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Mayor making

Yesterday evening, Cllr Susan Press was appointed Town Council Mayor, Stella Massey her Consort. John Beacroft Mitchell was appointed Deputy Mayor and his wife Joanna his Consort. (Photo thanks to Mytholmroyd Net) - 15 May

Naming the squares

Hebden Bridge in Europe - "superb"
say twin town visitors - more photos
updated 14th May

2008 HB Arts Festival programme launched - highlights include Phill Jupitus, Ed Byrne, Blake Morrison, The Elephant Man and music evenings with Baghdad Lullabies, Martin Roscoe, Maria McKee and the Eduardo Niebla Experience - see also latest festival news - updated 13 May

Job vacancy: Parks and cleaning operative - 12 hrs per week (Saturday & Sunday) for an initial trial period of 12 weeks, commencing 31st May 2008. For more details and application form please contact HRTC on 01422 842181

COUNCIL ELECTIONS - Lib-Dems beat Labour by just 53 votes in Hebden Bridge. Lib-Dems hold Luddenden Foot ward. See results

Policing Hebden Bridge and the Upper Valley - public meeting report and links to police contact info - 30 April

Former mayor Stewart Brown has been arrested and questioned in connection with possession and distribution of indecent images of children - see Courier article

Annual Town Meeting for electors of Hebden Royd - see events

Dock Pudding: Doris Hurst wins again - see Mytholmroyd Net - 20 April

GARDEN STREET: 10 essential questions put to the Calderdale Chief Executive - 19 April

Garden Street

Hebden Bridge in The Times - "There's trouble in the Yorkshire mill town as locals oppose a radical new plan" - read article - 11 April

Eaves: MP demands meeting with First Bus - more info - 18 April

HEBDEN BRIDGE CO-OP
Extensive refit and other changes coming soon, the Co-op's regional manager told last night's meeting of local members - more info - 9 April

Anthony Rae explains why Friends of the Earth are campaigning for a much stronger Climate Change Bill - more info - added 2 April

 

Big Green WeekendProgramme now online - 14 May

White Ribbon campaign

Chris McCafferty MP opens new office of White Ribbon Campaign at the Birchcliffe Centre - 9 May

Network Rail destruction - now postponed until the beginning of June - see forum - 8 May

Events: including Local History summer programme

BIG GREEN WEEKEND - latest info - updated 28 April

Hebden Royd Town Council's Town Talk no 11 - 23 April

New play area

The People's Millions Winning Play Design - the playground at Calder Holmes Park will be closed for about eight weeks commencing on Monday 28th of April whilst the work take place.

Wildflower meadow

Acts and stallholders wanted for the next Eastwood Festival - see news in brief

Expanding local company, Aspire Technology, still has vacancies. Director, Chris Bingham tells the Hebden Bridge Web: "We offer a great working environment, no need to travel into the busy city centres." - more info - 4 April

Latest photos of Ian Coates' trip round the world on a Honda - see Hebweb feature - 12 April

Dog owners now have no excuse
- scoop it! - 4 April

South Pennines Rail Partnership’s Photographic Competition. A first prize of a free rail travel ticket for Northern Rail will be given to the winner in each age group, + runner up prizes. More info - 26 March

Sound off about Climate Change: What's that strange contraption lurking around Hebden Bridge? - added 5 April

GOOD FRIDAY PACE EGG PLAY - more info

Pace Egg

Heptonstall Players
More photos

The Calder High version
More photos

Air quality in Hebden Bridge - public meeting report. See also, extensive forum discussion - 12 March

Both the Fustian Knife and Brown's site (the former Mytholm Mill - 58 "dwellings") were approved yesterday by Calderdale's planning committee - see Planning Watch for background. - 12 March

Eaves bus suspended - more info - 11 March

ACCOMMODATION - bed and breakfast choices as well as offbeat "Hebden Bridge" options, eg, self catering for groups on the tops, moorland bunkhouse at 1100 feet and futons in bohemian family house

Hebweb mailing list - subscribe to this list to receive occasional mailings about matters related to Hebden Bridge

Stepping Out exhibition

LOCAL STEPS GALLERY ONLINE

Hebden Bridge Walkers Action have now put nearly 800 photos from their Stepping Out photo project online. More info and gallery

Message from Hebden Bridge's Ron Taylor, helping out in a village in the Palestinian West Bank

Glyn Hughes - award winning Calder Valley writer has updated his website which now includes a blog (latest entry about his friendship with Ted Hughes) and audio samples of his readings. - 4 March

Mytholmroyd Swimming Pool - Calderdale made available details of plans for this small pool today, giving just three days for people to make representations - Tues, 19th Feb

GARDEN STREET PLANS
Hebden Royd Town Council vote against proposed develolpment. - Weds, 13th Feb

Forum - well over 100 contributions

Garden Street development: people queued up in St George's Square today to sign letters of objection. 212 signed in 4 hours. - Sat, 9th Feb

PUBLIC MEETING - Report

"A very, significant threat to the social and economic life of the town"
- 29th January

See also Planning Watch and Forum."

No Justice for Eric Williams - suspended sentence for road death - updated 7th Feb

Floods again

FLOODED
Hebden Bridge was just about cut off on Monday with road and rail links closed. The river broke through the wall at Stubbing Holme, houses in Oxford Street and neighbouring terraces are flooded. Left is the truck which backed into the Calder overnight, breaching the wall. The Library, Market Street and Old Gate were flooded.

More photos from the Hebweb, local photographers and a special report from 8 year old Rhiannon - 21st January

Mytholmroyd Station Mosaic
More info

Hughes plaque at Lumb Falls

Lumb Falls plaque to remember
Ted Hughes
and "Six Young Men"
- more info and photos

Town Hall

Local group initiate plans to make the Town Hall once more the heart of the local community - more info - 1 Nov

Berringden Brow audio: Stories of Love and Misunderstanding - nine alsations, two hearings and a star witness. Go to the Hebweb radio section to listen to the latest excerpt or subscribe to the Berringden Brow podcast

Carols in the square

It was estimated that over one thousand people came down to the centre of Hebden Bridge for Carols in the Square this Christmas Eve - See previous years

500 years of the Hebden Bridge
Mark the 500th anniversary of the Old Bridge with a year long celebration, by the whole community, of the unique qualities of Hebden Bridge in 2010 - see www.hebden500.co.uk

Steam comes to Hebden Bridge

Steam comes to Hebden Bridge
Monthly steam train

THE HEBDEN BRIDGE STEREOTYPE
Is the image of Hebden Bridge as a town of "hippies wearing hand-knitted jumpers, eating wholefood and smoking roll-ups" now outdated?
Penny Wainwright writing in the January edition of Yorkshire Life seems to think so. More info

Hebden Bridge History Group - see dozens of photos of old Hebden Bridge
Hebweb Online Columns

JOHN MORRISON

JILL ROBINSON

  • BERRINGDEN BROW: Memoirs of Single Mother with a Crush- a novel by local author Jill Robinson published as a book by Pennine Pens. Read online samples

  • Sylvia Plath Forum - hundreds of thousands of words discussing this US poet, buried in Heptonstall.


  • Poems from Glyn Hughes
    - see features

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