Spangles!

Cracking Up

15th August, 1907: Concrete path between Roseville Road and Roundhay Road (Chapeltown, Leeds)

?? Today's Problem Picture ??

From: Yorkshire Evening Post (1954)
(ANSWER: They are of course testing the ground to make sure it's safe to put the maypole up)

The Need for Speed

Archive photo: “Mr Rowland Winn in his racing car at Saltburn, North Yorkshire.”

You Say Tomatatoe

From The Leeds Mercury (1917)

Testing, Testing

From Leodis.net photo archive: “11th June 1938. Underground air raid shelter, situated at the rear of the Civic Hall. Interior lined with wood. Two men testing facilities.”

"His" Face Was Very Smooth for a "Man"

From: The Leeds Mercury (1918)

Hey Kids!

Children's entertainer, Leeds, 1950s.
From: Photograph archive

Just for Ewe

Incomparable Wonder

From: Leeds Patriot (1826)

Habitual Drunkards

(Poster from the early 1900s. Unfortunately we only have this photo of it!)

Terror from the Archives

Fragments of fear dredged up from the depths of our photographic collection...


Note on reverse: The Troubadour – one of the “Wee Folk” figures in soft leather made by the Todhunter Sisters of York.


Note on reverse: The Attic, Garrowby Hall near York. False cupboard leading to a mock priest-hole: part of the secret system created “to amuse his children” by Viscount Halifax.

(With thanks to Michele!)

Rat Them Out

From: The Morley Observer (1943)

Click to zoom - and don't forget to fill in the coupon.

Attack of the Killer Potatoes

(Undated postcard)

For When You Absolutely, Positively Got to Read Every Bibliography in the World

Don't Be "Dull"

From: Yorkshire Evening News (1928)

(Click to zoom)

What Are Harness' Electropathic Belts?

From: The Wife's Handbook (1892) by H. Arthur Allbutt

(Click to zoom)

The Wesleys 13

Relive the 80s... Parish Magazine-Style!

This Month's Cover Story...

The Wesleys 12

The Wesleys 11

Stars Love Mars

From: The Leeds Citizen (1952)
More about Joy Nichols.

Brain Fag Strikes Back

(Click thumbnail for full ad)

Bounce Into Summer

From: Yorkshire Evening Post (1969)
(Click image for a close-up of the “Kangaroo Jockey Ball”)

The Wife's Handbook

From: The Wife's Handbook by H. Arthur Allbutt (1892)