#East Midlands

[cheese-tournament]

Round 1

Propaganda:

Sage Derby

Looks like marble damnnn

They used to gatekeep this cheese to only christmas

The green is made using green corn(?) and spinach

Smoked Gouda

The rind is edible!!

Always found Gouda is wayyy to hard, like I struggle to bite it. Maybe I just leave it for too long tho

Damnnn it can only be made using Dutch cows

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Lincoln Cathedral in ENGLAND

[pangeen]

“ Capturing the Spring blossom “ //  Diana  

[liquial]

The River Soar at Abbey Park, Leicester

[atlasandacamera]

Lincoln, England

[mothmiso]

Derbyshire (2) (3) (4) (5) by John Knight

Via Flickr:

(2) Tansley Dale. (3) Spring Whitlow-grass (Draba verna agg). (4) Cressbrook Dale. (5) Litton Mill.     

[gothic-architecture]

Hathersage, Hope Valley, Derbyshire, England

(Stephen Elliott)

[hws-em]

I FIXED HER FACE @aphfroghat

[amewinterscreates]

(via "Ey up, mi duck!" Pin for Sale by amewintersart)

A common greeting up in Nottinghamshire and the East Midlands; it's a lovely friendly way to say hello. It's also common to hear 'duckie' as a familiar, non-romantic way to refer to people in a similar way as 'sweetheart', 'love' and 'pet'.

[thecrimecrypt]

Crimes That Shook Britain (East Midlands)

Murder of Kayleigh Haywood Kayleigh Haywood, 15, met Luke Harlow, 28, online in 2015. For two weeks, with over 2,600 texts, he groomed her. Said she was beautiful, declared his love, persuaded her to visit.

On Friday 15 November, Kayleigh’s dad dropped her at Ibstock Community College, Leicestershire, believing she was staying with a friend. At Harlow’s flat, Kayleigh met his neighbour Stephen Beadman, 29, and she was abused, plied with alcohol.

Her worried parents reported her missing. At 3am Sunday morning, a neighbour saw Kayleigh flee Harlow’s flat, naked from the waist down. Beadman chased her, raped her and killed her with a brick. Harlow was jailed 12 years for sexual activity, grooming and falsely imprisoning a child.

Beadman was jailed for life for rape, murder and false imprisonment of a child.

Colin Pitchfork November 1983 - Lynda Mann, 15, was found raped and strangled in Narborough.

The case went cold until July 1986, when Dawn Ashworth, 15, was raped and strangled less than a mile away. The year before, Alec Jeffreys, a British genetics researcher, had discovered DNA profiling.

Testing semen samples found at both crime scenes, Jeffreys linked the cases. Police asked local men aged 17 to 34 to submit blood. Jeffreys tested the DNA samples.

After being overheard admitting he paid a colleague to provide blood on his behalf, local man Colin Pitchfork, then 25, was arrested. His DNA matched both samples, and he was jailed for life.

Susan and Christopher Edwards In October 2013, police dug up a garden in Mansfield and found the remains of former residents Patricia and William Wycherley, 63 and 85.

The pairs daughter Susan Edwards, 56, and husband Christopher, 57, were arrested - turned out they’d shot and buried them in May 1998. For 15 years, Susan said her parents were travelling, but after living off their benefits, a letter to William from the Department For Work and Pensions scared them to confess.

They were convicted of murder and given life.

The Philpotts At 4am on 11 May 2012, Mick and Mairead Philpott’s home, 18 Victory Road, Derby, went up in flames. Despite Mick’s apparently valiant efforts to save their kids, Duwayne, 13, Jade, 10, John, 9, Jack, 7, Jesse, 6, and Jayden, 5, all died.

Detectives found petrol inside the letterbox, and suspected arson. But while Mick and Mairead sobbed during a TV press conference, police already considered them suspects. A tangled love triangle emerged. Mick’s mistress, who’d lived with the Philpotts, had walked out with her five kids- a custody hearing loomed.

Mick planned to torch the family home, frame his ex love, and win custody. But a horrific fireball engulfed the house, trapping his and Mairead’s children upstairs.

In April 2013, Mick and Mairead Philpott were found guilty of six counts of manslaughter. Mick was jailed for life, Mairead for 17 years. A friend involved in the plot - Paul Mosley, 47 - also got a 17 year sentence for manslaughter.

Murder of Danielle Beccan On her way home from the Nottingham Goose Fair in October 2004, Danielle Beccan, 14, was shot in the stomach and killed in a drive-by.

Junior Andrews, then 24, and Mark Kelly, then 20, part of the Waterfront gang, were charged. They hated the St Ann’s area where Danielle lived and they’d wanted to ‘shoot up’ people.

When they saw Danielle, Kelly pulled up next to her and Andrews opened fire. Andrews and Kelly were jailed for life.

Beverley Allitt Liam Taylor, 7 months, was the first victim of serial killer nurse Beverley Allitt, then 22, in February 1991 at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire.

Within 59 days she’d killed Timothy Hardwick, 11, Becky Phillips, 2 months, and Claire Peck, 15 months, and tried to kill or harm nine more children. Staff became suspicious of the number of heart attacks on the ward.

Allitt was the only nurse on duty when the children were attacked. She’d given at least two of them large doses of insulin. In May 1993, Allitt was given 13 life sentences.

[daveunderwood]

Charnwood, Leicestershire

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[gentlemanpixelator]

Buxton. General View.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

IN MEMORIAM -- "NEVER FORGET THE WARRIORS..."

NOTE: All three shots are from the same photoshoot, which also marks the first time I've ever compiled all three on this blog in one post. I've posted all of these on Tumblr separately before.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on East Midlands, UK punk rock band BLITZ -- Carl Fisher, Charlie, Neil "Mackie" McLennen, and the late, great Nidge Miller in New Mills, Derbyshire, c. summer ‘81. 📸: Steve "Hambo" Hambleton.

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/3266973928473577974, Punk Badges, & Fort Bragg Zine (Picuki 3x).

[bryonyashaw]

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"𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳, 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 5𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳, 𝘨𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘵; 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘨𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵.”

In modern times it's now a day where we watch fireworks, take blurry photos in the dark, eat hot dogs (or in this years scenario - fish and chips or jacket potato and beans) and throw a fake "Guy" on a giant bonfire but the reason for all this is The Gunpowder Plot!

Text below taken from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Guy-Fawkes-Day

"Led by conspirators like Robert Catesby, who were zealous Roman Catholics enraged at King James I for refusing to grant greater religious tolerance to Catholics. They planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster) during the state opening of Parliament, intending to kill the king and members of Parliament in order to clear the way to reestablishing Catholic rule in England. The plan failed when the conspirators were betrayed. One of them, Guy Fawkes, was taken into custody the evening before the attack, in the cellar where the explosives to be used were stashed. The other conspirators were all either killed resisting capture or—like Fawkes—tried, convicted, and executed. In the aftermath, Parliament declared November 5 a national day of thanksgiving, and the first celebration of it took place in 1606.

Today Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated in the United Kingdom, and in a number of countries that were formerly part of the British Empire, with parades, fireworks, bonfires, and food. Straw effigies of Fawkes are tossed on the bonfire, as are—in more recent years in some places—those of contemporary political figures. Traditionally, children carried these effigies, called “Guys,” through the streets in the days leading up to Guy Fawkes Day and asked passersby for “a penny for the guy,” often reciting rhymes associated with the occasion, the best known of which dates from the 18th century.

Fireworks, a major component of most Guy Fawkes Day celebrations, represent the explosives that were never used by the plotters."