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Well my return to Summerwine land is hitting full pace, looking like the end of August. A return to Holmfirth for the first time in around 6 years is planned plus a trip to Saltburn. Anyone been to Saltburn. What's it like. I'm also...

I was in Saltburn last year and will be next week as staying in Whitby and will use the ol' bus pass to travel up on a day trip . Sadly the Funicular was still being repaired last year but I believe it is back in service and is a must...

I'm just back from a mini break in Whitby can recommend a trip there and Staithes but avoid Scarborough well the front didn't help that the Funicular was out of order so walk down and up was a tad torturous but it simply was not worth...

Can recommend everything that the Cap listed. Been there, done that, would enjoy a revisit. Love Whitby, partly because I like the HF house just outside town. Could spend another several days poking around and photographing the Abbey...

I was in Staithes on Wednesday and walked through a Thunderstorm with a hail accompaniment back up the hill for the bus to Whitby by the time I got there Whitby was bathed in sunshine . Whilst in Staithes I met a group doing the...

Lovely day today here in Cheshire and I’ve got a 5 day weekend so off across the fields early this morning with the dogs.Off to Shropshire tomorrow.

When the kids were little I dragged them around many castles at the weekend Criccieth, Harlech, Beaumaris, Caernarfon, Conway, Flint, Beeston, Penrith. As a child I got dragged around many stately homes which at that age I found a bit...

I enjoy visiting old Castles. I'll vist Alnwick castle this year but have been to many others including Scarborough Windsor Hastings Bodium Carlise Tonbridge Leeds Castle. ( kent not Yorkshire) Skipton Which is your favourite or...

Memory lane for me Ferret when I was working we had a conference in a large hotel in Pott Shrigley effectively a jolly up and I have an abiding memory of about an hour after they opened the free bar and one of the most senior managers...

Near us in Pott Shrigley on the day they had their own festival to run along side it called Pott Aid.

Has anyone visited here? https://www.ncm.org.uk/ and gone on an underground tour? I've never taken a tour down a coal mine, although I have been down a salt mine, the Salzbergwerk just outside Berchtesgaden. Bought a small container of...

Sounds interesting. I've been on guided tours of a few large caves when younger but not an actual mine. Remember while deep in one part of a cave the tour guide saying they were going to turn the lights off for a moment for us to...

Coal mines freak me out. How they ever achieved it is amazing. I couldn't crawl around in such a small space

We had similar when we went down either Speedwell or Treak Cliff Cavern( can’t remember which one) many years ago. The total blackness was grim. It made me fall forwards.

MY FAVOURITE LOTSW QUOTE. Seymour Utterthwaite :- " You might be surprised. He (God) takes scruffy ones as well. Death is very democratic. All those lusting after equality, are finally going to get it".