283 Sunday 7th September 2025 Rawtenstall
This was a trip that started out as one thing then ended up another. It was Simon's choice to do some more trigs. We did the first at High Barn near Affetside. The footage wil appear here in due course. As soon as we finished that one, it started raining so we decided to head for lunc at the Barlow Institute in the hope it would clear up while we were eating. It didn't so Bull Hill, our next target was out of the question. We decided to go to Rawtenstall Museum instead. Simon had been there as a toddler but didn't remember it. He was immediately taken with this exhibit of a scary figure used to keep childworkers alert in the mills although this is a contemporary artist's interpretation rather than a historical artefact I can't recall the context of this head but it's pretty impressive A very odd claw machine. I wonder if ...