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As the landmark British silent film Piccadilly lands on Blu-ray, we turn the clock back to the roaring 20s and beyond in search of some of the UK’s finest silent feature films.
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With covid still very much a concern, organisers of many of our local carnivals feel they cannot safely deliver the usual large scale events, though they do hope to be able to provide smaller scale fun days.
One of the first events in the calendar is Hayfield May Queen.
Organiser Adrian Lee said: The May Queen usually kicks off the start of the summer and after expanding to a two-day event in 2019 with live music and food stalls on the Sunday we really wanted to come back with a bang after last year and be back to normal.
Black Death Trotting on ‘The Devil s Hoof’
The Great Plague lasted from the beginning of 1665 until September 1666, representing the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England, killing an estimated 200,000 (one quarter of London s population). Fatalities soared in the city of London in part because Londoners failed to self-quarantine, but this was not the case in the rural English village of Eyam located idyllically in the Derbyshire Dales within the Peak District National Park.
An early nineteenth-century scene showing the Eyam village pond, plague cottages, church tower, Talbot Inn and cottages, rectory gateposts and four groups of figures. (
The Things We Do For Love â Janet Royle
Real Footballers Wives Janet Royle
The house on Fowler Street was a huge three-story Victorian terrace just off Breck Road and nearer to Anfield than Goodison Park It belonged to my grandparents, who d lived there throughout the war and it was always full of people and cousins and noise. The cellar had been the bombshelter during the blitz and there was a big grid over the front step so you could escape if the house was hit. My mum was one of eight so at one time there were 11 of us living there. It was great fun.