 - Last login: 13 hours agoYorkie1962
- Frank is a 46 year old single guy from Huddersfield, England, UK.
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- Member since Nov 26, 2007
Hi folks. Thank you for checking out my Stumble page.
I'm a yorkshire lad here to checkout Stumble and with a bit of luck find some interesting sites and maybe make a few friends along the way.
I work for the local council as a cleaner and caretaker, I have three daughters and two grandchildren, I separated from my wife back in 2006.
I dabble in photography, I'm not very good at it but I enjoy it. I like walking in the local countryside, collecting local amateur art, and spending as much time as I can with my family.
Please feel free to contact me, review my blog, or add me as a friend. Us Yorkshire folk are friendly so don't be shy. lol
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A Little About Where I live.
I live in Slaithwaite, pronounced "Slawit" by locals. Slaithwaite is situated in the Pennine foothills to the west of Huddersfield, the Colne Valley is surrounded by National Trust moorland and close to the Peak District National Park. It is situated between Huddersfield and Oldham and is conveniently placed for access to the M62 corridor, the cities of West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. Slaithwaite is an old mill town which is steeped in history and surrounded by beautiful yorkshire countryside. The River Colne and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal both flow through the center of the village. They're are plenty of shops, pubs, cafes, and take-aways in the village and it has become a popular destination for day trippers and walkers.
Folk from Slaithwaite are often referred to as "Moonrakers" because of an event back in 1802. Some smugglers were traveling up the Huddersfield Narrow Canal when they heard some soldiers heading their way, so they hid their cargo in some reeds and carried on their journey untill they thought it was safe to go back and collect their smuggled goods. When they returned it was a clear and bright moonlit night and they started to retrieve their goods using garden rakes to pull the goods nearer to the canal banks, but the soldiers returned unexpectedly and asked them what they were doing. One of smugglers answered the soldiers by saying, "Can't you see ?, the moon has fallen out of the sky and into the canal and we're trying to get it back". The soldiers thought that they were all drunk and passed by laughing at "the moonraker's" stupidity. The event is now celebrated every february with the Moonraker march.
A minor Slaithwaite mystery is a volcanic boulder, dating from the last Ice Age, which was found at the bottom of the canal when it was drained in the 1950's. Nobody is quite sure how it got there but folk think that it may have been used as an anchor by someone traveling up the canal.
The tv series "Where the heart is" was filmed in and around Slaithwaite, as too was some parts of "Last of the summer wine".
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