Did you lock the door?

An evening at the Opera

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June 26th 2009
My friend Lynda and I took ourselves off to leeds to see Sophie and watch an Opera North production. We called in on Lynda's mum on the way, and heard about the "olden days" when she used to work in the Arcade next to the theatre, making fur coats. Small world. Anyway, we arrived in time for lunch, spent the afternoon wandering the city and saw "the escape from the Serraille", which we thoroughly ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more