October 2023. Shipley. You can’t actually see the dividing line between Saltaire and Shipley, but you certainly know when you’ve crossed it. And the Crafty Kernel meets every requirement of the “modern micro” playbook, though at least it has a nice protruding sign so you only walk past it 3 times, rather than the median… Continue reading “Kev left his pound at the swimming pool”
Tag: West Yorkshire
HALIFAX MINSTER – MY FIRST NCSS 5
October 2023. Halifax. I’d actually come to Halifax for a gig, and you’ll be astonished to know this wasn’t a 22 year old Californian singing about duff boyfriends with sportscars. Lisa O’ Neill sings about the Irishwoman who shot Mussolini in the nose, which I guess is a marginally more serious topic, unless you’re a… Continue reading HALIFAX MINSTER – MY FIRST NCSS 5
NEWMILLERDAM – GO FOR THE BASS, BUT STAY FOR THE FISH AND CHIPS
October 2023. Newmillerdam. Wakefield. I tried desperately to come up with a blogpost using the Elvis classic as inspiration, but since none of you (except fellow ticker Eddie) knows Newmillerdam it’s wasted effort. My life of perpetual travel began the year after marrying Mrs RM; before that we’d hardly left Letchworth and Cambridge but in… Continue reading NEWMILLERDAM – GO FOR THE BASS, BUT STAY FOR THE FISH AND CHIPS
RETURN TRAY WONDERS IN WAKEFIELD !
October 2023. Crigglestone. Wakefield. We arrived back at Luton Airport to collect our vehicle the day before THIS; Glad we were only away for a week. It took a few days of parent-visiting before I could get back into the swing of visiting weirdly names Yorkshire villages. In fact, I’d never heard of Crigglestone, whose… Continue reading RETURN TRAY WONDERS IN WAKEFIELD !
MOORTHORPE GETS A STATION PUB
July 2023. Moorthorpe, West Yorkshire. I can’t claim the South Kirkby is as exciting as Kirkby, Merseyside, or even South Elmsall across the rail bridge with its occasional Guide entry in the Barnsley Oak, but at least I’d been. And you haven’t. Moorthorpe is hardly noticeable on that map extract, seeming to exist only as… Continue reading MOORTHORPE GETS A STATION PUB
SOUTH KIRKBY – A MEMORIAL TO TIMES PAST ?
July 2023. South Kirkby. Apologies for the unexplained absence. I’ve just had an emergency removal of a painful part of my person by a skilled professional in Liverpool. But then, if you’re one of my patronised readers, you’d have seen the delicate operation in real time already. On Friday lunchtime I was debating my options.… Continue reading SOUTH KIRKBY – A MEMORIAL TO TIMES PAST ?
THE SOUTHWORTHS DO BRADFORD, PROPERLY
May 2023. We only had the company of the Southworths for a lunchtime beer and curry on their UK trip, but what a beer and curry it was. Bradford, you never let us down. We started off at the Waterstones, searching in vain for the 1975 Good Beer Guide. Perhaps the most gorgeous book shop… Continue reading THE SOUTHWORTHS DO BRADFORD, PROPERLY
WELCOME TO BRADFORD
6th May 2023. We’d planned to meet the Southworths on their latest UK trip (tour T-shirts from the usual sites), and figured that rather than go back to Sheffield from Manchester we might as well take the train to Bradford and do a giant loop. For a start, it was cheaper, and we found Bradford… Continue reading WELCOME TO BRADFORD
DON’T AVOID, MYTHOLMROYD
11th March 2023. When you’re setting out on your Good Beer Guide ticking career, you can confidently expect to find half a dozen new Guide entries in an afternoon. But, as BRAPA well knows, the deeper the you go the harder to extract are those ticks. And so I approach the penultimate West Yorkshire entry… Continue reading DON’T AVOID, MYTHOLMROYD
ON THE BUSES TO OUTER BRADFORD
26th January 2023. I only just made the bus back from Eccleshill back into town to catch the next bus out to the Watchmaker’s in the west, but in their defence First Bradford or whatever they’re called are nice buses and it’s not their fault I always cock up by putting the bar code on… Continue reading ON THE BUSES TO OUTER BRADFORD
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