Bob Melling
@bobmelling.bsky.social
Low Salience, Huddersfield
Proverbs 7:7
Proverbs 7:7
January 30, 2026 at 9:18 AM
The alternative timeline where Derek Senior's Memorandum of dissent was adopted.
Also, imagine the deep deep joy of the snotty dales dwellers having conniptions at living in Keighley.
Also, imagine the deep deep joy of the snotty dales dwellers having conniptions at living in Keighley.
January 26, 2026 at 10:07 AM
The alternative timeline where Derek Senior's Memorandum of dissent was adopted.
Also, imagine the deep deep joy of the snotty dales dwellers having conniptions at living in Keighley.
Also, imagine the deep deep joy of the snotty dales dwellers having conniptions at living in Keighley.
The New town (19thc grid below the station square) has some exceptional streetscape.
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
The New town (19thc grid below the station square) has some exceptional streetscape.
Good to know that in the post-apocalypse dystopian London of Afterburn someone from TfL still does the rounds keeping the bus stop flags nice and clean.
January 18, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Good to know that in the post-apocalypse dystopian London of Afterburn someone from TfL still does the rounds keeping the bus stop flags nice and clean.
UK infrastructure projects really connect you to a sense of your own mortality.
January 15, 2026 at 10:36 AM
UK infrastructure projects really connect you to a sense of your own mortality.
It's just more Yorkshire, then the sea.
January 15, 2026 at 6:37 AM
It's just more Yorkshire, then the sea.
Also, never going to beat the OG
January 14, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Also, never going to beat the OG
The official map is so dull and uninformative that I don't blame them for trying to improve it, no matter how incompetently. They probably looked at the official release and thought that would just irritate everyone anyway.
January 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
The official map is so dull and uninformative that I don't blame them for trying to improve it, no matter how incompetently. They probably looked at the official release and thought that would just irritate everyone anyway.
This is what the line west of Huddersfield is like. It's a high level line. It arrives in Hudds on a huge viaduct, leaves through a tunnel then it's cuttings, viaducts, hillside embankments, tunnels all the way to Stalybridge. Adding capacity without a new line is hard.
January 14, 2026 at 12:36 PM
This is what the line west of Huddersfield is like. It's a high level line. It arrives in Hudds on a huge viaduct, leaves through a tunnel then it's cuttings, viaducts, hillside embankments, tunnels all the way to Stalybridge. Adding capacity without a new line is hard.
Boooo! Bring back the fun map!
January 14, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Boooo! Bring back the fun map!
Deleted, but keeping this for posterity.
January 14, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Deleted, but keeping this for posterity.
Which way West Yorkshire man?
January 13, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Which way West Yorkshire man?
Map of things! Maybe good, maybe bad.
January 12, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Map of things! Maybe good, maybe bad.
January 11, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Provence of the North. Very handy for J23 of the M62.
January 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Provence of the North. Very handy for J23 of the M62.
The bride in the centre of the photo is my grandad (TBF I don't really understand it either).
January 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
The bride in the centre of the photo is my grandad (TBF I don't really understand it either).
Missed off the last two pages
January 8, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Missed off the last two pages
Here he is in 1943 on the general stuff of industrial cities. I can't think of a writer of the time who would write with such obvious affection and sympathy about industrial England.
January 8, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Here he is in 1943 on the general stuff of industrial cities. I can't think of a writer of the time who would write with such obvious affection and sympathy about industrial England.
No Provence of the North here but Betjeman did write this lovely piece for the Telegraph Weekend magazine in October 1964.
January 8, 2026 at 9:49 PM
No Provence of the North here but Betjeman did write this lovely piece for the Telegraph Weekend magazine in October 1964.
Photos just threw this up in an attempt at making me nostalgic for 2019. Nice that in a chaotic world some things are unchanging.
January 5, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Photos just threw this up in an attempt at making me nostalgic for 2019. Nice that in a chaotic world some things are unchanging.