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Nearby Towns.
Keighley, a nice place.
Keighley, the nearest place of any size to Haworth, is where the denizens of Haworth have to go if they want a bank or a supermarket. An extraordinarily friendly place, and well worth a visit. From Haworth, it's a glorious ride on a steam train, if you happen to be lucky enough to be at the station when one is about to depart, or a ride on a less interesting but more frequent bus. Five or ten minutes, or so, if you have a car.
Enjoy the covered market, the reopened cinema, and one of the best outdoor pursuit shops for miles around which fronts onto the bus station. Bargains at the Peter Black factory shop, if you can find it! Keighley is also the home of Timothy Taylor's Brewery, which makes beer that lesser mortals (for example, Southerners) can only dream of.
Bradford, not so nice.
Bradford was once a nice place, too. Buta was a teenager there, and has memories of an attractive and friendly place. Sadly, this is no more. The Bradford City Fathers have, over the years, turned it into an ugly and uncomfortable city with little to offer or enjoy (except, perhaps for the wonderful Alhambra theatre and the best curry shops outside of the Subcontinent.)
If ever there was an object lesson of what not to do to a city, Bradford is it. Buta is, on the whole, against capital punishment, but tearing from limb to limb would be far less than just desserts for the generations of city planners and council planning committee members who have made Bradford what it is today.
Worse yet, Bradford has become the centre of the extremely unpopular Metropolitan Authority which controls that part of West Yorkshire which contains Keighley and Haworth. It is so patently wrong that the bureaucrats and politicians of Bradford should have anything to do with what goes on in Keighley or Haworth.
Bingley, destroyed by a Building Society.
Bingley was also once a nice place. One of Buta's pet hates is the Bradford and Bingley Building Society building in Bingley. This extraordinary ugly building has totally ruined the town, and what's more, a favourite pub of Buta's young days was torn down as part of the wholesale devastation that went with the coming of this monstrosity. It is amazing that people were actually paid to design it, and a salient condemnation of the architects' trade. Withdraw your money now, better still pay a visit with a gallon of petrol and a match!
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