Holmfirth: A Drive In The Countryside

We've been making the most of our daughter D's time with us and yesterday we drove out into the countryside in the Holme Valley, West Yorkshire.  Up a lane near to the small town of Holmfirth, well known for the television location of the BBC's situation comedy Last of the Summer Wine and Jane McDonald's televised tour My Yorkshire we stopped at the Carding Shed and Oil Can Café for lunch featured in one of Jane's programmes.   

In an old mill that's currently being used by small businesses there's a company that restores vintage and retro cars and there are the cafés too. Yorkshire is a sheep farming county and carding was a process used in the wool industry.  A hand-held carding brush or comb got the tangles out of the fleeces of the sheep after sheering the animals.  The wool was usually washed, spun into thread, woven into cloth before being made into garments.

We took a look around the exhibition of restored cars and the workshops before going into one of the cafés for our lunch.

These were my favourite cars - a Bentley and a Jaguar

 as well as the old car below.

 

Restoration was going on in a workshop. Some cars and motor bikes

 that had been restored were for sale.

The tandem bicycle reminded me of the time my newly-married aunt and uncle biked everywhere and  I'm sure even on their honeymoon.  (As for Mr P and I, our mode of transport on honeymoon in the Channel Islands was a hired Vespa moped.  Mr P also bought one when he first came to the UK and I would ride pillion on the back of it.  Happy days!).

I love this caravan out in the yard and the little VW camper van on display.

If you can't afford a luxury car how about collecting model vehicles?  

A small MG for the children?

There were interesting items on display everywhere throughout the building.

It was time for lunch in the main café. 

There were old posters such as this one - an old model of a Harley-Davidson motor bike. Posters of famous racing drivers also decorated the walls. 

Mr P and Daughter D had a full English breakfast 

and I had Eggs Benedict served with a small Peroni lager.

The cakes looked tempting.

Daughter D and I took a walk and picked blackberries

 before we headed back home.

 

elderberries

 

Midhope Reservoir

Daughter D has another week before she goes back to her teaching work so it's almost time for her to travel back to Berkshire.  It has been a good August full of happy memories.  I hope everything is going well in your corner.  Thank you for coming by.