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#2 2014-01-18 04:31:41
- Dudley Clarke
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Re: Huddersfield - a tale
Didn't woofboxer mention that he plops in the living room?
I came up to see her sometimes.
#3 2014-01-18 05:05:46
- fxh
- Big Down Under.
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Re: Huddersfield - a tale
These days I cant get to the toilet.
#4 2014-01-18 05:08:11
- 4F Hepcat
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Re: Huddersfield - a tale
Well, don't get too excited and relocate to a nice little cottage in the hills overlooking Huddersfield, fxh.
For what you have there, in them there Pennies is cold, damp, treeless, bleak and the infamous stomping ground of the Moors Murderers. That M62 motorway that links Manchester to Leeds and passes Huddersfield is the most depressing road in the UK. It rains and it rains and rains....
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#5 2014-01-18 05:09:15
- 4F Hepcat
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Re: Huddersfield - a tale
.....and then there's always the thought when going over Saddlesworth moor of the little kids still buried there.
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#6 2014-01-18 05:15:37
- fxh
- Big Down Under.
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Re: Huddersfield - a tale
When you've just been through 4 days of 43C and nights of 30C+ and bushfires around its easy to dream of rain rain rain and no sunshine. Luckily today it dropped to 23C!
Back to normal cool pleasant weather again.
#8 2014-01-18 06:11:07
- formby
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Re: Huddersfield - a tale
Huddersfield is not in the Yorkshire dales.
Huddersfield, whilst once wealthy, like most, if not all of the old northern Mill towns is a bit run-down. Beautiful railway station though, built in the neo-classical style by James Pigott Pritchett.
Lots of the old Northern towns and cities have very grand civic architecture.
Rural Yorkshire is a very beautiful, with quaint little villages, market towns and several old monasteries/abbeys/priories left over from that old tyrant Henry VIII's cultural vandalism otherwise known as the dissolution of the monasteries. And many beautiful grand houses too.
A selection:
Fountains Abbey:
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/fountains-abbey/
Fountains Abbey was used as the location for the conclusion of Damien Omen III.
Rievaulx Abbey: (pronounced ree-voh) There is also a Jervaulx Abbey near Ripon, which itself, has one of the 26 mediaeval Cathedrals of England.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/rievaulx-abbey/#Right
Bolton Abbey:
http://www.boltonabbey.com/
Houses:
Castle Howard
http://www.castlehoward.co.uk/
Which was used as Brideshead in the TV adaptation of Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.
Harewood House:
http://www.harewood.org/house
There are many more...
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#9 2014-01-18 07:43:51
- fxh
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Re: Huddersfield - a tale
Silly me it wasn't on the Dales, it was Town, with Nicholas Crane. I suppose I could have looked where The Dales were. Just consider it payback for people coming to Melbourne and wondering if the Opera House will be open or asking how many hours drive to Perth.
#10 2014-01-18 07:45:22
- doghouse
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Re: Huddersfield - a tale
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#11 2014-01-18 07:49:12
- fxh
- Big Down Under.
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Re: Huddersfield - a tale
More close is the Great Barrier Reefer!
#12 2014-01-18 07:53:44
- doghouse
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Re: Huddersfield - a tale
Even betterer!
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#13 2014-01-18 08:11:08
- formby
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Re: Huddersfield - a tale
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#14 2014-01-18 08:14:14
- fxh
- Big Down Under.
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Re: Huddersfield - a tale
Barry Humphries always said that he loved Adelaide, because in just an hour and a half by plane you could be in Melbourne.
#15 2014-01-19 00:50:19
- 4F Hepcat
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Re: Huddersfield - a tale
All my relations in Oz are in Adelaide. The founder of the dynasty there, left in the mid-60s after a Fatal Attraction episode, so as this woman wouldn't let it lie, they had to go. They went by boat, took 6 weeks to get there. Since then, all those who have gone to visit them, have eventually migrated also.
Notably, in the early 80s there was a relation who was terminally unemployed and couldn't get a job anywhere. Eventually, he landed in Adelaide and never looked back and is doing rather nicely in construction. Others there are in real estate and doing rather well also. Last time one of my distant cousins came over, said he couldn't get over the difference in England compared to his last visit in 1978, he said he found us all rather intense.
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