Author: Leigh Banks
I am a journalist, writer and broadcaster ... lately I've been concentrating on music, I spent many years as a music critic and a travel writer ... I gave up my last editorship a while ago and started concentrating on my blog. I was also asked to join AirTV International as a co host of a new show called Postcard ...
More restrictions as Poprad blasted 2020 to kingdom come
The normally joyous and inspiring fireworks of New Year over Poprad seemed bombastic and bad-tempered, almost as if we were trying to blast 2020 to kingdom come. For hours before midnight this beleaguered mountainside city shook and reverberated to what sounded like bombs and the rattle of heavy gunfire. And by the time the clocks… Continue reading More restrictions as Poprad blasted 2020 to kingdom come
Let’s join in and drum up hope for 2021, Glasgow-style!
CLICK THE VID BELOW – AND LET’S DANCE! Let’s drum up some happiness for the New Year! A Happy New Year from the Andrea and Leigh at the leighgbankspreservationsociety – we’ll keep on going and doing our best to make a difference … so, let’s biff covid, bash fears for the future and have a… Continue reading Let’s join in and drum up hope for 2021, Glasgow-style!
This Property is Condemned
Andrea Martin-Banks writes: I CAN HEAR the clock tick. I have never been so afraid in all my life. The house has been like this for more than a week now, ever since we got permission to knock it down. And I don’t know what to do … but I do know if I don‘t… Continue reading This Property is Condemned
Malibu – the tragic truth behind the loss of Bob’s Christmas lights …
CHRISTMAS EVE UPDATE: Sadly, Bob Dylan’s hedge was burnt down in 2018 when wildfires hit Malibu … Bob was lucky but many of his neighbours weren’t, their homes were badly damaged, satellite pictures still reveal the scars of the devastation. Bob actually replaced the lights with a manger – it was apparently a blow-up one.… Continue reading Malibu – the tragic truth behind the loss of Bob’s Christmas lights …
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THE HAUNTING OF MONKEY PALACE
THERE is a place in India where water buffalo are turned to stone by the desert sands, its a place where pigs become so distracted by the ants living inside their snouts that they savage their young. This place is called The Darkness, a place where pieces of flesh dance in the sewage to make… Continue reading THE HAUNTING OF MONKEY PALACE
THE ANGELS OF KRAKOLA HOVA
Night whiter than light. A million angels coming down. Here we are, on Krakola Hova, the coldest place in the universe. It’s colder than winter in hell. Three thousand feet up and as white as a corpse. The world is blank. Baron Peter Pokeski’s sedan comes out of nowhere, slow as an old black dog.… Continue reading THE ANGELS OF KRAKOLA HOVA
HOUGH HALL … AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF MOSTON
We received this impassioned plea from a Mostonian this morning … although the day is coming to an end for the beautiful edifice at the heart of Moston… people still want to fight for it… and there still may be time. This is what the latest message said: “My heart cries every time i pass… Continue reading HOUGH HALL … AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF MOSTON
Blood in the Red Skies of Whitby
Some say that Whitby’s red sky at night is its own bloody history burning like celluloid across the clouds. There is no doubt that this old fishing-smacked village on the North Yorkshire coast is a place where the roads of the dead have often crossed. And indeed shipping clerk Bram Stoker was so taken by… Continue reading Blood in the Red Skies of Whitby