Hebden Bridge - news and chat

[Shirl]

How old are you? Surely you wouldn't expect people to be using outdoor toilets now????

I knew Hebden Bridge from moving to the area in the early 70's and the place that Dissidint Junk describes had long gone by then.
In all my time in and aroung HB I never heard anyone talking about "it not feeling like home anymore"
When I first went there, Todmorden 4 miles away, was the thriving valley town and HB was just a very pretty but run down town with nothing much going for it.
Hippies heard it was cheap and bought houses there and it was those early hippies that have made the town what it is today.
It's has a bohemian feel that encourages difference and welcomes everyone.
I reckon a meet up should wait until me and Wolfie move back.

Book early to reserve space to sleepove on our floor

 

[_angel_]

I knew Hebden Bridge from moving to the area in the early 70's and the place that Dissidint Junk describes had long gone by then.
In all my time in and aroung HB I never heard anyone talking about "it not feeling like home anymore"
When I first went there, Todmorden 4 miles away, was the thriving valley town and HB was just a very pretty but run down town with nothing much going for it.
Hippies heard it was cheap and bought houses there and it was those early hippies that have made the town what it is today.
It's has a bohemian feel that encourages difference and welcomes everyone.
I reckon a meet up should wait until me and Wolfie move back.

Book early to reserve space to sleepove on our floor

well then, how long we talking? weeks? months? years??

 

[han]

I reckon a meet up should wait until me and Wolfie move back.

Book early to reserve space to sleepove on our floor

Deffo up for joining in with a Hebden meetup - me and blue nun fell in love with the place when we went there. Perhaps we'll move up there when we're a pair of retired old lezzas (and piss off the yorkshire folx!) [though 1/2 my family originate from Ripponden so I could kind of pretend to be a local, ish]


Will invite our Hebden boaty friend !

I would drag along my great Auntie Alice who's Ripponden born and bred cos she's real livewire but she is 96 and alas housebound now....

Hey Will, perhaps we could drive up in van convoy! Pinkmonkey and El Jug will be up for this....

How do you pronounce Mytholmyroyd by the way? Looks a birrova tongue-twister to me....

Is it (phonetically) mith-OLL-my-royd ? !

 

[han]

It's has a bohemian feel that encourages difference and welcomes everyone.

*yay* and thumbs up and three cheers to anywhere like that

 

[_angel_]

Deffo up for joining in with a Hebden meetup - me and blue nun fell in love with the place when we went there. Perhaps we'll move up there when we're a pair of retired old lezzas (and piss off the yorkshire folx!) [though 1/2 my family originate from Ripponden so I could kind of pretend to be a local, ish]


Will invite our Hebden boaty friend !

I would drag along my great Auntie Alice who's Ripponden born and bred cos she's real livewire but she is 96 and alas housebound now....

Hey Will, perhaps we could drive up in van convoy! Pinkmonkey and El Jug will be up for this....

How do you pronounce Mytholmyroyd by the way? Looks a birrova tongue-twister to me....

Is it (phonetically) mith-OLL-my-royd ? !

Mither (as in the yorkshire verb: to mither) meroid

 

[Wolfie]

my thum royd

as for timing for the meet up - if all goes well February - if it doesn't ... sometime in 2007 ...

keep everything crossed

 

[_angel_]

my thum royd

as for timing for the meet up - if all goes well February - if it doesn't ... sometime in 2007 ...

keep everything crossed

I will, I don't want to wait till 2007 to lose my urban erm virginity..!

 

[Riff]

We tried to arrange a West Yorks meet up but it didn't come to anything. Perhaps we could organise a Hebden night out for when some of the southern-based Urbaners come up?

Ooh! Sounds good!

(Checks calendar to see how long it is to camping season. Feel guilty about intruding on Wolfie as I've only met him once!)

 

[han]

my thum royd

bejaysus!!!

Mither (as in the yorkshire verb: to mither) meroid

even more confused now!!!

 

[Spion]

So are we waiting for the 'southern contingent' to get their arses up here like or arranging summat a bit earlier like????

I'm all up for something earlier but it's going to be 2006 at the earliest for me as I'm orf down under for the next month.

 

[shoddysolutions]

Hardcastle Crags is mear Hebden bridge, a stretch of National trust Woodland with a big disused mill in t'middle of it. Me and HER used to go there to escape Leeds, one time we stripped off and jumped in the stream there thinking there was no-one around, then this couple came walking along and gave us some very queer looks indeed. Heptonstall is a creepy place IIRC, but we really liked Hebden Bridge.

 

[_angel_]

bejaysus!!!





even more confused now!!!

I think it was just two different ways of writing the same thing (roughly).. You don't pronounce the 'l' in it tho'!

 

[han]

ah

 

[han]

one time we stripped off and jumped in the stream there thinking there was no-one around, then this couple came walking along and gave us some very queer looks indeed

Shame peeps don't do that more often! Me and some chums did it in Wales once, we spent the whole day swimming in the nuddy, it was bliss!

So what's up with Heptonstall? Is it a bit insular?

 

[Fuchs66]

Shame peeps don't do that more often! Me and some chums did it in Wales once, we spent the whole day swimming in the nuddy, it was bliss!

I have been known to skinny dip, but Pike make me nervous while I swim on my front , I have a very active imagination

 

[Wolfie]

Heptonstall is nice - it has a great old church where Sylvia Plath is buried - militant feminists used go and deface her grave from time to time cos they didn't think Ted Hughes should have had her buried there -he was from Mytholmroyd btw.

Hardcastle Crags is lovely and the National Trust who own it have finally finished getting Gibson Mill there converted into a kind of eco-visitor centre.

The traditional place for "skinny dipping" round there is up towards Crimsworth Dean I think.

Oh and I keep forgetting John Morrison's books about a "fictional" Milltown - View from the Bridge, Back to the Bridge and A Bridge too Far (he's also written another one called Women are from Venus, Men are From Mytholmroyd ) give a good comic picture of the place - you can read them online here

 

[Herbert Read]

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

Hebden bridge was a lovely place before the hippies and fashionistas descended on it. House prices are so expensive now the locals have been forced out.

Another victory for the progressive forces of the left.

 

[Spion]

Another victory for the progressive forces of the left.

Since when was a free market in house prices a left wing thing?

 

[Wolfie]

Hebden bridge was a lovely place before the hippies and fashionistas descended on it. House prices are so expensive now the locals have been forced out.

Another victory for the progressive forces of the left.

wildly innacurate assertion based on daft myth and rumour - still the same old faces from the last 20 years when I was there a month or so ago ...

house prices maybe more than they are in Todmorden or Mytholmroyd but maybe that's just because it's a nicer place to live

and how exactly do you "force out" a local?
nobody has been forced to sell their house have they?

 

[Fuchs66]

and how exactly do you "force out" a local?
nobody has been forced to sell their house have they?

I think that's a loose translation of "the locals noticing that they could demand over-inflated prices for their houses did so and sold up", those complaining about locals being forced out are probably those who somehow missed out on this get rich quick scam

 

[pk]

Yeah but there is no direct route to Leeds and Bradford, you have to get off at Halifax.

Apart from the direct trains from Bradford Interchange via Todmorden, and ending up at Manchester Piccadilly you mean...

 

[Throbbing Angel]

went to Hebden fer me lunch yesterday

there's been a whole lotta building going on since my last visit.

Braised Steak fer lunch and a walk in the cold, veh nice it was too

 

[pinkmonkey]

Hebden bridge was a lovely place before the hippies and fashionistas descended on it. House prices are so expensive now the locals have been forced out.

Another victory for the progressive forces of the left.

To be fair house prices have soared all over Yorkshire, even in my shithole hometown Knottingley, which is hardly like Hebden Bridge, prices have gone up massively.

 

[Calva dosser]

As a sprog, I remember seeing a documentary about a bad safety breach in an asbestos factory in or near Hebden Bridge?

One of those places, that for some unfathomable reason I've always fancied visiting, but never got round to it. Like Darlington, and Congleton, and Mould.

Glad to hear it's nice there.

 

[Shirl]

As a sprog, I remember seeing a documentary about a bad safety breach in an asbestos factory in or near Hebden Bridge?

One of those places, that for some unfathomable reason I've always fancied visiting, but never got round to it. Like Darlington, and Congleton, and Mould.

Glad to hear it's nice there.

There are still wranglings about payments from all that stuff.

 

[Herbert Read]

wildly innacurate assertion based on daft myth and rumour - still the same old faces from the last 20 years when I was there a month or so ago ...

house prices maybe more than they are in Todmorden or Mytholmroyd but maybe that's just because it's a nicer place to live

and how exactly do you "force out" a local?
nobody has been forced to sell their house have they?

so hebden house prices reflect the average wage of a perosn in west yorks area, i think not, plastic wannabe hippy imports from down sarf have driven them up. Hebden is like a heaven for primmo nathan barleys.

im sorry your friends live there, and that you think its the bees knees, but at one time hebden was a proper yorkshire village and not full of plastic middle class wankers.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

careful now

 

[Shirl]

so hebden house prices reflect the average wage of a perosn in west yorks area, i think not, plastic wannabe hippy imports from down sarf have driven them up. Hebden is like a heaven for primmo nathan barleys.

im sorry your friends live there, and that you think its the bees knees, but at one time hebden was a proper yorkshire village and not full of plastic middle class wankers.

Fuck off. I moved there from a council house in Burnley.

 

[_angel_]

house prices everywhere have gone bananas haven't they? including the west leeds crap hole i'm in now!

 

[Wolfie]

so hebden house prices reflect the average wage of a perosn in west yorks area, i think not, plastic wannabe hippy imports from down sarf have driven them up. Hebden is like a heaven for primmo nathan barleys.

im sorry your friends live there, and that you think its the bees knees, but at one time hebden was a proper yorkshire village and not full of plastic middle class wankers.

it's not full of plastic middle class wankers now

you're believing the hype I'm afraid

there are enough "ordinary" people to keep it "normal" - far nicer place to be than those "proper yorkshire villages" dominated by countryside alliance 4wd driving wankers ... but I guess you would much prefer them .. or something that looked like it was off a hovis ad maybe?