Apropos of nothing, #UnitedUtilities are fucking scumbags. Makes a change from them pumping sewage into streams and onto beaches, mind you.
"United Utilities fined £800,000 after illegally abstracting 22 billion litres of #Water in #Lancashire
"It caused a significant decline in the #Fylde#Aquifer, which is an important public #WaterSupply for residents in the #NorthWest and also helps the flows of local #Rivers..."
The #Blackpool#Pelican has finally been found... In North #Yorkshire. Whether that is a commentary on the relative merits of #Lancashire and Yorkshire is open to debate.
Note how the news story assures the public that the said pelican was not dangerous, which adds a certain frisson to the unfolding events.
In WW2, the movement of millions of American troops to Britain, known as the “friendly invasion,” brought to light stark differences concerning racial segregation. Many Britons struggled to understand or accept the institutionalized discrimination that Black soldiers faced in White America, leading to tensions between the two allied nations on the matter of civil rights.
The classic case of this was that several public houses in #lancashire reacted to attempts to import segregation by putting up signs that they would serve black G.I.s only!
30 July 1644: Charlotte Stanley, Countess of #Derby, having left #Lancashire on Prince Rupert's advice, retreated with her children to the Isle of Man #otd
Am considering setting up an instance for North UK.
This will probably be a #Firefish (formerly #Calckey ) because it is just so cool. Can still read and respond to Mastodon messages as well as folk on other Fediverse systems.
Trying to gauge how much interest there might be.
Could everyone give this a boost to reach as many as possible.
Picked up a "new" book at a supermarket swap the other day: "Hints and Tips for Lancashire Weavers" dated 1923. It's a fascinating insight into the inner workings and calculations of the Dark Satanic Mills and I'm still trying to get my head around it. I had a suspicion that the author's written much of it in local dialect, /in order to make it indecipherable for Yorkshire weavers/ ! Check out these sample pages!
Anniversary of the 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass on Sunday 23 April so here's Commoners Choir with From Below. If you want more related folk songs then there's Manchester Rambler by Ewan MacColl, and the rearranged version by John Tams, and Trespassers by the Young'uns (on their album Tiny Notes on Bandcamp). And there's a short, song filled, documentary about the Kinder Scout trespass by the Young'uns with Boff Whalley on youtube. If you can't find links for any of these let me know and I'll post them.
For every footprint on the land,
For all the banners and the banned,
Should we keep to the landlord’s plans? Hell no!
‘Cos real change comes from below.
The 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass wasn't the first, although its ripples were significant. There were trespasses involving over ten thousand people up Winter Hill in Lancashire in 1896: “Will yo' come o' Sunday morning, for a walk o'er Winter Hill? Ten thousand went last Sunday, But there's room for thousands still! Oh the moors are rare and bonny, And the heather's sweet and fine, And the roads across the hilltops are the people's - yours and mine!”