East Riddleston Hall
Today we went to Hebden Bridge again and had fish and chips for lunch then went to the fantastic little sweet shop there. I bought lots of fudge. I also bought some mead and fruit wines from the wine and cheese shop. Then we went to East Riddleston Hall in Keighley. I’ve never known National Trust volunteers who were so chatty. Every room we went in we were regaled with facts and stories about the house. It was really good. It’s not a huge or especially grand house, but it was certainly one of the more interesting.
It was quite late in the afternoon when we left but we hotfooted it to Haworth for half an hour and were lucky enough not to meet the world’s most boring man. The poor shopkeeper who was having to suffer his long winded description of a ‘Carry On’ movie he’d seen the night before was not so lucky. It seemed like a regular occurence from the look on his face. I went right off the idea of every becoming a shopkeeper - there was no escape for the poor sod.
We came back via Ramsbottom and my sister’s house but she wasn’t in so we helped ourselves to a cup of tea and left her some fudge as a pressie. We then went off to the Red Lion in Hawkshaw for a meal but to be honest it was a bit dissapointing, compared to the food the pub used to do. It was alright, but the food there used to be really good. Generous portions though, I can’t fault them on that.