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Hebden Bridge Web - Community website for the village of Hebden Bridge.
Badgerland - Information about badgers in the UK, including links to sites discussing the problem of TB in badgers and cattle.
Real Music Co - Ron Lister, singer/songwriter. Information about him, his music, archives and samples of his songs. Order his recordings.
Hebden Bridge Junior Band - History of the band, an engagement list, and information on their recordings. On-line music, photographs, and membership information.
Hebden Bridge Angling Society - Match and pleasure. Club news and local information. Hebden Bridge in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
Hebden Bridge Little Theatre - Description of the theatre and the amateur drama group's productions and programme. Booking and contact details.
Hebden Bridge History - Programme and contact details for the Hebden Bridge Local History Group. Includes galleries of photos of the town.
Alexander Technique - Private lessons offered in the Alexander Technique in Hebden Bridge by Grant Ragsdale. Details of contact, times and prices.
Hebden Bridge Astronomical Society - History of the society, with information about meetings, a calendar of events, members' photo galleries, and online magazine (PDF format). Contact details.
Hebden Bridge Film Society - Details of programme, membership, and venue.
Hebden Bridge Photo Gallery - Photographs of Hebden Bridge, Old Town, Pecket Well, Mythomroyd and Heptonstall, by John Wainwright. Includes biographical details.
St James, Mytholm - Details of services at this Church of England parish, with links to Calder Deanery and Wakefield Diocese.
Riverside Music and Arts - Annual festival - one of the biggest and most technically challenging voluntary community events in Yorkshire. Invitation to participate, contact details, and a gallery of photos from past years' events.
The Mytholmroyd Net - News, photographs, and a discussion board for the village of Mytholmroyd.
Luddenden Conservation Society - Information, history, and local services for the village of Luddenden.
Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge - A personal site featuring photographs of Hebden Bridge and the surrounding area.
Sculpture Trail - A yearly visual arts event taking place in the local National Trust site, Hardcastle Crags. Features photos of the sculptures and details of events and workshops.
Calder Food Group - Food co-operative based in Hebden Bridge. Provides low cost wholefoods for people on low incomes.
Claire McNamee Photography - Independent photographer specialising in portraits of contemporary poets, novelists, playrights and screenwriters. Features a browsable portfolio of photographs, and details of exhibitions.
Myrtlegrove Accommodation Vegetarian - Vegetarian Bed and Breakfast accommodation near to centre of Hebden Bridge.
1st Old Town Brownies - Includes photos, news and contacts.
The Bridge - Weekly episodes chronicling life in a small Pennine milltown; early chapters now published as books (ordering details on the site), later chapters posted here.
Kate Mellor - Profile of a fine art photographer based in West Yorkshire; includes samples of her projects and a list of her publications.
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx Hebden Bridge It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa Hebden Bridge If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Hebden Bridge If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Hebden Bridge "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker Hebden Bridge "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Hebden Bridge Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Hebden Bridge I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Hebden Bridge Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Hebden Bridge Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham Hebden Bridge Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill Hebden Bridge "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Hebden Bridge Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Hebden Bridge I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Hebden Bridge "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Hebden Bridge Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld Hebden Bridge May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Hebden Bridge The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Hebden Bridge The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Hebden Bridge "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France Hebden Bridge Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Hebden Bridge The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hebden Bridge
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