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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