Clogs

The Colne Valley Museum in Golcar (a few miles west of Huddersfield) has packed quite a bit into a few knocked together houses. It’s a living museum, so full of volunteers in period dress keen to explain things. There are working looms and also this clog workshop.  And of course a cafe. A good way to spend an hour or two.

I’d walked a few miles out from Huddersfield along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal (extra). Given it was an urban route it felt quite sketchy in places, not helped by me unwittingly walking through a section that was apparently closed. There are plenty of locks, bridges and aqueducts for aficionados, but little sign of boat life. Near the point I left the canal they were pumping water up from the River Colne to top up the canal’s water levels.

Then to the football, and the official start of the 25/26 in the Northern Counties East League (NCEL). Golcar United were hosting Bradford team Campion, and it was a good game in from of a 400+ crowd. A late added time penalty for Campion (extra) earned them a 1-2 win. 

I was bussing all the way, given the eternal Transpennine rail weekend engineering closures. So a 20 minute hop back into Huddersfield, then the express bus to Bradford through Brighouse and then leg home. Quite a long day, but to see some parts of West Yorkshire that I’ve not visited before.