I forgot to mention, when describing Witley Court, was that at Christmas a huge tree was decorated with precious jewels! The guests were able to take a gem home!! That's why I'm always early!
I enjoyed a morning game of table tennis in the local village hall. My 'garage training' was paying off I just have to become 'poker faced' when serving! It was a lot of fun.
Yesterday we set off in the rain for Bradford! Why Bradford you may well ask! Our 'Book Club' read a novel by a Bradford native based on his home town. It used to be a place where no one would venture as it had an unsavoury side to it.
Set in West Yorkshire, Bradford came to prominence during the Industrial revolution and was known as the Wool Capital of the World. Remnants of the mills can be seen around the city.
After a mid afternoon arrival we walk along to what was formerly the Salt Mill - not the salt you shake over your chips - but because of Sir Titus Salt. He chose to build his textile mills and a village for his workers here - it now has World Heritage Status.
We caught the train into the centre of Bradford. Everyone who worked at the station was so friendly and genuinely kind in helping us to reach the city. We chatted to a couple of the ticket collectors, a girl from Pakistan and a guy from India, who thought it was lovely that a family was travelling together - there was a bit of eye rolling from Jake at that comment! They were interesting and said we'd made their day!
Our first stop was to the Mark and Sparks cafe for a delicious, greasy, well cooked bacon roll - talk about set you up for the day! Yum!
The buildings, although from the Victorian era, wouldn't have been out of place in Europe, maybe France.
We visited the National Science and Media Museum which became the first UNESCO City of Film. The exhibits relate to photography, film and television and also scientific principles between light and colour. We laughed as we remembered some of the adverts and TV shows from our youth but also how animation came about. We 'played' on all the exhibits but nearly came undone in the hall of mirrors! It was a fabulous museum but could do with a few seats for those weary patrons i.e. us!
We found a gallery which was exhibiting some photography produce by youngsters during lock down. It was a project which,using zoom, gave lessons on how to take good photos and then asked the students to take photos expressing how they felt. It was interesting to see how many said they missed school. There were some outstanding works.
It was a really interesting day and didn't our feet know it!
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