A Day in Skipton

Moored at Skipton, Leeds & Liverpool Canal

We went off into the town this morning, oh what a lovely place and so many ginnels as they say in the north. For the southerners reading this, a ginnel is an alleyway! There were so many little shops in the ginnels, and all cobbled stoned right through. I managed to persuade Vic to stay out for lunch, and this we did at a place called the Cock and Bottle (oh I seem to be going to a lot of pubs called Cock something or other lately!) It was really nice and fully recommended if you are in Skipton, a lovely place and the food was nice and cheap and wholesome.

The high street is super too, although we thought it was market day today, we really enjoyed walking round the town. We heard a couple of people talking about the bad weather down in the South, and even talking about the M27 and something that had happened near Southampton....... presumably a lorry had gone over! I phoned Wendy just in case she had suffered in the winds, and was rest assured that everything was OK.

In the evening I took a walk along the Springs Branch, a canal that goes off at Skipton, only about a quarter of a mile, but it was lovely, almost in a revine with Skipton Castle some 500 feet above. Limestone was loaded at the end, and this only ceased happening in about 1947, and there are still the ramains of that to be seen at the end.

Our friends Chas and Ann visited our shop in Southsea today, and managed to find some fabric for their curtains for their new boat, Wendy promised to have them all made up by Tuesday ready for their return from Chas' parent's home in Winchester back to their boat, which is now on the Ashby Canal at Hinkley. I was really pleased that they managed to find just what they wanted too!!