Showing posts with label New Year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Year. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

In With The New

All New Years' Eve parties should involve friends and family. So we started at a family party which meant that we were amongst friends as well as family. And then - as midnight approached - we moved on to the Rock Tavern to see the New Year in with our friends there (and they also included a good number of family members as well). The first picture shows a curious game in progress, the rules of which I am still unsure about.

The second picture was taken this morning as I came back from collecting Xan from some all-night party or another. The mist was still clinging to the sides of the valley. But the Calder Valley line - at the cutting above Salterhebble Hill - cuts through all that mellowness.

Municipal Pride

The third element of my Dewsbury triptych is the rather beautiful Dewsbury Town Hall, built in 1886 by local architects Henry Hottom and Geo...