#sowerby bridge

[oswincoleman]

Jenna Coleman's new show, "The Jetty" has started filming! Film crews for it have been spotted in Ripponden and Sowerby Bridge!

[colgreen31]

Recently updated and re-written blog post about Allan Park, Sowerby Bridge. Click the link to have a read.

[maypoleman1]

15th November

Lying Contests

Source: Times and Star website

On this day at Temple Sowerby in Cumbria, a Lying Contest was held each year in which the most proficient fibber was awarded a whetstone as first prize. The Bishop of Carlisle one day visited the town on the day of the contest and gave an impromtu sermon on the evils of knowingly telling untruths, finishing by claiming he never told lies himself. The townspeople immediately presented the bishop with the whetstone first prize. The tradition has survived as the annual World’s Biggest Liar Contest held in Wasdale, in the Lake District. The competition takes place in the Bridge Inn with as many as 200 entrants who attempt to impress judges with their credible-but-almost-certainly-untrue tall tales. There is only one winner and lawyers, journalists, salesmen, estate agents and politicians are expressly forbidden being allowed to enter: I can’t think why.

The contest is said to have been inspired by Wordsworth and the Lakeland Poets who believed the people of Wasdale to be the most effortlessly untruthful folk in the British Isles.

[starlink-installer-uk]

Starlink Installation Sowerby Bridge

Starlink Installation Sowerby Bridge.Here we have a new starlink installation in sowerby bridge just outside Halifax.The customer had a copper BT phone line and was getting a steady 10mbs but that was the maximum which was putting the strain on Netflix streaming etc they had a wirelesss Google nest system but the 10 mbs doesn’t get very far over Wi-Fi.Took the plunge into the reality of Starlink…

[guerrerense]

231 Greenfield Sunday 4th August 1968 por Nigel Por Flickr: Greenfield , Sunday 4th August 1968 locos in the photo 44871 and 44894. Photo courtesy of Harvey Scowcroft collection, information from six bells Junction railtours file, route was Manchester Victoria – Diggle – Huddersfield – Sowerby Bridge – Copy Pit – Blackburn – (via Bolton avoiding line) – Wigan Wallgate – Kirkby – Bootle – Stanley – Rainhill – Barton Moss – Manchester Victoria – Droylesden – Stockpor

[tinkerbitch69]

English doesn’t function as a written language anymore. Passing through a train station called ‘Sowerby Bridge’ but the announcer pronounces it ‘S’erby Bridge’

The entire first syllable in that name is completely unnecessary I know British English is like this sometimes but what the fuck?!

[anotheruserwithnoname]

News report on the filming of Jenna's next series, The Jetty!

It also says its due to air next year which I guess makes sense but there has yet to be official word on that I think.

[johnlinneyphotography]

Over Yonder. Taken from above Mytholmroyd (sort of), towards Sowerby Bridge. The sun was out, it was quite nippy and my hands were frozen but it was worth it. Been struggling with coming to terms with my camera but enjoyed using it today. It’s a great camera that does pretty much everything I would want it to do but for some reason, I couldn’t get comfortable using it. Felt much better today. #fujixt4 #fujifilmxt4 #fujifilmxf33mmf14 #calderdale #landscapephotography #landscape #yorkshire #yorkshirephotographer https://www.instagram.com/p/Cncc_7dIs5v/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Friday 4 October 1839

7 ½

12 35/..

damp small rainy morning – General Wilson and his sister very civil yesterday – he an Edinburgh man (said our English man who went about with us) came here young – Mr. Wilson told us he had been in Russia 55 years and was 8 when he came – the sister came at 2 years old – the general goes to England generally every 2 or 3 years – was there last October and passed thro’ H-x – sorry obliged to be in Manchester and prevented spending  the day with someone at his place near Sowerby bridge – (Mr. Edwards?) – W- gets all the new improvements in machinery spite of the prohibition – the prohibition foolish as ministers know but obliged to follow the sense of the country - .:. the exportation of machinery prohibited – but machine-makers go to Belgium, and the Russian and others therefore buy of them what would otherwise be bought of us – spindles etc. etc. we can make much better and cheaper than they can be made here – tho’ from our models spinning jennies etc. are made in the machine room here – a clever young man from Glasgow (has been here 6 years) at the head of this department – 18 English families here exclusive of general W- 18 English masters each at the head of his own department and an Italian Ghersi = 19 masters who went to the Caucasus to examine the silk there, and has published his travels – wrote then in French (Ghersi) but translated into Russian and not yet published in French – the emperor has given him some land in the Caucasus Mr. W- the generals’ brother would succeed to the place but not near so clever as the general – not a man there like him – he has organized all – a clever excellent man – he being of the 3rd class a lieutenant general can go to all court festivals uninvited .:. can speak directly to the emperor – was much patronized by the empress mother (empress Mary) wife of Paul –

General Wilson came to Russia in 1804.

October Friday 4 sent 56,000 pieces of sail cloth last year to America the Russian navy does not want more 22,000 pieces a year – shewed us a piece (narrow shred) that took 12cwt. to break it – our great sail cloth manufactories (one near Glasgow Nelsons?) capital –

Flax would be good here (Dutch and Belgian the best) but the people will leave it seed – to get both seed and flax – it should be cut as in Holland and Belgium when in flower – the serfs in the establishment some good men earn 70/. a month some men 55/. down to 30/. – average wages per man 60/. per month – live in clubs so that a man lives for 14/. per month – every serf here pays his Lord 10/. per month –

misconduct punished by fine – for day of absence from work (drinking or idling) 5/. per day –

the fines 1/3 goes to the hospital – 1/3 to the library – and 1/3 to..... women can earn 20/. per month

when the emperor buys the serfs of any nobleman, frees them and they pay 15/. per annum each man –

496 young people sat down to dinner yesterday – only about 200 girls – of what they earn 1/3 goes to the Foundling hospital 1/3 to themselves (and 1/3 towards their maintenance at the factory?)

400,000 R. due from the factory to the Foundling hospital for which interest is paid –

the masters have from £200 to £600 a year – General W- has besides his appointments an interest that is a percentage on the goods manufactory and sold – one brother with him at the factory and one plain Mr. W- who was in the house of Thomson Bonar and co. but disagreed with Thomson now a merchant in St. P- all agents for houses in England but about 3 houses – Thomson B- and co. (Mr. Hodgson the head clerk of the house who manages everything and has some capital of his own in the firm on the same terms as the capital of the heads of the house – it [would] thus Wilson [get] on and Paulet Thomson himself) and Wilson and probably Bayley –

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October Friday 4 saw the cardsetting machinery yesterday before luncheon – the wire cut and set – and saw a bit done by the empress Marie herself who was about an hour doing it – saw the paper patterns of table cloths before luncheon but had them explained after luncheon It is the Italian (Piedmontese [Piemontese], Ghersi) who arranges all these – some the patters very handsome – long 6 or 7 yards? – the length of the cloth being the breadth in gloom – i.e. the shuttle passed the whole lenth [length] of the cloth – saw the sizing rooms after luncheon

table cloths, long and handsome double damask with 24 napkins about 250 Rubels

breakfast table covers very pretty cotton at 18/. mixed silk at 50/. in all colours – much cloth (for slave-shirts the man thought) sent to America – strong and good but rather coarse – nothing finer made here – Sail cloth of several qualities – dare not note down prices because made no notes at the moment – the building was the country house of a Russian nobleman .:. has cost much in adaption and is not now so convenient as if built expires – 500 inhabitants in the village –

a congregation of 50 + English every Sunday evening – Mr. Law preaches there after service at St. P-

the dining room build expires – 230ft. long the same length as the British Queen steamer built – opposition to the government western 4 tables all down the room – arched ceiling – 96 beds? (girls beds) in 1 room and 6 in the end room adjoining – iron staircases water closets and everything beautifully tidy – Salle de reception – retiring them for the empress and another at the other end for the emperor – many noblemen offered to find men at 55/. per month but General W- always declined – would have the men at liberty to do what they chose with their money – declined contracts with the Lords of the [serfs]

October Friday 4 breakfast at 9 – before and after till now 11 20/.. had written all the above of this morning – out at 12 10/.. to the bank – cashed another £25circular – then from the Directeur of th ep.o. to the money charger – and then to Brieffe he went with us in the carriage to the Directeur general of the post office saw the Directeur – returned home for passport etc. and took Gross – at 2 10/.. at the Isaac church – and ½ way up in 7 minutes 350ft. high – Gilt cross on crescent on globe – coal from Newcastle sells here at 36kop. per pood

62 poods = 1 ton we went 325ft. high –

the church of Peter and Paul 400ft. high

at 3 40/.. at the ‘modèle de l’Eglise de St. Isaac par Auguste de Montferrand architecte de sa magesté . St. Petersburg le 1er mai 1819

Pouces = pieds anglais

Verscoks = Sagènes de Russe

Pouces = pieds Français

the dome all of iron to be covered with copper sheeting 3000 tons+ of iron in the dome

the model a very beautiful one – I could not make out the scale in the short time we were there – another model in the room – of the old Isaac church? no! of what? Mr. Anderside who went to the top with us observed that St. Pauls’ is the finest (best built) building of the kind in the world – the dome of St. Peters’ at Rome will be down in 40 or 50 yards – they will be obliged to take it down if they can get money enough – the Scotch fir is the red deal § the spruce the white deal

from the Isaac church to the chocolate shop – then to Graeffs’ and bought for A- Moralts’ paper on .......... (I scarce know what) in the last volume a part of the memories of this academy – in German but A- took it nevertheless – home at 5 ½ - paid off the carriage – dressed – dinner at 6 - Reading Captain Cochrane – this edition in one volume 8vo. that I read at home in 2 vols. fine day

§ Mr. Hodson or any of the merchants would ship me off deals and should get a great swing – the merchants [?] in Hull very considerable –

[?] driven (fir) to the depth of 20ft. for the foundation of the church – the outside to be finished by 1840 and it will be –

[wildbeautifuldamned]

Vintage Stained Glass Panel J. Platt of Puzzle Hall Brewery Sowerby Bridge ebay exfix51

[petnews2day]

‘A really sad case’: horses had to be dug free from stables – one had not been out for two years

New Post has been published on https://petnews2day.com/news/pet-industry-news/pet-charities/a-really-sad-case-horses-had-to-be-dug-free-from-stables-one-had-not-been-out-for-two-years/?utm_source=TR&utm_medium=Tumblr+%230&utm_campaign=social

‘A really sad case’: horses had to be dug free from stables – one had not been out for two years

The owner of horses who had to be dug out of their “cramped and dirty” stables – including one who had not been outside for two years – has been banned from keeping equids indefinitely. Dianne Pearson, 70, of Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, was sentenced at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court on 16 April, having pleaded guilty […]

See full article at https://petnews2day.com/news/pet-industry-news/pet-charities/a-really-sad-case-horses-had-to-be-dug-free-from-stables-one-had-not-been-out-for-two-years/?utm_source=TR&utm_medium=Tumblr+%230&utm_campaign=social #PetCharitiesNews

[clickysteve]

Sowerby Bridge, England - May 2022.

[starlink-installer-uk]

Starlink Installation Sowerby Bridge.

Here we have a new starlink installation in sowerby bridge just outside Halifax.

The customer had a copper BT phone line and was getting a steady 10mbs but that was the maximum which was putting the strain on Netflix streaming etc they had a wirelesss Google nest system but the 10 mbs doesn’t get very far over Wi-Fi.

Took the plunge into the reality of Starlink broadband speeds and called us to arrange an installation date. We fitted the starlink up on the gable end on a standard galvanised wall bracket and alloy mast with the cable routed into the office room where it was connected into the Nest Mesh WI-FI.

After 30 mins the speeds were coming in at 200mbs plus and brought a smile to the customers face.

For more info or to book feel free to get in touch.

www.spaceinternetsolutions.com/starlink-installation-halifax

[backonthemainland]

Cooking up trouble in Sowerby Bridge.

[johnlinneyphotography]

Sowerby Bridge canal. Took a few images whilst at the printers today. The light was great , the water mostly frozen and the odd bit of snow on the towpaths. The beauty of owning a #ricohgriii is that you can always have a top quality camera in your pocket! #ricohgr3 #ricohgr #ricoh #sowerbybridge #canal #winter #landscapephotography #yorkshire #calderdale #yorkshirephotographer https://www.instagram.com/p/CmMifo-oUTS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=