View allAll Photos Tagged Mytholmroyd
I remember the inauguration of the daily Copy Pit services....operated by LM Region Class 104 DMU's complete with droplight window bars and waistband white stripe. Pictures anyone?
Lit entirely by light polution from the street lights along the valley reflecting back off the clouds.
Heading towards Mytholmroyd over frosty ballast is No. 158907. The area on the left was once a very busy freight yard, with shunting going on most of the day (and night). Now it looks bleak, and is used by Siemens for storing equipment to carry out signalling upgrades on the Calder Valley line.
Donald Crossley sits on the wall at the entrance to Redacre Wood above Mytholmroyd. Today Donald is leading a walk for the annual Elmet Trust Ted Hughes festival in Mytholmroyd where the poet was born in 1930. Ted Hughes was passionate about wildlife from his earliest days of exploring these woods leading up to the moorland heights of the Calder Valley. Ted came here in the company of his elder brother (and instructor), Gerald, ten years his senior. Gerald Hughes is now 92 years of age and has lived in Australia since 1948. His book "Ted And I" has just been published by The Robson Press and provides an authentic tellling of his relationship with his wee brother Ted, the little boy, who played "red indians" in these woods where he kept a hidden tom-tom drum, who saw everything, and remembered and wrote it down, and became a Poet Laureate.
Donald Crossley lived at 9 Aspinall Road, Mytholmroyd. For the first eight years of his life, Ted Hughes lived in the house he was born in, No 1 Aspinall Road, Donald and Ted grew-up together and remained friends till the very end of Ted's life, listening to Donald you know that he loved him too.
In his book TED AND I, Gerald Hughes writes that just before they set off on their first camping trip:
"I remember Ted's pals came round before we departed - his two inseparable friends Derek Robertshaw and Brian Seymour, and young Donald Crossley - all full of advice for Ted. We packed and were on our way by early afternoon".
I fist met Winston in 2013 when he joined a group of poets/walkers on part of the Simon Armitage Stanza Stones route walked as part of a traveling workshop of poetry readings along its 48 miles of moorland hiking. Winston lives on a canal boat at Hebden Bridge and is well established as "the local poet" .He appears regularly as both compere and performer at events across the country including hosting his own night 'The Spoken Word Shindig' in Hebden . Today he is running a creative writing workshops as part of the Ted Hughes Festival where he taught me all I know about Pareidolla (you'll have to look it up for yourself)! Here we are enjoying a lunch-time beer in a Mytholmroyd hostelry - but Winston's range runs wide and deep:
FRESH MILK
She tries to bottle-up
her gold-top future.
Dreams of leaving
a trail of milk to work
and lying along
the car park lines
on clear evenings.
The clatter of trains
smoothing her mind's
journey home.
Winston Plowes.
A two-car Class 110 passes a lone semaphore signal post on the approach to Mytholmroyd station while working 2M06 13:40 Leeds to Manchester Victoria. 17/11/85. The semaphore was taken down a couple of years later and if you stood at this spot today, you'd be surrounded by a forest and wouldn't be able to see anything - not even the line, probably.
"Out Doors" Project. Pentax MX w/ 28mm f2.8. Shot on Fuji Industrial 400, developed in Digibase C-41.
These were excellent moorings for watching novice crews trying out a lock until one of them lost control with full power and t-boned our boat.
Mytholmroyd CC opener Jack Earle smashing the first of two consecutive straight sixes off a Sowerby St. Peters spinner. Earle went on to make 115 in Mytholmroyd's total of 277-7. Sowerby St. Peters were dismissed for 96 so the home team won by 181 runs. The win kept Mytholmroyd in contention at the top of the league, currently lying in 3rd place.
No. 158756 is a Calder Valley three car unit heading for Leeds, while 158842 is a twin on its way west to Blackpool.