History
Flamborough Head: Britain’s Oldest Lighthouse and Its Smuggling Past
A lighthouse built in 1674 still stands on this headland. It was never lit. The man who built it went bankrupt before a single ship ever used it to find safe water, and it's...
History
Alnwick Poison Garden: Inside England’s Only Garden That Can Kill You
Every year, staff at Alnwick Poison Garden count how many visitors faint on the tour. One recent summer, the tally reached around 70. Nobody's certain if it's the stories, the smell, or something in...
History
Pontefract Cakes: Yorkshire’s 900-Year Liquorice Secret
A small black coin, stamped with a castle, sold in nearly every corner shop in Britain for over two centuries. Almost nobody who eats one knows the town it's named after once ran 13...
Travel
Britain’s Secret Pubs: You Need a Password to Enter
A jade door in Chinatown. A pawn shop front in Glasgow. A working laundrette in Manchester with a phone that isn't really for calling anyone. Britain's best hidden bars have spent years making themselves...
Travel
Hidden Bars Yorkshire: 6 You’d Walk Straight Past
A barbershop with a trapdoor in the floor. A pizzeria with a password. An unmarked black door on a street most people only ever use as a shortcut. Yorkshire's best bars have spent years...
Events
The Rhubarb Triangle: 5 Yorkshire Towns Behind a Secret Harvest
Nine square miles of West Yorkshire once grew 90 per cent of the world's winter rhubarb, picked by candlelight in total darkness, and almost nobody outside the trade ever saw it happen.
Everyone in Yorkshire...
History
Cottingley Fairies Yorkshire: The Hoax That Fooled the World for 60 Years
Two schoolgirls, a borrowed camera and a beck at the bottom of a Bradford garden produced five photographs that convinced Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fairies were real. The Cottingley Fairies hoax ran for six...
History
Janet’s Foss, Malham: The Fairy Queen’s Waterfall in the Yorkshire Dales
A six-metre waterfall drops over a curtain of limestone tufa into a pool the colour of pale jade, twenty minutes' walk from Malham village. Local tradition has held for generations that a fairy queen...