This was our next weekend away. Simon wanted to go to a concert and the most appealing and practicable was Glenn Tilbrook appearing at the Peak Cavern, Castleton. We found an airbandb at nearby Bradwell for a very reasonable rate.
We set off on Friday evening and stopped at Bury KFC for tea. Having looked the property up on Google Maps beforehand we found it pretty easily.
The hosts were very friendly and Simon stayed up for a while watching TV with the kids while I went to bed. It was very comfortable.
In the morning, we drove to Castleton where we filmed a video at Peveril Castle. It can be found here :
The views from the castle were tremendous.
After that, we had fish and chips which we ate outside in the village square. We went up to Peak Cavern to make a few emquiries about the concert.
We returned to the house for a short while before catching a bus into Sheffield. The bus ride took a lot longer than I expected so our time in the city was pretty squeezed. Nevertheless we found the HMV....
... and then had time for a quick look round the Cathedral.
Fortunately the bus journey back to Bradwell was unproblematic and we had time to get some tea from a chippy there before returning to Castleton for the concert.
We had been warned to wrap up well but it was still pretty cold inside the Cavern. We made it in time to catch the support slot from Glenn's longhaired son Leon, marked by the occasional appearance of the man himself lurking backstage. Then Glenn himself came on , with only an electric guitar for company though he still plays it like it's a wild animal he's trying to control. The first half of his set was quite eclectic with a couple of odd cover versions and some deep album cuts. The last half hour or so was wall to wall Squeeze classics to please the shivering crowd. After a two-song encore accompanied by Leon, it was over and we returned to the car. Although Simon was a bit intimidated by the average age of the audience , he enjoyed it.. At the time of writing, there are a couple of videos from the gig on Youtube.
Our hostess was going to be out all day on Sunday but said we could leave when we liked. We drove to Hope to do a walk to the top of Win Hill. The weather was ideal.
There was a steep climb to a farm where we were accompanied by a large party of ramblers.
After that, the gradient eased on the open moor.
We reached the top of the hill soon afterwards. It was busy with other walkers and the views were fabulous.
We dropped down through a wood.
Soon afterwards there was a good view back to Bamford.
The walk concluded with a stroll alongside the river Noe
We went for Sunday lunch at a pub in Hope then returned to the house in Bradwell where we reluctantly packed up and returned home after a fabulous weekend.
Having got the bit between his teeth, Simon wanted to finish the towpath with the final section into Sowerby Bridge.. This was a direct repeat of a trip from the classic era in January 1980. We drove to Hebden Bridge, stopping at Nutty's Butty's along the way. We parked at Hebden Bridge station. We picked up where we left off , spotting a Beatles fan moored up there. Where you have to cross the main road to rejoin the towpath between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd , there's now a droll sign. There's now some fancy ca...
This one was a genuine hangover from the "Classic" LTS period. I always wanted to go inside Wainhouse Tower or at least do the history trail around it but we never got round to it in the old days, This was brought home by the surprise discovery of our draft trips programme for 1979 within the pages of the history trail booklet when I dug it out ( although ironically Wainhouse Tower was not on that programme). As the climb up the Tower had to be pre-booked, we left plenty of time to get there . We drove to Halifax and parked up nearby. We were just over an hour early so after checking the exact route from the car to the Tower, we started doing the history trail. Simon had some misgivings as it was spitting but it stayed fairly dry. The text in the trail being around 50 years old didn't make it that easy to follow but we were able to find some of the features. This is the view towards Sowerby Bridge from T...
This was my choice although necessitated by our YouTube schedule. We drove to Wycoller Country Park and the video we filmed can be seen here. After that, we walked a route from Paul Hannon's "Walks In Bronte Country" . This took us past the rocky outcrop of Foster's Leap. There was a good view over to Boulsworth Hill. Simon posed on the rocks. We passed the sadly now closed and converted Herder's Arms and walked along the road to Haworth for three quarters of a mile. A track to the right dropped us down into the valley and we made quick progress to the ancient bridge where we did some additional filming. We then passed the picnic site on the right. As the tea room in Wycoller has now closed we drove to a cafe in Trawden for lunch. Then we drove home.
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