Working the Lock Gates by artaddict2
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Description
Metal Statue working the heavy wooden lock gates.
Situated at a small West Yorkshire town SOWERBY BRIDGE, next to HALIFAX UK.
My dear friend Sylvia is from Halifax, Yorkshire and I am from over the pennines in Lancashire. We have slightly different dialects and accents and pronounce some words very differently, Sowerby is one of them. I used to pronounce it like the word "Sour bee" but Sylvia gave me grief for the rest of the trip. you must pronounce the place-names like the locals "So erbee", or almost SO-BE I'm still not sure lol.
There is a place in the Lake district UK called Ambleside you say Amble-side, my brother was walking through Windermere and an American tourist asked "Hi, is this the way to "Am-Bless-idee" not the guys fault but we found it so funny lol.
have a good day! Alan
Comments (32)
Excellent capture.
excellent shot :)
Excellent photo.
Great scene and capture Alan, must be hard work opening those locks every day, excellent.
Great pic! I love your story about accents, all my family are from oop north, Mums side from Leeds, and Grandads side from Rochdale. Mum moved to sunny Bournemouth to have me!
Hey cool story along with this great capture Alan!! very cool! and hope the American was not embarrassed hehe!
its funny how the different accents and pronunciation's are so different around the uk even as little as 20 miles there is marked difference ! i just starting singing "any old iron" to ashleigh and you should see the look on her face ,but with the scarf on this gentlemans neck reminded me of it :o)..excellent capture alan mick
A wonderful capture dear Alan. I understand the difference in accents. I am a Lancashure lass, exiled in North Yorkshire. Still have my Lancashire accent though!!! Hugs for a happy day. Diane.xx
great shot!
I know you couldn't move it Alan, but you could have washed that dirty car in the background, even canal water is cleaner than that thing. roflmao. Love the capture and the narrative, but then you know how much I like a narrative with a pic. I have passed through Sowerby Bridge I don't know how many times, but have never had a walk round the place. When I was 15 working for Whittles Bakery, we used to stop here every morning five days a week for breakfast, it was my first job from leaving school and I could only afford one toast and a coffee. My driver always had a full breakfast, bacon egg sasauge and tomato with two toast(gready get).lol. No wonder I was skinny. Excellent capture, lovely sculpture. Bravo!!!!!
Splendid capture ;O) The different accents and pronunciations are all around the world, you must hear an Andalusian person that seem to forget all the "S" in their vocabulary or the north Spanish people that seem to speak with a lovely melody, almost singing, it's funny. Where I live (South Spain, now) we are lots of british people and it's a splendid mess seems we all got together, he he he!
Nice text - as good as the picture, for sure! :-) sam.
nice text, great shot!
Very well seen
Wonderful photograph! I love the statue. And thanks for the story! Accents are so interesting, aren't they?
Splendid capture ! love the text ! Ana
Great shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic shot and postwork my friend!
A lovely capture.
I like the tone of this picture... these two statues are well wonderful (and indeed, the car in the background is a pity...) but anyway, a great image !
Hi Alan awesome work fun and interesting sweet sunshine warm hug, Linda
I love seeing bronze sculptures around like this.we have a few.excellent capture
Nice capture Alan, and an interesting narrative on the word play. That American was way off, maybe he thought he was in a foreign country and English wasn't spoken there. Its funny how place names sometimes get butchered, Sig....
Tourists have fun with our place names too ... especially the Maori ones. Wonderful image and text Alan
great capture...
Exelent capture! I like the fact that you made it in B&W/sepia tone.
Very nice capture of this piec of art. Metal artwork is very difficult. I like the b&w and your little story about accent and pronounciation :-) Hugs Virginie
Awesome photo
fine image of a fine sculpture (stopped wondering about english pronounciation long time ago - never understood why dalziel is apparently dee-al just to name one of many such riddles)
Good shot erland