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 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.
This was Julie taking over our schedule and kidnapping us to The Castle Inn at Bassenthwaite for the weekend. We drove up there on Friday evening.and. we settled ourselves in the room. On the Saturday we drove to Cockermouth to make a video about the Castle. I thought we might be able to get closer than is normally possible because there was a band concert in the courtyard that afternoon. When we got there there were members of the public coming in and out and a food van was already operating so after filming an intro on the entrance path we went in and tried to film as unobtrusively as posible although I did ask one of the event stewards if we could film on the lawn. He said yes but as we were leaving, Simon was approached by a man who I rightly guessed to be Lord Egremont , the owner of the castle. He politely asked to see what we'd filmed and eventually agreed there...
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