Yorkshire is celebrating a time when British popular culture first captivated the world and features creations by such icons of the 20th century as Andy Warhol and Vivienne Westwood. I went along to see Pop! – Design – Culture – Fashion, which is touring from the Fashion and Textile Museum in London and is [...]
We’ve talked before on these pages about the buzz surrounding the opening of the new shopping centre Trinity Leeds. But there’s been a buzz all of its own around the mall’s clutch of new restaurants and bars. The biggest buzz has been reserved for Angelica and Crafthouse, occupying the penthouse position on the sixth and fifth [...]
If you didn’t manage to get down to the Amazing Graze street food festival in Leeds during the first weekend of April I’m afraid you missed a treat. Street food seems to be having a moment in the city and it’s not hard to see why. These vendors are artisans, passionate about what they do [...]
Somewhere very high up on my must visit in 2013 list is The Bivouac in Masham, near Ripon, North Yorkshire. By a 70-acre woodland – complete with a 19th century Druid’s temple – and set in the 20,000 acre Swinton Estate, its accommodation is in hand-crafted woodland shacks and the facilities, including a gorgeous-looking café, are [...]
Recently I spent the most blissful couple of days with Alex and one of our very best friends. We checked in at Titanic Spa in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. I don’t really ‘do’ spas. I’ve only been to one once before and it was just an afternoon really, it was my hen do and I sort [...]
This article has been written by Sarah Oxley on behalf of LS-1, providers of flats in Leeds and the Yorkshire area. Christmas is just around the corner, and while (if you’re like me) you’re probably rushing around trying to get all the Christmas shopping done and wondering why you didn’t start early this year, like [...]
My husband is besotted with the north west seaside town of Morecambe, because he spent so much time there as a kid with his grandparents. (Quite sweet really, I guess). Consequently I’ve spent more time there in the last few years than I, as a Yorkshire girl and lover of our coast, ever imagined I would. [...]
Recently I heard that Create restaurant in Leeds had been awarded the Michelin Guide’s Bib Gourmand, given to establishments they think offer high quality products and services and good value for money. When I went over to Create’s website I realised that, as well as this prestigious accolade, it had an incredible story to tell. [...]
