Holmfirth was famous for the saucy postcards produced at the Bamfords factory. This is now being redeveloped in to flats but they are keeping the original bank of windows.
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The cobbled alleys behind the church are a magnet for the older, coddled photographer.
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After a visit to the Original Bakewell Pudding Shop we climbed the hill to the parish church. It is rare among churches in displaying its heritage to great advantage with Anglo Saxon crosses, stone coffins and coffin covers all over the place.
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The grandness of a monument to in the lady chapel was rather reduced by the work going on around it.
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The funereal mood was lifted by these May Day garlands and the thought of Bakewell pudding to come.
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We walked a short length of Dovedale on a damp May Day.
About the most colourful thing we saw was this body of a cock pheasant floating in the River Dove.
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The sombre mood of the day was lifted a little by a bank of yellow gorse.
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