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McCoys at the Tontine, North Yorkshire

September 30, 2021by Chris Leave a comment

All good things must come to an end. The Cleveland Tontine was built in 1804 and thanks to the London to Sunderland Mail Coach, it became a popular resting place for […]

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Hope Street Hotel

August 27, 2021by Chris Leave a comment

Gradually, and with a good deal of hesitancy, life slowly thinks about what it will be like when things return to normal – whatever that might be. It’s the first […]

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Lockdown Meals #3

February 28, 2021by Chris Leave a comment

It’s late November and the latest lockdown draws to a close, being replaced by a ‘Tier’ system which sees almost all of England in Tiers 2 and 3, and a […]

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Lockdown Meals #2

February 25, 2021by Chris Leave a comment

So, episode 2 in the great Lockdown Saga. Let’s hope we’re moving towards the end of this trilogy – more drawn out than Thomas Cromwell’s life and times. We’ve been […]

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Lockdown Meals #1

February 25, 2021by Chris Leave a comment

It’s been a long, long, lonely winter, as the Beatles might have said, before heralding the sun…and spring and, hopefully, an end to the [necessary?] measures that have restricted all […]

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The Angel at Hetton, North Yorkshire

November 14, 2020by Chris Leave a comment

Well, about a hundred years ago, when we were but young architects, we were designing spec housing. A meeting with a commercial director of Costain homes brought home the grizzly […]

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Black Swan, Oldstead, North Yorkshire

October 4, 2020by Chris Leave a comment

Well we guess the Black Swan holds a number of records – Trip Advisor ‘Best Restaurant in the World’ and now No 4 in the same league table. Remarkable. BTW […]

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Paradise with FRJ, Killinghall, North Yorkshire

October 4, 2020by Chris Leave a comment

So, cataclysmic change. You’ll find an entry (eulogy) in this blog for the Yorke Arms at Ramsgill, in Nidderdale. Place of worship, scene of many, many celebratory meals over many […]

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Terence Conran

September 12, 2020by Chris Leave a comment

Well, Terence Conran died today. He was 88, so perhaps it wasn’t a great surprise but it definitely feels the end of an incredibly important design culture that began in […]

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Salts Mill Diner, Saltaire, West Yorkshire

April 30, 2020by Chris Leave a comment

The days of the paternalistic approach to looking after your workers has, apparently, long gone. To be fair, for many employers in the industrial and post-industrial period, it had as […]

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