Hebden Bridge...

[thom]

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

One story I heard was a visiting bloke going into the public library and making a comment to a librarian that he'd yet been able to spot any of the lesbians he'd been anticipating spotting. There happened to be 3 there out of the 5 women within earshot, including the librarian.

 

[ColinJ]

One story I heard was a visiting bloke going into the public library and making a comment to a librarian that he'd yet been able to spot any of the lesbians he'd been anticipating spotting. There happened to be 3 there out of the 5 women within earshot, including the librarian.

And I thought that trainspotting was an unusual hobby!

 

[400bhp]

I spent a day there last week and have fallen in love I was forewarned about the amount of quirky inhabitants and boy was that an understatement... but they, combined with the best ever chocolate caramel shortcake IN THE WORLD and a man in a green bodysuit talking to a tree have just about made my year!

That is one place I am definitely going back to

 

[MontyVeda]

I'm flabbergasted that it took 27 posts before lesbians were mentioned

 

[potsy]

Why do you think I went so often, they make me look normal

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Why do you think I went so often, they make me look normal

Let's not get carried away now

 

[Speicher]

Why do you think I went so often, they make me look normal

 

[Herbie]

Colin....is there a very very steep hill in Hebden Bridge?.....I met a Belgian guy last summer when I was doing my wee world tour of north west Scotland...this guy had been on the road for nearly a year with a heavy loaded cycle...I asked if he ever got off and pushed...he said no but he had to push up a hill in Hebden Bridge...was telling the truth? sounds a fearsome hill....this guy was going up hills in front of like they weren't there

 

[classic33]

There's Mytholm Steeps.

 

[ColinJ]

Colin....is there a very very steep hill in Hebden Bridge?.....I met a Belgian guy last summer when I was doing my wee world tour of north west Scotland...this guy had been on the road for nearly a year with a heavy loaded cycle...I asked if he ever got off and pushed...he said no but he had to push up a hill in Hebden Bridge...was telling the truth? sounds a fearsome hill....this guy was going up hills in front of like they weren't there

There's Mytholm Steeps.

Yes - that's the one. Church Lane as you turn left off the A646 heading east into Hebden Bridge (from Todmorden).

I've posted about it lots of times. Hang on, I'll find one of the posts ... ok - see this post.

 

[ColinJ]

Oh, or he could have been referring to The Buttress, which, believe it or not, forms part of the Pennine Cycleway!

 

[Globalti]

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

I know what you mean; it has a unique quaintness about it that I've never found anywhere else. Do you know that HB is on a major packhorse trunk route and that the bridge, first built out of wood then stone in 1510, was the first structure there? People don't realise that it was packhorses, charging around the hills like the equivalent of today's white vans, that shaped our landscape. Mytholmroyd was the original settlement and the packhorses needed to cross the river, hence the need for the bridge. Next time you go to HB, nip up the hill and have a look around Mytholmroyd, it's just as quaint but less popular.

As for the lesbia.... last year I took a business visitor from Ghana there and when I told him about HB's reputation he was aghast; Africans are resolutely heterosexual and in some African countries homosexuality is actually a crime. My visitor wandered around the town with his eyes bulging, staring at women and muttering in shock "why would a woman prefer another woman to a MAN like me.....?" We asked a passing Hebden woman to take a photo of us on the canal bridge and as soon as she had gone Kwame nudged me and asked: "Was she one? Was she one?"

 

[Sandra6]

I haven't been to Hebden Bridge for years, but we used to go regularly -Hebden Bridge, Todmorden and Mytholmroyd were all on the train route, or if we were feeling adventurous all the way to Halifax.
They used to sell the best chips in Hebden Bridge.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Oh, or he could have been referring to The Buttress, which, believe it or not, forms part of the Pennine Cycleway!

people cycle up that ?

 

[ColinJ]

people cycle up that ?

They have a hill climb event on it once a year, when people *try* to cycle up it! Only a few actually make it, and the fastest is the winner.

It is so intimidating that I have never yet even tried. It is bad enough just walking up it! Maybe one day, if I ever get superfit ...

I accidentally tried cycling *down* it once. I saw the cycleway sign and turned down it, but it scared me so much that I locked the front brake and went over the handlebars! Fortunately, I managed to break my fall by grabbing a handrail as I fell.

I am amazed that in these Health and Safety, Risk Assessment times, there isn't any kind of warning at the top! Even if you thought you could cope with the 10-15% at the top, you might not fancy the 20% halfway, and be terrified by the 30% at the bottom!