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David Pendleton

@davidpendleton.bsky.social
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Dr David Pendleton. Author, editor and historian, interested in the long 19th Century (1789-1914). Career defining moment was organising an open top vintage bus trip around a sewage works. Urbanisation | Sport & Leisure | Maritime | Seaside

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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A beautiful day at Hunmanby at the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds. I’m here to give a talk on my book ‘On the Tracks of the Flying Scotsman’. Available from all good bookshops and online.
Hunmanby Community Centre.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Delighted to announce that my new article is out now in The Trafalgar Chronicle! ⚓️ 📖 “As a Hound to the Haunches of a Deer: HMS Countess of Scarborough: The Forgotten Ship of the Battle of Flamborough Head” Published by 1805Club. #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #18thCentury
Cover of the Trafalgar Chronicle showing three sailing ships at sea.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scarborough railway station
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mural at Scarborough’s Central Tramway
Painting of a cliff tramway
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wandering between the Stumble Inn and and the Valley Bar and we came across this … #scarborough #flyingScotsman
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A blazing autumnal sunset at Hull Paragon
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A trundle around the pubs of Hull: from the smallest pub room, to the smallest window, ‘‘twas a good day out.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My beautiful home city #bradford
Penny Bank, Bradford
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Many thanks to all who made the BSSH conference at Edinburgh such a joy to attend and present at.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Edinburgh is packed for the festival. I’m not expecting to be overwhelmed for my Hull Handball League talk …
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Heading to the British Society of Sports History conference at Edinburgh. I’m giving a paper on The Hull Handball League. Founded by a German Jewish GP who fled the Kristallnacht and a Dutch submariner. It lasted 6 years, but it had two divisions, a junior section and played international games.
Station sign at Hull Paragon railway station.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Wednesday is club night at the Scarborough Sub Aqua. Visitors always welcome, it’s a treasure trove of decades of diving the Yorkshire coast.
Diving helmet. 
Scarborough Sub Aqua Club logoTwo pints on a wreck map
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A rare event for the summer of 2026. Match abandoned due to rain at Scarborough Cricket Club.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I arrived at Scarborough station to find a crowd gathered around a charter train. I’m a similar age to the locomotive and it’s considered a classic. But like me it’s still working!
Class 37 locomotive at Scarborough railway station.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Bradford bound. Another football season, my 55th I think! The youngster who peered over the Kop wall would be astonished that I’m not walking to the ground, or at least a short bus ride. But life, like the long season ahead has some surprising twists and turns.
Train arriving into Filey railway station
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Last Friday we unveiled the long lost Scarborough cricket club memorial. Years of research by Fred Fox and latterly myself. Club president Sir Geoffrey Boycott did the honours. #crickethistory #scarborough
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Cricket during a partial eclipse. They brought the slow bowlers on … Scarborough v Northumberland Nomads.
Sun partially eclipsed over Scarborough cricket ground.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Cheers from the balcony as Yorkshire win in dramatic style at Scarborough
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Packed North Marine Road for Yorkshire v Derbyshire in the much maligned one day cup.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
International cricket at Scarborough today: England v New Zealand over 50s
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If the Kinks had a particular lazy summer afternoon in mind, they’d do worse than this one. Over 50s Yorkshire v Durham at Scarborough
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thousands at Scarborough or 50 over format that has been wilfully neglected. Two county teams with deep histories, as opposed to franchise #hundered nowhere teams. The world’s gone mad.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Stunning evening in Yorkshire’s maritime city #Hull
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
When the seafret released us from from its grip … stunning evening at Scarborough Cricket Club.
Sunset at Scarborough cricket club
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The annual vintage bus trip around Bradford: in seven years we’ve traversed sewage works, cemeteries, lost sports grounds and now JB Priestley’s lost city.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The cliffs of Flamborough Head are ablaze as the sun dips in the summer sky.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Hats scarves and blankets. And they have the cheek to call this blazing June. Another nithering day at Scarborough.
Wicket being prepared at Scarborough CC
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
More akin to mid-January than blazing June at North Marine Road.
Broken window framing Scarborough cricket ground
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Summer has officially started … Yorkshire v Warwickshire at Scarborough
Yorkshire at Scarborough
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Members of the Scarborough Sub Aqua Club have taken images of the wreck of the minesweeper Orianda. I've added them to the story of the wreck and its rediscovery.
Part of the steering quadrant of the wreck of a minesweeper
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Boats #Filey
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Dodging the bank holiday crowds by watching Scarborough v Folkton & Flixton. Watching club cricket in a county ground is a bit odd at times, but I love it.
Sparse crowd at Scarborough cricket club
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Afternoon in the premier league’s latest addition #hull
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
My office for the day. Scarborough Cricket Club’s archives. Researching the first Indian team to tour England in 1886; the discussions in 1919 of erecting a club war memorial; the bombing of the houses in 1941, the site of which today’s offices are sited.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Fabulous turn out at Filey Sea Cadets Hall for an evening of nautical history at Filey Literature Festival. Peter Moore speaking about his book Endeavour, the ship that changed the world.
Filey sea cadets hall with a Royal Navy flag hung from the ceiling
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Brief stop researching the Hull Handball League (1958-63), started by a German Jewish doctor who fled Kristallnacht and a Dutch submariner who arrived after the fall of the Low Countries. Exile and sport, reconciliation via sport, or a willingness to try new sports postwar? #handball #Hull
Hull new theatre looming over surrounding buildings
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The two faces of spring. One soaking up the setting sun, the other shivering in the shade. Scarborough station.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Ended the day with a maritime pub crawl, book buying and picked up a copy of the journal that had published my article about baseball in 1930s Scarborough. The weather joined in by lurching from one extreme to the other.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We’re rattling through the seasons at Scarborough this afternoon …
Dark clouds over Scarborough cricket ground
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Yorkshire seconds v Derbyshire at a sun drenched Scarborough, North Marine Road.
Sunny day at Scarborough cricket club
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Bitterly cold sunset at Beverley Minster
Beverley Minster lit by the evening sun.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Spring is sprung. Late afternoon light in the Moon Tap at Bridlington.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In a city dominated by Venetian and palazzo architecture, here is the classical St George’s Hall, Bradford.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Afternoon light, Little Germany, Bradford
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
My beautiful home town #bradford
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Not much doing up the allotment
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A day of snow showers and dramatic skies. An ever changing panorama. #filey #yorkshire
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Happy new year from Scarborough’s best (only to be fair) Italian bar
Glass of wine
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
There’s nowhere better than Bradford’s Darley St Market for random purchases: a bottle of Rumanian brandy, Italian fennel sausages and a sarnie with black German ham in it.
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David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Delighted to have an article published on the Schiller-Verein Club in Bradford. The bust of the philosopher Schiller gazes out across Rawson Square: Germanic Bradford, a Gothic dream, classical music, warehouses of Little Germany & romanticism that inspired the writing of the Bronte sisters.
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