Sentences with phrase «mill town turned»

Surfboards — sticking out of the beds of pick - ups, poking up from the backseats of convertibles, strapped to the tops of vans — are the first clue that you've arrived in Hale`iwa, an old sugar mill town turned funky mecca for big wave disciples.

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Tackling the BNP is about recognising that there are hundreds of thousands of hard - working families in northern mill - towns, the once - smokey bits of the Midlands, blue collar estates in the Thames estuary and pockets of post-industrial Britain around the country who feel let down by the Establishment and are turning to the only party that talks about their concerns (Incidentally, they aren't necessarily core Labour voters, they are mostly long - standing, fed - up non-voters).