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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,city,centre,characters,DC Thompson,Beano character statue,The Beano Dundee,cartoon character statue,Dundee shopping area,cultural landmark Dundee,Minnie,Minx,British popular culture,comics publishing heritage,childhood nostalgia UK,creative industries Dundee,humour and rebellion,illustrated characters in public space,city identity through culture,literary tourism,media history Britain,public art and storytelling,family-friendly city centres,Overgate Dundee,High Street Dundee,Dundee DD1 1UF,Dundee Scotland UK,public art Dundee,childrens comic character,British comic history,DC Thomson publishing,playful public sculpture,shopping centre Dundee,editorial image,daytime exterior,unusual,view,original
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3DCX6DN - A bronze statue of Minnie the Minx, photographed in Dundee city centre close to the Overgate shopping area on High Street, Dundee DD1 1UF. The sculpture depicts the mischievous Beano character in an energetic pose, complete with oversized boots and slingshot, reflecting her rebellious personality and comic-strip origins.
Minnie the Minx is one of the best-known characters from The Beano, the long-running British children's comic first published in 1938. Dundee has a unique connection to British comics history as the home of DC Thomson, the publisher behind The Beano and The Dandy, whose titles shaped generations of childhood reading in the UK and beyond.
The statue forms part of Dundee's wider celebration of its comics and publishing heritage, embedding illustrated characters directly into the city's public realm. Positioned within a busy retail and pedestrian area, the sculpture bridges popular culture and everyday urban life, inviting interaction from shoppers, families and visitors.
Public artworks such as this play a role in reinforcing Dundee's identity as a creative city, linking its historic publishing industry with contemporary place-making and tourism. The presence of Beano characters in the city centre highlights the cultural and economic significance of comics as part of Britain's creative industries.
Photographed in daylight with surrounding pedestrians and paving visible, the image offers strong editorial value for themes including British popular culture, children's literature, nostalgia, creative-industries heritage and the use of public art in city centres.
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,city,centre,Bash St,The Beano,heritage,publishing,Bash Street Dundee,The Beano Dundee,Dundee comics heritage,British comics history,Dundee city centre landmark,British popular culture,comics and publishing heritage,childhood nostalgia UK,visual storytelling,cultural branding of place,literary tourism,creative industries Dundee,humour and satire,twentieth century media history,city identity through culture,public art and illustration,educational publishing legacy,Bash Street Dundee DD1 1LQ,Dundee Scotland UK,DC Thomson House nearby,childrens comics UK,British humour comics,Dennis the Menace context,illustrated street sign,playful urban signage,comic art in public space,Dundee publishing history,editorial image,stone wall sign,DD1 1LQ,DD1
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3DCX6E7 - A decorative street sign for Bash Street, photographed in Dundee city centre at DD1 1LQ, mounted on a traditional stone wall and illustrated with cartoon figures referencing characters from The Beano, one of Britain's longest-running and most influential children's comics. The sign uses playful artwork and dialogue-style illustrations that directly evoke the comic strip The Bash Street Kids, first published in 1954.
Dundee holds a unique place in British publishing history as the long-time home of DC Thomson, the company behind The Beano, The Dandy and numerous other magazines that shaped generations of British childhood reading. Characters such as the Bash Street Kids, Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx and others became cultural touchstones, blending humour, mild anarchy and social satire in a style closely associated with post-war British popular culture.
The naming of Bash Street and the inclusion of comic-style signage reflect Dundee's conscious celebration of its comics and creative-industries heritage, embedding publishing history directly into the city's physical environment. Rather than a conventional street nameplate, the sign functions as a form of informal public art, combining wayfinding with storytelling and nostalgia.
Photographed in daylight with the textured stone background clearly visible, the image highlights the contrast between historic urban fabric and playful illustrated design. It offers strong editorial value for themes including British comics history, cultural memory, publishing heritage, humour in public space, and Dundee's role in the UK's creative economy, making it suitable for use in books, magazines, educational resources and cultural features.
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,city,centre,Bash St,The Beano,heritage,publishing,Bash Street Dundee,The Beano Dundee,Dundee comics heritage,British comics history,Dundee city centre landmark,British popular culture,comics and publishing heritage,childhood nostalgia UK,visual storytelling,cultural branding of place,literary tourism,creative industries Dundee,humour and satire,twentieth century media history,city identity through culture,public art and illustration,educational publishing legacy,Bash Street Dundee DD1 1LQ,Dundee Scotland UK,DC Thomson House nearby,childrens comics UK,British humour comics,Dennis the Menace context,illustrated street sign,playful urban signage,comic art in public space,Dundee publishing history,editorial image,stone wall sign,DD1 1LQ,DD1
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3DCX6E9 - A decorative street sign for Bash Street, photographed in Dundee city centre at DD1 1LQ, mounted on a traditional stone wall and illustrated with cartoon figures referencing characters from The Beano, one of Britain's longest-running and most influential children's comics. The sign uses playful artwork and dialogue-style illustrations that directly evoke the comic strip The Bash Street Kids, first published in 1954.
Dundee holds a unique place in British publishing history as the long-time home of DC Thomson, the company behind The Beano, The Dandy and numerous other magazines that shaped generations of British childhood reading. Characters such as the Bash Street Kids, Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx and others became cultural touchstones, blending humour, mild anarchy and social satire in a style closely associated with post-war British popular culture.
The naming of Bash Street and the inclusion of comic-style signage reflect Dundee's conscious celebration of its comics and creative-industries heritage, embedding publishing history directly into the city's physical environment. Rather than a conventional street nameplate, the sign functions as a form of informal public art, combining wayfinding with storytelling and nostalgia.
Photographed in daylight with the textured stone background clearly visible, the image highlights the contrast between historic urban fabric and playful illustrated design. It offers strong editorial value for themes including British comics history, cultural memory, publishing heritage, humour in public space, and Dundee's role in the UK's creative economy, making it suitable for use in books, magazines, educational resources and cultural features.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Southern,Parnell Square,Parnell,sq,city,Ireland,write,books,author,door,entrance,history,historic,heritage,literary,Maurice Gorham,icon,iconic,reopen,reopening,2022,closed,campaign,tourist,tourists,travel,literature,George Jameson,Bord Failte,manuscripts,first editions,portraits,personal mementos,Oscar Wilde
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3BR1786 - The Dublin Writers Museum was a museum of literary history in Dublin, Ireland. It opened in November 1991, and was hailed as an iconic museum in Dublin. It closed during the Covid-19 pandemic, and was brought to an end in 2022 without ever reopening.
Maurice Gorham, journalist and author, proposed the idea of starting a literary museum in the 1970s. The museum was opened on 18 November 1991, run by Dublin Tourism. Its aim was to promote interest in Irish literature as a whole and in the lives and works of individual Irish writers. It was located in 18 Parnell Square, and consisted of two eighteenth-century buildings. The main building, a red-brick Georgian-style house, had been used by George Jameson, son of the Jameson family, who owned Jameson Irish Whiskey. Michael Stapleton, stuccodore from Dublin, decorated part of the main building. Gorham Library, which commemorated its founder Gorham, was also set up on the upper floor. The annexed building had a coffee shop, bookshop, and lecture room
Having opened in 1991, the museum closed in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 lockdown. It did not reopen. Set up by Dublin Tourism, it was transferred to Bord Failte in 2012. Bord Failte commissioned a report on its future in 2020, which concluded that it had become dated relative to modern expectations (no longer meets the expectation of the contemporary museum visitor), so in 2022, the decision to end the operation permanently was made. Two staff retired, two were allocated other Bord Failte duties. Announcements on the future of owned and lent artifacts were to follow. F?ilte Ireland is still in charge of the museum artifacts after its closing.
Stained glass windows
It is proposed that the building in 18 Parnell Square should be used as a museum to commemorate Harry Clarke, a stained glass artist from Dublin. Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, William Butler Yeats, Brendan Behan, Seamus Heane
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,English,UK,Surrey,GU1 3SX,GU1,Castle park,Guildford,salute,arm,girl,woman,Alice sculpture,Jeanne Argent,Alice in Wonderland sculpture,public sculpture UK,bronze sculpture,literary sculpture,childrens literature,Lewis Carroll,Alice statue,surreal sculpture,British public art,Guildford Castle Grounds,outdoor sculpture,figurative sculpture,garden sculpture,fantasy literature,Victorian literature,classic childrens book,art in public spaces,cultural heritage,storytelling,girl figure sculpture,green park setting,daylight,summer greenery
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RGJW6W - A bronze public sculpture titled Alice Through the Looking Glass by artist Jeanne Argent, depicting the literary character Alice reaching forward in a moment of transition and discovery. The figure is presented emerging through a curved, glass-like frame, referencing Lewis Carroll's classic Victorian children's novel Through the Looking-Glass, part of the wider Alice in Wonderland stories. The expressive pose and stylised form emphasise imagination, curiosity, and the crossing of boundaries between reality and fantasy.
The sculpture is installed outdoors in a landscaped garden setting in Guildford, Surrey, surrounded by greenery and hedging, which enhances the dreamlike quality of the work. Jeanne Argent is known for figurative sculpture that draws on myth, narrative, and human emotion, and this piece reflects the enduring cultural influence of Lewis Carroll's writing on British art and public imagination.
Photographed in daylight during the growing season, the image shows the patinated bronze surface against lush foliage, making it suitable for editorial and commercial uses relating to public art, British sculpture, literary heritage, children's literature, education, tourism, and cultural landmarks in southern England.
Location: Guildford Castle Grounds, Guildford, Surrey, England, GU1 3SX.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Charles Dickens blue plaque,literary landmark,heritage plaque,London history,famous residents,London Borough of Camden,Tavistock Square,WC1,Victorian London,English literature,cultural heritage,historic building,stone facade,commemorative plaque,birthplace and homes,authors and writers,literary tourism,British history,editorial image,documentary photography,UK heritage,books,writing,1851,and,1860,marked,marking,recording,recognition,authors,city,centre
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R4WDH2 - This image shows a blue heritage plaque commemorating Charles Dickens, mounted on the exterior wall of Tavistock House in the Bloomsbury area of central London. The plaque records that Dickens lived at or near this site between 1851 and 1860, a significant period in his literary career during the height of Victorian Britain.
Charles Dickens is widely regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, known for works such as Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, and Great Expectations. His time at Tavistock House coincided with the production of several major novels and reflects his close association with London, a city that features prominently in his writing as both setting and subject.
Blue plaques form part of a long-established British tradition of marking buildings connected with notable historical figures, helping to preserve cultural memory within the urban landscape. Positioned on a stone facade beside an arched window, the plaque links everyday streetscapes with the literary and social history of the capital.
Photographed in daylight, the image emphasises the crisp blue-and-white enamel of the plaque against the pale masonry, making it well suited to editorial use covering English literature, literary heritage, historic London, famous writers, education, and cultural tourism in the UK.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,England,UK,Hampstead,Highgate,urban,independent,shops,3""?5 Woburn Walk,London WC1,Georgian terrace,caf?? culture,London streetscape,literary Bloomsbury,Woburn Walk Bloomsbury,Georgian architecture,terrace houses,pedestrianised lane,small independent shops,caf?? tables,people sitting outdoors,London neighbourhood,Camden London,historic shopping street,boutique retail,residential street,summer in London,socialising outdoors,London urban life,conservation area,documentary photography,Spring,tranquil
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RA23DD - A view along Woburn Walk in Bloomsbury, central London, showing outdoor caf?? seating and small independent businesses at numbers 3?5 Woburn Walk. The narrow pedestrian street is lined with Georgian terraced buildings, creating an intimate village-like atmosphere within the city centre.
Woburn Walk is one of London's earliest purpose-built pedestrian shopping streets and is closely associated with Bloomsbury's literary and cultural history. Today it remains a popular destination for caf??s, specialist shops, and local visitors, blending residential architecture with relaxed street-level social life.
Photographed in natural daylight, the image captures everyday urban activity in central London, illustrating themes of caf?? culture, historic streets, conservation areas, and the continued appeal of small-scale pedestrian environments in the capital. Seen in places like Woburn Walk, the idea that London neighbourhoods are uniformly dangerous quickly falls apart, yet the lazy narrative persists that the capital and its suburbs are defined by knife crime and disorder rather than by ordinary, peaceful life. Woburn Walk is quietly pedestrian, lined with small shops and cafes, people talking over coffee, children passing through, and neighbours using the street as an extension of their living space, a scene far closer to a village high street than to the sensational headlines that dominate national coverage. The reality is that most London streets, suburban and central alike, function exactly like this most of the time, shaped by routine, community habits, and long-established social norms rather than constant threat. Crime does exist, as it does in any large city, but the disproportionate focus on the most extreme incidents distorts public perception and flattens a complex urban landscape into something unrecognisable to those who actually live there. Woburn Walk, calm, human-scaled and socially active, stands as a quiet rebuttal to that caricature, illustrating difference.
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Keywords: Germany,city,centre,February,2023,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,uniform,uniforms,outfit,outfits,marching,marchers,on,parade,Sunday,fun,funny,history,walk,walking,M????nzer Fassenacht,Meenzer Fassenacht,D55126,55126,Rheinland-Pfalz,rhenish carnival tradition,political,literary,humor,humour,men,electoral,troops,guard,guards,oaths,oath,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RHH6HR - Traditionally, carnival season in Mainz begins on November 11 at 11:11, and continues through Ash Wednesday. However, the event peaks in February or March in the days leading up to Ash Wednesday.
During the 19th century celebrants began using the carnival as an opportunity to mock the military forces occupying the city's fortress. The uniforms of the carnival guards are still reminders of the uniforms of the Austrian, Prussian, and French troops which were present in the town between 1792 and 1866. Others, like the Landsknecht uniform of the Weisenauer Burggrafengarde trace their lineage as far back as the middle-ages. Uniform parts of the electoral troops are also present. The guards, who spoof military habits and oaths, have a big role in the street carnival, making up large portions of the parades. The Mainzer Rosenmontagszug is highly renowned among the parades. It had been recorded since 1910 on film, and is often broadcast live nationwide. It is less formal than many parades, as celebrants can and often do join in to walk the parade route for a brief time. Marchers are often very informal about their roles, sometimes drinking beer as they ride parade floats.
Political commentary and caricature have become a notable part of the Mainz carnival, and especially of its parades. For example, floats during one parade in the late 1980s showed Uncle Sam and a Russian soldier climbing out of suits of armor, and portrayed Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in a bathtub.
The battle cry of the Mainz carnival, Helau, originates from D?sseldorf and was introduced in 1938 in Mainz
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Keywords: Germany,city,centre,February,2023,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,uniform,uniforms,outfit,outfits,marching,marchers,on,parade,Sunday,fun,funny,history,walk,walking,M????nzer Fassenacht,Meenzer Fassenacht,D55126,55126,Rheinland-Pfalz,rhenish carnival tradition,political,literary,humor,humour,men,electoral,troops,guard,guards,oaths,oath,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RHH6HY - Traditionally, carnival season in Mainz begins on November 11 at 11:11, and continues through Ash Wednesday. However, the event peaks in February or March in the days leading up to Ash Wednesday.
During the 19th century celebrants began using the carnival as an opportunity to mock the military forces occupying the city's fortress. The uniforms of the carnival guards are still reminders of the uniforms of the Austrian, Prussian, and French troops which were present in the town between 1792 and 1866. Others, like the Landsknecht uniform of the Weisenauer Burggrafengarde trace their lineage as far back as the middle-ages. Uniform parts of the electoral troops are also present. The guards, who spoof military habits and oaths, have a big role in the street carnival, making up large portions of the parades. The Mainzer Rosenmontagszug is highly renowned among the parades. It had been recorded since 1910 on film, and is often broadcast live nationwide. It is less formal than many parades, as celebrants can and often do join in to walk the parade route for a brief time. Marchers are often very informal about their roles, sometimes drinking beer as they ride parade floats.
Political commentary and caricature have become a notable part of the Mainz carnival, and especially of its parades. For example, floats during one parade in the late 1980s showed Uncle Sam and a Russian soldier climbing out of suits of armor, and portrayed Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in a bathtub.
The battle cry of the Mainz carnival, Helau, originates from D?sseldorf and was introduced in 1938 in Mainz
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Keywords: Germany,city,centre,February,2023,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,uniform,uniforms,outfit,outfits,marching,marchers,on,parade,Sunday,fun,funny,history,walk,walking,M????nzer Fassenacht,Meenzer Fassenacht,D55126,55126,Rheinland-Pfalz,rhenish carnival tradition,political,literary,humor,humour,men,electoral,troops,guard,guards,oaths,oath
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RHH6K7 - Traditionally, carnival season in Mainz begins on November 11 at 11:11, and continues through Ash Wednesday. However, the event peaks in February or March in the days leading up to Ash Wednesday.
During the 19th century celebrants began using the carnival as an opportunity to mock the military forces occupying the city's fortress. The uniforms of the carnival guards are still reminders of the uniforms of the Austrian, Prussian, and French troops which were present in the town between 1792 and 1866. Others, like the Landsknecht uniform of the Weisenauer Burggrafengarde trace their lineage as far back as the middle-ages. Uniform parts of the electoral troops are also present. The guards, who spoof military habits and oaths, have a big role in the street carnival, making up large portions of the parades. The Mainzer Rosenmontagszug is highly renowned among the parades. It had been recorded since 1910 on film, and is often broadcast live nationwide. It is less formal than many parades, as celebrants can and often do join in to walk the parade route for a brief time. Marchers are often very informal about their roles, sometimes drinking beer as they ride parade floats.
Political commentary and caricature have become a notable part of the Mainz carnival, and especially of its parades. For example, floats during one parade in the late 1980s showed Uncle Sam and a Russian soldier climbing out of suits of armor, and portrayed Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in a bathtub.
The battle cry of the Mainz carnival, Helau, originates from D?sseldorf and was introduced in 1938 in Mainz
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Keywords: Germany,city,centre,February,2023,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,uniform,uniforms,outfit,outfits,marching,marchers,on,parade,Sunday,fun,funny,history,walk,walking,M????nzer Fassenacht,Meenzer Fassenacht,D55126,55126,Rheinland-Pfalz,rhenish carnival tradition,political,literary,humor,humour,men,electoral,troops,guard,guards,oaths,oath,hotpix.org.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RHH6KB - Traditionally, carnival season in Mainz begins on November 11 at 11:11, and continues through Ash Wednesday. However, the event peaks in February or March in the days leading up to Ash Wednesday.
During the 19th century celebrants began using the carnival as an opportunity to mock the military forces occupying the city's fortress. The uniforms of the carnival guards are still reminders of the uniforms of the Austrian, Prussian, and French troops which were present in the town between 1792 and 1866. Others, like the Landsknecht uniform of the Weisenauer Burggrafengarde trace their lineage as far back as the middle-ages. Uniform parts of the electoral troops are also present. The guards, who spoof military habits and oaths, have a big role in the street carnival, making up large portions of the parades. The Mainzer Rosenmontagszug is highly renowned among the parades. It had been recorded since 1910 on film, and is often broadcast live nationwide. It is less formal than many parades, as celebrants can and often do join in to walk the parade route for a brief time. Marchers are often very informal about their roles, sometimes drinking beer as they ride parade floats.
Political commentary and caricature have become a notable part of the Mainz carnival, and especially of its parades. For example, floats during one parade in the late 1980s showed Uncle Sam and a Russian soldier climbing out of suits of armor, and portrayed Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in a bathtub.
The battle cry of the Mainz carnival, Helau, originates from D?sseldorf and was introduced in 1938 in Mainz
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RD247D - Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire, England, a centre of the medieval Northumbrian kingdom. The abbey and its possessions were confiscated by the crown under Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries between 1536 and 1545.
Since that time, the ruins of the abbey have continued to be used by sailors as a landmark at the headland. Since the 20th century, the substantial ruins of the church have been declared a Grade I Listed building and are in the care of English Heritage
the site museum is housed in Cholmley House
The first monastery was founded in 657 AD by the Anglo-Saxon era King of Northumbria, Oswy (Oswiu) as Streoneshalh (the older name for Whitby). He appointed Lady Hilda, abbess of Hartlepool Abbey and grand-niece of Edwin, the first Christian king of Northumbria, as founding abbess
Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula featured Count Dracula as a creature resembling a large dog which came ashore at the headland and runs up the 199 steps to the graveyard of St Mary's Church in the shadow of the Whitby Abbey ruins. The abbey is also described in Mina Harker's diary in the novel:
Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is the scene of part of Marmion, where the girl was built up in the wall. It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits
there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RD247N - Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire, England, a centre of the medieval Northumbrian kingdom. The abbey and its possessions were confiscated by the crown under Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries between 1536 and 1545.
Since that time, the ruins of the abbey have continued to be used by sailors as a landmark at the headland. Since the 20th century, the substantial ruins of the church have been declared a Grade I Listed building and are in the care of English Heritage
the site museum is housed in Cholmley House
The first monastery was founded in 657 AD by the Anglo-Saxon era King of Northumbria, Oswy (Oswiu) as Streoneshalh (the older name for Whitby). He appointed Lady Hilda, abbess of Hartlepool Abbey and grand-niece of Edwin, the first Christian king of Northumbria, as founding abbess
Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula featured Count Dracula as a creature resembling a large dog which came ashore at the headland and runs up the 199 steps to the graveyard of St Mary's Church in the shadow of the Whitby Abbey ruins. The abbey is also described in Mina Harker's diary in the novel:
Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is the scene of part of Marmion, where the girl was built up in the wall. It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits
there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,WA1,centre,Anna,Laetitia,Barbauld,Writer,poetry,woman,figure,literary,history,historic,Academy,1758-1774,this,by,the,society,Eighteen Hundred and Eleven,Mrs Barbauld,6 Dial St,WA1 2NX,head,portrait,Conservative Club,sunny,preserved,town,towns,famous,site
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTK73N - Anna Laetitia Barbauld , as in French, n??e Aikin
20 June 1743 ? 9 March 1825) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature. A woman of letters who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career that spanned more than half a century.
She was a noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy and an innovative writer of works for children. Her primers provided a model for more than a century. Her essays showed it was possible for a woman to be engaged in the public sphere
other women authors such as Elizabeth Benger emulated her.
The publication of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven in 1812, which criticised Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars received negative reviews
In 1758, the family moved to Warrington Academy, halfway between the growing industrial cities of Liverpool and Manchester, where Barbauld's father had been offered a teaching position.
In May 1774, despite some misgivings, Barbauld married Rochemont Barbauld (1749?1808), the grandson of a French Huguenot and a former pupil at Warrington.
After the wedding, the couple moved to Suffolk, near where Rochemont had been offered a congregation and a school for boys
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M84KEY -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8BNN6 - Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty (17 August 1878 ? 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist. He served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.
Gogarty was born 17 August 1878 in Rutland Square, Dublin, the eldest child of Henry Gogarty, a well-to-do Dublin physician, and Margaret Gogarty (n??e Oliver), the daughter of a Galway mill owner. Three siblings (Henry, Mary, and Richard) were born later. Gogarty's father, himself the son of a medical doctor, had been educated at Trinity College and owned two fashionable homes in Dublin, which set the Gogartys apart from other Irish Catholic families at that time and allowed them access to the same social circles as the Protestant Ascendancy
As one of Dublin's medicos, Gogarty was known to be fond of public pranks and midnight carousing in the Kips, Dublin's red-light district. He had a talent for humorous and bawdy verse, which quickly made the rounds through the city, and sometimes composed mnemonic lyrics to aid his medical studies. He also enjoyed a highly successful cycling career before being banned from the tracks in 1901 for bad language, and between 1898 and 1901 he rescued at least four people from drowning. He became interested in Irish nationalism after meeting Arthur Griffith in 1899, and contributed propaganda pieces to The United Irishman over subsequent years
As a Sinn F??iner during the Irish War of Independence, Gogarty participated in a variety of anti-Black and Tan schemes, allowing his home to be used as a safe house and transporting disguised IRA volunteers in his car. Following the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Gogarty sided with the pro-Treaty government (headed by his close friend Arthur Griffith) and was made a Free State Senator. When Griffith fell ill during the summer of 1922, Gogarty frequently attended his bedside. His death on 12 August 1922 had a profound effect on Gogarty
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8BNP4 - James Joyce's Ulysses was published in 1922 and is considered to be one of the most important books of the 20th century. The narrative follows the journey of two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, as they criss-cross Dublin on 16 June 1904. Dublin takes centre stage in the book and the soul of the city is captured in all its gritty glory.
The narrative parallels Homer's Odyssey, with one notable difference, Guinness. The two boys travel across the city in what is basically a marathon pub crawl.
Every year a bunch of Joycean enthusiasts re-enact this epic pub crawl. It's dressed up as literary event, don't let that fool you, its drink broken up by a bit of walking. The event is known as Bloomsday.
2004 was the 100th birthday of the event, and there were lots of events organised that appealed to the high and low brow alike.
We think that the Catholic Church would have beatified Leopold Bloom if he really existed and wasn't Jewish. We decided to name the liveliest and loveliest hotel in Temple Bar after the great literary character - Blooms Hotel.
Blooms of Dublin is a musical play or operetta in two acts with music and text by Anthony Burgess. The work, nearly three hours long, was first performed (in a concert version) for the Dublin Joyce Centenary in 1982 by the RTE Singers and RTE Concert Orchestra and broadcast on BBC and RTE radio. It was produced by John Tydeman and Michael Heffernan.
The operetta is based on James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. It was published in book form in 1986. The texts of some of the songs also appear in the novels Earthly Powers (1980) and The End of World News (1982)
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8BNT2 - James Joyce's Ulysses was published in 1922 and is considered to be one of the most important books of the 20th century. The narrative follows the journey of two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, as they criss-cross Dublin on 16 June 1904. Dublin takes centre stage in the book and the soul of the city is captured in all its gritty glory.
The narrative parallels Homer's Odyssey, with one notable difference, Guinness. The two boys travel across the city in what is basically a marathon pub crawl.
Every year a bunch of Joycean enthusiasts re-enact this epic pub crawl. It's dressed up as literary event, don't let that fool you, its drink broken up by a bit of walking. The event is known as Bloomsday.
2004 was the 100th birthday of the event, and there were lots of events organised that appealed to the high and low brow alike.
We think that the Catholic Church would have beatified Leopold Bloom if he really existed and wasn't Jewish. We decided to name the liveliest and loveliest hotel in Temple Bar after the great literary character - Blooms Hotel.
Blooms of Dublin is a musical play or operetta in two acts with music and text by Anthony Burgess. The work, nearly three hours long, was first performed (in a concert version) for the Dublin Joyce Centenary in 1982 by the RTE Singers and RTE Concert Orchestra and broadcast on BBC and RTE radio. It was produced by John Tydeman and Michael Heffernan.
The operetta is based on James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. It was published in book form in 1986. The texts of some of the songs also appear in the novels Earthly Powers (1980) and The End of World News (1982)
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8DJE4 - Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 ? 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems On Raglan Road and The Great Hunger. He is known for his accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace
Patrick Kavanagh was born in rural Inniskeen, County Monaghan, in 1904, the fourth of ten children of James Kavanagh and Bridget Quinn
Kavanagh's first published work appeared in 1928[7] in the Dundalk Democrat and the Irish Independent. Kavanagh had encountered a copy of the Irish Statesman, edited by George William Russell, who published under the pen name AE and was a leader of the Irish Literary Revival. Russell at first rejected Kavanagh's work but encouraged him to keep submitting, and he went on to publish verse by Kavanagh in 1929 and 1930. This inspired the farmer to leave home and attempt to further his aspirations. In 1931, he walked 80 miles (abt. 129 kilometres) to meet Russell in Dublin, where Kavanagh's brother was a teacher. Russell gave Kavanagh books, among them works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Robert Browning, and became Kavanagh's literary adviser. Kavanagh joined Dundalk Library and the first book he borrowed was The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot.
Kavanagh's first collection, Ploughman and Other Poems, was published in 1936. It is notable for its realistic portrayal of Irish country life, free of the romantic sentiment often seen at the time in rural poems, a trait he abhorred. Published by Macmillan in its series on new poets, the book expressed a commitment to colloquial speech and the unvarnished lives of real people, which made him unpopular with the literary establishment. Two years after his first collection was published he had yet to make a significant impression. The Times Literary Supplement described him as a young Irish poet of promise rather than of achievement
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8DJE9 - Con Houlihan (6 December 1925 ? 4 August 2012) was an Irish sportswriter. Despite only progressing to national journalism at the age of 46, he became the greatest and the best-loved Irish sports journalist of all
Over a lengthy career, Houlihan covered many Irish and international sporting events, from Gaelic football and hurling finals, to soccer and rugby World Cups, the Olympics and numberless race meetings inside and outside Ireland.
He was a journalist with the Irish Press group writing for The Irish Press, Evening Press and sometimes The Sunday Press, until the group's demise in 1995. He wrote the Tributaries column and Evening Press back sports page Con Houlihan column
Houlihan died in the morning of 4 August 2012 in St James's Hospital in Dublin. Often considered one of Ireland's finest writers, he left behind a legacy of immense sports journalism that spanned over 60 years. A minute's silence was observed in his memory ahead of Kerry's All-Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-final defeat to Donegal at Croke Park the following day. His last column, in which he wished Katie Taylor well, was published the day after his death.[6] His funeral took place on 8 August 2012
A bronze bust of Houlihan was unveiled in his hometown of Castleisland in 2004. In 2011, a bronze plaque was installed outside The Palace bar in Dublin. The sculpture is in the foyer of The Bank pub on College Green. Cons Corner and a Bronze Bust with a quote are in The Palace Bar.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M8DJEH - Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (christened Francis Behan 9 February 1923 ? 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican activist who wrote in both English and Irish. He was named by Irish Central as one of the greatest Irish writers of all time.
An Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army, Behan was born in Dublin into a staunchly republican family becoming a member of the IRA's youth organization Fianna ??ireann at the age of fourteen. There was also a strong emphasis on Irish history and culture in his home, which meant he was steeped in literature and patriotic ballads from an early age. At age 16, Behan joined the IRA, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in the United Kingdom and imprisonment in Ireland. During this time, he took it upon himself to study and he became a fluent speaker of the Irish language. Subsequently released from prison as part of a general amnesty given by the Fianna F?il government in 1946, Behan moved between homes in Dublin, Kerry and Connemara, and also resided in Paris for a time.
In 1954, Behan's first play The Quare Fellow, was produced in Dublin. It was well received
however, it was the 1956 production at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in Stratford, London, that gained Behan a wider reputation. This was helped by a famous drunken interview on BBC television with Malcolm Muggeridge. In 1958, Behan's play in the Irish language An Giall had its debut at Dublin's Damer Theatre. Later, The Hostage, Behan's English-language adaptation of An Giall, met with great success internationally. Behan's autobiographical novel, Borstal Boy, was published the same year and became a worldwide best-seller.
By the early 1960s, Behan reached the peak of his fame. He spent increasing amounts of time in New York City, famously declaring, To America, my new found land: The man that hates you hates the human race.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG98MF - The Portico Library, The Portico or Portico Library and Gallery on Mosley Street, Manchester, is an independent subscription library designed in the Greek Revival style by Thomas Harrison of Chester and built between 1802 and 1806. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building, having been designated on 25 February 1952, and has been described as the most refined little building in Manchester.
The library was established as a result of a meeting of Manchester businessmen in 1802 which resolved to found an institute uniting the advantages of a newsroom and a library. A visit by four of the men to the Athenaeum in Liverpool inspired them to achieve a similar institution in Manchester. Money was raised through 400 subscriptions from Manchester men and the library opened in 1806.
The library, mainly focused on 19th-century literature, was designed by Thomas Harrison, architect of Liverpool's Lyceum and built by one of the founders, David Bellhouse. Its first secretary, Peter Mark Roget, began his thesaurus here.
Today the ground floor is tenanted by The Bank, a public house that takes its name from the Bank of Athens that leased the property in 1921. The library occupies what became the first floor with its entrance on Charlotte Street.
The library, Harrison's only surviving building, was the first Greek Revival building in the city. Its interior was inspired by John Soane.[1] The library has a rectangular plan and is constructed in sandstone ashlar on a corner site at 57 Mosley Street. It has two storeys and a basement and roof space. Its facade on Mosley Street has a three-bay pedimented loggia with four Ionic columns set slightly forward and steps between the columns. Under the loggia are two entrance doors and three square windows at first floor level.
The Charlotte Street facade has an entrance into the loggia with a square window above and another on the first floor.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PCTAEH - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (27 January 1832 ? 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. The poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon.
Carroll came from a family of High Church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar and teacher. It was the Dean of Christ Church, Henry Liddell, whose daughter Alice is widely identified as the original for Alice in Wonderland, though Carroll always denied this.
Several aspects of Carroll's life appear to confirm suspicions that he was a pedophile, though scholars have also made a credible case in his defence. In the absence of hard evidence, the issue of Carroll's hidden private life has provoked a lively debate, especially in recent times.
Dodgson was born in the small parsonage at Daresbury in Cheshire near the towns of Warrington and Runcorn, the eldest boy but already the third child of the four-and-a-half-year-old marriage. Eight more children followed. When Charles was 11, his father was given the living of Croft-on-Tees in North Yorkshire, and the whole family moved to the spacious rectory. This remained their home for the next 25 years.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F89P12 - This Project came about as a result of a commission by Essential Edinburgh and was kindly supported by the Prince's Foundation, Edinburgh Unesco City of Literature and the Roxburghe Hotel. Rose Street is located in Edinburgh's New Town and is a vibrant pedestrianised zone well known for its shops and many pubs which hosted the 'Rose Street Poets' during the 1950's and 1960's. The poetry displayed within the frame is by poets associated with Rose Street or Edinburgh and will be rotating with the seasons. All motives are papercuts, cut by hand and then enlarged for print onto large vinyl sheets, printed and fitted to the walls by Totem Signs.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F89P14 - This Project came about as a result of a commission by Essential Edinburgh and was kindly supported by the Prince's Foundation, Edinburgh Unesco City of Literature and the Roxburghe Hotel. Rose Street is located in Edinburgh's New Town and is a vibrant pedestrianised zone well known for its shops and many pubs which hosted the 'Rose Street Poets' during the 1950's and 1960's. The poetry displayed within the frame is by poets associated with Rose Street or Edinburgh and will be rotating with the seasons. All motives are papercuts, cut by hand and then enlarged for print onto large vinyl sheets, printed and fitted to the walls by Totem Signs.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED9DN5 - The Oxford Bar is a public house situated on Young Street, in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. The pub is chiefly notable for having been featured in Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series of novels. The Oxford Bar, or The Ox, is John Rebus's favourite pub in Edinburgh to go for a drink
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DB0JXN - An old red British Telephone box turned into a village lending library, next to an old pillarbox (still emptied)
The kiosk in the centre of Great Budworth is now being stocked up with books after the parish council bought it from British Telecom for ?1.
We are going to use it as a book exchange and are hoping people drop off books.
Children in the village are among those involved in the project.
A three month trial period is under way to see how well the scheme works.
If it is deemed a success then it will become permanent.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DB0K2X - An old red British Telephone box turned into a village lending library.
The kiosk in the centre of Great Budworth is now being stocked up with books after the parish council bought it from British Telecom for ?1.
We are going to use it as a book exchange and are hoping people drop off books.
Children in the village are among those involved in the project.
A three month trial period is under way to see how well the scheme works.
If it is deemed a success then it will become permanent.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DB0K74 - An old red British Telephone box turned into a village lending library.
The kiosk in the centre of Great Budworth is now being stocked up with books after the parish council bought it from British Telecom for ?1.
We are going to use it as a book exchange and are hoping people drop off books.
Children in the village are among those involved in the project.
A three month trial period is under way to see how well the scheme works.
If it is deemed a success then it will become permanent.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DB0KBB - An old red British Telephone box turned into a village lending library.
The kiosk in the centre of Great Budworth is now being stocked up with books after the parish council bought it from British Telecom for ?1.
We are going to use it as a book exchange and are hoping people drop off books.
Children in the village are among those involved in the project.
A three month trial period is under way to see how well the scheme works.
If it is deemed a success then it will become permanent.
