Hebden Bridge new concrete

Shmoove as a babies mad, almost vert 4ft (?) shallow end(s) 8ft ? almost vert deep end.
chunky coping that is neither under or over protruding ... You can feel when your on it

The "bank" in the shallow end between the two small bowls is kinda quirky

Very quick bowl that you really have to work at .... me likes

ill bung some video up later

lens is distorting but you get the general idea.....

And already the "lets all sit here" spot, turns out to be the stupidest possible place.

Board to face recommended.

just going to eat my tea then going to check this place out...

checked out...
10/10.

Mmmm nice and smooth

Where is it? Directions would be nice, or a post code / road for sat nav

Calder Holmes park,
off Station Road,
Hebden Bridge, HX7 6JE.

Next to the train station

Is it a local skatepark for local people?

Is there a waterfall into the deep? That looks great fun. Shame its in Antartica though, reminds me of Shoreham.

Shoreham is a sprawling metropolis of cosmopolitan sophistication compared to T'Hebden Bridge

There's a shop staffed by teenage girls selling Tunnocks Teacake milkshakes. Can't be bad.

There's a shop staffed by teenage girls selling Tunnocks Teacake milkshakes. Can't be bad.

Tunnocks Teacake milkshakes! that sounds worth the trip alone.

A Hebden teenager


'You want a Tunnocks Teacake milkshake?
Are you local...'

Tell them Edward, my insides are all wrong.

Hebden Bridge had a reputation for being full of Lesbians and hippies in the 90's but dont get excited from what i recall they weren't of the lipstick variety.


Mind you I have never heard of Lipstick hippies anyway

There's a shop staffed by teenage girls selling Tunnocks Teacake milkshakes. Can't be bad.

Tunnocks Teacake milkshakes! that sounds worth the trip alone.

Aye. If you ask them nicely i'm sure they'll chuck in a handful of vallies for that extra special Weegie touch.

chuck in a handful of vallies for that extra special Weegie touch

What is this weird culinary delight of which you speak ?
It sounds very local this Hebden Bridge.

This shop in Hebden Bridge...



...sells milkshakes made with these...



...which are a popular Glasgow snack. However, it is a well known fact that Glaswegians need everything to be deep-fried and served with a side order of...



They could go one further and omit the milk, replacing it with...



Simple.

Went there today, the steel coping on the bowl has now been notched to give it a coping block effect...it's quit subtle though.
And I may have imagined it but it seems like the coping has been buffed to make it more slidey?
Now the surface has been power washed it seems even smoother, hopefully it will be sealed shortly.
The surface. coping and transitions on the rest of the park all seem uniform and consistent and again very smooth.

going again early tomorrow morning as my daughter is nagging to go skating again !
yippee....

Damn kids are so demanding...

what a pain having to go to a skatepark...and hopefully in the sunshine too !
pesky kids....

looks like the local idiots had a fire last night....



Also the park was full of broken glass and cans and other general rubbish...shame.

There was also a young kid on a BMX who had faceplanted the large extension on the halfpipe and smashed his mouth in and split his lip - blood was pouring everywhere.
A bloke took him off to find help and eventually an ambulance was called.
He wasn't wearing a helmet or pads.
This is the third day in a row that there has been an ambulance called to the park...


The ramps and bowl have now got some lovely skate stickers decorating them along with traces of claret on nearly ever ramp.....!

There's a shop staffed by teenage girls selling Tunnocks Teacake milkshakes. Can't be bad.

Teenage girls you say?

This is the third day in a row that there has been an ambulance called to the park...

Close the place down.

Damn forgot about those milkshakes.....

looks like the local idiots had a fire last night....

Also the park was full of broken glass and cans and other general rubbish...shame.

There was also a young kid on a BMX who had faceplanted the large extension on the halfpipe and smashed his mouth in and split his lip - blood was pouring everywhere.
A bloke took him off to find help and eventually an ambulance was called.
He wasn't wearing a helmet or pads.
This is the third day in a row that there has been an ambulance called to the park...


The ramps and bowl have now got some lovely skate stickers decorating them along with traces of claret on nearly ever ramp.....!

Par for the course for a new build park really. Seen it nearly every time. With luck (usually) the local chavs/troublemakers will get bored and move on to somewhere else and local kids will get the hang of it or others will start encouraging them to protect themselves or be more careful. It generally works itself out after a while.
Reports from Andy sound amazing and I respect his judgement. Another one on my list of "parks I really want to skate but will probably just keep talking about it."

fingers crossed that this will be the case, just hope the don't damage the park in the meantime.
The local skating kids seem a good bunch and hopefully they will police it themselves.

We also tried to explain to the kids (without sounding like boring old farts) that if one of their mates ended up having a similar accident then they should ring 999 straight away and get help.
This poor kid was lying on the ground for at least 5 mins before we showed up and the other kids on the park didn't know what to do.

All this aside, you must check it out sometime...also it is located in a truly beautiful part of the country.