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Songs for the Great North Road

2025-02-28T08:34:24+00:00

Bernard Dady likes writing songs. They are creative, thought provoking, quirky and fun. They cover any topic under the sun from stained glass windows to ...

Songs for the Great North Road2025-02-28T08:34:24+00:00

Celia Fiennes

2025-02-10T09:16:38+00:00

Celia Fiennes was an early travel writer. She toured extensively through England in the late 17th century. Her diaries describe many of the towns...

Celia Fiennes2025-02-10T09:16:38+00:00

Then & Now

2025-02-13T18:15:12+00:00

"The Great North Road - Then and Now" is the title of an excellent 2013 book by lorry driver and roads enthusiast, Chris "Wolfie" Cooper. I suspect many of his loads were not...

Then & Now2025-02-13T18:15:12+00:00

1832 Time Travel – London to York

2023-06-29T11:58:20+00:00

James Fox, alias the Time Travel Artist, includes a little gem of a video amongst his many animated history timelines. Our journey from London to York traces the route of the Great...

1832 Time Travel – London to York2023-06-29T11:58:20+00:00

Carlton Reid – 2021 Video

2023-06-29T11:37:49+00:00

Journalist, historian and cycling enthusiast, Carlton Reid, took to the Great North Road in a Morgan open top car – and a fold-up bike. His video promises “oddities” about...

Carlton Reid – 2021 Video2023-06-29T11:37:49+00:00

London to Grantham – 1939 Film

2023-06-29T11:38:50+00:00

This video was taken in 1939 and recently enhanced to improve quality. The video provides a glimpse of the Great North Road before many of the towns were.....

London to Grantham – 1939 Film2023-06-29T11:38:50+00:00
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