I think all the northern mill towns were hives of activity. Also the villages all had there own bits of industry going on. In my enclave there were 11mills in a 2 mile radius during the 1960's. They were all with in a walking distance...
Someone quoted this awhile back. Made me smile
Blamire: It's an open question, life. Anything's possible. I mean, what do we really know about anything?
Clegg: Maybe we're already dead.
Compo: Then what?
Clegg: Maybe we had to die to...
Episode 6
TEA FOR TWO and A BICYCLE MADE FOR WU
It was an unusually quiet morning in the frosty town of Holmfirth. The chirping of the birds had ceased, and the usual clatter of tray bashing from Sid's Café was absent. The café, the...
After almost a year of roadworks, which are almost coming to an end, due to a major power outage effecting many of the town premises, they are now digging up Woodhead road around the Greenfield road area, which the electric company...
One of my earlier great heroes, Chris of the 'Road to Hell' has passed away today. Please, God Rest His Soul
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r3ne23e4go
He effectively played the same character primarily glum and morose in all of these and more , he had a guest appearance in One Foot in the Grave and he was the same in that made Victor a headstone for his grave . :)