At the Southern end of Tynemouth Longsands beach, on the North East coast, lies the decaying remains of Tynemouth Outdoor Swimming Pool. A concrete, rectangular, salt water tidal pool, built in the 1920s. Popular with locals and holiday makers alike for over 50 years. It began to lose ...
The final and largest wave of immigration began in 1965 and continues to the present. This wave began after Britain restricted immigration in its former black Commonwealth colonies. The 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Reform Act changed the U.S. immigration policy and, inadvertently, opened the way f...
Home to William Mitchell’s Totem, the homes long gone and the Council pledged to move the totem too. The state of play this week, the detritus removed and the base filled in, repaved and safe for a while. Off now to the Weaver Valley another day another river, passing under Weaver Vi...
Almost six hundred years later, the British explorer Martin Frobisher made contact with the Central Inuit of northern Canada. In 1741, the Russian explorer, Vitus Bering, met the Inuit of Alaska. It is estimated that there were about 40,000 Inuit living in Alaska at the time, with half of...
In 1896, the firstmodernOlympic Games was held in Athens, Greece. From then on, many countries had successfully held the Olympics, such as England, France, Germany, Canada, the USA, Spain and Australia. After more than a hundred years, the Games returned to its hometown in the year of ...
There are between nine and twelve members elected to the PGA of Alberta Board of Directors, all are Class "A" members of the PGA of Canada. Elections to the Board are held every year at the Annual General Meeting in March and election terms are set at three years.Four (4) sp...
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Another year on, another day in Penrhyn Bay – fifth time around. I have to admit that I’m fascinated by the manicured homes of this long sweep of road reaching from the base of the Little Orme. It was fascination, I knowAnd it might have ended right then, at the startJust a pass...
Walking in the footsteps of Dennis Hussey’s Collyhurst Cowboy –looking toward Dalton Street Then uphill to Eastford Square and the long lost homes. Home to William Mitchell’s Totem, the homes long gone and the Council pledged to move the totem too. The state of play this week, the de...