Clarke Chronicler's Resurrection

 This  wasn't the most enjoyable trip of the year but we did make a bit of progress. We drove to Todmorden and caught the train to Brighouse. Simon was hungry so  we  went into a  pub , The Calder , for something to eat. I had a bacon and sausage sandwich. Simon had a bowl of chips. We  then found our  way to Brighouse Basin The canal  then joins the river Calder  for  a  stretch. Then our problems began. The  towpath had come to a dead end at  this  point. I prepared to look at my phone  but  Simon asked a lady who was just emerging from her canalside home and  she  said  we  could  regain the path from a side strret  a  few  hundered yards  ahead, This seemed sound advice as we got  onto  a  path  along  the  riverbank with industrial units to our  left. Misgivings  grew  as  we  hit  a  rough patc...