A quiet day

Densie moored at Dowley Gap

There is no need for us to move today because of the engine service on Thursday at Apperley Bridge which is not far from where we are now.

This morning we walked along the canal to Saltaire where Sir Titus Salt built an impressively large mill and his version of an ideal residential area for his workers in the 1850's. This included well built houses located in wide streets with a school, a hospital, a church and a large park by the nearby Aire river, but of course no pub as Sir Titus was a teetotaler. The whole area which is in apparently original condition, is recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Salt mill is now used for offices and an upmarket shopping centre with a David Hockney gallery. I personally found the Hockney's uninvolving and without the intensity of feeling of the Lowry's we had seen in Manchester.

We then walked along over the canal and river up to the moors overlooking Shipley Glen, a deep wooded valley with rock outcrops. There is an old cable tramway from the Aire up to the moors which we had hoped to use, but unfortunately it is closed until later in the year because of safety concerns.