Traveloguer: Chris Moss
@traveloguer.bsky.social
Writer, photographer, Northerner, Where Tourists Seldom Tread in the Guardian
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https://www.theguardian.com/travel/series/where-tourists-seldom-tread
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Pinned
Where tourists seldom tread, part 17: three port towns freighted with history
From Ipswich’s medieval treasures to Ramsey’s seaside charm and Lancaster’s chilling legacy of witches and slavery
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Port towns freighted with history: Lancaster, Ramsey, Ipswich #WhereTouristsSeldomTread
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My 2025 resolution was to visit some of the places in The Guardian series ‘Where tourists seldom tread’.
First, #Walsall. I only had 5 hours free inc travel time so the main draw was New Art Gallery followed by a wander around. There’s so much more though! #WestMidlands #Architecture
First, #Walsall. I only had 5 hours free inc travel time so the main draw was New Art Gallery followed by a wander around. There’s so much more though! #WestMidlands #Architecture
February 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My 2025 resolution was to visit some of the places in The Guardian series ‘Where tourists seldom tread’.
First, #Walsall. I only had 5 hours free inc travel time so the main draw was New Art Gallery followed by a wander around. There’s so much more though! #WestMidlands #Architecture
First, #Walsall. I only had 5 hours free inc travel time so the main draw was New Art Gallery followed by a wander around. There’s so much more though! #WestMidlands #Architecture
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Doncaster - the point of no return; Carlisle - the midway city; Swansea: westering and wondrous - latest Where Tourists Seldom Tread www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Where tourists seldom tread, part 16: a trio of small historic cities
From Swansea, with its sweeping bay and artistic soul, to Doncaster’s Roman heritage and Carlisle’s literary past, this selection proves size doesn’t matter
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March 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Doncaster - the point of no return; Carlisle - the midway city; Swansea: westering and wondrous - latest Where Tourists Seldom Tread www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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Remembering Richard Gott
After Pinochet's coup, the UK Embassy pushed a pro-junta slant
One UK official hoped ‘The hours of Embassy briefings & the gin and tonics on the patio' would prevent anti-junta reporting
But Gott ignored it & exposed Pinochet's abuses
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
After Pinochet's coup, the UK Embassy pushed a pro-junta slant
One UK official hoped ‘The hours of Embassy briefings & the gin and tonics on the patio' would prevent anti-junta reporting
But Gott ignored it & exposed Pinochet's abuses
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Richard Gott was a groundbreaking, schmooz-proof journalist | Letters
Letters: Grace Livingstone and Martin Hamilton reflect on the work and interests of the late writer and historian
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November 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Remembering Richard Gott
After Pinochet's coup, the UK Embassy pushed a pro-junta slant
One UK official hoped ‘The hours of Embassy briefings & the gin and tonics on the patio' would prevent anti-junta reporting
But Gott ignored it & exposed Pinochet's abuses
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
After Pinochet's coup, the UK Embassy pushed a pro-junta slant
One UK official hoped ‘The hours of Embassy briefings & the gin and tonics on the patio' would prevent anti-junta reporting
But Gott ignored it & exposed Pinochet's abuses
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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We've just added more historic Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland to our website. You can now compare first edition one-inch to the mile maps dating from the 1860s to 1870s with second edition maps published between 1898 and 1902. maps.nls.uk/os/one-inch-...
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We've just added more historic Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland to our website. You can now compare first edition one-inch to the mile maps dating from the 1860s to 1870s with second edition maps published between 1898 and 1902. maps.nls.uk/os/one-inch-...
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“It was a place to while the afternoon drinking coffee and brandy” Oh the entire days we lost in the Gijón…
Last orders at Café Gijón as Madrid loses part of its literary soul
The favourite haunt of writers and spies where gossip was the currency that infused the intellectual lifeblood of the Spanish capital for 137 years
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November 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“It was a place to while the afternoon drinking coffee and brandy” Oh the entire days we lost in the Gijón…
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You have until this Saturday to guess #HowManyHorses there are in This Slavery graphic novel to WIN a signed & illustrated copy! Just follow us, share & give us a number - the closest guess wins!
October 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
You have until this Saturday to guess #HowManyHorses there are in This Slavery graphic novel to WIN a signed & illustrated copy! Just follow us, share & give us a number - the closest guess wins!
Double decker trains - in a double decker England: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Double decker trains - in a double decker England: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/...
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Good to see Nelson, Lancs getting tourism props in the Guardian. Also: Wilkinsons the best 2nd hand hifi shop in the north; Slaters ice cream parlour; Mansha sweet centre; and Music Box for records/DVDs. Plus Nelson FC once beat Real Madrid, away. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
October 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Good to see Nelson, Lancs getting tourism props in the Guardian. Also: Wilkinsons the best 2nd hand hifi shop in the north; Slaters ice cream parlour; Mansha sweet centre; and Music Box for records/DVDs. Plus Nelson FC once beat Real Madrid, away. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Steel and cotton meet bootleather - the new walking trail (close to the Hope Valley railway line) linking Manchester and Sheffield: www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
From Steel City to Cottonopolis: a new walking trail through a post-industrial Peak District
The nostalgic Steel Cotton Rail Trail between Sheffield and Manchester has 14 day-length sections, with walks for urban explorers and summit-bagging hikers alike
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October 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Steel and cotton meet bootleather - the new walking trail (close to the Hope Valley railway line) linking Manchester and Sheffield: www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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Where tourists seldom tread, part 19: three UK towns with industrial legacies
Where tourists seldom tread, part 19: three UK towns with industrial legacies
We explore the Roman, Tudor and Indian delights of Leicester, the textile and religious heritage of Paisley, and the radical history of Nelson, the only town named after a pub
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October 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Where tourists seldom tread, part 19: three UK towns with industrial legacies
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You know how we’ve been trying to persuade you all to go to Great Harwood? Well look at this bit in the Guardian about the joys of nearby Nelson…
Thank you for the mention (and the link!) Chris 🔥✊
Thank you for the mention (and the link!) Chris 🔥✊
Latest Seldom column - Paisley, Nelson and Leicester : Romans, Victorians, Cluniacs (and punks), and Gerry Rafferty www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Where tourists seldom tread, part 19: three UK towns with industrial legacies
We explore the Roman, Tudor and Indian delights of Leicester, the textile and religious heritage of Paisley, and the radical history of Nelson, the only town named after a pub
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
You know how we’ve been trying to persuade you all to go to Great Harwood? Well look at this bit in the Guardian about the joys of nearby Nelson…
Thank you for the mention (and the link!) Chris 🔥✊
Thank you for the mention (and the link!) Chris 🔥✊
Latest Seldom column - Paisley, Nelson and Leicester : Romans, Victorians, Cluniacs (and punks), and Gerry Rafferty www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Where tourists seldom tread, part 19: three UK towns with industrial legacies
We explore the Roman, Tudor and Indian delights of Leicester, the textile and religious heritage of Paisley, and the radical history of Nelson, the only town named after a pub
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Latest Seldom column - Paisley, Nelson and Leicester : Romans, Victorians, Cluniacs (and punks), and Gerry Rafferty www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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29 'missing' Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015.
Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire
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Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/2...
29 ‘missing’ Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015
Media attention has been drawn to the Yorkshire Dales National Park this week, following the RSPB’s press release on the suspicious disappearance of a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier named ̵…
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October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
29 'missing' Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015.
Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/2...
Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/2...
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Where tourists seldom tread, part 18: three seaside towns that defy the tides of fashion
Where tourists seldom tread, part 18: three seaside towns that defy the tides of fashion
Ayr, Bangor and Millom routinely bring up the rear in coastal town polls, but they offer a calmer alternative to the brash traditional seaside resorts
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August 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Where tourists seldom tread, part 18: three seaside towns that defy the tides of fashion
Port towns freighted with history: Lancaster, Ramsey, Ipswich #WhereTouristsSeldomTread
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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Where tourists seldom tread, part 17: three port towns freighted with history
From Ipswich’s medieval treasures to Ramsey’s seaside charm and Lancaster’s chilling legacy of witches and slavery
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Port towns freighted with history: Lancaster, Ramsey, Ipswich #WhereTouristsSeldomTread
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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Chanced on this novel in Ayr Waterstones - the chain’s “Scottish Book of the Month” for June, a nominee in the first Booker, back in 1969. It is a read-in-a-day blinder - at least as good as the Midlands/Yorks social realist fictions of those days, and much more brutally honest.
June 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Chanced on this novel in Ayr Waterstones - the chain’s “Scottish Book of the Month” for June, a nominee in the first Booker, back in 1969. It is a read-in-a-day blinder - at least as good as the Midlands/Yorks social realist fictions of those days, and much more brutally honest.
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I wrote about this stretch of canal for the new edition of the Violette Records newsletter, Science & Magic. It's the 3rd edition of my fortnightly 'Magnetic North' contribution. Further signals from 'Ghost Town'. You can subscribe to the newsletter here:
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June 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I wrote about this stretch of canal for the new edition of the Violette Records newsletter, Science & Magic. It's the 3rd edition of my fortnightly 'Magnetic North' contribution. Further signals from 'Ghost Town'. You can subscribe to the newsletter here:
www.violetterecords.com/subscribed
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Fed up of choking on smoke from nearby grouse moors, Sheffield residents have set up @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social, to push for a community buyout of the Duke of Rutland's Moscar Moor - & use new powers under forthcoming ‘Community Right to Buy’ legislation 1/
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Duke urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor 'to people of Sheffield'
Conservation campaigners are set to bid for a “trashed” grouse moor near Sheffield to “restore it to its former glory.”
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June 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Fed up of choking on smoke from nearby grouse moors, Sheffield residents have set up @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social, to push for a community buyout of the Duke of Rutland's Moscar Moor - & use new powers under forthcoming ‘Community Right to Buy’ legislation 1/
www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...
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Louvre workers strike to protest overtourism, shutting down world's most-visited museum
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Overwhelmed Louvre workers strike to protest overtourism, shutting down world's most-visited museum
A spontaneous strike at the Louvre shut down the world's most-visited museum on Monday after workers refused to take up their posts in frustration with what they described as "untenable" working condi...
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June 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Louvre workers strike to protest overtourism, shutting down world's most-visited museum
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
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BBC on #overtourism in Europe www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Can Europe beat the overtourism crisis?
Protests may be returning this summer, but so are new ideas to make travel more sustainable, from smart tech to visitor taxes and travel rewards.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
BBC on #overtourism in Europe www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Airbnb boss denies responsibility for #overtourism www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/lif...
Airbnb boss hits back at overtourism claims: ‘It’s totally unfair’
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June 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Airbnb boss denies responsibility for #overtourism www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/lif...
Campaigners mount coordinated protests across Europe against ‘touristification’ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
Campaigners mount coordinated protests across Europe against ‘touristification’
Protesters take to streets in a dozen cities to march against an industry they say is wrecking communities
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June 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Campaigners mount coordinated protests across Europe against ‘touristification’ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
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This is Runcorn town centre. Huge buildings absolutely empty, derelict. Half empty shopping centre. Grandmothers chatting about their wee Johnny recovering from being stabbed.
This isn’t the fault of immigrants or refugees. This is 45 years of constant cuts and neglect from Westminster.
This isn’t the fault of immigrants or refugees. This is 45 years of constant cuts and neglect from Westminster.
May 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This is Runcorn town centre. Huge buildings absolutely empty, derelict. Half empty shopping centre. Grandmothers chatting about their wee Johnny recovering from being stabbed.
This isn’t the fault of immigrants or refugees. This is 45 years of constant cuts and neglect from Westminster.
This isn’t the fault of immigrants or refugees. This is 45 years of constant cuts and neglect from Westminster.
Lancashire, the Red Rose county - historic crucible of industry, seminal in the rise of the Labour movement, ILP and modern party - turned turquoise today. An electoral suicide note.
May 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Lancashire, the Red Rose county - historic crucible of industry, seminal in the rise of the Labour movement, ILP and modern party - turned turquoise today. An electoral suicide note.