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Before Summer Wine, there was Bamforth's, but the collection of postcards that they printed was housed at the Tolson Museum in Huddersfield the last time I heard anything about it! To me, Holmfirth is wool weaving, because my primary interest is in the history of any locality where I happen to...

Even when he was so ill that most other people would have been in hospice care, he was in there determined that the millenium special would be completed!

Leaves on the track seems to be an autumn epidemic!

This turned up on my Facebook page about an hour ago. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CyrDGLxjF/

Huh?

Today's temp is even worse than last week's. -2F at ~8 AM. I'm working in the sunniest room in the house, wearing the heated gilet, and slipping my hands into a heated hand warmer whenever possible. This too shall pass!

Mine, to, even in the brutally cold temps we've had lately. That man has a built-in furnace.

At 15C/59F I'm bundled up in several layers of wool, a heated gilet, and a fleece jacket, and I'm still shivering!

They're getting their pound of flesh. It's just a question of whether they're getting it from the payor or the payee.

When using PayPal, specify "Friends and Family" so that you pay their fee, rather than its being deducted from the funds being transferred.

Here's the BBC story...

Those houses look lovely, but they're all awfully big. Were most families surviving with just a daily to "do the rough", or worse, with just the lady of the house to do it all?

I was twelve years old when Elvis made his first TV appearance. The next school day, any of the girls who had seen it were ostracized as sluts. I hadn't seen it only because we didn't get that channel.

I've read that some of the men on the simulator passed out from the pain. What a bunch of wimps!

Here's the latest info that I could find quickly. https://www.transpenninetrail.org.uk/the-stanhope-arms-a-perfect-fusion-of-nature-and-hospitality/