Category Archives: Hebden Bridge

Jul 02 2026
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Art and architecture, Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Working in the dry dock

Wednesday 1st July 2026, 4.40pm (day 5,424)

Dry dock artwork, 1/7/26

At first sight the dry dock on the canal in the centre of Hebden Bridge is another thing that gives it a sense of industrial-age authenticity. Except that up until about 30 years ago, the site was occupied by a petrol station. Not everything is as old as it seems. Still, I quite like having it there: even if the chance to take pictures of arc-welding sparks and so on has now been reduced thanks to the addition of the artwork, with obligatory domain name.

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Jun 29 2026
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Portrait, Stranger

Cookng manoeuvres

Sunday 28th June 2026, 2.10pm (day 5,421)

Market cook, 28/6/26

Whatever is cooking away under the lids, I have no idea, but as with every Sunday, the general miscellany of the market on St George’s Square proves attractive. Food, trinkets, old military uniforms — nothing as useful as a pair of shoelaces though. For such things, we are forced to leave town.

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Jun 11 2026
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Steamy lighting

Wednesday 10th June 2026, 7.15pm (day 5,403)

Lamp and steam, 10/6/26

One of those which may look as if I turned it monochrome, but I really didn’t. The light hits the… well, the lights, on the main road through town very well on evenings at this time of year. The steam is an added touch — though why we need this in mid-June, just ask the British climate gods, I guess.

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Jun 02 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene, Hebden Bridge

UFC (Unidentified For-sale Contraption)

Monday 1st June 2026, 9.35am (day 5,394)

Unidentified contraption, 1/6/26

I have been lookig at this object for a couple of days now and remain mystified as to its exact function, or just why the present owner feels that others may be thinking, “ah yes, that’s just the kind of big blue contraption, with a wheel, that I need in my front room” and thereby be willing to buy it, for an undisclosed price. While he declares his possible frustration at this, a shadowy figure looks on and may or may not have busted the photographer at this point. So goes the latest tableau.

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Jun 01 2026
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Power to the cats

Sunday 31st May 2026, 4.05pm (day 5,393)

Chinese power cats, 31/5/26

The automatic waving cats in the window of the local Asian food store all seemed to be raising the fist in unison this afternoon. At some point in the far future, archaeologists (if such a profession remains by then) may well dig some of these up and ponder on their use in idolatry or some other kind of religious context. But, no, they are just pointless tat, although endearing enough. Maybe the same is true of those similar cat statues dug up from Egypt or wherever. Only the original owners know…

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Apr 30 2026
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Further repetition

Wednesday 29th April 2026, 5.50pm (day 5,361)

The houses on Windsor Road in Hebden Bridge always make a good subject and I think this is the sixth time they have appeared on here by now — but it’s been fifteen years, so I ask for that to be taken into consideration when judging my claim to want to avoid repeition on here. Definitely an effective illustration of certain engineering principles though, and of variations on a theme . I make it that there are forty windows visible on this shot in whole or in part, all the same, but all just that little bit different too.

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Apr 25 2026
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Bus stop under blossom

Friday 24th April 2026, 3.15pm (day 5,356)

Bus stop and blossom, 24/4/26

The sun continues to shine and it was far too nice a day to extend the whole ‘working at home’ thing past about 3pm, particularly bearing in mind it is now the weekend (cf. yesterday’s comment). These people may well be on their way home too as they wait for the hourly bus to Haworth and Keighley.

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Apr 17 2026
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Ambient sculpture

Thursday 16th April 2026, 3.35pm (day 5,348)

Red stuff site, 16/4/26

Is it a flower? A back-scratcher for use in some gargantuan shower? The severed limb of a creature with a fetish for chain-link jewellry? (I think that’s it for my free-association work.)

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Apr 15 2026
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On the Old Bridge

Tuesday 14th April 2026, 9.25am (day 5,346)

Old bridge, 14/4/26

I cnanot think of anything deep to say about this one, except that it represents a day spent at home not doing much. This is a variable time of year; in mid-April in some other years I have been in Ljubljana, Melbourne and Windhoek, but this year all the spring travelling is already done.

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Apr 02 2026
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Al fresco

Thursday 2nd April 2024, 12.40pm (day 5,334)

Outdoor seating, 2/4/26

Good to be home, and on a pleasant day. There are new places to sit. Or, some kind of artwork. If it wasn’t then, it is now.

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