St.James Church: Mytholm Steeps, Hebden Bridge :today:Service -Flood Support.
Posted by Tony Zimnoch on Sunday, January 3, 2016
Monday, January 04, 2016
St.James's Church.
Friday, January 01, 2016
Floods of Biblical Proportions Happened.
Photo taken by Martin Parr:1975: Manikinholes Methodist Chapel [near Hebden Bridge]. |
It was suggested less than two years ago that my town of Hebden Bridge should be designated the UK's second city.
Today,as I write this ,the only businesses now left open in the town are Nathan's Barbers: Marco's Italian Greasy Spoon
,2 small charity shops: Bonsalls DIY shop; The White Lion Pub.; Boots Chemist &The Town Hall.That's all that left open/ habitable!
A week ago .Rain Came over a 12 hour period when Floods of Biblical Proportions happened...
Destroyed in Hebden Bridge alone are...2 churches;.3 Banks:8 pubs;The Post Office& sorting office; The Library:The Theatre:The Cinema:The Council's Elderly Day Centre:many hundreds of homes wrecked and/or evacuated: The Coop Supermarket & approx 200 shops & business:factory units:are not habitable :bridges have collapsed:the only road out has a dirty big crack in it between Hebden bridge & Mytholmroyd.
Even 2 days ago 500 other homes in Hebden Bridge were without electricity.
Even 2 days ago 500 other homes in Hebden Bridge were without electricity.
This was just one town ! Others along the valley were just as broken or,arguably, even worse.The towns and villages of Mytholmroyd:Todmorden;Copley:Sowerby Bridge:Brighouse:Midgley.etc etc all got hit .......
A Million things happened this week.Here are just a few Vignettes that will have to act as a taste of things.Over the New Year Weekend, the local Town Hall is where the volunteers are organised.
A huge room (the size of a half a football field) has free dry foods that have been donated & you can come in and help yourself.Plus cleaning products.etc:a kitchen & cafe were the Muslims serve the free hot food. Legal Advice etc etc is also given.
Local People offer their skills for free so,[Hebden being Hebden ] you can even get free Reflexology!
Today (new year's eve) I went to our only remaining barber to get a haircut.The owner Nathan (with beard) was offering haircuts/beer & disco.A interesting combination........The kids & Mums seemed to enjoy it..!
Loyds Bank: Hebden Bridge: last Saturday morning. |
Sadly I have heard some terrible stories from neighbouring Mytholmroyd. The (fairly new build) Catholic church The Good Shepard ( a mini Liverpool cathedral / built in-the-round) is totally fucking. I hear the 80 year old Parish Priest was rescued in the dark while wandering dazed & confused down a side street.waist deep in water.
Nearby, in a big posh housing estate , rescue services couldnt reach because of water levels.Local farmers went from door to door to check everybody was ok (apparently a lot of elderly people lived there) .They burst into one Living Room and found a silent, immobile elderly gent sat upright in his armchair with water all around his waist.......Two big farming lads had to carry him out to safety.......
Read *here* how the town is organising how to mend itself (& how you might wishes to help)
Dec 31st 2015.Beer/Disco/Haircut Promotion:Nathan's Barbers,Hebden Bridge. |
This week i having been doing my small bit by trying to help salvage the Council's Elderly Peoples Day Centre.
The British Army are here.So are groups of Muslim volunteers, from as far afield as London, who have been here this week helping us.
A few of the many Muslim Lads from London (300 miles away!)who came this week help us. |
The local Muslim Community has been amazing !Halifax Mosques have set up a food kitchen & have been shipping in daily hot free food.
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
from the halifax mosques.......
Volunteers from Halifax mosques join big clean-up in Hebden Bridge .(no sign yet of EDL turning up to lend a hand to help us ...)
Posted by Tony Zimnoch on Monday, December 28, 2015
Monday, December 28, 2015
Friday, December 25, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
one last singer in the land.....
December 19th marks the 75th Birthday of Phil Och.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ochs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ochs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill
PHIL OCHS: Live at Salle Claude Champagne, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada; October 22, 1966. This song is from a show long been rumored to have been recorded by the FBI!
Phil Ochs was one the greatest political (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and distinctive voice.
He wrote hundreds of songs in the 1960s and ’70s and released eight albums.
The FBI kept Phil Ochs under active surveillance for 13 years.
The introduction of The Freedom of Information Act revealed pages and pages of information on Phil with the FBI labelling him a “communist” with “un-American thoughts”.
Despite the hundreds of pages in his FBI file, the FBI never found that Ochs ever committed any federal crimes. He continued to be under investigation until his death by suicide in 1976.
Ochs performed at many political events during the 1960s counterculture era, including anti-Vietnam War and civil rights rallies, student events, and organized labor events over the course of his career, in addition to many concert appearances at such venues as New York City’s Town Hall and Carnegie Hall.
Politically, Ochs described himself as a “left social democrat” who became an “early revolutionary” after the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago led to a police riot, which had a profound effect on his state of mind.
After years of prolific writing in the 1960s, Ochs’s mental stability declined in the 1970s. He eventually succumbed to a number of problems including bipolar disorder and alcoholism, and took his own life in 1976.
Friday, November 27, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
Jeux sans frontières
"One in ten deaths during the Blitz was a child. Because of a fear that the Germans would use poisoned gas in their bombs people were given gas masks. Children were given brightly coloured gas masks to make them more appealing and fun......."http://www.thekidswindow.co.uk/news/ww2
Hey! http://www.viewfromthisside.com/about/ is an important site for us sepians.Well worth checking out. All my photos this week are from this charmant website.
This is a Sepia Saturday post. "think of caps, or children, or playground games or any of the hundreds of things Sepians like to think of....."
LOU REED, JOHN CALE & NICO
Live at Le Bataclan, Paris, France; January 29, 1972. Very good soundboard.
Hey! http://www.viewfromthisside.com/about/ is an important site for us sepians.Well worth checking out. All my photos this week are from this charmant website.
This is a Sepia Saturday post. "think of caps, or children, or playground games or any of the hundreds of things Sepians like to think of....."
Practically .Visit this site to help children play in Gaza. http://www.hopeandplay.org/
Try and get there before the Israeli's do..........LOU REED, JOHN CALE & NICO
Live at Le Bataclan, Paris, France; January 29, 1972. Very good soundboard.
Friday, November 06, 2015
A one-legged -beggar in Liverpool.Today shook my hand......
(We were there a couple of weeks ago.) Got me a mess of discount tickets from Northern Rail which 'need using. ......
Although we both had the start of Colds (& I had toothache) If not used today....,they would be lost .
So,....... we went to the Bluecoat Museum.
[Not been there since 1976 when i saw a film there with His Drayness .]
It pissed down. Beggars sat in puddles. England's shame.
Outside Job Centre Plus+ a man with one-leg was begging.I gave him(after much searching) a 50p coin. I told him it was all the change I had on me .
He shook my hand. I could have cried as i left him.....a proud man ,who stands taller than i ever will........
This country is a mess......
other photos here.........https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Other/LIVERPOOL5th-November-2015/
Friday, October 30, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
Friday, October 16, 2015
don't touch the third rail
Me and Cathy went for the day to Liverpool.
photos here..................
"The Dinner Party" [1980] by Sam Walsh.
He was a Liverpool lecturer who painted this in the last years of his life.
The sitters , who would never meet all at the same time, are people who from periods in his life. They include neighbours, solicitor, ex-wife, partner, bank manager & friends.
Friday, October 09, 2015
Simone Felice:8th October 2015:St.Michael's Church, Ancoats,Manchester.
Me & Cathy went with Capo Martin to St.Michael's de-consecrated church in Ancoats.
It was the first ever gig in a place that the Roman Jesus had just vacated.........
(On the night, I think we all struggled with what the correct ceremony for such an occasion might be......?)
All i can say is that the acoustics in the place are superb.Its clean,it's light & it has a good vibe.
A lovely sweet venue (tho the Bar charges Old Trafford prices!)
Simone was his usual Spiritual Self........a most underrated soul.
He had flown in from New York that morning.He had been detained in a small room alone for 4 hours at Gatwick because of passport irregularities
He seemed unimpressed with UK Border Control.......
a video i took:
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