Colin Speakman Author @colin_author

Local historian and author of over 60 books on Yorkshire and walking. Founder of the Dales way. https://t.co/A1hKAgIXOq Joined June 2022

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Colin Speakman Author @colin_author

3 years ago

Malham: an excellent choice for a Christmas Day walk...and a very good cause, too. Lots of Dales friends will be there, I'm sure....

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Colin Speakman Author @colin_author

3 years ago

Malham :-) 👍

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An Ilkley Diary @AnIlkleyDiary

3 years ago

The Old Bridge #ilkley looking lovely.

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HistoryandHeritageYorkshire @GenealogyBeech

3 years ago

We have seen them many times, flush bracket are a way of accurately defining a height above sea level and were used for the more important level control points. They are set in most trig pillars – as well as seen set into walls and buildings. Image courtesy of Ian Taylor.

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Colin Speakman Author @colin_author

3 years ago

Why AONB designation matters @Yorkshire_Wolds mag-north.com/posts/for-the-… Thank you for this @magnorthmag

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Cedar Manor @CedarManorHotel

3 years ago

All around the #LakeDistrict there's such a wealth of art in our galleries cedarmanor.co.uk/blog/best-exhi… @ShowcaseCumbria @HeatonCooperArt @ArmittMuseum. RT pls @timfarron

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Darling Reads @darling_reads

3 years ago

Such a pleasure to meet the very lovely Fiona today, the author of the fab middle grade book, Looking for Emily. Fiona is the sweetest and if you look very closely, she’s used an awesome stamp in the books too. Signed copies now available! @fiona_clicks @NosyCrow @alicebcorrigan

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Bradford Literature Festival @BradfordLitFest

3 years ago

#NationalPoetryDay is just around the corner. This year we’re celebrating by sharing Bradford Literature Festival staff’s favourite poems. We’d love to hear your favourites too. First up is Martha’s musical favourite – ‘The Weary Blues’ by Langston Hughes: bit.ly/3BZqqtD

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York Archaeology @YArchaeology

3 years ago

We have some amazing volunteers who live and breathe #ThrowbackThursday... by helping us digitise our archives! Watch some of our volunteers, plus Collections and Archives Assistant Ellie, talk about their work on the Coppergate Archive! archaeology.live/event/the-copp…

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DalesBus @DalesBus

3 years ago

DalesBus 822 runs from Pocklington, York, Boroughbridge and Ripon to Fountains Abbey, Pateley Bridge and Grassington, continuing to Hawes, every Sunday until 23rd October. dalesbus.org/822 @fountainsabbey @NT_TheNorth @EYBuses @nidderdaleuk @moreRipon

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Colin Speakman Author @colin_author

3 years ago

The lovely @beverleybooks has some of mine in stock.

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Friends of the Settle-Carlisle Line (FoSCL) @foscl

3 years ago

Just look at this for a view! Some finishing off to do around the window. (From John Carey at Dent station)

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Yorkshire Coast CRP @YorksCoastlines

3 years ago

Today its #CarFreeDay2022 fancy a train ride. Maybe to the seaside at #Bridlington #Filey or #Scarborough Or a trip to #Hull what about @CottMarket and the shops. Not forgetting #Beverley or #Driffield. So much to see and do along the #WoldsCoastline

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HistoryandHeritageYorkshire @GenealogyBeech

3 years ago

'To all such Wuthering Heights must appear a rude and strange production. The wild Moors of the north of England can for them have no interest; the language, the manners, the very dwellings and household customs of the scattered inhabitants of those districts, must be

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Wharfedale Observer @wharfeobserver

3 years ago

Otley Wildlife Arts Festival partners with Ilkley Literature Festival dlvr.it/SYNgnY

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Cycling the Yorkshire Wolds @CycleTheWolds

3 years ago

Hoped to do a 100km ride today, but a late start meant I settled for 50 miles, which was nice. Living the dream squatting by the roadside having flapjack and drinking (piping hot!) coffee at the start point of the Kiplingcotes Derby 👍🏼

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Bradford 2025 @bradford2025

3 years ago

Bradford is getting ready for #CityofCulture2025 👀 Read more about the multi-million pound projects and changing street scenes breathing new life into Bradford city centre over the coming months in @Bradford_TandA thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/21321949.…

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J. E. Books @JEBooksHull

3 years ago

❤️🥳❤️ Happy Birthday to me, J. E. Books - *4* years old if you can believe it - thank you to all my lovely customers, likers, followers and of course retweeters ❤️❤️❤️

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HistoryandHeritageYorkshire @GenealogyBeech

3 years ago

Last year following some amazing detective work at the British Library it was discovered that a previously unidentified 13th century bible was originally from the library at Byland Abbey. 'An inscription was found in a 13th-century script