Huddersfield Canal Society - Celebrating 25 years of campaigning and now the restoration of Huddersfield Narrow Canal. Includes history, pictures, stories, and membership details.
Longley Old Hall - History and description of this old home, the seat of the Lords of the Manors of Almondbury and Huddersfield. Details of opening and news for visitors.
Huddersfield Narrow and Braod Canals - Pictures and information documenting the restoration of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal (which runs to the Calder and Hebble), and the Broad Canal. Includes history, description of a pedestrian route and a virtual tour.
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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Character is what you are in the dark.
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stopping before it gets there.
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to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
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A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
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temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
