Category Archives: Hebden Bridge

Mar 15 2016
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Dredging

Tuesday 15th March 2016, 5.15pm (day 1,664)

Dredging, 15/3/16

It’s been a VERY uneventful few days. At least this guy gave me something unusual to depict; the Boxing Day floods have provoked some vague dredging of the Hebden Water. Dredging is fine, but it just pushes the flooding downstream; what one really needs is attention to how fast the rainwater falls off the watershed, prompting (ideally) the planting of trees and the development of other facilities that keep the water uphill rather than pushing it down the valleys, only that doesn’t meet the needs of rich landowners.

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Mar 06 2016
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Hebden housing

Sunday 6th March 2016, 11.00am (day 1,655)

Windsor Road, 6/3/16

Windsor Road, Hebden Bridge. This is fairly typical for round here. I like the way the colours of the window frames change from house to house, and also from the top floors to the bottom — for these will all be two separate houses, one on top and one underneath.

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Mar 02 2016
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Did I say something about spring….?

Wednesday 2nd March 2016, 9.20am (day 1,651)

Calder Holmes Park, 2/3/16

Well… there’s blossom. You can see it. But that’s the bloody British weather for you. The snow was all gone by lunchtime.

Still, I am not complaining about this photographically. This is the first picture I’ve taken in ages that I really like: one where I knew as soon as I pressed the shutter that it would be today’s pick.

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Feb 12 2016
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Transport

Freight train

Thursday 11th February 2016, 8.00am (day 1,631)

Freight train, 11/2/16

Still occasionally to be seen on small, provincial British railways. This monster bombed through Hebden Bridge station slightly in advance of the 8:05 to Manchester, headed for unknown places.

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Feb 07 2016
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Sunday market, Hebden Bridge

Sunday 7th February 2016, 11.35am (day 1,627)

Sunday market, 7/2/16

Limited horizons today, and don’t expect much else to change over the next couple of days either. It’s marking season. And the weather continues revolting — this is as good as the day got. There have been about half a dozen sunny days in three months, if that.

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Feb 02 2016
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Television lights

Tuesday 2nd February 2016, 3.05pm (day 1,622)

Television light, 2/2/16

Don’t know what particular TV or movie production was being the latest to use Hebden Bridge as a location this afternoon, but someone was — these huge lights were blasting it out hours after sunset, even our house felt well-lit and it lies a quarter of a mile away.

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Jan 24 2016
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We’re now open

Sunday 24th January 2016, 6.10pm (day 1,613)

Reopened shop, 24/1/16

Four weeks after the flood, a positive message. The ‘bobby dazzlers’ in question will not include our parliamentary representative or any of his colleagues elected by constituencies flooded in December 2015, despite the financial resources we expend on furthering their lifestyle, and the moral authority they claim, on the basis that they are “representing the interests of the people”.

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Jan 21 2016
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Taking down the market

Thursday 21st January 2016, 5.00pm (day 1,610)

Dismantling market, 21/1/16

Well, 1,610 days in and I’m still here…. Facebook friends may know what I mean. Maybe this is the point though… What you see here is a scene which happens every Thursday in Hebden Bridge at this same time of day. But I don’t think I’ve ever pictured it before, and even if I did it wasn’t in this light, in this slight drizzle, and so on (including heroic flare for the second day in a row). I’ll do my best to keep seeing the moments.

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Jan 13 2016
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Time for plan B?

Wednesday 13th January 2016, 9.55am (day 1,602)

Platform over river, 13/1/16

This platform over the Hebden Water has always been there, at least since I’ve been living here. But recently a project began that seemed to be building on it. One story was that this was to be car parking, but I’ve also heard that there was going to be a house built on it. Either way, the state it is in now reflects what happened on December 26th, in the floods, when the river peaked above the surface of the platform, leaving it smashed up and littered with debris (much of which has since been cleared).

The point is that this is exactly the kind of situation where you might think planning permission had been granted without due consideration. Flooding, and damage from flooding, isn’t just about heavy rainfall — it’s also about damn-fool planning. At least this happened before someone blithely bought and moved into this putative house. But who knows, perhaps the project has not yet been abandoned.

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Jan 02 2016
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Interior

Cinema reopened (balcony only)

Saturday 2nd January 2015, 4.35pm (day 1,591)

Cinema reopened, 2/1/16

Good news… the Picture House has reopened. Just the balcony — visible here is the front part of the ground floor, or stalls, where now no seats remain. The heating’s not working either. But at least this particular community asset has survived.

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