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The joys of local newspapers

23rd January 2018 / hmcreativelady / 0 Comments

I bought a ‘Halifax Courier.’ Here are a few articles that show what’s uppermost in the minds of local people – me included!

The McVitie’s factory is in Halifax

Movie making in central Halifax

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in Sowerby village, where my ancestors lived in the 1700’s

Nice to see music in school alive and thriving

What a headline!!!!

From the 1918 Halifax Courier

Part of my own research into my ancestors is trying to find out just what was going on around them in their daily lives. I don’t just want to list births, marriages and deaths. As I sat in the Bridgewater Hall last night listening to Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin’s in the Fields play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons I found myself wondering which of my ancestors were alive when Vivaldi was. Wouldn’t it be fun to intersperse my ‘Family Books’ that I’m writing with which composers were alive when my forefathers and foremothers were. Here’s a selection of events from the Hebden Bridge almanac of 1871 that I found in the town’s archives one cold, wet afternoon last week.

Some familiar things have arrived at my apartment – some in good condition, some not.

16th December 2017 / hmcreativelady / 0 Comments

It’s cccccold

12th December 2017 / hmcreativelady / 0 Comments

The temperature was 27F. when I played for a fundraiser at Hebden Bridge rail;way station

New gloves and leggings for the occasion

The merry carollers . . .

. . .included the mayor of Hebden Bridge

The canal is frozen!!!!

The ducks can walk on the ice

A frosty window

Drinks in the Piece Hall tipi

My 15 boxes are scheduled to arrive on Thursday!

Stories from today’s Hebden Bridge Times

1st December 2017 / hmcreativelady / 0 Comments

I don’t agree that the path is atrocious. I’ve enjoyed walking along the tow path several times

And to think- this was once a court where my gt gt gt grandma was awarded child support for her ‘Bastard ‘ child- my gt gt grandma.

Lidl’s!

I went to this lecture-excellent

This is what brings a community together- and it’s free. It’s this difference between the US and England that I appreciate

Catching up

22nd November 2017 / hmcreativelady / 0 Comments

With Anna and Paul at Stubbing Wharf just before they left for Naples

Lovely lunch at the Square Chapel with great friends

An icy morning

This is a perfect example of what I find so amazing about living in this little tiny town called Hebden Bridge. Judith Weir, master of the queen’s music came to give a lecture about what it means to be a composer. The lecture was in the town hall and it took me precisely two minutes to walk from my apartment to the venue.

Slowly becoming my cushions!

Christmas trees galore in Haworth

Our first trip to the Victoria Theatre in Halifax – to see Milton Jones.

Truly a laugh a minute

Anna looking gorgeous in the floodlit Piece Hall

My first gig in England in 32 years will be on the platform of a railway station!

Staying close to home

17th November 2017 / hmcreativelady / 0 Comments

With David at Quiz night at the White Lion in Heptonstall

Trying a hand at weaving

Dressing up in the Piece Hall, Halifax

Heading for the gibbett

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Loom loom cafe Dean Clough Mill

Getting ready for turning on th Christmas lights in Hebden

Fireworks over my apartment

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Hebden junior band

Happy Halloween

31st October 2017 / hmcreativelady / 0 Comments

Ghost in my photo!

Halloween: Hebden Bridge style

29th October 2017 / hmcreativelady / 0 Comments

We changed the clocks during the night, so we all had an extra hour in bed this morning. I awake to a beautiful sunny day but I knew that would mean it would be chilly outside. I’ve just worked out that because my central heating thermostat is mobile I can put on the heat in the morning without getting out of bed as long as I remember to put it on my bedside table in the evening. My living room is looking very cheerful with the new plants I just bought from the garden centre.

A quick trip to the market to see what was going on in town before the first annual Halloween festival got underway. Not sure I go for these fudge flavours.

I chatted to this lady for a while. this is broomstick knitting!

Stoodley Pike from Heptonstall

Kitty guarding the stocks in the village where my Wrigley and Nutton ancestors were from

View from the Methodist chapel where John Wesley preached

The eye of the tree

Ruined church at sunset

October 20th

21st October 2017 / hmcreativelady / 0 Comments

Thirty two years ago – really?

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Playing catch up

21st October 2017 / hmcreativelady / 0 Comments

My laptop came back from the fix-it shop yesterday. 38 viruses had been removed. so much for Macs being virus-free. I’d been without it for just over a week so maybe you can imagine my frustration!

I went to Halifax to find a quilting store and called in at the Piece Hall for tea – just in time to sit in the courtyard and watch Nature’s amazing display. Then I was ready to begin my quilt project.

I always used to make a quilt at important junctures in my life. I’ve been wanting to work on a Doors quilt for a few years so now I’ve begun. It has even more significance for me because of all the doors that are current opening for me after my big move. It’s also particularly appropriate since my apartment was a former sewing room above the owner’s dwelling.

A red admiral butterfly feasting on the late blooming ivy by the Rochdale Canal

My first evening out to the city – in this instance Leeds. It was a balmy evening and the centre of Leeds was filled with people, dressed up to the nines, eating and drinking at outdoor tables. The concert, by the BBC Philharmonic was in the historic Town Hall whose centre piece is an amazing organ, floodlit in neon blue, though it wasn’t in use for this particular concert. This is the building where the finals of the Leeds International Piano Competition are held. I was able to sit in my favorite vantage point – behind the orchestra. The conductor was Finnish and he produced a masterful Sibelius 5. The concerto was Grieg’s piano concerto performed by a Norwegian.

A fancy schmancy dinner at a Burnley Spa with new-found friends

Yesterday’s 9 mile hike started and ended at my apartment. I’m still in awe that i can walk to these places from my living room. This hike was steep in places, made slippery by fallen leaves, but it brought into focus the lives of those people who climbed up and down these steps in the dark going to and from work in the mills on the rivers. The stone steps have been worn away by their clogs. This mill is Jumble Hole (honestly, that was its name!)