Pearl needs to hand the hankies around to all of us on this site as I've just been given bad & sad information.
The bridge by Nora & Compos is being demolished & replaced with a new one. That is going to destroy the whole character of...
Daisy Lane Books is one of the few shops in Holmfirth that I've never visited. I try to avoid loading up my luggage with books, and for the last several years I've mostly limited purchases to ebooks.
Hope you have a nice trip there, WellyMan. The Foxglove looks nice, let us know what you think of it. I believe @Marianna has been to the Daisy Lane bookshop a time or two. Hopefully she will chime in when she gets a chance.
We're going to spend a couple of days looking around Holmfirth in July prior to my 60th birthday, but so as not to embarrass Mrs WM I won't try to re-enact any Summer Wine scenes Have booked to stay at the Foxglove in Kirkburton which...
Actually he didn't, he did the pretending to be a chicken routine and then sang a song as a supposed man/woman partnership with him playing both parts distinguished by swapping men's and women's hats from his carpet bag, the tag being...
As a brief aside I quite like some of the nostalgia that BBC4 is pumping out early hours they were showing an Episode of the Good Old Days with the wonderfully eloquant Leonard Sachs , the guests were Barbara Windsor, Norman Collier...
I always recall this episode as there is no way Truly could have a mortgage at his age with a mainstream lender such as the Building Society Barry worked for !
I know I need to get out more :D