In Yorkshire, housewives used to believe that bread would not rise if there was a corpse in the vicinity, and to cut off both ends of the loaf would make the Devil fly over the house!

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This week's is a painting of the ruins at Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire, painted by JMW Turner after his visit in 1797. Mrs Soane bought the watercolour directly from Turner’s Gallery in 1804, and today it hangs in her Morning Room in the Private Apartments.

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Alex tem uma Yorkshire chamada Delilah

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On we celebrate the thoroughly English knight Saint George who did the proper English thing & had a nice chat & an English cuppa (made with tea grown in the tea fields of Yorkshire) & a Jammie Dodger™ with the dragon.

(Then biffed him when he wasn’t looking)

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Happy Birthday to Charlotte Brontë, born in the West Riding of Yorkshire on April 21, 1816. Christopher Lane explores Brontë's "tension between hatred's expression and curtailment" in "Charlotte Brontë on the Pleasure of Hating", from : https://t.co/rIZ1mFKjuF

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Chuffed to hear my Ribblehead Viaduct has left the Heart Gallery for a new home. I've loved this place since seeing it on my first trip to the Dales (at a time when it was listed for demolition).

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