Barley - 24th June 2012

Barley in Lancashire is a beautiful village with stone buildings and trees and green fields. It is also located in the heart of Pendle, famous for the Pendle Witches and the resulting witch trials of early 1612, something that you will have to read about elsewhere.

On this day we were attending The Pendle Faeries Mad Hatter's Tea Party, so I was dressed up and my face was painted.

Not quite Johnny Depp

It was a fun event, but it also gave us the opportunity to spend an hour exploring a couple of villages in the area.

The multi-level village hall, complete with scaffolding. This was where the event was held.

The Nelson Waterworks building, built in 1930.

 

The weir under the roads at Barley.

Had some nice food and drink at The Pendle Inn

The Barley Mow is the white building on the right that can be seen in the background. This is the place I would like to go next time we visit Barley. And there is more to see, but we were running out of time.

Where next?

Newport - 12th Jun 2012

Another business trip to Newport in much nicer weather and a chance to take a few more pictures to fill in a few gaps.

A view up the cobbled St. Mary's Street going towards to centre of town.

The front view of the architecture of a shop from the previous post.

This looks like it used to be a theatre, cinema or town hall and it is now shops.

Our first visit for the purposes of this blog can be found here.

Newport - 19th Apr 2012

A business visit in the rain and an opportunity to add to the challenge.

St Nicholas Church is a dominating feature in the centre of Newport town.

Looking across the mini roundabout on the junction of Stafford Street (off camera to the left) and High Street

New Street

There is some lovely architecture in Newport from different periods in history.

The Butter Cross or what's left of it.

Looking down the cobbled St. Mary's Street

The Royal Victoria Hotel
at the bottom of St. Mary's Street

 Adams' Grammar School

More interesting buildings

The Newport Arms Hotel

The Bridge Inn

The Catholic Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

We visited Newport again here.