September is usually a roller-coaster at work as everyone comes back energized from holidays, as projects postponed before the break come back in full force but this year the bumps and hills are rockier that the previous years. This means less time to read and more importantly less time to ...
The Brummie accent is one of many regional accents spoken within the UK. There are millions of speakers, and yet little is known of it outside of Birmingham.
In time I went to visit Clemo in his small stone cottage, at Goonamarris Slip, Cornwall, where he had been born and lived. The gloomy landscape was all concrete grey. Hills of clay tips surrounded his cottage. Clay dust discoloured everything. However, he turned that stark and ugly land...
Population, 182,000 (1975; 520,000 including suburbs). Industry employs 85,000 people (1973). A major center of the automobile industry, Flint is the site of several General Motors plants. The city also produces aircraft engines, bicycles, motorcycles, chemicals and military equipment. The ...
Based on the new philosophy that asylums for the mentally ill should be built out of town, on hills in the fresh air, Yarra Bend quickly outgrew its construction in 1848 and was soon surrounded by a mosaic of cottages and even tents. The nearby Kew Asylum was opened in 1872 in a much...
I grew up in the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne in Blackburn North. My mum and dad were both librarians, so we had lots of books. Mum’s parents are Hungarian and my grandparents on the other side were Irish Catholic and Scottish Protestant. All of my grandparents were gardeners. They talked...
Four Seasons Istanbul Hotel, formerly the Atik Pasha Palace, is a renovated 19th century Ottoman palace that sits on the European bank of the Bosphorus Strait. Now a hotel with 170 guestrooms and suites, it has magnificent views of the hills of Asia. ...
that has developed naturally over the centuries. While parts of the town are industrial it also has very attractive suburbs, some areas are very affluent, others not. In many ways Stourbridge is true middle England and the people who live here are very loyal to the town. Stourbridge has an...
In London, the West End is replicated in Islington, Kings Road, Hammersmith and even out into the suburbs of Kingston, Richmond and elsewhere. At the same time, the growth of huge out-of-town shopping centres and the rise of online shopping have transformed the retail experience. What, ...
anchor on Long Point in sheltered Provincetown Harbor on the underside of the tip of the fishook (across Cape Cod Bay from Plymouth), where they stop because of the presence of freshwater streams even though Bradford calls it a "hideous and desolate wilderness" filled with sandhills; on Nov...