Now! Then! Source: Frith, St Michael's Church and the Shire Oak, Headingley, Yorkshire (1897)

Francis Frith. 1897. St Michael’s Church and the Shire Oak, Headingley, Yorkshire. London: Wellcome Library.

Photo description from wmschupbach’s posting on Flickr: The two shops are Taylors’ Drug Company Ltd. (“The great cash chemists, known everywhere. Established to supply the public with pure drugs […] at lowest store prices”), a tobacco and cigar shop, and Coutts (milliner and draper). Get it: All sources.

26 May 1941: Headingley’s Shire Oak falls, legendary site of Anglo-Saxon local government between Aire and Wharfe

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Now! Then! is an almanac portraying Yorkshire on this day. Now! lists modern happenings in the heavens and on earth. Then! consists roughly of 961 historical serendipities (762K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,628 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,846 subjects, such as (automated list!) Leeds, York, West Riding of Yorkshire, Church of England, London, Sheffield, poetry, Kingston upon Hull, Bradford, Horse ... Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder has been compiling and coding Now! Then! The Yorkshire Almanac at bedtime to educate himself about his new home since moving from Hackney to Headingley in April 2021. It will soon be available in printed and e-book editions. You can also book a performance with barrel organ of The Yorkshire Almanac Songbook.

Toutes ces choses sont passées/ Comme l'ombre et comme le vent: se non è vero, è ben trovato.

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