Our beautiful Colne Valley.

You've provided a very interesting blog....it's clear you are very proud of your heritage and it looks a beautiful area to live in. Thank you for a nice journey to one of your favoured walks.

Perfect sunshine for you as well :)

I thoroghly enjoyed this walk around your village beautiful and interesting about the volcanic rock comming from the glaizer ice age nice idea to have it to comemorate the opening, nice to have such history, of the factories and their works. I have been to Homefirth, Calidale, Paddock BerryBrow my son in law lives and Balliffsbridge is where my daghter use to live lovely place Huddersfield said to be the largest town in the uk.

Lovely blog Bloomer, Its really nice to get an insight into some of these old villages. If I ever get up there I would love to have a look around there. Very interesting and great photos

Thank you for that, it was a lovely blog, great photos, beautiful buildings, canal to die for and canal barges, you must be in heaven. thank you again.

Smashing blog Bloomer ... really enjoyed that stroll around your lovely area.
The canal is such a great place for a walk as always ... & a lovely venue for a cuppa!
Never seen a guillotine lock before ... what a wonderful piece of history.

Anything with old pubs, canals & viaducts is right up our street so thank you for sharing your day. :O)

Thanks Whistonlass,nice to meet you..Glad you enjoyed the walk...:o)

You seem to know the area pretty well,6p,and thanks for your nice comment.I must say,it took me longer to put this together,than the actual walk !!! Lol

Cheers Cinders,There are lots of places and views like this,we are so lucky.I can't take the credit for the pics,as Russ took them...under instruction,of course,as I knew what I wanted to do.

Oliveoil,you are so kind,and its nice to know you enjoyed it,as much as we do.

Fluff,..glad this was of interest to you,I love history as well,and only started to really appreciate my surroundings as I got older,and really look at everything,and not just a means of getting from A to B,We all tend to take familiar things for granted...

well I am absolutely shattered after that very long and very intresting walk, lovely blog and fantastic pictures Bloomer, you kept your promise to me about doing this blog,

Very interesting Sandra , especially as I have just spend a week with my son and one of the places he took us to was Hebden Bridge , your home village reminded me very much of that with the canals etc. .. Lovely blog :o))

Thank you Bloomer a really interesting blog. A beautiful area,it's difficult to imagine the hardship and health problems suffered here in the past.
I'm very pleased for you about the clearing and re-opening of the canal,it all adds to the enjoyment for residents and visitors alike :)

Thank you,Yorkshire.Better late than never eh? I hadn't forgotten my promise,so really pleased you enjoyed it.Another place for you to visit,maybe?
Will reply to your PM later..,thanks.

Glad you enjoyed Hebden Bridge Amy.We like it there too,and go on the bus sometimes I think a lot of these places are similar too.Thanks for your nice comment.Shame we were away,..I could have made our chocolate cake,and you could have called for a cuppa ..Lol.

Aster..It has made such a difference to the village now,as it gets lots of visitors at the weekends,which really help the existing small shops,and a couple of nice cafe's have opened. too. Its lovely the air is very much improved,without the mill chimney's,but sad that all the jobs went with it.Same story all over,though.I was fortunate to move to Cumbria with my parents,and we all had a much healthier life there.A totally different environment It was still lovely to come back to my roots,after 22 years there.

Lovely to see this blog and pics of a village I know very well indeed. Sat here in Madrid wishing I was back home..

Welcome to GOY Mpm.Wow,what a surprise,to see you have read this blog,about Slaithwaite...or Slawit..as it is known in our local dialect.I presume you now live in Spain.I would be very interested to hear of your connection with our lovely part of the world,By PM if you prefer...Nice to meet you.:o)

I really enjoyed this stroll round, Sandra, I can't imagine how awful it must have been to work in the mill.
I always think of a Les Dawson comedy sketch where the women in the mill would use a kind of sign language, impossible to be heard above the noise from the machinery. The canal looks a very inviting place to walk alongside, and the stone buildings are wonderful. Thanks for sharing. : o ))))

Lol,Shirley..by the way,I also worked in a mill,in Cumbria,..that has surprised you hasn't it? my dad had the chance to help to start up a new branch of a company from Huddersfield,but thank goodess,it was a very modern place,not anything like the dark satanic mills here.You are so right though,the women that worked the weaving looms,all used a form of sign language,but the department I taught in,was relatively quiet,and I loved it...must have been in my blood...the good thing was,you could eavesdrop on conversations...but they learned to turn their backs if they didn't want to you to see what they were saying...very annoying at times.!!..Very Les Dawson,I agree,and it made me laugh,as hadn't thought of it like that before.
Glad you enjoyed the walk with me..

I know the feeling of putting blogs together they do take a lot of brain power too.

Excellent blog Sandra, I thoroughly enjoyed reading all the history, what a wonderful place to spend you early childhood and education. The fogs I remember very clearly and Harry's Mum was a mill girl, hard times, outside Tipply Toilets, no hot water or central heating and lighting the coal fire! the good old days! Compliments to Russel on his photography skills;0) [willbe in touch later]

That would have been nice Sandra , you have no idea how many times I have made that chocolate cake since you gave me the recipe , it's so nice and yummy .. :o))

I LOVE this blog Bloomer, I thoroughly enjoyed the tour of your pretty village and found it very interesting too. I love the cafe on the barge, they must get a lot of customers. :o)

Thanks Carole...I remember there were a lot of mills in Lancashire too..if that's where she came from..although,as I recall,they were noted for cotton.Russell's aunt worked in one at Diggle,and she got me lots of Terry nappies cheap,when Alison was born..a godsend for me..They were hard times for them all.My mum had a bad accident when she was just 21.She was cleaning underneath her machine,which had to be done once a week,and it developed an electrical fault.When she removed her hand,she had lost 3 fingers on her left hand.No unions then to help,and the sum she was offered was paltry.She managed brilliantly all her life,and the only thing she couldn't do,was crochet !
She used to knit all my jumpers etc,no problem.A remarkable lady.

Glad you are still making it Amy,it seems it has become a firm favourite with you and your family...Naughty but nice :o)))

Thank you Sandra,it is lovely.They have a great business on the barge,as there are always lots of walkers in the area,Great for taking the dogs too,The towpaths can be walked from Huddersfield to the border with Lancashire,a distance of about 8 miles.

What a lovely blog Sandra...I felt as if I was walking with you. I was particularly interested to see the pics. I know Slawit quite well in a way. The surveyors office I worked in covered all of Yorkshire and the surveyor I looked after covered Slawit and surrounding towns....so I sort if knew the streets in and around Huddersfield quite well....Fascinating stuff!!

I didn't know you knew our part of the country Louise..and glad it took you back a bit..and now you know a bit more of its history....hope you had a nice weekend break,'speak ' to you soon...

Wonderful. I love to see such interesting and historical places, and it's nice to hear about them from someone who is part of it :o)

Thanks Hywel,if only these Geography and History lessons had been like this at school eh? Although I was always interested anyway,especially about the'Industrial Revolution'...We all have something of interest to relate,about our own bits of heritage,it seems...:o)))

School ! :o(( lol - a complete waste of time as far as I was conserned. Sorry but it was (except for Miss Bowden lol)

Same here Hywel.It wasn't so much school,it was the boring way we were taught..mostly text book stuff with no imagination to make it interesting...and I had to learn Latin too..ugh.I was never ever going to be Doctor Lol.I hated that.
Most of the teachers seemed so old,and didn't seem to like kids!!! ha ha.

I know that feeling Bloomer, but did anyone LIKE kids in those days lol. I think not. They had kids because they had no choice really. Times must have been so hard in those days.

I agree,Oliveoil,it does make you wonder...My Grandmother had 8,and started married life with 2 stepchildren as well.Its true when they say,'you don't know you're born.'..compared to them,we don't...

I had to learn Latin too :o( The only thing I remember is pureo means boy lol . We used to call the teacher Sparta :o) Oh he was sooo stiff and boring

I just about remember repeating ,parrot fashion...Taurus..a...um...I think !.Lol.Our teacher was called Miss French..or Froggy as we called her...at least over a 100 years old to my young mind !!!..Lol.

lol 100 ! is that all ? :o)
Some of the teachers we had were there when my father was a boy lol. He could tell me about them and they never changed with time :o(

LOL,Hywel,those were the days eh?....glad its in the past though...

I just love this blog Bloomer, very moving too, you have the gift. What a lovely place to grow up in, and a lovely place to visit, I'd love to see it one day, but this will do for now:-)) I'm surprised a trendy young thing like you remembers so far back though!:-))

I am so pleased you enjoyed it Ba.I loved doing it.Maybe you will get there one day,I hope so...you flatterer you !.I remember when Adam was a lad Lol..well,maybe not THAT far,but long enough...:o).