Ingleton viaduct / 'Little Women'

I had suggested a mooch around Ingleton, this morning, but in the end it was only me, Hannah, and Izzy who went across. The weather was rubbish so we actually spent most of the time in a lovely little café having breakfast. 

Before we set off from the car park, though, I took this shot across the old viaduct. In a more affluent (i.e. less Brexit-crippled) country, one might find funding to turn this into an amazing tourist attraction with incredible views up the valley to the north and across Yorkshire to the south. But no. 

Built between 1858 and 1860, it's one of five viaducts on the Ingleton line and it looks splendid from below if slightly neglected from above. According to the plaque, it was built by 1,600 navvies ('Inland navigators'), none of whom was injured in its construction, and it is eighty feet high although it looks way higher than that from the ground.

In the evening, I took the kids - Charlie, Hannah, Izzy, Milly, Dan, and Abi - across to Zeffirelli's in Ambleside to see 'Little Women'. I think this is the first time I have ever been to the cinema with all six of them! We had dinner in the restaurant first, which was very good, and then went upstairs for the film.  

To be honest, I didn't enjoy it at first; it just seemed like a slow moving period drama. But after twenty minutes, I found myself beginning to enjoy it more and more, and in the end I would say enormously so. My final verdict is that it is a great film. I would definitely recommend it. 

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Reading: 'Frank Derrick's Holiday Of A Lifetime' by J B Morrison