Hebden Bridge...

[rich p]

I used to visit Hebden Bridge quite often to see Friends. I was not really aware of it's reputation back then, I just thought it quaint.

Didn't you have a telly then?

 

[ColinJ]

You can't become a Yorkshireman, You've to be born a Yorkshireman. Owt else doesn't count!!

I heard a family living in Heptonstall referred to as 'offcumdens' (translation: 'bloody outsiders'); they were not true Heptonstall residents. The youngsters were born there, their parents were born there, but their grandparents had only moved there about 50 years earlier, so the whole family were not considered as coming from these 'ere parts!

 

[Lisa21]

I heard a family living in Heptonstall referred to as 'offcumdens' (translation: 'bloody outsiders'); they were not true Heptonstall residents. The youngsters were born there, their parents were born there, but their grandparents had only moved there about 50 years earlier, so the whole family were not considered as coming from these 'ere parts!

Bloody immigrants

 

[ColinJ]

Bloody immigrants

I'm one too - I have only lived here for 27 years!

 

[Crackle]

Didn't you have a telly then?

Sorry, a loose eff escaped.

 

[rich p]

Sorry, a loose eff escaped.

Is the eff off now?

 

[Crackle]

Is the eff off now?

yeah, another one just escaped but I've got it covered now.

 

[PaulB]

Didn't you have a telly then?

Beat me to it! Did I tell you I hate you?

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

I want to visit, it sounds like a place full of Big Brother contestants

 

[MarkF]

Nice place, I don't really think of it as being in Yorkshire, it's pincered by misereable Lancs settlements.

 

[thom]

Hebden Bridge - my friend is to film there as part of a film on economic growth in the North. It is doing well.
The reports I hear are it is beautiful, home to many local businesses, much of them internet based but also well populated by people commuting to either Leeds or Manchester. But perhaps the most curious aspect as a Northern Yorkshire town is it is the lesbian capital of the UK, if not Europe, with a great deal of inward migration of lesbian couples according to the estate agents.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

But perhaps the most curious aspect as a Northern Yorkshire town is it is the lesbian capital of the UK, if not Europe, with a great deal of inward migration of lesbian couples according to the estate agents.

I've heard that story too, but not seen the pictures........

 

[rich p]

Beat me to it! Did I tell you I hate you?

Whateverrrr

 

[Arch]

Hebden Bridge - my friend is to film there as part of a film on economic growth in the North. It is doing well.
The reports I hear are it is beautiful, home to many local businesses, much of them internet based but also well populated by people commuting to either Leeds or Manchester. But perhaps the most curious aspect as a Northern Yorkshire town is it is the lesbian capital of the UK, if not Europe, with a great deal of inward migration of lesbian couples according to the estate agents.

I think it's the case that a lot of the lesbians have moved to Todmorden now, but they're virtually connected....

 

[Lisa21]

I got the feeling that most of its inhabitants were too drugged up to realise the time of day, let alone their sexual orientation But I have fallen in love with it all, the buildings, the canal, the dreadlocked, colourful-attired people and the chocolate caramel shortbread