by Andrew Gill | Jul 25, 2021 | Celebrities, Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
This interesting photograph was taken in July 1907. The gentleman on the cart with the white beard is William Booth, founder and leader of the Salvation Army and he was visiting Denby Dale in Yorkshire. For such a small and remote place, it must have been a very...
by Andrew Gill | Jul 25, 2021 | Gallery, I didn’t expect that!, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
Denby Dale, a village in Yorkshire, has a history of making huge pies (claimed by some to be the World’s largest) to celebrate national and local events. The first was in 1788 and the latest in 1988, with just five other occasions in-between. In this unusual...