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Originally Posted by Turtle
I always enjoy seeing your photos of Haworth Art Gallery, davemac. It was a favourite childhood haunt of mine (hmmmm... I feel a blog entry coming on here 
As for Pendle Hill, it was a favourite walk for my mother and her family when she was growing up. I'm ashamed and saddened to say that I didn't get to go there when I was a lass in Lancashire. Something for my bucket list perhaps! |
I think people don't appreciate what is around when they are younger, I used to work at Haworth (grounds) and didn't see it with the same eyes I do now as an old man.
We live with the countryside visbly around us all the time, all that is required is to look past what is directly in front of us. I never went up Pendle until I was no longer required at the council. Now it is a place that has permeated my bones, I can see it from a lot of places in town that I didn't think possible, and all that I had to do was look past the rooftops.
My pictures of Pendle are interactive, if I post pictures of a wet outing up there, just sit in a washing up bowl full of water whilst viewing the pictures, and you will feel the experience I had at the time, if its frosty, back into the freezer, and for the summer heat, stand over a three bar electric fire. Doing this will give you a remote visiting experience, with the advantage that you can have a cup of Yorkshire tea in one hand.
p.s. only do this if you are in the house on your own.