David Pendleton
@davidpendleton.bsky.social
Dr David Pendleton. Author, editor and historian, interested in the long 19th Century (1789-1914). Career defining moment was organising an open top vintage bus trip around a sewage works.
Urbanisation | Sport & Leisure | Maritime | Seaside
Urbanisation | Sport & Leisure | Maritime | Seaside
⚽📚 Sporting Lunchtime Lectures return this Saturday!
Join Lee Hanson for “Priestley’s Magnificent Magical Game” — exploring J.B. Priestley’s lifelong love of football and its place in his writing.
🕛 Noon, Sat 14 Feb
📍 The Record Café, North Parade, Bradford
🎟 Free (just buy a pint or a cuppa!)
Join Lee Hanson for “Priestley’s Magnificent Magical Game” — exploring J.B. Priestley’s lifelong love of football and its place in his writing.
🕛 Noon, Sat 14 Feb
📍 The Record Café, North Parade, Bradford
🎟 Free (just buy a pint or a cuppa!)
Priestley’s Magnificent Magical Game
Noon, Saturday 14 February, Record Cafe, Bradford
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February 8, 2026 at 11:09 AM
⚽📚 Sporting Lunchtime Lectures return this Saturday!
Join Lee Hanson for “Priestley’s Magnificent Magical Game” — exploring J.B. Priestley’s lifelong love of football and its place in his writing.
🕛 Noon, Sat 14 Feb
📍 The Record Café, North Parade, Bradford
🎟 Free (just buy a pint or a cuppa!)
Join Lee Hanson for “Priestley’s Magnificent Magical Game” — exploring J.B. Priestley’s lifelong love of football and its place in his writing.
🕛 Noon, Sat 14 Feb
📍 The Record Café, North Parade, Bradford
🎟 Free (just buy a pint or a cuppa!)
✨ Brian Bilston LIVE in Filey ✨
Known as the Banksy of poetry, Brian Bilston brings his witty, life-affirming poetry to the Evron Centre Concert Hall.
📅 Sat 9 May | ⏰ 7.30pm
🎟 £20 via WeGotTickets or Filey Post Office
A rare chance to hear the enigma himself! 📚🎤
Known as the Banksy of poetry, Brian Bilston brings his witty, life-affirming poetry to the Evron Centre Concert Hall.
📅 Sat 9 May | ⏰ 7.30pm
🎟 £20 via WeGotTickets or Filey Post Office
A rare chance to hear the enigma himself! 📚🎤
Brian Bilston: You Took the Last Bus Home
Filey Literature Festival, Saturday 9 May
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February 1, 2026 at 10:55 AM
✨ Brian Bilston LIVE in Filey ✨
Known as the Banksy of poetry, Brian Bilston brings his witty, life-affirming poetry to the Evron Centre Concert Hall.
📅 Sat 9 May | ⏰ 7.30pm
🎟 £20 via WeGotTickets or Filey Post Office
A rare chance to hear the enigma himself! 📚🎤
Known as the Banksy of poetry, Brian Bilston brings his witty, life-affirming poetry to the Evron Centre Concert Hall.
📅 Sat 9 May | ⏰ 7.30pm
🎟 £20 via WeGotTickets or Filey Post Office
A rare chance to hear the enigma himself! 📚🎤
🌿 Dive into Yorkshire’s wild beauty with local author & photographer Sarah Banks!
She joins us at @FileyLitFest to talk Wild Swimming Walks Yorkshire — 28 incredible swim spots, safety tips & inspiration.
📍 Sat 9 May, 4.30pm | 🎟 £5
She joins us at @FileyLitFest to talk Wild Swimming Walks Yorkshire — 28 incredible swim spots, safety tips & inspiration.
📍 Sat 9 May, 4.30pm | 🎟 £5
Sarah Banks: Walks and Swims in Wild Yorkshire
Filey Literature Festival, Saturday 9 May
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January 30, 2026 at 2:50 PM
🌿 Dive into Yorkshire’s wild beauty with local author & photographer Sarah Banks!
She joins us at @FileyLitFest to talk Wild Swimming Walks Yorkshire — 28 incredible swim spots, safety tips & inspiration.
📍 Sat 9 May, 4.30pm | 🎟 £5
She joins us at @FileyLitFest to talk Wild Swimming Walks Yorkshire — 28 incredible swim spots, safety tips & inspiration.
📍 Sat 9 May, 4.30pm | 🎟 £5
The 2026 segment of this season's talks has at last been finalised ... until the weather, police or pay TV get hold of the fixture list that is. Anyway, sharpen your pencils and see you at noon in the Record Cafe over the coming months. #Bradford #SportHistory #Sportingtalks
From Priestley to Plymouth
The 2026 Sporting Lunchtime Lecture Series
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January 30, 2026 at 10:51 AM
The 2026 segment of this season's talks has at last been finalised ... until the weather, police or pay TV get hold of the fixture list that is. Anyway, sharpen your pencils and see you at noon in the Record Cafe over the coming months. #Bradford #SportHistory #Sportingtalks
Festival favourite Kathryn Ferry returns with her latest book, 20th Century Seaside Architecture — an exploration of Britain’s iconic seafront buildings, from lidos and piers to hotels, bandstands and amusement arcades. 🏖️
📍 Evron Centre, Filey
🗓 Saturday 9 May 2026
⏰ 3pm
🎟 Tickets via WeGotTickets
📍 Evron Centre, Filey
🗓 Saturday 9 May 2026
⏰ 3pm
🎟 Tickets via WeGotTickets
Dr Kathryn Ferry, 20th Century Seaside Architecture
Filey Literature Festival, 9 May 2026
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January 29, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Festival favourite Kathryn Ferry returns with her latest book, 20th Century Seaside Architecture — an exploration of Britain’s iconic seafront buildings, from lidos and piers to hotels, bandstands and amusement arcades. 🏖️
📍 Evron Centre, Filey
🗓 Saturday 9 May 2026
⏰ 3pm
🎟 Tickets via WeGotTickets
📍 Evron Centre, Filey
🗓 Saturday 9 May 2026
⏰ 3pm
🎟 Tickets via WeGotTickets
We’re thrilled to welcome multi-award-winning author Annabel Abbs to Filey! ✨
Author of Frieda: The Original Lady Chatterley, Windswept, 52 Ways to Walk & The Walking Cure.
📍 Evron Centre, Concert Hall
🗓 Sat 9 May 2026 | ⏰ 1.30pm
🎟 £5 via WeGotTickets
#AnnabelAbbs #AuthorTalk #FileyEvents
Author of Frieda: The Original Lady Chatterley, Windswept, 52 Ways to Walk & The Walking Cure.
📍 Evron Centre, Concert Hall
🗓 Sat 9 May 2026 | ⏰ 1.30pm
🎟 £5 via WeGotTickets
#AnnabelAbbs #AuthorTalk #FileyEvents
Annabel Abbs, The Walking Cure
Saturday 9 May, Filey Literature Festival
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January 28, 2026 at 10:23 AM
We’re thrilled to welcome multi-award-winning author Annabel Abbs to Filey! ✨
Author of Frieda: The Original Lady Chatterley, Windswept, 52 Ways to Walk & The Walking Cure.
📍 Evron Centre, Concert Hall
🗓 Sat 9 May 2026 | ⏰ 1.30pm
🎟 £5 via WeGotTickets
#AnnabelAbbs #AuthorTalk #FileyEvents
Author of Frieda: The Original Lady Chatterley, Windswept, 52 Ways to Walk & The Walking Cure.
📍 Evron Centre, Concert Hall
🗓 Sat 9 May 2026 | ⏰ 1.30pm
🎟 £5 via WeGotTickets
#AnnabelAbbs #AuthorTalk #FileyEvents
The author and creator of a beautiful hand drawn guide to the Yorkshire coast is scheduled to speak at Filey Literature Festival on Saturday 9 May. Tickets on sale now for what promises to be a fascinating talk.
Christopher Goddard: The Yorkshire Coast
Filey Literature Festival, Saturday 9 May 2026
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January 27, 2026 at 10:07 AM
The author and creator of a beautiful hand drawn guide to the Yorkshire coast is scheduled to speak at Filey Literature Festival on Saturday 9 May. Tickets on sale now for what promises to be a fascinating talk.
Once the preserve of the rich and famous; a walk through the public gardens, Filey Literature Festival explores the great outdoors.
Filey's Public Gardens Walk
Sunday 9 May 2026
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January 26, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Once the preserve of the rich and famous; a walk through the public gardens, Filey Literature Festival explores the great outdoors.
Friday night at Filey Literature Festival is our maritime history slot.
Peter Moore tells the story of the one of the most famous ships ever to sail the seas, the Whitby-built Endeavour, as he states: the ship that changed the world.
8 May 2026, tickets on sale now #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory
Peter Moore tells the story of the one of the most famous ships ever to sail the seas, the Whitby-built Endeavour, as he states: the ship that changed the world.
8 May 2026, tickets on sale now #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory
Peter Moore: Endeavour, The Ship That Changed The World
Friday 8 May 2026
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January 25, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Friday night at Filey Literature Festival is our maritime history slot.
Peter Moore tells the story of the one of the most famous ships ever to sail the seas, the Whitby-built Endeavour, as he states: the ship that changed the world.
8 May 2026, tickets on sale now #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory
Peter Moore tells the story of the one of the most famous ships ever to sail the seas, the Whitby-built Endeavour, as he states: the ship that changed the world.
8 May 2026, tickets on sale now #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory
Tickets for the opening night of Filey Literature Festival 2026 are on sale.
Withernsea’s second best poet brings a dose of East Coast Fever to … well the east coast.
Withernsea’s second best poet brings a dose of East Coast Fever to … well the east coast.
Dean Wilson: East Coast Fever
Thursday 7 May 2026
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January 25, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Tickets for the opening night of Filey Literature Festival 2026 are on sale.
Withernsea’s second best poet brings a dose of East Coast Fever to … well the east coast.
Withernsea’s second best poet brings a dose of East Coast Fever to … well the east coast.
It's nearly time to open the first page of the 2026 Filey Literature Festival. Over the coming weeks we will be revealing this year's line up. As usual it will be communal, coastal and a little crackers.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Clear your diaries!
Ladies and Gentlemen: Clear your diaries!
Filey Literature Festival 2026
Communal, coastal, crackers
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January 22, 2026 at 1:02 PM
It's nearly time to open the first page of the 2026 Filey Literature Festival. Over the coming weeks we will be revealing this year's line up. As usual it will be communal, coastal and a little crackers.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Clear your diaries!
Ladies and Gentlemen: Clear your diaries!
Many sports have sought to replicate the success of the famous Scarborough Cricket Festival, holding summer festival games in an attempt to attract holidaymaking crowds.
Perhaps the most successful was the annual rugby festival, hosted by Scarborough RFC for seventeen years, here is its story.
Perhaps the most successful was the annual rugby festival, hosted by Scarborough RFC for seventeen years, here is its story.
Hand in Glove with Cricket
The Scarborough Rugby Festival Years
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January 15, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Many sports have sought to replicate the success of the famous Scarborough Cricket Festival, holding summer festival games in an attempt to attract holidaymaking crowds.
Perhaps the most successful was the annual rugby festival, hosted by Scarborough RFC for seventeen years, here is its story.
Perhaps the most successful was the annual rugby festival, hosted by Scarborough RFC for seventeen years, here is its story.
A railway that was never built, frozen in time.
The tiled maps of the North Eastern Railway, an extract from my recent book 'On the Tracks of the Flying Scotsman'.
The tiled maps of the North Eastern Railway, an extract from my recent book 'On the Tracks of the Flying Scotsman'.
Frozen Lines: The North Eastern Railway Captured in Ceramic
In my recent book On the Tracks of the Flying Scotsman, the route of the famous express is followed across a railway landscape shaped by Victorian ambition and Edwardian confidence, a world in which t...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:08 PM
A railway that was never built, frozen in time.
The tiled maps of the North Eastern Railway, an extract from my recent book 'On the Tracks of the Flying Scotsman'.
The tiled maps of the North Eastern Railway, an extract from my recent book 'On the Tracks of the Flying Scotsman'.
On Saturday, we have the first Sporting Lunchtime Lecture of 2026 and it is a familiar face to Bradford City fans, as long-standing City Gent editor Mike Harrison speaks about the art of the front cover of the City Gent fanzine.
Noon at the Record cafe, see you there!
Noon at the Record cafe, see you there!
Hold the Front Page: The Art of The City Gent
Mike Harrison, Noon, Saturday 10 January, Record Cafe, Bradford
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January 8, 2026 at 10:40 AM
On Saturday, we have the first Sporting Lunchtime Lecture of 2026 and it is a familiar face to Bradford City fans, as long-standing City Gent editor Mike Harrison speaks about the art of the front cover of the City Gent fanzine.
Noon at the Record cafe, see you there!
Noon at the Record cafe, see you there!
Not much doing up the allotment
January 4, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Not much doing up the allotment
A day of snow showers and dramatic skies. An ever changing panorama. #filey #yorkshire
January 3, 2026 at 7:46 PM
A day of snow showers and dramatic skies. An ever changing panorama. #filey #yorkshire
Happy new year from Scarborough’s best (only to be fair) Italian bar
December 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Happy new year from Scarborough’s best (only to be fair) Italian bar
There’s nowhere better than Bradford’s Darley St Market for random purchases: a bottle of Rumanian brandy, Italian fennel sausages and a sarnie with black German ham in it.
December 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
There’s nowhere better than Bradford’s Darley St Market for random purchases: a bottle of Rumanian brandy, Italian fennel sausages and a sarnie with black German ham in it.
In the 1850s cricket games took place between Wurtzburgh and Reichenhiem, Schunk Brothers & Co. and S. Barsdorf. This wasn’t Hamburg, Berlin or Cologne. It was Bradford. Yorkshiremen representing German companies, playing the quintessentially English game, in a heavily industrialised environment.
German Cricket in 1850s Bradford
The journey from textile warehouses to the Bradford Cricket League
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December 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
In the 1850s cricket games took place between Wurtzburgh and Reichenhiem, Schunk Brothers & Co. and S. Barsdorf. This wasn’t Hamburg, Berlin or Cologne. It was Bradford. Yorkshiremen representing German companies, playing the quintessentially English game, in a heavily industrialised environment.
The world's leading rugby historian gave the late November sporting lunchtime lecture. Listen to Dr Tony Collins talk on the career of Roy Francis, an innovator and leader of post war Rugby League. The remarkable story of a black man from Wales who revolutionised coaching. #RugbyHistory
Dr Tony Collins: 29 November 2025 Talk
Roy Francis, Rugby’s Forgotten Black Leader
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December 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The world's leading rugby historian gave the late November sporting lunchtime lecture. Listen to Dr Tony Collins talk on the career of Roy Francis, an innovator and leader of post war Rugby League. The remarkable story of a black man from Wales who revolutionised coaching. #RugbyHistory
Delighted to have an article published on the Schiller-Verein Club in Bradford.
The bust of the philosopher Schiller gazes out across Rawson Square: Germanic Bradford, a Gothic dream, classical music, warehouses of Little Germany & romanticism that inspired the writing of the Bronte sisters.
The bust of the philosopher Schiller gazes out across Rawson Square: Germanic Bradford, a Gothic dream, classical music, warehouses of Little Germany & romanticism that inspired the writing of the Bronte sisters.
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Delighted to have an article published on the Schiller-Verein Club in Bradford.
The bust of the philosopher Schiller gazes out across Rawson Square: Germanic Bradford, a Gothic dream, classical music, warehouses of Little Germany & romanticism that inspired the writing of the Bronte sisters.
The bust of the philosopher Schiller gazes out across Rawson Square: Germanic Bradford, a Gothic dream, classical music, warehouses of Little Germany & romanticism that inspired the writing of the Bronte sisters.
On Saturday I'm telling the perhaps unlikely story of German's and cricket in 1850s Bradford and the first step towards the famous Bradford Cricket League.
Noon at the Record Cafe, North Parade, Bradford. Free entry as ever, just buy a pint or a cuppa. #CricketHistory
Noon at the Record Cafe, North Parade, Bradford. Free entry as ever, just buy a pint or a cuppa. #CricketHistory
German's and Cricket in 1850s Bradford
Sporting Lunchtime Lecture, Noon, Saturday 13 December
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December 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
On Saturday I'm telling the perhaps unlikely story of German's and cricket in 1850s Bradford and the first step towards the famous Bradford Cricket League.
Noon at the Record Cafe, North Parade, Bradford. Free entry as ever, just buy a pint or a cuppa. #CricketHistory
Noon at the Record Cafe, North Parade, Bradford. Free entry as ever, just buy a pint or a cuppa. #CricketHistory
It's peace in our time! After intensive shuttle diplomacy, we have resolved our issues with La Liga ... so here's Rob's April talk bringing a touch of Spanish sunshine to North Parade.
‘Manque Pierda’, and the wonderful world of Real Betis
April 2025's Sporting Lunchtime Lecture, Record Cafe, Bradford
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December 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It's peace in our time! After intensive shuttle diplomacy, we have resolved our issues with La Liga ... so here's Rob's April talk bringing a touch of Spanish sunshine to North Parade.
Sir Geoffrey Boycott is back! The suspended club president is set to be reinstated.
It's all change at Scarborough Cricket Club, Sunday's meeting of club members voted in a new board to take the historic club towards a new future. #Cricket #Yorkshire #Scarborough
It's all change at Scarborough Cricket Club, Sunday's meeting of club members voted in a new board to take the historic club towards a new future. #Cricket #Yorkshire #Scarborough
Boycott Back in New Dawn at Scarborough CC
It is all change at the historic cricket club
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December 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Sir Geoffrey Boycott is back! The suspended club president is set to be reinstated.
It's all change at Scarborough Cricket Club, Sunday's meeting of club members voted in a new board to take the historic club towards a new future. #Cricket #Yorkshire #Scarborough
It's all change at Scarborough Cricket Club, Sunday's meeting of club members voted in a new board to take the historic club towards a new future. #Cricket #Yorkshire #Scarborough
On the eve of Sunday's crisis meeting the board of Scarborough Cricket Club resigns en masse. Another twist in a dramatic winter at North Marine Road.
Suspended club president Geoffrey Boycott poised to return. #Cricket #Scarborough #Yorkshire
Suspended club president Geoffrey Boycott poised to return. #Cricket #Scarborough #Yorkshire
Scarborough Cricket Club Board Mass Resignation
Entire board falls on their swords days before Special General Meeting
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December 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
On the eve of Sunday's crisis meeting the board of Scarborough Cricket Club resigns en masse. Another twist in a dramatic winter at North Marine Road.
Suspended club president Geoffrey Boycott poised to return. #Cricket #Scarborough #Yorkshire
Suspended club president Geoffrey Boycott poised to return. #Cricket #Scarborough #Yorkshire