This week we have been in Cheshire. We stayed close to Knutsford and used this as our base for sightseeing.
We found a pub - The Whipping Stick (or something like that) which was the meeting place for Knutsford Lions and as we knew a member there we attended their meeting, which was lovely to meet other fellow Lions. We also sold quite a few of our Guess the Mileage Competition Tickets!
So as for the sights of Cheshire - Well, we found the Anderton Boat Lift. Doesn't sound that exciting, but if you're a seasoned Barge traveller like myself and have negotiated a fair few locks in my time, it was amazing to see this piece of Victorian engineering that has been lovingly restored to its former working glory. (I think Fred Dibner has been here on one of his steam engine programmes!) My only gripe was that because it was winter we couldn't actually ride on the thing.
As a very young child, I remember being taken to Jodrell Bank. I was only about four or five at the time so my memory of it is a bit fuzzy so I wanted to go back and explore the place where the world’s first enormous telescope satellite dish was built.
The Mark One or as it's now called The Lovell Telescope (after its inventor) uses Radio Waves to track the stars and planets in our solar system as well as other far-off Galaxies.
We also saw the great dish move position too, which was amazing, but also a bit creepy. Probably because you couldn't see the operators or something.
I was also relieved to read that they don't send out messages inviting Aliens to come to our planet. I've watched films like Battleship and trust me - If a humanoid race has the technology to travel light years to this planet then they have the technology to overpower humans and destroy us.... Just Sayin'!
We then spent a day in Chester. What a lovely city. Again, I have been here before, but it's been so long that I had completely forgotten what it was like. I just knew it was an old Roman City that became very popular with the Tudors and has some of the best examples of Tudor buildings still standing today.
Me on the old bus. Good fun, but VERY cold! (Below)
Ever heard of the saying 'I wouldn't give him the time
of day'? Well, it comes from Chester. Apparently, there was a war between
England and Wales over who owned Chester. The English won, but the Welsh used
the clocks of Chester to work out the time. So, the spiteful English took ALL
the clock faces off their church towers that faced West (Wales) so we wouldn't
give them the time of day! Strange where figures of speech come from, but what
I find amazing is that after hundreds of years Chester still has no west-facing clocks! Strange.
A Graveyard. It's just a personal thing. I like graveyards.
This is the weir built in the Industrial Revolution. I actually thought this scene looked uncannily like Durham. Well, that's it for another fun-filled blog. We have been to Centre Parcs in Whinfell for a family birthday party, so we're heading slowly back down Cumbria. Lots of Landscape photos me thinks! TTFN xxx
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