Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the info, Douglas. > From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:32:30 +0200 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] #358 > > Philippe, (and GeeBee), > http://gallery.leica-users.org/Yorkshire/Calderdale_Canal_Basin_Hebden_Bridge_ > edited_1 > Hebden Bridge Basin > http://gallery.leica-users.org/Yorkshire/Image1_25_edited_1 Motorised > narrowboat, under the road bridge at Saltaire. > > The town of Saltaire, a combination of the name Salt (Titus Salt) and > Aire (the river) was purpose built in the Aire Valley by Sir Titus Salt > in the 19th Century. He made his fortune by discovering a way to spin > and weave fine Alpaca fibres. The workers houses were all built to a > high standard of hygiene(flushing toilets), there were libraries and > meeting rooms, bath houses, but no public houses (Inns or pubs) as Sir > Titus was a strict Methodist and, as such, very much a man of > temperance. The factory was disused for a long time but is now thriving > as the David Hockney Museum (he was born close-by in Bradford) offices, > studios and shops. It's well worth a visit. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/Yorkshire/Calderdale Horse drawn > narrowboat. This boat runs trips up and down the "cut" around Hebden > Bridge in the Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge was famous for corduroy and > "Moleskin" cloth factories and is now a tourism centre and home to > thousands of yuppies who escaped from Manchester and Leeds. In the > meantime both Manchester and Leeds have shaken off their industrial past > and, along with Newcastle, are the new media and fashion centres of > Northern England > > it's a pity I didn't get in closer on these shots so that you could see > the traditional "Rose and Castle" decorations on these narrowboats,I'm > sure Graham has some more detailed > shots of the like. The decorations are similar to those painted by > Romany (Gypsy) families on their carts and waggons. The bargees, as they > were called, decorated just about every inch of their boats and you can > often find water jugs and other bits and pieces painted in this style in > souvenir shops along the canals. Supposedly the R&C decorations go back > to Romany themes from Rumania (or so I was told by a bargee family in > Hebden Bridge). Both canals shown here traverse the Pennine Range via > tunnels, in the distant past, before barges were motorised, the > crew had to lie flat on their backs and push the barge through the > tunnel by pressing against the roof. The horses were taken around on > foot over the mountains. A quite spectacular thing used to happen in the > Leeds and Liverpool tunnel, the railway tunnel runs parallel to the > canal and you could find yourself enveloped in steam, smoke and > deafening noise. > > > > Philippe Orlent wrote: > >> I was hesitating, too. >> Longhouses, narrowboats. I'll try to remember it this way. >> >> >> >> >>> From: Peter Dzwig <pdzwig@summaventures.com> >>> Organization: Summa Ventures Ltd >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:23:29 +0100 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] #358 >>> >>> Philippe Orlent wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I always love your longboat shots, Graham. >>>> This one has a nice combination of light at the side of the barge >>>> combined >>>> with the clouds. >>>> Thanks for showing, >>>> Philippe >>>> >>>> >>> Philippe, >>> >>> these are "narrrowboats", ie canal boats, "longboats" are/were sea-going >>> Viking >>> war craft. The Vikings were in Northanptonshire last (tourists excepted) >>> about >>> 900 AD. Not even Graham could get them in his picture - apart from the >>> usual >>> blow-up ones of course. >>> >>> All the best, >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> PS I always have to think before I get it round the right way! >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >