Fascinating video again. My dad was born in Slowit in 1918 and lived there until 1941 when he married my mum while his ship was being refitted in Hull. They set up home on Manchester Road, Milnsbridge but kept in contact with friends and family in Slaithwaite, as a child we visited my grandmother and aunt and uncle living on Hollings Glen often. We also visited the cinema, the Winston, and dad’s mate at the Star and I remember the canal still being there, it closed in 1944 and was filled in through Slowit in 1956 with the water being run underground in pipes. I worked for the Brook Dying group for 40 years and often travelled from my base in Holmfirth the branch in Slowit where the Winston was used for warehousing after it closed. I vaguely remember dad visiting the Star and being taken into the living part while he had a few drinks with his mate. I am told one time he over did it, he pushed me in my pram along the canal to the Star and I was left in the living space with his mates wife, he walked back home to Milnsbridge to serious trouble, I was still in Slaithwaite, he had forgotten me, it was a story much repeated at family gatherings.
Hi Mike, I've read your story with great interest and joy. A very unique story. I didn't know a lot about Slaithwaite, other than passing through,but when the news told us it has been voted the best village in West Yorkshire for this month, it raised a renewed interest. Your fascinating family story is full of funny and endearing events and the way you write about them made me smile. You could be a very good writer. Hand on heart,your massage is imbued with captivating events, amazing people and inviting places. The story about your dad, can make your autobiography book a best seller. You know every little detail about these places. For me, although I lived in Huddersfield for almost 20 years your message is a great local history lesson and a source of knowledge. Thank you again for this exhaustive message about a little attractive area in West Yorkshire. Thank you for your appreciation and thank you for teaching me so many things about the place where I live. If you write a book about your family life I will be the first one to buy it. Have a peaceful and sunny weekend.♡♡♡
You’re making me blush, just 75 years and a reasonable memory plus an interest in my heritage. I see from another post that you are Austrian, I love Austria, when we married in 1972 we didn’t have much money after buying our house etc. so toured the West Country but things were better in 1973 and we took a coach tour across Europe to Mattsee, and did the obligatory Sound of Music tour and Innsbruck among others. In 1974 we again took a coach tour to a stay in St. Anton and visited Oberammergau, Neuschwanstein and Linderhof as well as a trip to Italy over the Brenner Pass. In 1975 we flew into Munich and coached to Seefeld for one half of our holiday and then on to Maria Taferl with breath-taking views over the River Danube. We should have taken a river boat to Vienna but the river was too low so we went by coach, we should also have visited the Spanish Riding School but it turned out they were away touring. I love mountains and until we visited Norway with both mountains and fjords Austria was my perfect destination, sorry, but the pull of my ancestors is very strong. As an aside if the date my eldest should have been born was accurate, he had to be induced early due to my wife having blood pressure problems, then he was Hergestellt in Österreich. That‘s from Google, I’ve forgotten most of my German, not that I ever knew much, I chose Spanish in collage, a mistake.
@@mikeswift6713 What am amazing comment. I have to profusely apologise for one of my messages. I am not born in Austria. The keyboard and my typing were completely wrong. I was born in Romania, I am a Romanian who lived there for many years. It was my typing error and I'm going to correct it. You know so many things about Austria, in fact you are a precious encyclopedia. I hope one day you will visit Romania and I'm sure you will love my native country. Sorry again for my typing mistake. Thank you so, so much for your message full of precious information. Have a great weekend.♡♡♡
Interesting, I started work at L. B. Holidays in a production laboratory after leaving collage, my boss was Doctor Manheim. I was told he was from Bucharest and a leading synthetic dye expert and chose to seek refuge in the west rather than be captured by the Soviets. He ended up in England and brought his expertise with him, it must have been so important that Holiday’s built him a complex to produce a blue dyestuff which was so resistant to fading from constant washing that it was used in the blue stripe in butcher’s aprons. In my three years with the company it only ran twice a year when it made enough dye needed. Holiday’s is now no more and the site where it was on Leeds road is now the home for many car showrooms. They weren’t a good employer, they paid poor wages while “training” and when reasonably qualified would not increase your wage so you left and another group fell for the con trick. This resulted in many technical dyers in the West Riding of Yorkshire having been trained at Holidays.
Another precious history lesson. Your connections are amazing. I found that Harold Wilson's father came from Manchester to work at LB Holiday. And that's how Harold Wilson's connection with Huddersfield came about. In Romania there are monasteries over 1000 years old that are decorated with angels and biblical characters painted with a unique blue colour. This unique blue colour, despite many investigations, can not be reproduced anymore and nobody can tell the formula of this special colour. All those monasteries in the North of Romania are UNESCO protected and it's a real joy to see them. I lived in that area for over 30 years. Thank you again for this so informative message. Have a great week.♡♡♡
G’day from down under. If you dropped me blindfolded into the middle of slaithwaite I wouldn’t recognize the place it’s changed so much. I learned to swim in the pool there. Another fantastic video alma x
Thank you so much for your appreciation. I've been to Slaithwaite long time ago and it change so much since.But,the hills are the same and the canal also. Today we had 24Celcius degrees in Huddersfield.Can you believe??? Thank you so much for watching my video. Enjoy this great summer and the end of this week.♡♡♡♡♡
@@almafromengland8697 good morning or good evening over there. We went to slaithwaite pool because there was a bus from milnsbridge that took us straight there. Also we thought we would find a better class of girls to chat up 😁🤣. Turned out my wife was in Australia and not slaithwaite 😂😂
I bet that's an amazing story. How a young man from Milnsbridge finds the love of his life in Australia? I think I have to ask myself the same thing: how a girl from Romania finds the man of her life in Huddersfield? Did you see me videos about the history of Milnsbridge? A have a few ones on my channel. I showed them to my students and they were very interested in finding more about this place.Have a happy weekend.♡♡♡
Some of the locks need a clean and talking of cleaning, my room will be having a deep clean while I am away in Edinburgh with my mum from Sunday-Wednesday next week. It’s a good piece of music about the spring cuckoo by Delius the Bradford man.
I hope you had a nice trip to Edinburgh with your mum and your room is like new now. Thank you for sharing your experirnce with us. Enjoy the day and keep smiling.♡♡♡♡♡
Fascinating video again.
My dad was born in Slowit in 1918 and lived there until 1941 when he married my mum while his ship was being refitted in Hull.
They set up home on Manchester Road, Milnsbridge but kept in contact with friends and family in Slaithwaite, as a child we visited my grandmother and aunt and uncle living on Hollings Glen often.
We also visited the cinema, the Winston, and dad’s mate at the Star and I remember the canal still being there, it closed in 1944 and was filled in through Slowit in 1956 with the water being run underground in pipes.
I worked for the Brook Dying group for 40 years and often travelled from my base in Holmfirth the branch in Slowit where the Winston was used for warehousing after it closed.
I vaguely remember dad visiting the Star and being taken into the living part while he had a few drinks with his mate.
I am told one time he over did it, he pushed me in my pram along the canal to the Star and I was left in the living space with his mates wife, he walked back home to Milnsbridge to serious trouble, I was still in Slaithwaite, he had forgotten me, it was a story much repeated at family gatherings.
Hi Mike, I've read your story with great interest and joy. A very unique story. I didn't know a lot about Slaithwaite, other than passing through,but when the news told us it has been voted the best village in West Yorkshire for this month, it raised a renewed interest. Your fascinating family story is full of funny and endearing events and the way you write about them made me smile. You could be a very good writer. Hand on heart,your massage is imbued with captivating events, amazing people and inviting places. The story about your dad, can make your autobiography book a best seller. You know every little detail about these places. For me, although I lived in Huddersfield for almost 20 years your message is a great local history lesson and a source of knowledge. Thank you again for this exhaustive message about a little attractive area in West Yorkshire. Thank you for your appreciation and thank you for teaching me so many things about the place where I live. If you write a book about your family life I will be the first one to buy it. Have a peaceful and sunny weekend.♡♡♡
You’re making me blush, just 75 years and a reasonable memory plus an interest in my heritage.
I see from another post that you are Austrian, I love Austria, when we married in 1972 we didn’t have much money after buying our house etc. so toured the West Country but things were better in 1973 and we took a coach tour across Europe to Mattsee, and did the obligatory Sound of Music tour and Innsbruck among others.
In 1974 we again took a coach tour to a stay in St. Anton and visited Oberammergau, Neuschwanstein and Linderhof as well as a trip to Italy over the Brenner Pass.
In 1975 we flew into Munich and coached to Seefeld for one half of our holiday and then on to Maria Taferl with breath-taking views over the River Danube.
We should have taken a river boat to Vienna but the river was too low so we went by coach, we should also have visited the Spanish Riding School but it turned out they were away touring.
I love mountains and until we visited Norway with both mountains and fjords Austria was my perfect destination, sorry, but the pull of my ancestors is very strong.
As an aside if the date my eldest should have been born was accurate, he had to be induced early due to my wife having blood pressure problems, then he was Hergestellt in Österreich.
That‘s from Google, I’ve forgotten most of my German, not that I ever knew much, I chose Spanish in collage, a mistake.
@@mikeswift6713 What am amazing comment. I have to profusely apologise for one of my messages. I am not born in Austria. The keyboard and my typing were completely wrong. I was born in Romania, I am a Romanian who lived there for many years. It was my typing error and I'm going to correct it. You know so many things about Austria, in fact you are a precious encyclopedia. I hope one day you will visit Romania and I'm sure you will love my native country. Sorry again for my typing mistake. Thank you so, so much for your message full of precious information. Have a great weekend.♡♡♡
Interesting, I started work at L. B. Holidays in a production laboratory after leaving collage, my boss was Doctor Manheim.
I was told he was from Bucharest and a leading synthetic dye expert and chose to seek refuge in the west rather than be captured by the Soviets.
He ended up in England and brought his expertise with him, it must have been so important that Holiday’s built him a complex to produce a blue dyestuff which was so resistant to fading from constant washing that it was used in the blue stripe in butcher’s aprons.
In my three years with the company it only ran twice a year when it made enough dye needed.
Holiday’s is now no more and the site where it was on Leeds road is now the home for many car showrooms.
They weren’t a good employer, they paid poor wages while “training” and when reasonably qualified would not increase your wage so you left and another group fell for the con trick.
This resulted in many technical dyers in the West Riding of Yorkshire having been trained at Holidays.
Another precious history lesson. Your connections are amazing. I found that Harold Wilson's father came from Manchester to work at LB Holiday. And that's how Harold Wilson's connection with Huddersfield came about. In Romania there are monasteries over 1000 years old that are decorated with angels and biblical characters painted with a unique blue colour. This unique blue colour, despite many investigations, can not be reproduced anymore and nobody can tell the formula of this special colour. All those monasteries in the North of Romania are UNESCO protected and it's a real joy to see them. I lived in that area for over 30 years. Thank you again for this so informative message. Have a great week.♡♡♡
G’day from down under. If you dropped me blindfolded into the middle of slaithwaite I wouldn’t recognize the place it’s changed so much. I learned to swim in the pool there.
Another fantastic video alma x
Thank you so much for your appreciation. I've been to Slaithwaite long time ago and it change so much since.But,the hills are the same and the canal also. Today we had 24Celcius degrees in Huddersfield.Can you believe??? Thank you so much for watching my video. Enjoy this great summer and the end of this week.♡♡♡♡♡
There is a swimming bath in the sport centre. Is that what you mean? How come you went to Slaithwaite rather than town sport centre???♡♡♡
@@almafromengland8697 good morning or good evening over there.
We went to slaithwaite pool because there was a bus from milnsbridge that took us straight there.
Also we thought we would find a better class of girls to chat up 😁🤣.
Turned out my wife was in Australia and not slaithwaite 😂😂
I bet that's an amazing story. How a young man from Milnsbridge finds the love of his life in Australia? I think I have to ask myself the same thing: how a girl from Romania finds the man of her life in Huddersfield? Did you see me videos about the history of Milnsbridge? A have a few ones on my channel. I showed them to my students and they were very interested in finding more about this place.Have a happy weekend.♡♡♡
Some of the locks need a clean and talking of cleaning, my room will be having a deep clean while I am away in Edinburgh with my mum from Sunday-Wednesday next week. It’s a good piece of music about the spring cuckoo by Delius the Bradford man.
I hope you had a nice trip to Edinburgh with your mum and your room is like new now. Thank you for sharing your experirnce with us. Enjoy the day and keep smiling.♡♡♡♡♡
Nice.
Say slaith-waite one more time