Yorkshire Trip

David and I went away 2 weeks ago and returned home on Bank Holiday Monday from our holiday in Yorkshire.  We stayed in Wakefield, York and Thirsk, before making our way back home and stopping over in Cheltenham.  The first two days home have been catching up days with washing and shopping and generally sorting out.

Our first stop was just outside Wakefield, where we were able to visit old haunts from when we briefly lived up that way. David caught up with old work colleagues and during our 3 day stay we visited Sheffield city centre (we were hoping to go to Kelham Island steel museum but it was shut - on a Saturday!) Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Nostell Priory.  I also had some time at the Hepworth art gallery (a couple of pictures of Barbara Hepworth's sculptures above) and in Wakefield centre itself, which doesn't seem to have changed much but there is a nice wool shop now!  Another day we went further south to Crich near Matlock to visit the National Tramway Museum which also had it's Classic Car Day. As you can see from the pics below it was a really gorgeous sunny day.

On to York, a place we know quite well and a chance for David to make another visit to the National Railway Museum while I had a mooch around the city.  Another day we took a trip to Harrogate on the train and the chance to use the Champagne Afternoon Tea gift that we had from my sister and brother in law from our 40th wedding anniversary last year.  Very luxurious and enjoyable it was too.

On to Thirsk where we had a rainy day when visiting the Heriott Museum, which we really enjoyed and spent quite a bit of time there and opposite there was the Thirsk Museum which had all sorts of interest pieces there.   Thirsk was also the birthplace of Thomas Lord, who founded Lords Cricket ground in London and some history about him.

Around the town there was a lot of yarnbombing of knitting and crochet around the town.  During last month there were 2 big events - the Tour de Yorkshire cycle race and the Royal Wedding.  Also marked was the 100th anniversary of the RAF.

A Spitfire in crochet outside this large house near the parish church.

A lot of bunting in the shape of small jumpers were around the route of the tour

And there was lots more, but I've done a collage of some of the pics I took of these

 Big crochet mandala hoops in the trees in the park

Traffic bollards in the town centre were all decorated.

On our way back home we had a stopover at just outside Cheltenham and visited the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWSR) where there was a Steam Gala Event to mark the opening of the newly rebuilt station at Broadway, Worcs.  While David was watching the train comings and goings I took the old London Routemaster bus ride into the village and enjoyed a wander in the village and a leisurely lunch.

I rather liked the look of this Maclaren sports car

but had rides on these instead!

That was our holiday, but there will be more pics to come soon.