Adrian Fellows
Adrian talks about his early life, Slater Bank Farm, the Blue Pig, aka Midgehole Working Mens Club mand his work amongst other subjects.
Adrian talks about his early life, Slater Bank Farm, the Blue Pig, aka Midgehole Working Mens Club mand his work amongst other subjects.
It would be the younger ones. I don’t remember going to the cinema much. I can remember going into Halifax once or twice when there were cinemas in Halifax, but perhaps it was the isolation – you didn’t go out much. I go out a lot more now.
Brian grew up on several farms with his family before becoming a weaver, which he still does amongst other things. He has a keen interest in Northern Soul and loves to dance and was a motorbike enthusiast until he had an accident recently, which means he now has taken up walking.
Year 5 pupils from Riverside School interviewed 8 older members of the public about their lives and on a variety of themes including the environment, creativity, their dream job, family, hobbies, how Hebden Bridge has changed over the years and much more. Here Carol talks about these themes.
We moved to Hebden Bridge when I was five year old which was 1952. My father saw Lumb Bank advertised in the Exchange and Mart, came up, saw it, came up on his own, saw Lumb Bank, bought it for seventeen hundred pounds [£1700] and then came back down to Croydon and sort of shipped us all lock stock and barrel up north, and I think it’s my earliest memory – is the day we moved from Croydon. I’ve no recollection of anything major in Croydon so I cannot remember living in Croydon and we used to opposite the airport next to a main road, on Brighton Road
I went to Berlin and went through the Berlin Wall when the Berlin Wall was standing. I went through Checkpoint Charlie, one of the American checkpoints into the east of Berlin, that was exciting and I’ve been to Russia, to Moscow and to the Central Asia Republics of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, that was exciting and we took the Chinese border.
I left school when I was fourteen, started work on the farm where I stayed till I was twenty-one and then I did various jobs travelling round the country on building sites, whatever was going.
We’d a big lounge, a hallway, a staircase where we used to slide down the banister [laughing], slide down the stairs on a tray straight through the hall! The kitchen was sort of a keeping kitchen with a round stone roof and stone slabs, and a wash kitchen with the old washer and rubbing board.
Well, of course Kiev is Ukraine, but at the time Ukraine did not exist as a country. It was part of the Soviet Union, so technically speaking, she was referring to, the country does not exist any more technically speaking.
Year 5 pupils from Riverside School interviewed 8 older members of the public about their lives and on a variety of themes including the environment, creativity, their dream job, family, hobbies, how Hebden Bridge has changed over the years and much more. Here. John talks about his life.
Listen to John talk about being a potter and the history of potteries in West Yorkshire. He has developed a unique style and also makes medieval replica’s. He knew Issac Button of Soil Hill Pottery, one of the last craft potters.
Linden talks about the history of the Blue Pig, aka, Midgehole Working Men's Club and the people and happenings in and around Midgehole.
Find out about Mary’s life and artistic motivation, which led her to start an art school in Todmorden and how she developed it from an access course to an Honours BA degree course and in the process received a MBE for services to the community.
Mike had a career as an academic in social work but turned to art in later life.
Michael Seth talks to Paul Roberts, local folk musician about his musical life and his years of living in Hebden Bridge.
Well nicknames were again something that were more for the older generation – there was a reason for this actually I think in many respects. There are certain surnames that are very common, particularly Greenwood for example and Sutcliffe, and they often gave nicknames or what was called by-names to differentiate certain branches of Greenwoods.
Well that was a business that I started. I’ve Townson Thornber fuels….I don’t know how long ago we started it, it was about ’89 and then I sold it to Shell and I carried on working for fourteen years which….I thought it would last fourteen minutes, but, and then I decided I’d had enough and since then they’ve sold it to someone else, but it’s still about and it’s basically the same people as we had.
The job situation down there was pretty hopeless and my father and his brother-in-law it were, my uncle, they decided that they’d to do something about getting some work so they got a train to Manchester. When they got in Manchester they asked where there was work and they were told t’best place to go was Luddendenfoot, so they caught a train through and got off at Luddendenfoot.
Year 5 pupils from Riverside School interviewed 8 older members of the public about their lives and on a variety of themes including the environment, creativity, their dream job, family, hobbies, how Hebden Bridge has changed over the years and much more. One of Stuarts first memories was when Elizabeth became Queen.
Well I grew up on the farm and I always say I knew how to do a day’s work by the time I was ten years old [laughing] because it was part of the….part of the growing up, dealing with the cows and horses and hay making and things like that.
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