The writer of Last Tango in Halifax and blissful Valley grew up in West Yorkshire but it was only as an adult that she started to truly appreciate the area’s dramatic landscape and cultural heritage When I was growing up it felt to me as though Halifax were a cultural backwater. I felt that I lived in the middle of nowhere. Everything I was interested in – theatre and television – was happening in London but now I think culture and art are no longer the domain of posh southern people,they’re everybody’s domain now. Culture is a lot less snobby than it was.
West Yorkshire has become increasingly significant to me as I’ve got older. There’s a genuine depth to the landscape – it’s so dramatic and awe-inspiring. Now I see Calderdale – Halifax, Hebden Bridge, and Ripponden,Sowerby Bridge and Elland – as really beautiful. That’s the area I think of as blissful Valley territory.
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Source: theguardian.com