Haworth - Main Street 1970s Dennis people

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Main Street, Haworth, Yorkshire
• Publisher:  Dennis Productions. probably late 1970s
• Postally used:  yes [later usage]
• Stamp:  13p pale chestnut Machin one centre band probably SGX900
• Postmark(s):  ...1985 slogan 350th anniversary of Royal Mail (slanted)
• Sent to:  Shrewsbury, Shropshire
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Haworth is a village and tourist attraction in the English Ceremonial county of West Yorkshire best known for its association with the Brontë sisters.

With its situation above the Worth Valley amid the bleak Pennine moors, Haworth is internationally famous for its connection with the Brontë sisters, who were born in Thornton, but wrote most of their famous novels while living at the Haworth Parsonage (which is now a museum owned and maintained by the Brontë Society), when their father was the parson at the adjacent Haworth church. The Brontë Way waymarked long-distance footpath passes through the town.

Other attractions include Haworth railway station, part of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, an authentic preserved steam railway which has been used as a setting for numerous period films and TV series, including The Railway Children (starring Jenny Agutter), Yanks (starring Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave), and Alan Parker's film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall (starring Bob Geldof). Every year the village also hosts a very special 1940s weekend where locals and visitors don wartime attire for a host of nostalgic events^{[citation needed]}

Many public footpaths lead out of the village, and there is much scope for rambling, though perhaps the most famous walk leads past Stanbury Reservoir to the picturesque (but unspectacular) Brontë waterfalls, the Brontë Bridge, and the Brontë Stone Chair in which (it is said) the sisters took turns to sit and write their first stories. This path, which forms part of the 69 km (43 mile) long Brontë Way, then leads out of the valley and up on the moors to Ponden Hall (reputedly Thrushcross Grange in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights) and Top Withens, a desolate ruin which was reputedly the setting for the farmstead Wuthering Heights. Top Withens can also be reached by a shorter walking route departing from the nearby village of Stanbury.

Haworth's only traditional events were an annual service at Haworth Spa and the Rush Bearing. Spa Sunday died out in the early twentieth century and the Rush Bearing ceremony has not been held for about twenty years. There are a number of modern events organised by the Haworth Traders' Association which are sometimes referred to as traditions. The most prominent of these is "Scroggling the Holly" - an annual holly gathering event which has no traditional basis. The name, sometimes claimed to have its origin in the local dialect, is also a modern invention. It takes place each November in Haworth. At the start of the Festive season Bands and Morris Men lead a procession of children in Victorian costume, who follow the Holly Queen up the cobbles to her crowning ceremony on the church steps. The newly crowned Holly Queen unlocks the church gates to invite the spirit of Christmas into Haworth. Father Christmas then arrives bringing with him Glad Tidings and Christmas Cheer to all.^[1]

In Haworth itself there are many tea rooms such as 'Cobbles and Clay the Art Cafe', souvenir and antiquarian bookshops, restaurants, pubs and hotels (including the Black Bull, where Branwell Brontë's decline into alcoholism and opium addiction allegedly began). Haworth is a good base for exploring the principal attractions of Brontë Country, while still being close to the major cities of Bradford and Leeds. Further afield lies the historic city of York, and the spa towns of Harrogate and Ilkley - popular spa towns on the edge of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales National Park to the north.