dewsbury

[gingerjon]

58 minutes ago, Padge said:

Strangely there is still a BHS in Bruges. 

That's quite weird.

[Derwent]

51 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

That's quite weird.

Not really, BHS overseas stores are franchises and so weren't affected when the BHS company went bust. The franchise owners were allowed to keep the name. Plus, of course, BHS still trades as an online retailer....

https://www.bhs.com/

[gingerjon]

1 minute ago, Derwent said:

Not really, BHS overseas stores are franchises and so weren't affected when the BHS company went bust. The franchise owners were allowed to keep the name. Plus, of course, BHS still trades as an online retailer....

https://www.bhs.com/

Cheers for that. I'd kind of assumed that BHS was BHS was BHS. I know that Woolworths survives in some places and C&A in Europe is still a thing ...

[graveyard johnny]

was there a marks and sparks or c&a in Dewsbury? I remember a woolworths

 

[Chrispmartha]

On 11/09/2019 at 23:59, Trevorkfevfan said:

Shame about Dewbury, used to have cracking markets on wednesdays and then car boot affair on Sundays. Wonderful pork butchers right at the end with glorious growlers!

Cleckheaton is very pleasant and also does a lovely line in glorious growlers! Collins and Metcalfes if you happen to pass either!

 

I’m from Cleckheaton, it’s been really nice to see the town turn around and not go downhill like a lot of the surrounding towns.

And of Course they make Lions Midget Gems here.

[graveyard johnny]

59 minutes ago, Chrispmartha said:

I’m from Cleckheaton, it’s been really nice to see the town turn around and not go downhill like a lot of the surrounding towns.

And of Course they make Lions Midget Gems here.

don't the lions get them stuck between their teeth?

[silverback]

1 hour ago, graveyard johnny said:

was there a marks and sparks or c&a in Dewsbury? I remember a woolworths

 

also a j& b's,fantastic two storie toy shop were we saw santa as youngsters. if you ever get chance to read margarate watson book on dewsbury with every page having a black n white picture in with info grab it,she ran dewsbury reporter for years,

(its called  dewsbury food and photos)

[Wiltshire Rhino]

Never been to Dewsbury. 

I'll probably never go to Dewsbury. 

[9' oller]

Good advice it's gone and doesn't need millions to rejuvenate it needs an atomic bomb 

[graveyard johnny]

Wetherspoons gonna close and leave town now I hear

[Trojan]

On ‎13‎/‎09‎/‎2019 at 15:44, graveyard johnny said:

was there a marks and sparks or c&a in Dewsbury? I remember a woolworths

 

Yes there was a Marks, opposite Woolworths.  No C&A, a J&B's though.  And any number of cinemas.  The ABC, the Tudor, the Essoldo, the Rex and of course the Pioneer - run by the Co-op and on the top floor of their building in Dewsbury.  I played RL for Shaw Cross, a Dewsbury side, and played on the old Crown Flatt.   I also played at Thornhill Lees, next to the Calder.  There was a rowing boat for retrieving lost balls.

[Wolford6]

22 hours ago, Trojan said:

  I played RL for Shaw Cross, a Dewsbury side, and played on the old Crown Flatt.  

I see they now play in red, yellow and black. They played in blue and white hoops when we played against them many years ago.

[Trojan]

5 minutes ago, Wolford6 said:

I see they now play in red, yellow and black. They played in blue and white hoops when we played against them many years ago.

I played in blue and red hoops.  But when I played they were a boys club and ran five teams.  Shaw Cross Bees, Wasps, Hornets, Rovers and Rangers. I played for Rangers.  I think the senior side played in the Dewsbury colours, but it's 55 years ago. My abiding memory of the Shaw Cross club was our coach, a man called Eric I had played a season with them, and decided it would be cheaper for me to play for Morley RU. (I lived in Morley so no bus fares)

 .     A friend of mine said that if I went training with Morley, he'd come too, although he was more interested in fitness than rugby.  So we turned up for pre season training in July.  Train on the field every Thursday, and in Batley High School gym every Tuesday (one of the Morley first team was a sports teacher there and had wangled "rugby training" on to the local FE college's curriculum)   The gym training was tough, and by the end of August I had never been fitter.  Meantime I hadn't been near Shaw Cross.

Then another friend who'd played second row with me came knocking on my door the Friday before the local ARL fixtures started, Eric the coach said he was desperate, would I turn out for them on the Saturday.  So despite my misgivings off I went.  Turned up at the club house to be told by Eric "the new rules say I have to have a sub, you're it, I don't believe in subs, and you haven't trained so you won't be playing"    I stood changed on the touch line for 80 minutes.  I didn't get on.  I turned out for Morley "B" at Huddersfield YMCA the following wee.  Never played RL again, except in a joke game on New Years Day 1974.

[Phil]

On 12/09/2019 at 18:05, graveyard johnny said:

from memory- might be wrong- correct me if so- the eightlands well? the rose and crown? a nightclub opposite the station, cant proper remember sorry

Didn’t the eightlands well have an RL team? I’m sure I recall either playing against them or reffing them 

[graveyard johnny]

1 minute ago, Phil said:

Didn’t the eightlands well have an RL team? I’m sure I recall either playing against them or reffing them 

that's how I know the pub- we used their 2nd hand kit for a start up team our way- it was a bit like the Fulham strip as I recall

[Vambo]

On 11/09/2019 at 22:18, silverback said:

but huddersfield seems to going down pan. online shopping aint helping i suppose but who knows.

I'm genuinely suprised by this. We stopped over for a night in Huddersfield a few months back and we loved it.

It must have been a really good place prior to going down the pan.

Mind you I live between Accrington and Blackburn and one of those towns is clinically dead (Accy) and the other one is seemingly on life support and a mere shadow of it's former self.

[Martyn Sadler]

A major factor in the decline of Dewsbury was the loss of its County Borough status in 1974, following the Local Government Act of 1972 that merged it with Huddersfield and the surrounding areas to form Kirklees.

Since then I'm afraid that Dewsbury, which in my view has some fine buildings, including the Town Hall in particular, has never been the main priority for a local authority that has been largely ineffective on the whole. In its county borough days the Councillors of all parties would have been dedicated to maintaining its prosperity.

I think there's a marked contrast with nearby Wakefield, which effectively retained its status under the 1972 Act and added the Five Towns. In my view Wakefield MDC has done a good job on the whole, other than in getting new stadiums off the ground for Wakefield and Castleford.

[graveyard johnny]

7 hours ago, Martyn Sadler said:

A major factor in the decline of Dewsbury was the loss of its County Borough status in 1974, following the Local Government Act of 1972 that merged it with Huddersfield and the surrounding areas to form Kirklees.

Since then I'm afraid that Dewsbury, which in my view has some fine buildings, including the Town Hall in particular, has never been the main priority for a local authority that has been largely ineffective on the whole. In its county borough days the Councillors of all parties would have been dedicated to maintaining its prosperity.

I think there's a marked contrast with nearby Wakefield, which effectively retained its status under the 1972 Act and added the Five Towns. In my view Wakefield MDC has done a good job on the whole, other than in getting new stadiums off the ground for Wakefield and Castleford.

have you been to wakefield town centre lately? granted its not in the same state as Dewsbury (just yet) but all the signs are there

[Martyn Sadler]

5 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

have you been to wakefield town centre lately? granted its not in the same state as Dewsbury (just yet) but all the signs are there

All town centres are struggling, but I don't think Wakefield comes anywhere near to Dewsbury.

But there have been some developments in and around Wakefield that reflect positively on Wakefield MDC.

[Moose]

6 minutes ago, Martyn Sadler said:

All town centres are struggling, but I don't think Wakefield comes anywhere near to Dewsbury.

But there have been some developments in and around Wakefield that reflect positively on Wakefield MDC.

They demolished a perfectly good market hall and outside market and replaced it with a new market hall in probably the busiest location in Wakefield, next to the Bus Station

It’s been a disaster of a development now standing empty and closed. I understand it is to be demolished in the near future. A complete waste of council money.

[Martyn Sadler]

Just now, Moose said:

They demolished a perfectly good market hall and outside market and replaced it with a new market hall in probably the busiest location in Wakefield, next to the Bus Station

It’s been a disaster of a development now standing empty and closed. I understand it is to be demolished in the near future. A complete waste of council money.

I did use the word 'some'.

[Wolford6]

Wakefield traffic. Guaranteed to get your teeth gnashing anytime during daylight hours.

[Trojan]

10 hours ago, Martyn Sadler said:

A major factor in the decline of Dewsbury was the loss of its County Borough status in 1974, following the Local Government Act of 1972 that merged it with Huddersfield and the surrounding areas to form Kirklees.

Since then I'm afraid that Dewsbury, which in my view has some fine buildings, including the Town Hall in particular, has never been the main priority for a local authority that has been largely ineffective on the whole. In its county borough days the Councillors of all parties would have been dedicated to maintaining its prosperity.

I think there's a marked contrast with nearby Wakefield, which effectively retained its status under the 1972 Act and added the Five Towns. In my view Wakefield MDC has done a good job on the whole, other than in getting new stadiums off the ground for Wakefield and Castleford.

and wrecking the market

[Trojan]

2 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:

have you been to wakefield town centre lately? granted its not in the same state as Dewsbury (just yet) but all the signs are there

and the one thing that thrives in Dewsbury is the market

[Trojan]

10 hours ago, Martyn Sadler said:

A major factor in the decline of Dewsbury was the loss of its County Borough status in 1974, following the Local Government Act of 1972 that merged it with Huddersfield and the surrounding areas to form Kirklees.

Since then I'm afraid that Dewsbury, which in my view has some fine buildings, including the Town Hall in particular, has never been the main priority for a local authority that has been largely ineffective on the whole. In its county borough days the Councillors of all parties would have been dedicated to maintaining its prosperity.

I think there's a marked contrast with nearby Wakefield, which effectively retained its status under the 1972 Act and added the Five Towns. In my view Wakefield MDC has done a good job on the whole, other than in getting new stadiums off the ground for Wakefield and Castleford.

I was brought up in Morley.  Morley have always resented being made part of Leeds, there is a Morley Borough Independence Party, which does more harm than good IMO.  However, at the time I always thought that Morley had more in common with Batley, Dewsbury, and Spenborough, than with Leeds, and they had more in common with one another than they did with Huddersfield and the Holme Valley. Whether an area based on Dewsbury would have been viable I don't know.  But I reckon it would have been more successful than the current arrangements.  Too late now I suppose for a Dexit.