Upper Hopton, Mirfield

Mirfield is pretty ******, doing very well (?) in the first **** Towns book – not bad for a town of its size . Despite its proximity to the M1 and the M62 – which has made every other town in the region a little goldmine (except Bradford, of course ) – Mirfield still has […]

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Shipley, West Yorkshire – It’s just dire

The Bradfordian author Robert Swindells once wrote a novel called ‘Brother in the Land’. Set in a post apocalyptic Shipley things looked pretty bleak. If you were to visit today you would be forgiven for thinking that this depressing tome is anything but a work of nonfiction. Shipley is a small nowhere town on the […]

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Barnsley

I just can’t believe no-one has nominated Barnsley so far!!! As well as the usual character descriptions and behavioural lack of variety of subject matter of the inmates of other suitable ********* such as Peterborough, Bradford and Wigan come the good people of Barnsley – lol, who were, alas, even further down the line when […]

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