What will Farsley be like in 2097?
It’ll still be here but it’ll be very busy – a lot of people living here – maybe too many – but we won’t be here to find out.
It’ll be the same. There’s not a great deal to do to change things because there’s no land – not unless you knocked down what’s already here. I think they’ve built on everywhere they can. I don’t think it needs changing anyway.
I don’t know because no one can predict the future. We don’t know what’s going to happen next week. No one knew we were going to be exiting the European union in such a drastic fashion did they?
Hopefully very similar to how it is now, with all the buildings preserved and the character intact – but we’d like a new roof! Oh – and the parking problems solved. But there might be hover-cars in the future. We could stack them on top of each other – parallel parking!
I don’t think the industry will come back – not in the same way anyway. It’ll be industry but not as we know it. There’s a lot of smaller businesses now. People coming in and setting up. Maybe there’ll be more of that but nothing on the scale of what we had. It’d be hard to bring it back because you’ve lost the skills now – the heritage of it – from father to son, from mother to daughter. That’s been broken. It hasn’t been handed on. Do people have the discipline or the inclination to do that now? I don’t think so.
It’ll be the same. It’s not changed much over the years and I don’t think it needs to.
There’ll be no greenbelt. It’ll be swallowed up by thousands of people and cars. They’re building so much at the moment. We’re losing all the fields now – the divisions between Calverly, Farsley and Rodley. We’re merging into one place. We’re losing the distinct edges.
Well, unless they get rid of these old buildings, I can’t see it changing. Maybe the exhibitions at the Mill will be a bit more out there in the future.
I only know Sunny Bank and this restaurant. I think what the Gaunts are doing is brilliant – rejuvenating the Mill. It’s taken some imagination. It could almost become a model village – a bit like Saltaire, but not as big. You could make more of it as a tourist destination.
I hope it doesn’t change but I think it will. I don’t know if the shops will be here for a start. All the little independents.
It’ll be a creative hub with bits of city life close to wildlife and the countryside. Either that or a post-apocalyptic wilderness if my mad scientist alter-ego takes over.
I think it will be fiercely independent. I think it’s a bit hidden and it’ll be like trendy outpost. I think the Mill will still be central. I think the development will continue from where it is now. People get very attached to places they live. I don’t live here, but I feel more attached to Farsley than where I do live. I think community will become increasingly important and Farsley will become more self-sufficient. It will become more liberal-minded as well. I hope they knock down that horrible tower-block and replace it with a park.
By that time, we’ll be post big city. The metropolitan district will come out and engulf Farsley and then that will all die down and Farsley will reassert itself. It’ll become a village again with its own unique identity. The old Farsley will reappear. It’ll be like the aftermath of a big party – you know, when loads of people have been round and got drunk and then you have to deal with the aftermath.
