"York" as in Yorkshire, Britain's senior and pre-eminent county. Says it all
:-)
jh
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From: "Frank van Lindert" <Frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Leeds
> Well, I know York from quite a few visits, and I have always liked it.
> Nice rural town, I have always thought, but indeed not the place where
> it is all happening.
>
> I was told to avoid Leeds and Bradford (although I used their airport
> sometimes) because of their emptiness. 'Plenty of industry but lack of
> culture' is what my (London!) friends said, about twenty years ago...
> Things must have changed since.
>
> Frank.
>
> ps: In the same period I had to be in Slough for a five day computer
> course. Ugly and terrible! But the aforementioned friends said that
> Leeds and Bradford were not unlike Slough 'only much bigger'. Were
> they wrong?
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:39:12 +0000, Tom Fenwick wrote:
>
>>2009/1/28 Frank van Lindert
>>
>>>
>>> Joy of Leeds, eh?
>>> Nice pictures, Tom, but is it a nice city to live in too?
>>>
>>
>>There's a lot more going on here than a few miles away in York. Leeds is
>>on
>>the up, even in the current climate. But there is a much larger supply of
>>the kind of weirdness I like to photograph too, so it might be better not
>>to
>>judge it by my pictures. At least until I've had time to go into the
>>middle
>>of town...
>>
>>
>>> And that cat... what is the drawing supposed to tell us?
>>> Is it 'fog' what the tail says?
>>>
>>> I don't understand the meaning of it - if there is any.
>>> But I guess you know the fellow holding the board, and standing befor
>>> his house (?). Perhaps you have asked him?
>>>
>>
>>It is a present he has made for a friend. No doubt they understand it
>>themselves - I was attracted to its incomprehensibility. And the green
>>wall
>>:-)
>>
>>Tom
>>
>>>
>>> Frank van Lindert
>>> Utrecht NL.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:03:56 +0000, Tom Fenwick wrote:
>>>
>>> >I moved to Leeds last week - only time for some fleeting impressions so
>>> far:
>>> >
>>> >http://www.pbase.com/tom_77/leeds
>>> >
>>> >Tom
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