#Calder and Hebble Navigation

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https://www.zazzle.co.uk/collections/calder_and_hebble_navigation-119308138860779963

#zazzle #zazzlemade #calder and hebble navigation

[johnlinneyphotography]

Towpath. Just in case you’re watching the rain pour down in the UK today, this was taken yesterday morning. Glorious bright autumnal sunshine. This stretch of the Calder & Hebble Navigation is possibly not the most scenic stretch of canal in the north of England but it has a certain rugged integrity to it. #fujixh1 #fujixh1photography #fujifilmxf1024 #canal #autumn #calderdale #yorkshire #yorkshirephotographer #myfujifilm #myfujilove https://www.instagram.com/p/CkDW7KroRO8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[hepdenerose]

Brighouse Revisited

Our second excursion to Brighouse took place on a hot mid-July market day.  From the station, we walked straight down Huddersfield Road, only pausing monetarily to look at the previously unnoticed old Electric Works.  Allegedly open until 4, market traders already packed up as we approached.  Even so, the range of goods purveyed looked better than in surrounding towns and explained the lunchtime…

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#architecture #Blakely&039;s #Brighouse #Brighouse Bridge #Calder and Hebble Navigation #Calder Valley #calderdale #canal #Electric Works #England #fish and chips #history #Huddersfield Road #lunch #market #photography #river #River Calder #shopping #sun #train #travel #West Yorkshire #Yorkshire

[spyskrapbook]

The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK [2003 - 2011] _ Architect: David Chipperfield Architects _ Photos by Spyros Kaprinis [23.03.2022].

“The Hepworth Wakefield is named after the late English artist Barbara Hepworth, who was born in Wakefield in 1903. It is a purpose-built art gallery, located within the Wakefield waterfront conservation area, which protects a number of significant industrial buildings that once housed the town’s cloth and grain industries. The new building sits on a sharp bend in the River Calder with the immediate surroundings dominated by a twentieth century road bridge and a series of locks known as the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

At the tip of the headland, the site of the new building is exposed on all sides without being defined by either river or road. These particular conditions led to a building form without a dominant façade. The almost geological composition is a conglomerate of diverse irregular forms tightly interlocked. Each single volume represents and coincides with a single space, unique in size and shape. To the north, where the river level drops at the weir, the building steps into the water like many of the old mills and warehouses. The monolithic appearance and composition is accentuated by the use of pigmented in-situ concrete.

The programme is split horizontally between the ground and first floors, the latter exclusively used as exhibition space. The ground floor contains the reception, shop, cafeteria, auditorium and learning studios, as well as offices, archives and storage. The cafeteria has a generous terrace near the main reception area and all public areas enjoy exterior views. At the core of the building is a naturally lit central staircase leading to the galleries on the upper floor.

Most of the rooms on the upper level house the gallery’s permanent collections, which range from large-scale sculptures and plasters by Barbara Hepworth and others, to highly light-sensitive works on paper from the city of Wakefield’s collection of British art. The remaining rooms host a programme of temporary exhibitions. All of the galleries use the same neutral language, allowing for future reinterpretations and representations of artworks. Open doorways link the gallery spaces into fluid and varied sequences, offering inviting glimpses of other works and the outside world.

From within the individual blocks, the outer morphology can be clearly seen in ceilings that slope parallel to the outer roofs, and rooms in which no two surfaces lie parallel to one another. Walls meet at diverse angles, and the variations in size and ceiling pitch give each room a unique character. The main source of light in each gallery is a slot running the full width of the ceiling at the highest end of the space. The varying angles of each block’s ceiling have been calculated to admit and diffuse light in the most effective way, complementing the artificial lighting system. Louvres allow the light to be regulated or even completely blocked out. In addition, several of the galleries feature a picture window framing an aspect of the surroundings, linking Hepworth’s sculptures to the landscape in which she grew up.”

https://davidchipperfield.com/project/the_hepworth_wakefield

https://hepworthwakefield.org/

#The Hepworth Wakefield #Wakefield #West Yorkshire #2003 #2011 #David Chipperfield Architects #Barbara Hepworth #Spyros Kaprinis #2022

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Tuesday 22 March 1836

7

11 ½

no kiss A- up ¾ hour before me - pretty well this morning - perhaps a little better - ready at 8 - sat with A- reading the first 3 or 4 pp. of vol. 1 Wood’s letters of an architect from Italy - went down with A- a few minutes before 9 to Moses Barker who came to bid for the Bouldshaw coal - bidding for Mr. Joseph Stocks - bade £220 per acre for the lower bed and £120 per acre for the upper bed - could not give any answer till after Saturday when the coal might be agreed for - but would let M.B. know on Monday whether it was sold or not - went out for 4 or 5 minutes to the Rockwork - Mr. Freeman and 8 of his men there and I suppose 6 of his men at the delf with his horses as yesterday - Robert Mann + 3 also at the rockwork busy getting the great stone off the waggon - 90 cubic ft. of stone taking 12 cubic ft. to weigh 1 ton = 7 ½ tons weight to be called after Mr. Freeman the Sam-stone - breakfast at 9 10 - A- had Mr. Adam at 10 - paid him £25 for paid that sum last Saturday to Nelson in a/c of Northgate - A- thinks something must be done about selling something at the Northgate hotel before the best licence-day in September for fear of losing the licence - this matter to be thought about and Mr. Harper consulted with - talk about the Water Lane mill well - Mr. Rawson violent on Saturday - would be judge and jury in the case - the well said to be proved to be a public well - but Mr. Adam contrived to get off by submitting to this without the people summoned having much to pay - A- thinks it a public well and that A- must give it up - mentioned the question as to whether the well stood in what was formerly waste or not - this to be ascertained - a quondam tenant enlarged the well -  it could be proved that there was formerly a slight fence within which the well stood - this to be ascertained and said I thought A- had better have an opinion - in this case, the people might have fetched water from connivance rather than right - this had been mentioned to Mr. Gray who seemed to agree that there might be no right - then had Mr. Harper - asked him to look after the levels of the meer and drifts, and would see him again in the evening - out again at the Rockwork at near 11 - and staid till saw the Samstone set at 12 ¼ - then brought Mr. Freeman in to get his dinner - gave him veal cutlets and beer and a couple of glasses of port, and he was out again in less than ¾ hour - I had just before dinner taken A- out to see the Samstone set - sat with her a few minutes after Mr. F-‘s dinner - then had Mr. Harper and his brother the brother evidently astonished at my costume but I seemed not to notice this - gave Mr. H- the 1st and last of Bates’s water wheel estimates and Sturgess’s bill for the iron beams under the casino at Northgate - said I should see him (Mr. H- in the morning) was very busy about the rockwork - much obliged to Mr. H- the brother for making inquiries about a tenant for the hotel and wished good afternoon ordering in wine and biscuits as I left the room about 2 ½ - from then to 6 ¾ with Mr. Freeman and all the people at the rockwork - set 6 more stone - these and the samstone set in the morning making 7 in all - very good day’s work - the next stone but one to the Samstone (to the west) = 46 ½ cubic ft. or very nearly 4 tons - brought Mr. Freeman in at 6 ¾ and gave him 3 glasses of port - then in an agony at keeping poor A- waiting so long for dinner left F- at his wine about 7 ¼ - dinner at 7 25 - coffee - A- did her French vocabulary but no reading today or yesterday - the book at Whitley’s to be bound - A- went to my aunt for 20 minutes at 8 40 and I came to my study and wrote all the above of today till 9 20 - F- thinks the Railroad from Manchester to Leeds will be got this session and that it will not hurt the Calder and Hebble navigation - a little rain in the morning from about 7 ½ to 9 ¼ afterwards fine day and evening - 20 minutes with A- then ½ hour with my aunt till 10 ¼ - then skimmed over the newspaper and came upstairs at 10 25 at which hour F34° and fine frostyish night - my aunt complained of pain and spasms but seemed pretty well.

[skgway]

1828 Dec., Wed. 31

5 3/4

11 55/60

At my desk at 7 5/60 – From then to 2 10/60 (except the following interruptions breakfast at 9 in 20 minutes and in about an hour wrote and sent off by Jno [John]’s son at 11 50/60 a few lines to “Messrs Hammersley and co. Bankers Pall Mall London” to say I had instructed Messrs Rawsons on the 22nd instant to remit to them ￡300 immediately to be  placed to my account – Should be in London in a few weeks and would then call for my account – 

And wrote and sent by the same 1 3/4 page to “Mrs. Lawton, Mrs. Belcombe’s Scarborough” § Wondering why she did not write. Uneasy lest she should not have got the parcel sent yesterday week and naming its contents – The socks, useful to sleep in – Wish she would knit me a pair or 2 more – Have given Mr. P– [Priestley] her name for some excellent sacred music to be published in numbers by subscription in about a year’s time from complete about 28 /. [shillings]. Every lover of music wishing to encourage sacred music should subscribe – 

Have heard nothing from Mr. P– [Priestley] about the rules – Will go as soon as I can to inquire – Should get the bond from Mr. W[illoughby] Crewe as the money will be wanted in about 6 months – Wish to know for certain whether William is to have it there or not – Very anxious to hear from her – When and how am I to see her and what does she wish me to do – I must fix on something or other – Shall be delighted to see her here anytime for a week or a fortnight) – 

Except the above interruptions, not more than 1 1/2 hour from 7 6/60 to 2 10/60 copying what Mr. Waterhouse brought me yesterday to keep till Saturday, “A list of the company of proprietors of the Calder and Hebble navigation June 24th 1828” and noted down the alterations in this list from 24 June to 24 December 1828, by comparing it with the list of 24 December 1828 – and copied also the “general statement of the capital stock, revenue and expenditure of the company of proprietors of the Calder and Hebble Navigation from the 31st May 1827 to the 31st May 1828 capital stock ￡159.631.15.7” 24 June 165 proprietors, 24 December 169 ditto.

Wrote the above of today, and went out at 3 10/60 – Down the walk across the fields to well royde these by Red beck houses along the road to Trough of Bolland pit to see if William Green had led stone enough to wall it off (led 4 loads today) – 

Then up the wood by Benjamin Bottomley’s and the Cunnery to the plantation. Throp and the 2 wallers planting and holing as yesterday – Have planted 400 trees a day Monday yesterday and today in spite of the additional trouble of planting with the gavelock so as to let the longest tops go straight down – 

Sauntered about in the plantation and the upper fields – Left the men at 5 1/4 – Then returned by Benjamin’s. Walked to the new bank to see how the cutting for the bridge over it goes on – Will be ready to begin the bridge in a little while – 

Came in at 5 40/60 – Dressed – Dinner at 6 20/60 – Afterwards almost all the evening asleep on the sofa – Remembering towards Marian the so little influence I have with her. Mean to let her hear less of my opinions in future on all subjects. Hope not to teaze her much with advice of any kind – Came upstairs at 10 10/60 – Dampish morning till  noon – Then fine afternoon and evening – Wrote the last 9 lines – Farenheit 54º in my room now at 10 35/60 and rather windy –

Another year is gone – I have unexpectedly been nearly 3/4 of it in Great Britain – Much has happened to me that is material – My tour in Scotland – The likelihood of by and by getting rid of the road in front of the house – How little could this have been anticipated 1/2 dozen years ago! 

The Cunnery plantation almost all cut down and replanting with oaks taking in great part of what was before left of the cunnery brow – My aunt’s health wonderfully recovered – Staying with Madame la comtesse de Rosny. Reading with her Justine etc. and particular intercourse with Miss MacL– [MacLean]. Foolish letter from Mrs. B[arlow] about the little countess etc. etc. and distaste to Marian, see the last page and various other places. 

Determining to say little to her in future of advice kind. She bites her own nose off. See the repeated conversations we have had. Yet she is good in sewing for me, is making me drawers and has done me several little things. 

Bad tille to Skelfler – Trouble about the Northgate tille for the church commissioners having sold ground for the building of a new church to be dedicated to St. James in compliment to my uncle – Confidential conversations with the W[illiam] Priestleys etc. etc. Ver[y] good fr[ie]nds at Wellhead – The misunderstanding plastered over with Mrs. B– [Belcombe]. Cameron hired, and left for these last 2 months at Lawton – Confidential conversation with C[harlotte] N– [Norcliffe] at Langton – Meet M– [Mariana] and Mrs. Milne there – 

Much troubled this year with indigestion – Better since I have been here at Shibden, and constantly out of doors – Enter upon M– [Mariana]’s friendly society business – Get the 1st lucid ideas of book-keeping from Cronhelm’s work – Began Italian, but have unfortunately been much prevented from attending to it of late – 

May I grow in wisdom as in years, and may it please God still to continue his manifold and great blessings!

Had my hair turned up and dressed with fals in the spring in York, and turned it up from the time of my being in Scotland, Madame de Rosny being in fact the cause of it – 

§ from the time of Dr. B– [Belcombe]’s funeral I have written on black edged paper to M– [Mariana]. Wrote this morning on plain paper but sealed with black. Have used black wax to everybody, but only black edged paper to π [Mariana] and Isabella and the Duffins.

Double entry by single, a new method of book-keeping, applicable to all kinds of business; by: Cronhelm, F.W. (Frederick William)

#anne lister #anne lister code breaker #mariana lawton #marian lister #isbergue de rosny #Sibella MacLean

[misslisterkeepsajournal]

1826 Wednesday 17 May

8 3/4

12 1/4

Took off the napkin and my drawers last night till I had had two good kisses at once -

We lay awake a couple of hours this morning talking of our present-future plans - whether to leave here before the rentday - not to let MacDonald come home at all - whether to go to Parkgate or Crosby 8 miles from Liverpool - I like the former - seem to give up Hylelake - too dull for my aunt and no medical man there - M- [Mariana] had a letter from Mr Willoughby Crewe (London) - strange reports of Heber (member for Oxford) such that they say he cannot return to this country - Breakfast at 11 -

Thomas Greenwood came about the horse Caradoc - to send him to Halifax today - Thomas may take as low as £35 for him - to have a pound or guinea for his trouble in selling him - Thomas would like to buy the furniture at Northgate - Lister to value it -

Went upstairs with M- [Mariana] into Cordingley’s room to unpack M-’s [Mariana’s] boot trunk very ill packed by Watson - Mr Norris sent up a young man (his brothers clerk) with a civil note, a certificate of the value of the navigation stock ‘(which I have taken at £400 per only, as I generally keep within the value of what might perhaps be obtained when I know the intention of the parties is to use the certificate for testamentary duties)’ and an instrument transferring my uncle’s stock to my aunt, and another instrument afterwards transferring to me the whole of the stock but what was originally my aunt’s and what was my uncle’s, amounting altogether to £1912.12.0 - both which instruments were duly signed by my aunt and myself and witnessed by the young man whose writing looked like Crabtree, but I could not quite make it out - just looked over both the papers myself then read aloud to my aunt that transferring all the stock from her to me purporting that she did it from the love and affection she bore me and for other valuable considerations - and read my aunt the latter part of the paper transferring my uncle’s stock to her - nothing was said on the subject by any of us - the thing did not dwell on my mind at the moment -

Went into my uncle’s room, and looking over old papers (old bills, letters etc of my uncle Japhet’s and some of my uncle Samuel’s as yesterday) till 6 - my father and Marian here - the latter upstairs with M- [Mariana] and me (M- [Mariana] sat by me working) the last hour - Charles Howarth junior jobbing a little in the library -

M- [Mariana] dressed - I washed my hands - Dinner at 6 25/60 - M- [Mariana] and I went out at 8 10/60 - along the walked - walked up and down the terrace across the sown holm, and got back at 9 10/60 - tea and coffee immediately - afterwards wrote all the above of today - very fine day - Barometer 2 1/4 degrees above changeable Fahrenheit 54˚ at 11 1/4 p.m. at which hour went up to bed.

The following is a true copy of Mr Norris’s certificate ‘Calder and Hebble Navigation Office Halifax 16 May 1826. Memo. I hereby certify that the amount of stock in this navigation, the property of the late James Lister Esquire of Shibden hall is £1541.14.5 which is of the present value of six thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds seventeen shillings and eight pence William Jameson Norris clerk to the company of proprietors of the Calder and Hebble navigation’ -

Reference: SH:7/ML/E/9/0100

#anne lister #anne lister code breaker #gentleman jack #1826 #mariana lawton

[davewhenham]

A print in the hand ...

A print in the hand ... a few scans of the darkroom prints I made on old Kentmere Art Classic paper earlier this

Calder & Hebble Navigation I reported recently on the results I had achieved with a box of rather old, discontinued paper and promised to share a couple of scans. With no childcare today I thought I’d pop a couple on the scanner for you. These are scans of darkroom prints, viewing these on screen is like trying to evaluate the taste of a gourmet meal via the telephone. But, ironically, it’s the…

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[susanleeson]

Visit to the West Yorkshire Print Workshop

75A Huddersfield Rd, Mirfield WF14 8AT

West Yorkshire Print Workshop (WYPW), the largest open access printmaking facility in Yorkshire, was established in 1984. Located in an old Victorian school in Mirfiled, it also sits very close to the Calder & Hebble Navigation.

The studio space and print facilities include paper and textile screen printing, etching and intaglio processes, linocut and woodcut printing, photo-etching, solar plate, photo-plate lithography, plywood lithography, relief print, monoprint, collagraph and letterpress.

One of the best things about joining our local artistic community has been the the amazingly talented artists I’ve met along the way.

I found the space to be friendly and welcoming, so I’m planning to join them in future and possibly navigate there on “Misty Blue’ our homely narrowboat for a longer stay.

#myjournal #West Yorkshire Print Workshop #printmaking #print studio

[swedishtypingpool]

Calder and Hebble Navigation #swedishtypingpool #spring #yorkshire http://bit.ly/2ZqCyjB

#IFTTT #Instagram

[scenerypictures-org-blog]

The Halifax Arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation

Scenery Pictures "The Halifax Arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation" by Tim Green aka atoach

Full Size : http://www.scenerypictures.org/the-halifax-arm-of-the-calder-and-hebble-navigation

landscape, nature, scenery, photography

#Calder #Halifax #Hebble #Navigation

[colgreen31]

#Calder and Hebble Navigation #River Calder #Waterway #Canal #Yorkshire #Ravensthorpe #Mirfield #Kirklees #Dewsbury #photography #photographer #clickasnap #travel

[biro-crow-blog]

Good #morning #commute to #brighouse from #Todmorden. 17miles of fun on an #orangebike #orangep7 #steelisreal . . . #water #canal #nature #earthcapture #beautiful #tbt #grateful #happy #amazing #stunning #nature #naturephotography #photographer #photoshoot #photooftheday #picoftheday #preservewildlife (at Calder and Hebble Navigation) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrkBmXgBVW3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nq62vct7efpq

#morning #commute #brighouse #todmorden #orangebike #orangep7 #steelisreal #water #canal #nature #earthcapture #beautiful #tbt #grateful #happy #amazing #stunning #naturephotography #photographer #photoshoot #photooftheday #picoftheday #preservewildlife

[spyskrapbook]

The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK [2003 - 2011] _ Architect: David Chipperfield Architects _ Photos by Spyros Kaprinis [23.03.2022].

“The Hepworth Wakefield is named after the late English artist Barbara Hepworth, who was born in Wakefield in 1903. It is a purpose-built art gallery, located within the Wakefield waterfront conservation area, which protects a number of significant industrial buildings that once housed the town’s cloth and grain industries. The new building sits on a sharp bend in the River Calder with the immediate surroundings dominated by a twentieth century road bridge and a series of locks known as the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

At the tip of the headland, the site of the new building is exposed on all sides without being defined by either river or road. These particular conditions led to a building form without a dominant façade. The almost geological composition is a conglomerate of diverse irregular forms tightly interlocked. Each single volume represents and coincides with a single space, unique in size and shape. To the north, where the river level drops at the weir, the building steps into the water like many of the old mills and warehouses. The monolithic appearance and composition is accentuated by the use of pigmented in-situ concrete.

The programme is split horizontally between the ground and first floors, the latter exclusively used as exhibition space. The ground floor contains the reception, shop, cafeteria, auditorium and learning studios, as well as offices, archives and storage. The cafeteria has a generous terrace near the main reception area and all public areas enjoy exterior views. At the core of the building is a naturally lit central staircase leading to the galleries on the upper floor.

Most of the rooms on the upper level house the gallery’s permanent collections, which range from large-scale sculptures and plasters by Barbara Hepworth and others, to highly light-sensitive works on paper from the city of Wakefield’s collection of British art. The remaining rooms host a programme of temporary exhibitions. All of the galleries use the same neutral language, allowing for future reinterpretations and representations of artworks. Open doorways link the gallery spaces into fluid and varied sequences, offering inviting glimpses of other works and the outside world.

From within the individual blocks, the outer morphology can be clearly seen in ceilings that slope parallel to the outer roofs, and rooms in which no two surfaces lie parallel to one another. Walls meet at diverse angles, and the variations in size and ceiling pitch give each room a unique character. The main source of light in each gallery is a slot running the full width of the ceiling at the highest end of the space. The varying angles of each block’s ceiling have been calculated to admit and diffuse light in the most effective way, complementing the artificial lighting system. Louvres allow the light to be regulated or even completely blocked out. In addition, several of the galleries feature a picture window framing an aspect of the surroundings, linking Hepworth’s sculptures to the landscape in which she grew up.”

https://davidchipperfield.com/project/the_hepworth_wakefield

https://hepworthwakefield.org/

#The Hepworth Wakefield #Wakefield #West Yorkshire #UK #2003 #2011 #Barbara Hepworth #David Chipperfield Architects #Spyros Kaprinis #2022

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Saturday 8 November 1834

8 40

11 10

No kiss fine but windy morning F59° at 9 ¾ am - breakfast at 9 50 - Mr Samuel Freeman and his son came about 10 ¼ and staid till about 11 ½ - then had Holt who had been waiting sometime till about 1 ½ - then sat with A- at her luncheon and with her till about 3 – then with Charles H- about rehanging my aunt’s bell etc till 3 20. - F- brought an account [dear and c.r] of the quarry in upper Place land which I did not look into saying I was satisfied he (F-) would do what was right, and we could settle about it when the stone was got down to fit for shewing, when I would  (as I had said) put it up by ticket not biding myself to take the highest bidder - he thought nobody could take it right before them by the yard there were so many holes in it - there had been old works before - and some old lead - bullets had been found 8 or 10ft. from the present surface - it would be best to measure off as they went on and pay for the stone according to what quantity there might be of it - answer - yes! certainly - I wanted no other - wanted only what was fair - when would the quarry be fit for putting up to let? was not the thickness of the bed of the stone now known? answer no! whatever people said they knew nothing about it - there had been some good flags got but we had only just got down to the great bed - and would shew down to the bottom of it - this would about 3 months even tho’ he would immediately set more hands at work - he thought there was stone worth 4/6 a yard - I merely replied I was in no hurry to press the stone into the market if not worthwhile - when we had once [beared] fairly down to the stone I should note care to let it alone and not work it at all for the present as F- had told me before stone would be more valuable by and by - yes! said he that it certainly would - they were ½ of them breaking in the stone trade - a great failure in London for £40,000 had just touched almost everyone in the stone trade in Southowram except himself - he himself sold stone for less than anyone else could get it for - by and by they should know who could stand and who not and the trade would get into a steader way - asked why he had given up trying in Joseph Hall’s land - did not the stone answer his expectations? answer it was not that but he had a letter from Mrs. Machin (which he shewed me) asking by whose leave he had put the rubbish on her land F- saw her on the subject - it was her Mr. Samuel Hall and brother in law Isaac Thwaite and Isaac Green and told her it was a great hardship that such people as F- and I should take advantage of her for nothing we ought to pay her something handsome - F- told her he wanted to do nothing but right - he thought the damage could not be assessed at more than 1/6 for all the stone got was not worth more than £7 - and so the matter ended - F- having given up farther trial for stone in that quarter - it was Wombsley the tenant who gave him leave and he was so offended at Mrs. Machin’s letter that he talks of leaving the farm in consequence - F- had not heard exactly what passed at the meeting about the road from Brookfeet - had told them he thought I should not consent to the road coming out at Pump - I explained what JP- said at Thorpe I knew if the road went in front of the house there would be pother about it hereafter and .:. I would oppose it was the last of my power but would further it if it came out just above Mytham - F- to get to know what passed and let me know - said it was he who could loose (at Cromwell bottom) all JP-‘s coal - then a good deal of conversation about the Calder and Hebble navigation - F- as executor receives the dividends on about £1000 stock - does not like the present system of management - throwing money away - a railroad (here and there will be one sooner or later if the proprietors do not lower the dues) will not pay; and the country would not support if the navigation people were more accommodating - but if there be one whether it pays or not, it will ruin the canal - deepening it, as they are doing at present, will not answer - Despatch is the soul of business - a light load can get on quicker than a heavy one - and at last they will be obliged to buy light vessels to get the goods forward - this is the case now with the Ayr and Calder canal - the proprietors have laid out ½ a million on the port of Goole and ½ a million in deepening their canal and they are now having small light vessels for expedition and the worst of it is, they cannot get past the big vessels which lie in the locks and all along and hinder all passage - F- hates to see these large vessels - they stop everything - talking good forwards in 1 bottom is all a farce would no canal more than 10ft.? of water and no vessel draw more than 9ft. 10in. - if there is more depth of water, the vessels are only made to draw so much more so that stoppages are frequent as ever - one proprietors have lately annoyed the trade instead of conveniencing it - he was applied to for information - took much trouble to get it and then nobody minded it but Mr. Waterhouse who could be bought over - stone is taken from Bradford to Hull at 8/6 per ton - costs 10/. from here - did not seem to think the proprietors taking up a railroad from here to Leeds would answer - it would be unnecessary if the canal carriage was lowed ½ and the proprietors would then gain more than now - what the use of enabling large vessels to come up to H-x? does not like the committee - Hodgson an old woman - Clay, of Rastrick, one of the best - has made his money and knows the good of liberality to trade but is a litigious man - about £120,000 stock - begged him (F-) to call again - get all the information he could - let us try to embody it, and see if we could not propose something (well backed) that must be attended to - would not advise selling out in a hurry - Lord Wharcliffe thought the proprietors wanted some powers too arbitrary and was against them in their getting the last act - said I had confidence in Lord W- if things were right managed, he would not be against us - Holt brought me a little bill from Whitley for handbills 10/. and taking ‘sinking for off top sod’ 10/. and allowance on the tickets that is on agreeing for the job 10/. and brought word the sinkers were out of heart there was (at 18 20 yards deep) and so much water - said I was glad of it - they must drive a drift and turn the water into the Conery - H- said it would come out at the level about ½ way between the pit and upper conery hedge that is somewhere about the present line of troughs - talk about Sammy Hall’s coal - now way of there being a tithe to it but by the daughter keeping unmarried (her cousin Sutcliffe an attorney visits her regularly) till 21 and joining her father to cut off the entail - to tell Mr. Hall of my saying this and that I would give a fair price of it - Holt wants 23 DW. (worth paid for as got £100 per DW both beds and could be got next spring) of Mr. Walker Priestley joining upon to Mr. Hall’s land near Lower hill

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did not know WP- or would have applied - thought I could help him - well! said I, if it can be shewn that I am in any way fairly interested, I will name the business - it seems, if H- had these 23DW. and I S. Hall’s coal Messrs. R- would be on all sides shut in and confined to the coal in C. Rawson’s own estate perhaps about 150DW - if he gets W.P-‘s coal, he (R-) can go forwards without SH-‘s coal, towards the town of Southowram but I am not directly interested so strongly advised H- to go himself openly and fairly to WP- on Monday - say who he was and bid a fair price at once, if the matter should go so far, and if not to get the 1st refusal of the coal, and that would be enough as I believed WP - a man of his word - it is WP-‘s interest to have competition, and even if he would not sell without letting R- know still H- might bid him up - then talk about Spigs colliery - shewed H- or rather read to him from Business letter book ii. p.11 et seq. the account of my interview with T. Clarke and James Crichley Holt on the subject - they have nothing to shew for a right of loose thro’ the Wellroyde goit - neither for loosing the coal in what was Swaine’s land, nor even Spiggs land itself - much more to loose any part of the land never belonging to Swaine’s land, but to Mr. Dean of Scoresby, valued by Illingworth at soft bed 80 guineas, and hard ditto 70 guineas per acre- H- valued this loose at £5 per acre or guineas which I ought to have - he would rather not interfere - Hinscliffe would do very well - (said I would send for him) - but if he objected, I  might try Illingworth - wrote in pencil and read to Holt the following which I told him I should send, probably on Monday, to ‘Messrs. Holt and co. coal merchants Booth Bank Halifax’ - Gentlemen as I hear you have applied for coal to Mr. Dean of Scoresby, under the idea that you have a right of loose thro’ the Wellroyde holms, I think it proper to inform you, that I do not consider you to have any such right and that it is y intention to take immediate measurers for stopping up the drain, if we do not come to an agreement about it, on, or before the 22nd of this month - I am gentlemen etc A. Lister’ - H- approved the above letter saying it would be easy to stop up the goit effectively and so as to drown all their coal - at 3 20 in about an hour read from p. 253 to        vol. 1 Gützlaff’s history of China - wrote out the 1st p. of today - then had Pickles he signed his agreement for Whiskum cottage rent £5 per annum payable quarterly entering 9 October last  - to quit at a month’s notice or pay 4/. a week rent for every week he stays after the expiration of the month’s notice – not to keep a beer shop – paid him the expense on the summons he took out against Hanson for shooting in A-‘s joint property and paid him expense for summons on my account sometime ago said I did not want a shrubbery at Whiskum cottage - if he did not want the ground for an useful garden I should take it and plant it with oaks - shewed that I was much displeased at his coming the last time in liquor - said that John or anyone who had been his friend would have prevented his seeing me at such a time - but he had better not do it again - dinner soon after 6 ¼ - ten minutes with my father and Marian – then coffee downstairs – and till 8 50 wrote out the last 2 pages and the above of this page of today – A- sitting by me reading volume 1 Sismondi on the literature of Southern Europe - H- had seen the burst out of Mr Rawson’s coal water into Captain and Mrs Sutherland’s land in occupation of Hanson - £10 would stop it entirely – the Loose worth perhaps £200 or £10 per DW but Edward Tattersall or man collier living in a cottage at Rookes who worked for Rawsons but now at variance with them could tell – played and lost 1 hit at backgammon – ½ hour with my aunt till 10 ¼ - Rainy day F40° at 10 ½ pm in 10 minutes while undressing read from p.40 to 63 ii Sismondi’s literature of South of Europe.

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Cycling and walking in Yorkshire given boost by improvements on canal

29 August 2018

We attended a community celebration at Silsden on Saturday 18 August to mark the official re-opening of a section of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, following improvement works as part of a £2.9m package to boost cycling and walking access on West Yorkshire towpaths.

The 2.7km section between Riddlesden and Silsden has been resurfaced, building on previous improvements from Kirkstall to Shipley and providing people with high quality, traffic-free cycling and walking routes. 

Providing routes for people 

The route forms part of the National Cycle Network and the scheme is part of West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s £60m CityConnect programme aimed at encouraging more people to cycle and walk.

Members of the local community were joined by John Grogan, MP for Keighley and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Waterways, Cllr Kim Groves, Chair of West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s Transport Committee, Cllr Taj Salam, Cycling Champion at Bradford Council, Mike Marshall, Customer Operations Manager at Canal & River Trust, and Rupert Douglas, our Network Development Manager in Yorkshire.

Cllr Kim Groves, Chair of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s Transport Committee, said:

“These improvements will provide people travelling by bike or on foot with safe, scenic traffic-free routes all year round.

“As well as providing missing links in local cycling and walking infrastructure, these improvements – alongside other schemes across the region – are helping open up access to some of our best countryside, including the Yorkshire Dales.

“Through our CityConnect programme, the Combined Authority is working in partnership to connect people to employment and opportunities, and encourage more of us to travel in a way which benefits our health, the environment and our economy.”

Canals at the heart of communities across the region 

The schemes are funded by the Department of Transport (DfT) and delivered by the Combined Authority’s CityConnect programme in partnership with the Canal & River Trust, the charity which cares for the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, and local authority partners.

Michael Marshall, Customer Operations of the Canal & River Trust, said:

“Yorkshire’s canals are at the heart of communities across the region, making towpaths the ideal way for millions of people to enjoy a slice of fresh air in their daily lives. We’re delighted to work with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and local authority projects on these towpath improvement schemes, which will ensure residents and visitors can make the most of the canals all year round.”

“ It is great to have the Riddlesden and Silsden towpath upgraded and improved, giving individuals and families from across district access to traffic-free cycling and walking routes. ”

- Cllr Taj Salam, Bradford Council’s Cycling Champion

Cllr Taj Salam, Bradford Council’s Cycling Champion, said:

“It is great to have the Riddlesden and Silsden towpath upgraded and improved, giving individuals and families from across district access to traffic-free cycling and walking routes.

“I am excited to be part of the programme that provides routes connecting some of the most beautiful and scenic areas of the district, so that people from all walks of life have the opportunity and encouragement enjoy the outdoors and benefit their health.”

John Grogan, MP for Keighley and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Waterways, said:

“The Leeds & Liverpool Canal is one of the glories of the North of England and carried the lifeblood of the industrial revolution.

“I hope the completion of work on this section of the towpath today will encourage residents of Silsden and Keighley to make even greater use of it and also attract visitors.”

Improvements being made across West Yorkshire  

The improvement on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal is one of four canal towpath schemes across West Yorkshire. The Calder & Hebble Navigation towpath between Sowerby Bridge and Hollas Lane Bridge recently re-opened following improvement works. Works are currently underway between Huddersfield and Milnsbridge on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal towpath, while the Rochdale Canal is to benefit from improvements to create a 10km route linking Sowerby Bridge to Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge.

A further £1.5 million of funding from the Department for Transport (DfT), announced earlier this summer, will see this extend to Todmorden.

Find out more about our work with City Connect from News http://www.sustrans.org.uk/news/cycling-and-walking-yorkshire-given-boost-improvements-canal via IFTTT

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