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Just a quickie - well I got my ride in, 115km (that's @ 75 old fashioned miles I think) and visited the Sandal's up near Wakefield. Had my sandwich and flask of coffee sat overlooking the Castle which, after the 'good ole boys' (aka the Parliamentarians, think Trump but with a more vindictive nature) got done with it in the 1640's is but a shadow of its former self.
Between Bell acres and Wakey is a un-prepossesing bit of GOC, big on open rolling countryside and annoying climbs. It's neither Pennine nor the flatlands and was once heavily mined for coal. Certainly made the legs ache a bit by the time I got home some 6 hours after setting out.
It really gives you a feeling for how hard it is for the top racers, I barely made 21kph, they'd do it at least half as fast again and without my stops!
Anyhow, tomorrow it's back to writing, a full day slaving over the KB! Then on Saturday it'll be more 2 wheeled exploration - not sure where yet, maybe south to get the benefit of the wind on the return.
The attachment is a pic of me from back in the last century - guess which is me? I think we'd been to Winnats Pass to see the Tour of Britain go up. I was club champion then, fit as a butchers dog - how times change!
Enough waffling from me then, ttfn
Mads
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Queue some music by Queen...
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Would that be Sandal Castle?
Would that be Sandal Castle, in Wakefield? As in the Battle of Wakefield during the Wars of the Roses? And from Shakespeare's Henry VI?
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The very same place.
The very same place.
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indeed
It is - we have a bit of history going on hereabouts. Will do a trip up to Pontefract Castle maybe next week - hopefully go in the Licorice vault. And may well visit the Haribo shop. I was only a fistful of miles away yesterday.
Mads
Madeline Anafrid Bell
I was evacuated up there with
I was evacuated up there with my brother during the war, (That's WWII not Henry VI). One thing I do remember was visiting a working coal mine but was a bit put out when we had to walk down a long slope to get to the coal face. I was expecting a ride in one of those big wheel cages.
We were moved from there up to a place right on the beach above Newcastle and had the time of our lives exploring minefields and trying to steal the local lifeboat so that my brother and I, (Me a bit over five and my brother 4,) could sail over to a place called Fjord in Norway and sink the Tirpitz. I apparently had the launch lever only about an inch from the go position when we were discovered.by the local village bobby and received a thick ear for what my brother and I considered doing our patriotic duty. We had a pair of sore backsides when we got home to our cottage as well.
I do have some fond memories of being up there and the people in Wakefield were very kind to us. The old man and his wife had a load of homing pidgeons and he was teaching us stuff about them. With all the rationing then, it's a surprise they didn't finish up in the pot.
I must try and get back there and see if the cottage above Newcastle is still standing. We did manage to find the old couple and his favourite pub a good few years ago and they were still alive then, it was back in the 60's and he still had his pidgeons.
Frances
there
We're hundreds of Lofts when I first moved to Sheffield almost 40 years ago, now I don't know of any.
The National Mining Museum isn't far from Wakey, its a drift mine but there is a cage lift which visitors use to reach the face area. Worth a visit if you are passing by, they have a good cafe too!
Mads
Madeline Anafrid Bell