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Hebden Bridge; neighbours

Laurie Taylor explores the changing fortunes of the Yorkshire town, Hebden Bridge. Also, a social history of neighbours.

Hebden Bridge was once a working class textile town shaped by a culture of chapel and self help. But a new book finds its character transformed by a wave of incomers - from hippies to home workers. The writer Paul Barker talks to Laurie Taylor about community, past and present, in Hebden Bridge. Also, the social historian, Emily Cockayne explores relations between neighbours down the ages. As long as people have lived in shelters they have had people living next door. But how has the support, as well as the noise and nuisance of neighbours changed over time?

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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28 minutes

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Mon 14 May 2012 00:15

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  • Wed 9 May 2012 16:00
  • Mon 14 May 2012 00:15

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