The West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum...

Licenced today: Chevin Park, a new housing development in Menston, near Leeds. The gloomy and forbidding complex, originally known as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, was opened in 1888. I remember it as High Royds Psychiatric Hospital, one of the many institutions where Jimmy Savile is known to have sexually abused both patients and staff (a hospital porter said he was asked by Savile if there was a room he could use if “he pulled one of the nurses”). After the hospital was closed, in 2003, it was transformed into upmarket retirement homes…

Walsingham...

Licenced today: Catholic kitsch in the Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham, Norfolk… 

Lytes Carey Manor...

Licenced today: Lytes Carey Manor, near Somerton in Somerset… 

Marlborough...

Licenced today: a parade of shops along the broad main street of Marlborough in Wiltshire…

The test at Taunton...

Licenced today: a game in progress at Hartley Wintney. As England were tying up the remarkable series against New Zealand, at Headingley, England's women were starting their test matcch against South Africa women, at the county ground in Taunton. We'll be at the ground at 11am, to see the start of day two...

Reproductive rights...

 The Onion responds to the overturning of Roe v Wade...

Langton...

Licenced today: traditional stone cottages in the estate village of Langton, near Malton, North Yorkshire. The old schoolhouse on the left is almost a replica of my own bijou residence in Asselby, but built with limestone rather than brick…