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Subject: [Leica] #358
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Mon Oct 17 03:35:12 2005

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!
>>> 
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