Homing Pigeons, painting by Philip Meadows, Teesside artist.

Jolly Angler, Manchester (sadly closed in 2020), painting by Seanna Doonan. Artwork for The McGoldrick Family album cover.

Skipton, Yorkshire, painting by Linda Mellin.

William the Conqueror killed Harold II at Hastings on this day 1066. Of his Harrying of the North, one writer said: 'So terrible a famine fell upon the humble and defenceless people, that more than 100,000 Christian folk of both sexes, young and old alike, perished of hunger.'

Inis Mor, Aran Islands, County Galway, July 1892, photo by Jane Shackleton, pioneering Irish photographer (1843-1909).

In Harrogate for lunch with a group of retired northern journalists (but not at Bettys).

A City Garden, 1940, painting by James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish artist, 1907-98 (Dundee Art Galleries and Museums).

‘These Isles’ and ‘Northerners’ both on display at Waterstones in Harrogate.

Lady Feeding The Pigeons, painting by Salford-born Bob Richardson (b.1938).

Marble Arch Inn, Manchester, painting by Brenainn Shackleton.

Although BBC research found Pickles’ reading popular, abuse came from people who claimed his delivery undermined the bulletin's credibility. Pickles claimed he enjoyed the fuss, but eventually decided to give it up and do other broadcasting work in Manchester.

Actor Wilfred Pickles was born in Halifax on this day 1904. He was invited to read the national radio news early in WW2 because Brendan Bracken, minister of information, believed a northern voice would be an inclusive gesture and would be difficult for German propagandists to impersonate.

Maryport, Cumbria, 1965, painting by Sheila Fell, 1931-79 (Tate). L.S. Lowry, her friend and champion, regarded her as the finest landscape artist of the mid-20th century

Tib Street entrance to Affleck's Palace indoor market, Manchester, 1995 (Manchester Libraries).

Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst were arrested on this day 1905 after disrupting a Liberal rally at Manchester's Free Trade Hall attended by Winston Churchill and Sir Edward Grey. They shouted: ‘Will the Liberal government give votes to women?’

Five months ago.

Boy smiles in Georgetown, Blaenau Gwent, south-east Wales, early 1970s, photo by Robert Haines.