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Acton Lane Remembered
Acton Lane Remembered Bill Hartley speaks truth to power The Green Revolution in Britain is sustained by coal. Last year the country imported over 41,000,000 tonnes. The Port of Tyne that used to ship the stuff out has never been … Continue reading
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Tagged Acton Lane Power Station, Bill Hartley, CEGB, Power Stations
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The Crack
The Crack Bill Hartley discovers bias in the unlikeliest of places Most towns and cities have access to a listings magazine and in the North East of England there is one called The Crack. Packed within its pages are details … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Hartley, Citizen Smith, The Crack
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Strangeways Remembered
Strangeways Remembered Bill Hartley recalls the notorious prison riot Twenty five years ago in April 1990 the worst riot in British penal history took place at Manchester’s Strangeways prison. Much has been written about the event notably the report by … Continue reading
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A burial to die for?
A burial to die for? Bill Hartley attends a green interment Any listener to BBC Radio Four’s The Archers will be aware that the village of Ambridge has a Green Burial Ground. It gets frequent mentions as characters ranging from … Continue reading
Arthur Seaton Approaches Eighty BILL HARTLEY
Arthur Seaton Approaches Eighty Bill Hartley contemplates the decline of a once fractious class Arthur Seaton would be close to eighty by now, that is if he’d survived so long. The Angry Young Man of Alan Sillitoe’s 1958 novel Saturday … Continue reading
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Failure to return BILL HARTLEY
Failure to return BILL HARTLEY finds that today’s prison staff are sometimes more constrained than their charges The recent abscond of a high profile prisoner from Stanford Hill open prison is nothing new. Each year there are a steady … Continue reading
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Sadness and survival in Labour’s lacerated heartlands
Sadness and survival in Labour’s lacerated heartlands BILL HARTLEY attends two strikingly different manifestations of Northern working class culture Two annual events took place in the North of England this year. One was the Durham Miners’ Gala, the other the … Continue reading
How to make a slum by Bill Hartley
How To Make A Slum BILL HARTLEY sees the shabby reality of social housing Of late, thanks to my involvement with a friend’s company I have been able to acquire a close acquaintance with public housing in the North East … Continue reading
Life at the Mount
Life at the Mount Bill Hartley returns to prison A recent edition of The Sun carried a story about a group of prisoners who were pictured enjoying a ‘party’ that apparently involved illicit drink and drugs taken on an (also illegal) … Continue reading →
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