OneGuyFromBarlick

Cathy wrote: ↑09 Aug 2023, 11:52
Thanks to all of you who tried
Are you locals playing games with me

It’s Barnoldswick.

My daughter messaged me last week with these 2 pictures, saying “I’m staying at Alma Cliffe B & B, so right on the edge of Letcliffe Park.’

She wandered all thru Barnoldswick, and a bit beyond, with her video camera.

Alma Cliffe, on Manchester Road, gets very good reviews, the view up over Weets is good from there. I'd never have guessed it though

To be honest Cathy, you can't see much but sunset, it could be anywhere facing west with a few trees!

That's what I thought Wendy and I lived up there!

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Thanks to all of you who tried
Are you locals playing games with me

It’s Barnoldswick.

My daughter messaged me last week with these 2 pictures, saying “I’m staying at Alma Cliffe B & B, so right on the edge of Letcliffe Park.’

She wandered all thru Barnoldswick, and a bit beyond, with her video camera.

Did your daughter enjoy her stay in Barlick Cathy? Where has she gone to now?

Call me quiet, sensitive, I don’t care - but 2 !’s is too much for me. I’ll probably check in each day or so, I’ll see how I go.

So sorry Cathy. Certainly no offense meant.

Did I miss something?

I was going to say the same thing.
What's the problem Cathy. I'm sure that nobody wants to upset you.....

I've just come to this thread to post the photo below and it's the first I've seen of Cathy's latest posts above. I looked back at the posts but couldn't understand what had upset Cathy. I do hope she's OK.

We've just been to Hestercombe House which is just outside Taunton. Exciting for me because I don't get far these days! The old photo shows Hestercombe estate workers and it has been used in a clever way. Look carefully and you'll see some vertical lines - these are the edges of glass doors in a new part of the building and they face out onto a path. You can see edges of the brickwork too. The doors are along the back side of a the corridor, facing out. When you walk past on the outside path it looks like the picture is on the wall of the building. So everybody, inside or out, gets to see the photo of these men who made Hestercombe's gardens what they are today (with a bit of help from Sir Edwin Lutyens. ) LINK

Wonderful place - I'd never heard of it.

The gardens of this country are a great asset - not just stately homes - and we don't make the most of it. I mentioned my former colleague Clive elsewhere, and he had lived in Germany for a long time, such that he often viewed this country with the eyes of a German. It was interesting to get his take on things. He used to say that our gardens and countryside were unique, and something that continental visitors enjoyed.

What happened to the big summer garden festivals which used to be held? I remember that Liverpool and Newcastle each hosted one. Now other than Chelsea, Hampton Court, and Tatton Park in the North, there is not much for the provinces in that line.

Went to Valley Gardens in Harrogate a few weeks ago, it's very nice there
https://www.friendsofvalleygardens.co.uk/

I went to the Garden Festival in Glasgow which was a huge event. I've just checked and it was in 1988...how time flies!

Peter said that he doesn't get far these days..... Snap! However, today Tim the Chairman of the Bancroft Trust is picking me up as they are dedicating the Pickles Riley Street clock at the engine house today. The Town Council have helped finance it's restoration and installation at the mill. I'm looking forward to it.

Enjoy your visit to Bancroft, Stanley. Like me, you'll get more out of a trip than most other folk because our restrictions on travel mean we pay more attention to what's around us and become hyper-observant!

I had a wonderful time, there were people there I haven't seen for many years including at least one man |I thought was dead! They've made a good job of the Riley Street clock and it's keeping good time! I was so busy talking I never got a picture of it. Very heart-warming to see so many people who were glad to see me.

I went ont’turf yesterday, shouldn’t have bothered, it was dire, they didn’t play well at all.

I thought you meant horse racing for a second but then realised you meant Turf Moor.....
Hard luck Gloria!

Back home after a week in North Wales, (Llanbedrog), weather better than forecast. Journey home uneventful, we set off at 8.30 this morning and just stopped once for a brew on the way home, slowest bit in the whole 170 miles was the Colne end of the M65 and back into Barlick! Just over 3 hours driving, car unloaded , first wash done, two more to go. It's tad cooler up North than on the LLyn Peninsula.

Could be the approach of Winter Ian........

Lets get Autumn started and over with first Stanley.

I forgot to mention this on our recent trip to Wales post. Price of petrol, bog standard Unleaded 95 octane (E10) in Barlick £149.9 per Ltr - noticed in some N.Wales petrol stations passed on our way out and back home. Eye watering £168.9 Ltr.

Up a mountain... The prerecorded commentary was telling us to look out the window at specific landmarks, we couldn't even see the ground

I remember when I went up Snowdon on the steam train many years ago we had the same problem!

I think my first trip to IOM was on the King Orry. years before stabilizers were deployed you had to pray for a calm crossing or have a cast iron stomach.
By the way Laxey is home to a Neolithic grave of King Orry . Never seen it myself in those days it was something I wasn't interested in.

Stanley wrote: ↑23 Sep 2023, 02:07 I remember when I went up Snowdon on the steam train many years ago we had the same problem!

When we sailed over the sea to Skye, (well the ferry from Mallaig) a long time before the bridge. I drove all round the isle and only saw the road 10 yards in front the fog was so bad.

It's better today, calm before the storm.