Category Archives: Hebden Bridge

Dec 04 2012
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Working in the river

Tuesday 4th December 2012, 9.45am (day 467)

Working in river, 4/12/12

This has been going on down by the weir for a few weeks – work being done to install a water turbine to power the nearby shops in the old mill. A highly positive step that surely only the most reactionary old duffer could object to (but we have some of those, round here, believe me). The cloud on this shot has been caused a few seconds earlier by the guy in the yellow jacket wielding his angle-grinder.

Moscow again tomorrow… By the way, don’t ask me why I suddenly decided to start putting the day number at the top – but I have. So now you can see how long I have been going on this. (I retrospectively added the day number to earlier posts.)

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Dec 01 2012
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Portrait, Stranger

Figure at the window

Saturday 1st December 2012, 12.40pm (day 464)

Figure at window, 1/12/12

Is there a voyeuristic aspect to this shot? I like the light, the pattern of the branches contrasted with the brick, the facelessness of it.

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Nov 30 2012
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Valley of Lights parade, Hebden Bridge

Thursday 29th November 2012, 6.00pm (day 462)

Valley of Lights, 29/11/12

Back home. It was a beautiful, crisp winter’s day and I got some good pictures around lunchtime, one of which I was particularly keen on, but it was of waterfowl on the canal and I’ve done that theme rather a lot. This one was different – a family captured watching the ‘Valley of Lights’ parade through town tonight, a torchlit procession done to celebrate the turning on of the Christmas lights (at an acceptably late point in the year). A good evening.

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Nov 22 2012
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Landscape

At the end of the rainbow

Thursday 22nd November 2012, 8.15am (day 455)

Rainbow, HB, 22/11/12

Can something be both colourful and gloomy at the same time? I think this rainbow manages it. I love the way the houses at the end, lit by the early morning sun, glow like little nuggets of gold at the end of the…. whatever, you know what I’m saying.

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Nov 18 2012
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Above the Hebden Water

Sunday 18th November 2012, 11.05am (day 451)

Above Hebden Water, 18/11/12

Another sunny, pleasant morning in my home town, and there are some little crannies of it that I haven’t got round to showing you yet. This little bay window belongs to ‘The Old Treehouse’, a kids’ supplies store in the centre of town.

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Nov 14 2012
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A bright moment

Wednesday 14th November 2012, 8.05am (day 447)

Bright moment, 14/11/12

Sunny but uneventful morning in Hebden Bridge, apart from at number 5 across the valley, where an experiment in localised nuclear fission appears to be taking place, or possibly, the opening of a wormhole into the centre of the galaxy.

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Nov 04 2012
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Hebden Bridge, Sunday afternoon

Sunday 4th November 2012, 3.40pm (day 437)

Hebden view, 4/11/12

I suppose at one level this repeats the ‘fire’ theme which has characterised the other two photos of the weekend, but not in quite the same way. Here we are, the sun starts to set behind the valley walls at 3.40pm now: it is truly winter. Although by mid-December the sunset will have reached as far east as the mobile phone mast to the left.

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Nov 03 2012
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Bonfire Night

Saturday 3rd November 2012, 7.00pm (day 436)

Bonfire, 3/11/12

Remember, remember, the 5th of November. Or, the nearest available Saturday.

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Oct 29 2012
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Spooky castle, Nutclough

Monday 29th October 2012, 5.55pm (day 431)

Nutclough Tavern, 29/10/12

Warming up for Hallowe’en, the old Nutclough Tavern in Hebden Bridge puts in a bid for ‘spooky castle’ status, unfazed by a stiff recent challenge from the Beyer building at the University.

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Oct 28 2012
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Front door, Old Gate

Sunday 28th October 2012, 1.45pm (day 430)

Front door, 28/10/12

Although duller and wetter than Friday and Saturday, today brought a very decent, and proper, weekend to an end, one I very much needed. Had gone through the last two blog posts without drawing any attention to how good the colours are in Hebden Bridge at the moment, so this is my attempt to make up for it. This is taken on the street of Old Gate.

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