Keighley & Haworth

Tuesday 08 July 2014 – Hebden Bridge, Rochdale Canal

A non-canal day as we had planned a rest here, G&B had to manage a bank transfer to do with their house sale and there is not a branch of the Yorkshire in Hebden Bridge so we decided to travel on the bus to Keighley.  Once the financial side was sorted we took the opportunity to travel on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway to Haworth.  Today was a steam train day and the journey took in the scenery from the Lionel Jefferies film of ‘The Railway Children’.  It was fascinating travelling along the line and identifying some of the scenes – there is a tunnel at Mytholmes where one of the runners gets injured and Oakworth is where Bernard Cribbens was the Station Porter, Graham also pointed out where the ‘landslide’ had been as he was a volunteer on the KWVR.  Once we got to Haworth it was a steep climb up the hill to the village where the Bronte Parsonage Museum is located at the top of the village street.  I then spent a couple of hours doing the tourist bit then we met up for the bus back to here.  There are masses and masses of bunting, yellow painted bike and trikes, yellow bandaged Zimmer frames and other walking aide all over the place and everyone seems to be talking about ‘le Grand Depart’.

The weather has been another superb day and it wasn’t until we had got back to the boats that it started to ‘precipitate heavily’.  The rain only lasted about an hour then the sun was back and the ground steaming.