Suffering from the station steps

May 16 2008 by Andrew Flynn, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

I’M 82, bad tempered, and I’m as stiff as a bl***y board. Why you may ask? I visited our wonderful station yesterday morning and left by the front steps as I have been doing for more years than I care to remember.

It was at that moment I realised that I really was getting old when I missed the bottom step and went arc over elbow. Now I blame myself, but where were all the Health and Safety fairies? No warning, no yellow paint, not even any visible notice that the exit for cripples is in the opposite direction to the taxi rank or any waiting cars.

I just hope that the thousands of visitors who come to see our new square in due course will keep their eyes on these horrendous steps and not have them drawn to the mass of sparkling fountains! The ground is very very hard for old bones!

Austin Holroyd

Almondbury