{"id":3863,"date":"2016-02-05T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-slaithwaite-and-the-colne-valley-west-yorkshire\/"},"modified":"2016-02-05T23:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T16:41:00","slug":"lets-move-to-slaithwaite-and-the-colne-valley-west-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-slaithwaite-and-the-colne-valley-west-yorkshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Slaithwaite and the Colne Valley, West Yorkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWith food co-ops and micro breweries, the northern powerhouse is already hereWhat\u2019s going for it? I know, beards are over, austerity nostalgia is over, anything with the words artisan\/craft\/locally sourced is O.V.E.R. But let\u2019s not throw the baby out with the hipster bath water (sorry, terrible mixed metaphors). Stripped of fashion, there can be a radical kernel behind that turn to the handmade that accompanied the Great Recession. Take The Handmade Bakery, established in Slaithwaite (pronounced Sla-wit) in 2009: \u201ca not-for-profit, community-supported artisan bakery\u201d. Yes: artisan! The aim of this cooperative is to make this basic human foodstuff affordably and ethically, a spirit that sums up that unpretentious strand of gentle revolution that has lurked in cracks in the Pennines like this one since the industrial revolution. The Colne valley hums with cooperative grocers, chutzpah and community enterprises. The northern powerhouse is already here. Plus Simon Armitage is from down the road.The case against Wet and glowering. Flood-prone: badly affected in the Boxing Day floods. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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