Stepping Out Photo Mosaic

This photo mosaic is on display at Gibson Mill in Hardcastle Crags.  (Thanks BezziePet for the tip & directions) and documents some of the unique features of the Upper Calder Valley.  Built as early as the 1830s, these various steps provided access for mill workers between their homes on the "tops" to the mills in the valley.  Since most of the people wore clogs then, I, in my hiking shoes, am in awe.   The mosaic is the project of the Hebden Bridge Walkers Action and records over 600 stone steps in the area.   I'm offering this blip to my family to support my "tales of stone steps in England", which none of them believe. 

Extra photos:
A handsome pheasant I met on my walk to Hardcastle Crags.  By the way, for the folks back home, Hardcastle Crags is Whatcom Falls Park on steroids.  It's an enchanting wooded valley in the South Pennines with deep ravines, waterfalls and streams all criss-crossed with footpaths;
Pretty yellow flowers (poppies?) against a stone wall and another example of a challenge for the less than sure footed looking to cross a stream.

I had a great day walking all over the place and thoroughly aggravated my knee and other joints, but all is well now after a cup of tea and a rest. Tomorrow I hope to meet my friends from Manchester at the Gordon Rigg Garden Center in Todmordon.  After reviewing all the possibilities, we settled on that spot because it's a place they go to when Myra is up to an outing and because it has the food they like (these are the loveliest people in the world but they have a very unusual relationship with food) and it can accommodate Myra's wheelchair.  I'll hop the bus or a cab and meet them there.  I don't think it's very far away.  I'm really looking forward to seeing them so I hope they're able to make it.