Skip hire in Pudsey.

Pudsey stands on its hill between Leeds and Bradford and has never much cared for either. It's a proper town in its own right: a park, a market, a cricketing bloodline that produced Herbert Sutcliffe and Sir Leonard Hutton — the latter born at Fulneck, where the Moravian settlement has kept its elegant eighteenth-century terrace since the 1740s — and street after street of stone terraces built for the woollen mills. The mills themselves have found new lives; Sunny Bank in Farsley now houses studios and a gallery where the looms used to stand.

Those stone streets set the shape of the work. Terraces off Lowtown and Robin Lane have tight frontages, so plenty of skips here sit on the road under a Leeds City Council permit we arrange — £40, an initial two-week period, lights and cones supplied. Loft conversions are the local speciality: high stone gables were made for them, and the 8-yarder takes the lath, the plaster and whatever the joists have been hiding since 1895. Calverley and Farsley add village streets and Victorian villas; Swinnow and Waterloo add semis with drives where delivery is a two-minute job.

We reach LS28 along the A647 from the Leeds side — Stanningley bypass, then wherever the job is — and the run is in the schedule all week, so next-day delivery holds and morning calls sometimes turn into same-day drops. Prices vary a little by sector across the district, so the honest advice is to put your full postcode into the booking page and read the exact figure for your street; whatever it says includes VAT, delivery, collection and seven days' hire. And whatever we collect goes back to our own transfer station on Garnet Road, where over 90% of it is diverted from landfill.