More Tales Of The West Riding (1974) - Plot & Excerpts
1848-1974 One day several years ago—it was about 1956, I think—I was sitting on a March evening reading the Hudley Star, our little town’s evening newspaper, when I encountered this paragraph. A prominent local Esperantist, Mr Joe Dean, of 13, Pickles Street, Hollow Bridge, died, in Hudley General Hospital during the weekend. For nearly half a century he had corresponded with people in over 50 countries in different parts of the world. Among people from whom he had letters were a Tibetan priest, a Paris wine merchant and a Czech miner. Mr Dean had been a textile worker. He leaves a widow. I smiled, in fact I actually chuckled, to myself. I looked up Pickles (originally Pighills) Street in my local “Where Is It” directory, and found that it was even more remote than I had thought. Hollow Bridge—I don’t know when it got its name; some time in Queen Elizabeth’s prosperous days, I expect—was a small, active, commercial suburb of Hudley, down in the valley with an old packhorse bridge across the Hollow and quite a sizeable nineteenth-century bridge leading to a main road over the Pennines into Lancashire farther on.
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