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han

han

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Me and the other 'arf went to the lovely Yorkshire (little) town of Hebden Bridge last week. We were visiting chums in Leeds and went there on the train - it's ACE!

We were really struck by the fresh air and natural beauty of the place, right in the Pennines, and also the fact that the town seems to be untouched by commercialism. There isn't a chain of shops in sight! There's just lots of little organic shops and cafes, second hand bookshops and hippy shops, and the only chain in the entire town is a CO-OP. Yippee!

A mate of ours has just moved up there on her narrowboat, parked her boat on the canal, and really loves the community there. We met up with her and it is a truly beautiful stretch of the canal, right in the town centre.

The place is positively overflowing with hippies and lesbians! *yay*

Anyone else a Hebden Bridge fan?

I'm sure Wolfie and Shirl will have something to say on this subject ;)
 
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A friend and i walked there today from Todmorden, over the tops via Dobroyd Castle and Whirlaw Stones. It is, as you say, wonderfully uncommecialised with lots of nice looking coffee and food shops. Although on our way to the station for the train back to Cross Gates we did manage to stop for some Speckled Hen at the Railway Pub, recommended!
 
It is a nice chilled place. Nice walk from the station through the park adjacent to the canal. There's more chain stores than co-op though they're hidden behind nice facades. It's also a bit hilly in places but nice views. Only saw one hippy (it was early) and didn't ask her if she lesbian.

All very nice.
 
MMM, lovely :)

The fresh air is quite bracing up there innit!

We went up to Ilkley as well which is very beautiful. Hebden Bridge though has a very special feel about it which is open-minded and community orientated which you don't often find in small towns, ya? :)

I grew up in a cotswold town (Stratford upon Avon) which was a beautiful and safe place to grow up, but there wasn't a single non-white person there and anyone gay was frowned upon. But Hebden seems to have a city mentality (oin terms of open-mindedness) in a small town - quite unusual methinks! :)
 
Hebden Bridge is indeed very hippy-like. It's great. My girlfriend is from there so I go there occasionally. Bonfire night was good...Great display and uber-packed! They even put extra trains on for the Hebden Bridge Bonfire...They don't even do that for the footy!

The sculpture trail in the summer is good, too.

Re: Non-commercialism. It was voted the best high street in the country in terms of lowest number of chain stores/highest number independently owned (BBC survey).

The only 'chains' I can think of are Co-op, Spar and Oxfam. And I don't have a problem with two of those :)
 
My sister lives in Hebden Bridge, so if your up there and you meet Rose say hello from her brother in Germany :D
 
wolfie and shirl lived there until recently and i believe are hoping to head back.


which i've now realised Han already mentioned. i'll just fuck off then :)
 
I visit Hebden Bridge every month, for an Evolving Minds meeting at the Stubbing Wharf Inn, first Monday in every month, starts 7.30pm, upstairs in the pub...it's a meeting exploring alternative ways of coping with all manner of mental illnesses, without resorting to medication...run by Rufus May, clinical psychologist, if anyone's heard of him. They also have a planning meeting there every 2 weeks...

I love H.B. though I don't often get a chance to explore its streets and stuff...what I've seen up to now is fantastic!!
 
Oh yes, I heard Wolfie and Shirl are heading back. Don't fuck off! ;)

Sounds good Pushka :)
 
Yes, a friend used to live in a mad, beautiful but falling down old house there. Then he moved so I haven't been back in ages..

... I hear it's getting more and more expensive tho'
 
Nice walking country, sturdy unpretentious landscape. Pity about the assorted faux hippys, designer lesbian's and organic coffee shops with white doves in the window.No sign of the native working class anywere.Most of them moved to todmorden to get away from the stench of patchouli.
 
my uncle lives there; he's a poet (i mean an actual one, not just a hobby-one, btw). he's lived there for about 30 years now.
bonfire night is great, we went quite a lot as kids.
 
used to live up the road in Todmorden and went there a lot , it's great, wish I lived there

veh relaxed. ahh memories, was the bass player in a reggae band for a while with a few people from Hebden. Always stop off for a pint as en route to Bronte town [Haworth] as Hebden is the logical 1/2way point between Manchester-ester-shire and Haworth


glad ya liked it Han :)


sounds like there's a good excuse for a Hebden Meet up soon no?

browses bookmark folder, ahh there it is, http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/
a what's on guide the Heb Web!
 
I remember going there as a kid with my parents in the mid-seventies. We were living in squats in Hackney then, and I'm guessing we went up to stay with others who'd left London squats for ones in Hebden Bridge.

As an inner city kid, it seemed a weird place. Apart from how hilly it was, and how green, there were odd things that I've never forgotten about. A bit magical, from a child's point of view.

I remember playing in the woods one time and I swear it rained frogs! :eek: Another time, I went up to some rocky outcrops up above the town and found loads of discarded school books that had been soaked in the rain. And I remember going into a derelict terraced house with my dad (-probably scouting around for a possible place to squat ;)) and the patterned carpet being so infested with fleas that it was literally swirling before our very eyes... :eek:

Strange daze... :D

I went back there one day in the late eighties with my girlfriend, and even then it felt like it was a very different place.
 
Goodbye lesley said:
Pity about the assorted faux hippys, designer lesbian's and organic coffee shops with white doves in the window.
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Faux hippys, as opposed to the real kind :confused: And what's a designer lesbian? :D
 
Maggot said:
That would explain the open-mindedness and tolerance then!
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Oh yes the great white apes of England the working class.Is this the working class who toiled in the mills and farms of hebden so that some knowing hippies can sit in those big chairs in those organic coffee shops.Its ok you just shipped out the natives in to dreary council eastes like illingworth or mixenden.And you have to be rich hippie to live in hebden now,the house prices are huge.
 
Goodbye lesley said:
Oh yes the great white apes of England the working class.Is this the working class who toiled in the mills and farms of hebden so that some knowing hippies can sit in those big chairs in those organic coffee shops.Its ok you just shipped out the natives in to dreary council eastes like illingworth or mixenden.And you have to be rich hippie to live in hebden now,the house prices are huge.
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You're right - those damn lesbians, destroying the working class! :mad:
 
heard it's a nice place and knew a few people from there
them and all there mates who visited us in london at the time were proper scary nutters :eek:
 
Compare that price to houseprices in manningham Bradford.
ABELIA MOUNT
Locality: Bradford 2 £63,000 map
ABERDEEN PLACE
Locality: Bradford 17 £49,029 map
ABERDEEN TERRACE
Locality: Bradford 5 £57,620 map
ALFORD TERRACE
Locality: Bradford 4 £53,500 map
ANNE STREET
Locality: Bradford 5 £63,240 map
AN
ARNCLIFFE TERRACE
Locality: Bradford 16 £56,028 map
ASCOT AVENUE
Locality: Bradford 3 £101,667 map
ASCOT DRIVE
Locality: Bradford 19 £87,570 map
ASCOT PARADE
Locality: Bradford 14 £80,293 map
ASHGROVE
Locality: Bradford 5 £166,400 map
ASHMOUNT
Locality: Bradford 3 £55,000 map
ASHTON AVENUE
Locality: Bradford 7 £64,857 map
BAKES STREET
Locality: Bradford 1 Click to view map
BARTLE GROVE
Locality: Bradford 2 £92,000 map
BARTLE LANE
Locality: Bradford 13 £76,650 map
BARTLE PLACE
 
lesley, the point you are overlooking is that not everyone who lives there bought their house yesterday.
 
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