When I originally set up Oakworth.org.uk many years ago, it was mainly to showcase my photographs and presentations about the village that I have lived in for nigh on 27 years and which surprisingly enough, is called Oakworth.
In case you don’t know (and then again why should you), Oakworth is a medium sized village located in the southern Pennines of West Yorkshire.
Its nearest neighbours are Haworth – famous for the Bronte sisters and Wuthering Heights, Keighley and Skipton - the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales.
Of course Oakworth itself is famous. That most marvellous of films, The Railway Children, was filmed in and around the village and because it brought recognition to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, Oakworth Station further benefited afterwards by being used in many television and cinema productions. However, I digress! After running the original site for just under a year, I redesigned everything and broadened the site’s scope; including a blog, forum and a few other bells and whistles. Whilst the second version was quite successful, it did not live up to my expectations with regards to getting much involvement from visitors and the community. Perhaps I was partly to blame for this through my inability to update the site on a regular basis! So after much soul searching I decided to pare down things and revert to a simpler format. The third version was then born and has been in existence for about two years. However things move on and the site was in dire need of updating. So I am please to launch this, the fourth version of Oakworth.Org. Similar in content to the original, my site now boasts local weather data which is transmitted from my own weather station and possibly Oakworth’s only weather station (let me know if you know differently!) and improved slide and video shows. I would also like to make the links page more useful so please email me if you would like your business/organisation or whatever including - for free of course !! I’m also hoping to bring some new ideas to the site - one being illustrated local walks specifically for us older crag hoppers - so please watch this space.
As always, I hope you enjoy your visit and please feel free to email me any time with comments or ideas etc.
You never know, perhaps I’ll see you around and about.
You never know, perhaps I’ll see you around and about.
