A Blot on the Landscape ...

Sparrow

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... Bradford gets a well deserved drubbing by the press, politicians and the sarff of england, we had a bright day today, if perishingly cold, so I drove over and took a few gritty urban landscapes ...

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... the city from Scarlet Heights (named after a skirmish following the Battle of Wakefield 1460)

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... a Victorian Villa (c. 1880) in the same location ... the mill-owners built out in the hills to escape the poor air in the city

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... Halifax from Fox Hill, Queensbury

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... Ogden Moor from Mountain, the highest point in Bradford and West Yorkshire for that matter
 
Wisht!!!!! Don't let on ter everybugger abaht it. Yorkshire's already bin voted t'third best 'oliday destination in t'world. Kip Bratfurth to us sens.
 
What? ... anyway a few more

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... a rundown but still working farm at Egypt, taken from the Walls-of-Jerico (no idea where the names came from)

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... a Hamlet near Wilsden

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... Oxenhope from the Howarth road ... or vica-versa

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... Howarth Mills

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... Keighley and the Aire Valley

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... St Yves from Wilsden Lane
 
Got to get over there someday. As a farm boy, I like the old 'run down' farm. I also like the old factories and stacks at Howarth Mills.
 
That's quite enough thank you, you'll make me regret leaving the Cotswolds after 58 years (from age 3).
No, not really, I can feel the raw chill of the air looking at your photos.
 
Beautiful. Just beautiful. I've always particularly loved the view of 'Fax from Queensbury.

... I love the view east from Thornton Old Rd out past Leeds to the vale of York ... on Frosty mornings steam from the string of power stations can be seen right out the Ferrybridge
 
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