Throbbing Angel
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yeah, but that's the same if you want to get to work [in Leeds] on time from ManchesterGoodbye lesley said:
or go all over the place en route 
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or go all over the place en route Stobart Stopper
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I have been there about 5 times. My sister in law is into antiques and we used to go there as there's a few shops up that way that she likes.han said:Anyone else a Hebden Bridge fan?
Beautiful place. I have got some pics here somewhere.
I also like Haworth, where the Brontes lived. If we ever get around to moving out of London, this is one area of the country I would consider living in.
I think there is to Leeds and Manchester. But no mind, when the people I know moved to Hebden Bridge, there was a much, much better bus and train service throughout the country. If you're looking at why towns have developed the way they have, you have to look at "was" rather than "is".Goodbye lesley said:
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
reallyoldhippy said:
_angel_
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I have a feeling the train to hebden thunders past my very window from Leeds...... of course they could have changed it...
No they haven't and I didn't hallucinate it. 47 minutes from Leeds..http://www.hebdenbridge.com/hebden_bridge/getting_here.htm
It's nearer to Manchester by rail! You learn something new every day...
No they haven't and I didn't hallucinate it. 47 minutes from Leeds..http://www.hebdenbridge.com/hebden_bridge/getting_here.htm
It's nearer to Manchester by rail! You learn something new every day...
psycherelic
I'm not an old hippy!
Well amazed that no one from Hebeden Bridge has posted in this thread yet, we get all over the place you know and I'd be very surpised if there aren't a few hebdenites on board somewhere.
Millstone grit is a good book but view from the bridge by John Morrison is far better (not very relevent to today but far better).
I have to go to bed now but tomorrow I'll write a full review of Hebden Bridge (bearing in mind I've been away from there for a year or two now).
Wolfie as far as I know lived in Mytholmroyd or some such place, I used to be in the same form as his son at school.
Millstone grit is a good book but view from the bridge by John Morrison is far better (not very relevent to today but far better).
I have to go to bed now but tomorrow I'll write a full review of Hebden Bridge (bearing in mind I've been away from there for a year or two now).
Wolfie as far as I know lived in Mytholmroyd or some such place, I used to be in the same form as his son at school.
Maidmarian
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Excellent group & website (run by peeps I know----- NOT spamming btw)
Called penninepens
publishes the book (one of a trilogy) that psycherelic mentioned.
Excellent place, excellent people !
Called penninepens
publishes the book (one of a trilogy) that psycherelic mentioned.
Excellent place, excellent people !
Fez909
toilet expert
Hebden Bridge rail link: As has been mentioned, there IS good connections from Hebden to Leeds, Manchester etc. There's 3 trains an hour. There is the York to Blackpool or York to Manchester. Both of these stop in Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield.
soulman: Chavs = young working class now, eh?
I'd like to think I avoid all the trappings of chav-dom, and I'm 23 and from a working family. Yet I'm still a chav?
soulman: Chavs = young working class now, eh?
I'd like to think I avoid all the trappings of chav-dom, and I'm 23 and from a working family. Yet I'm still a chav?
Spion
I hear ya
S'funny, I drove through Hebden Bridge yesterday afternoon and - who'd a thought it - there's a thread about it on Urban next time I look.
First time i'd seen it and it seemed a nice wee place. There's a lot of shithole towns round here so it's nice to see one that's successfully getting a new existence
First time i'd seen it and it seemed a nice wee place. There's a lot of shithole towns round here so it's nice to see one that's successfully getting a new existence
_angel_
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Maidmarian said:Excellent group & website (run by peeps I know----- NOT spamming btw)
Called penninepens
publishes the book (one of a trilogy) that psycherelic mentioned.
Excellent place, excellent people !
I wonder if my friend is in/ knows that. He's another poet (maybe he knows Kea's uncle???)
Fez909 said:soulman: Chavs = young working class now, eh?
I'd like to think I avoid all the trappings of chav-dom, and I'm 23 and from a working family. Yet I'm still a chav?
There's been loads of discussion about this elsewhere on the boards but yes I think it's shorthand for a section of the working class. I didn't introduce the term on this thread just picked up on it.
hebden bridge picture house. top place. saw john shuttleworth there a couple of years ago.
i grew up in sowerby bridge, so we used to jump on the train and go drinking with my mates from hebden. less chance of getting my face smashed in than there was in sowerby
only ever seem to get over there for the bonfire these days.
i grew up in sowerby bridge, so we used to jump on the train and go drinking with my mates from hebden. less chance of getting my face smashed in than there was in sowerby
only ever seem to get over there for the bonfire these days.
Got to this thread late. Must visit Hebden Bridge SOON!!! -- never been. When we are vehicled up we'll be along, not far from Stig's friends near Holmfirth either.
Goodbye lesley -- another incarnation of swarthy it would seem (from another thread which resulted in his banning).
His thoroughly bigotted, shitstirrring and obnoxious posts on this thread no doubt explain why 'swarthy thug' is such a cult hero to the more trolling and modbothering and disruptive 'usual suspects ' (serial malcontents and 'the editor is an oppressor' merchants ).
Nice pals you pick, arseholes.
Goodbye lesley -- another incarnation of swarthy it would seem (from another thread which resulted in his banning).
His thoroughly bigotted, shitstirrring and obnoxious posts on this thread no doubt explain why 'swarthy thug' is such a cult hero to the more trolling and modbothering and disruptive 'usual suspects ' (serial malcontents and 'the editor is an oppressor' merchants
).Nice pals you pick, arseholes.
missed this thread - doh!
Shirl and I lived there or thereabouts for over ten years.
goodbye wotsisface obviously a trolling wanker - hence the ban
there's actually quite a good mix of people in the place - they aren't all poncey designer hippies like me and shirl
Whoever mentioned the Sculpture Trail - I used to help organise that - this year was unfortunately its last - they obviously couldn't manage without me
All being well (ie if we can sell our present house) we are indeed moving back there.
And for anyone one who cares - Glyn Hughes nickname locally is Grim News 
Shirl and I lived there or thereabouts for over ten years.
goodbye wotsisface obviously a trolling wanker - hence the ban
there's actually quite a good mix of people in the place - they aren't all poncey designer hippies like me and shirl
Whoever mentioned the Sculpture Trail - I used to help organise that - this year was unfortunately its last - they obviously couldn't manage without me
All being well (ie if we can sell our present house) we are indeed moving back there.
And for anyone one who cares - Glyn Hughes nickname locally is Grim News
We will make sure to let you know if we get the hippybus** up there ...
**Currently a future pipedream rather than a current reality, but it ought to come about within a matter of months ...
**Currently a future pipedream rather than a current reality, but it ought to come about within a matter of months ...
Maidmarian
Stubborn Socialist
Maddalene said:
Sorry ! Just spotted this !
Hebden Bridge is ace, it's like Florida for hippies. Assuming it remains ungentrified it'll be ace in about 15 years when the old guard are really getting on. I bloody love old hippies, me. I always wonder how Hebden Bridge became what it is today. Does anyone better informed than I know what the catalyst was in the seventies for the influx of artists, weirdos and lesbians?
Throbbing Angel
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YESSpion said:
Dissident Junk
picking oakum
poet said:
Alas, I know. Apparently, a lot of northern artists and hippies moved there in the seventies because Hebden Bridge is apparently on a ley line. Even now they do white witch ceremonies in the old church in Heptonstall, much to the upset of the Northern locals.
I know Hebden Bridge extremely well; I was born and grew up there. My father's family are from Hebden Bridge, going back centuries. Indeed, our family name originates from Heptonstall in the 12 century. My father, aunt, grandparents, great grandparents were all born in Hebden Bridge, and my great aunt and uncle are buried two rows behind Sylvia Plath in Heptonstall.
In the seventies, there were a lot of millionaire hippies in Hebden Bridge - not so now. They moved on sometime in the 80s; now it tends to be m/c alternative types now.
Thing is the point about the absence of the traditional working class is because they have been priced out of the housing market. The house my father grew up in (two up, two down w/c job) is now worth well over £170K. All the old locals I know complain about "them Southerners taking over our town; it doesn't feel like home anymore". And I can see their point to some extent.
When I was young, the place seemed like the heart of age-old existence. A lot of people still lived the way they'd lived a hundred years ago: no TVs, earth floors, no fridges, wood fires, outside loo et al. Quite a few old timers still counted in the old way, and the dialect was so strong, sometimes my grandma had to explain to me what people were saying.
It is a shame this has gone because the area around Hebden Bridge is a special place, and these things just added to the eternal atmosphere of the place. Hebden Bridge has a magical feel to it, an ancient feel . . . it gets into your blood.
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