Photo Archive: “Rob & Dan’s Northern Pub Quiz”,”The Exchange”, 50 Cultural Quarter, Leicester, 12/10/15.

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big prizes, flat caps, Leicester, meat draw, Northern, pub quiz, Public houses, pubs, Rob & Dan's Northern Pub Quiz, The Exchange Leicester, The North, whippets, woodbines

http://www.exchangeleicester.com/

Photo Archive: “Cornucopia” by Graeme Wilson, Leeds, 20/12/14.

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Art, commerce, Cornucopia, Cornucopia by Graeme Wilson, flat caps, Graeme Wilson, head wear, industry, Leeds, Leeds Corn Exchange, Leeds Kirkgate Market, Mural, public art

I don’t know a lot about this mural, but it is a regular sight on my walks around Leeds and it always makes me stop and look up, despite it being in a rather busy corner of the city between Leeds Corn Exchange and Leeds Kirkgate Market where you’re liable to get run over if you’re not too careful! As an enthusiastic head wear advocate, who is rarely seen on the streets of Leeds without a flat cap, my eyes are always drawn to the chap in the centre, stretching out his arms.

Photo Archive: The Workshop Window, The National Coal Mining Museum, Overton, near Wakefield, June 2011.

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anvil, coal, darks, flat caps, light, metal work, National Coal Mining Museum, National Coal Mining Museum England, old photographs, Overton, Photography, sepia photograph, waistcoat, Wakefield, window shopping., workshop

Photo Archive: Pint, The Brewery Tap, York Brewery, York, 10/05/10.

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alcoholic beverages, breweries, flat caps, hats, pint, pubs, York, York Brewery

That was one of my favourite flat caps behind that pint; I can’t remember what became of it. It’s probably in a bus depots lost property office somewhere!

Souvenirs: Mug, National Museum Cardiff, 2012.

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Cardiff, flat caps, Mugs, National Museum Cardiff, Souvenirs

I am a big fan of flat caps and I could not pass up the opportunity to purchase this amazing mug, even though I was then lumbered with quite a weighty object made rather bulky by masses of bubble wrap. The museum’s website describes it as “A china mug featuring an image of the colliery men waiting to go into a mass meeting during the Cambrian Combine Strike in 1910“. I can’t remember actually seeing the image at the museum, apart from on the mug, obviously, but the mug always reminds me of Cardiff when I look at it.

Link to museum: http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/cardiff/
Link to museum shop: https://www.museumwales.ac.uk/shop/?id=12