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  • Graham Mytton Audience Research Training and ConsultancyIt will be interesting to see just how big a game changer is Amazon's acquisition of LoveFilm Will streaming kill the TV tsars?

    Letters to MediaGuardian 2011

  • Sergeant Jack Brownhill was a 21-year-old wireless operator and air gunner in a Whitley bomber which crashed at Mytton Dingle, Snailbeach, on February 15, 1944, killing all five on board.

    Wartime air crash at Snailbeach 2009

  • Indeed, Nature and society between them had imposed upon the Mytton of 1796 a burden which might have crushed a finer spirit — a body hewn from the solid rock, a fortune of almost indestructible immensity.

    The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

  • Mytton at once ran the wheel up the bank and flung them both into the road.

    The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

  • Mytton, a nephew of the member of Parliament, assumed an air of bravado, smiled and winked at his friends in court, evidently trusting to his high connections to get him off lightly.

    Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

  • Both he and Mytton were very heavily fined, and the Mayor was good enough to compliment me on the part I had played.

    Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

  • _ -- At Waddington in Mytton stands a pile of building known as the "Old Hall," once antique, but now much indeed despoiled of its beauty, where for some time the unfortunate king, Henry the Sixth, was concealed after the fatal battle of Hexham, in

    Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850 Various

  • The fines levied on Mytton and Vetch were the least part of their punishment.

    Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

  • In Baker's _Chronicle_, the capture of the king is described as having taken place "in _Lincolnshire_," {182} but this is evidently incorrect; it is Waddington, in Mytton, West Yorkshire.

    Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850 Various

  • I yearned to breathe an ampler air; and when one day I saw Dick Cludde, returned home on leave, strutting past with Mytton and other boon companions, in all the bravery of cocked hat, laced coat and buckled shoes, I flung down my pen and donned my cap, and set off, with bitter rage and envy in my heart, to pour out my soul to my constant friend, Captain Galsworthy.

    Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

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