A vision of racegoers somewhat at odds with the more colourful, well-oiled crowds encountered on those poorly planned train journeys of today 🍻🥂🐎👠 Race Day Crowd (Oil on Canvas) by Peter Knox (b. 1942)

After a recent post about #WashingLineArt 🧺 good to see Chimni House History were ahead of the game … their fine thread can be found below this included work, featuring 1960s Rochdale 😍👏 … View from a Train by Geoff Butterworth #Art

Quick pick from Wilson55 Auctioneers & Valuers’s forthcoming and always splendid #NorthernArt Sale on 14th March. Preview here : rb.gy/9g9a94 😍 With thanks to Stephen Sparrow for the heads up 🙏🏻 Aqueduct St., Manchester by Harry Kingsley (1914-1998)

Quayside Rain by Kevin Day (b. 1973) #Newcastle #Art #NorthernArt

My book, Catholic Social Teaching: an introduction, has been reviewed in Pastoral Review by Professor Stephen McKinney and I survived! “This is an excellent and rewarding book that readers will find very stimulating.” Redemptorist Books @Mccrimmons The Tablet Ashley Beck Caritas Europa

End of an Era (Alleyway) by David Brammeld (Acrylic) #Art

Florin Street, Salford (Oil on Canvas) by Steven Scholes (b. 1952) #Art #OilPainting

Mentioned numerous times in Dickens’ ‘Pickwick Papers’ and reputed to be a meeting place of the notorious Hellfire Club, The George and Vulture is still open today 🍻 Headquarters of the Pickwick Club, London (Watercolour and Ink) by Flora H. Mitchell (1890-1973) #Art

Judas Iscariot, according to Dante, was consigned to the deepest circle of hell to be tortured for all eternity. St Matthew’s gospel tells us that “he repented” (27:3), even as he was consumed with despair. I cannot imagine that he was beyond the mercy of God. #HolyWeek2024

End of the Shift by Simon Trent (b. 1960) #Art

Two legends together 😍 … you can see more of John’s work here 👉 rb.gy/93n04l … motorbikes too Albert 😉👍 Snuck off to the City (Watercolour on Paper) by John Lowerson #Manchester #Ford #Cortina #Art

One of the characteristics of a Catholic school is that it's a community that prays. Parents applying and pupils joining know this. It's part of our vision of the human person, a natural relationship with our creator God. It's not divisive, it's unifying, and often very moving.

Definitely needs a tap 🤏 to view fully Pretty sure this is the same chap who was a principal artist at ‘Look and Learn’ in the 1970s … yeah, I only used to look at the pictures as well 😉 Factory Chimneys by Andrew Howat (b. 1927)

Boyes 🥳 … once worked with a posh lass who pronounced it Boe-yeahz 😁 I do the same myself now in order to support my ongoing, stratospheric rise through the social strata 🚀🧐😉 The Storyteller by Alan Stuttle #Art

Today our second cohort of Ready Set Move Together an Active Future middle leaders have graduated 🎓🎓 Thank you Richard Varey moveandlearnuk for being part of the programme for these amazing change makers. 💕🎓

#NationalService for the over 55s, an altogether bolder plan 👍 combats loneliness, fuel poverty and provides the Country with a diehard rearguard… coz let’s face it, how many of us could be bothered running away these days 😮‍💨😂 The Old Soldier by Graham McKean (b.1962) #Art 🫡

It has been a real privilege to accompany this brilliant group of senior leaders this year. Thank you!

Our Together an Active Future Ready Set Move team had an amazing time at #wspa2024. A really insightful two days and excited to be part of this work. Thank you Andy Daly-Smith Anna Chalkley for the opportunity to be part of it. Super proud of my brilliant middle leaders & Lauren Clifford ❤️

Exciting Times ahead with Together an Active Future - Go Go Go... forms.office.com/pages/response… Let's #moveandlearn together 🥰

I’ve spoken to a number of people from Leeds over the weekend. The Muslim community had nothing to do with the disorder. Those who suggest otherwise are again seeking to mobilise discontent for their own divisive political ends. In solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters.