Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
Venue: Hebden Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire
One-day Workshops
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
(Workshops start at 9.30am and finish at 4.30pm)
Cost: £110 per person, including lunch
Payment in full with booking (refundable up to six weeks before date of workshop)
Hebden Bridge, wedged into the steep-sided Calderdale valley, is cramped, quirky and very photogenic. Here, in the valley bottom, road, railway, the River Calder and the Rochdale Canal, cross and re-cross each other... like the flex of an old-fashioned telephone.
At the height of the textile industries there were 33 mill chimneys belching out smoke into the valley. There was so little flat land to house the mill-hands that terraces of 'top & bottom' houses were built, one on top of the other. When the industry went into terminal decline, the town reinvented itself as a haven for hippies, free thinkers and new-age practitioners. Life is never dull in Hebden Bridge, recently voted the "fourth funkiest place on the planet".
One-day Workshops
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
(Workshops start at 9.30am and finish at 4.30pm)
Cost: £110 per person, including lunch
Payment in full with booking (refundable up to six weeks before date of workshop)
Hebden Bridge, wedged into the steep-sided Calderdale valley, is cramped, quirky and very photogenic. Here, in the valley bottom, road, railway, the River Calder and the Rochdale Canal, cross and re-cross each other... like the flex of an old-fashioned telephone.
At the height of the textile industries there were 33 mill chimneys belching out smoke into the valley. There was so little flat land to house the mill-hands that terraces of 'top & bottom' houses were built, one on top of the other. When the industry went into terminal decline, the town reinvented itself as a haven for hippies, free thinkers and new-age practitioners. Life is never dull in Hebden Bridge, recently voted the "fourth funkiest place on the planet".
