Posts Tagged With: architecture

Haworth and Keighley, Yorkshire

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Louise Jayne

Haworth is a small village in West Yorkshire, known largely for its association with the Brontës. To get there from Nottingham I got a train to Leeds, changed to a train to Keighley (pronounced Keith-lee) and walked from Keighley Railway Station to the bus station (about 10 minutes) and got on a bus from there to Haworth. There are about three buses an hour literally named Brontë Bus 1, 2 and 3 and a single costs £2.50 which you can buy on the bus via contactless. The routes vary by where in Haworth you want to be dropped off but you can check which bus will be best for you on the bus company website.

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Cliffe Castle Museum and Park, Keighley

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Louise Jayne

On the day that I was travelling via the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway I knew that I wanted to visit somewhere in Keighley and settled on Cliffe Castle Museum. I knew almost nothing about it other than it was an easy 20 minute walk from Keighley Railway Station and had free entry. I’d given myself roughly an hour to an hour and a half to explore before I had to head back to the station to catch my next train but could have spent a lot longer there as I was blown away by just how great the place was.

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St Michael and All Angel’s Church, Haworth

Posted on September 23, 2025 by Louise Jayne

After my visit to the Brontë Parsonage I headed next door to St Michael and All Angels, more commonly known as the Brontë church. This is the third church building on the site dating between 1879 and 1881; parts of the older church survives but not as it would have been during the Brontë’s time when their father was the parish priest here.

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The Royal Crescent, Bath

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Louise Jayne

The Royal Crescent in Bath is one of the most famous and well photographed areas in the city but until this most recent visit my friend and I hadn’t gone there, usually being too busy with visiting the Christmas market. This trip though we wanted to head over there as though my friend had seen it before I hadn’t. We walked from the centre along the Gravel Walk which takes you past the Georgian Garden (just closing so we only had a quick peek inside) and the backs of some of Bath’s very impressive housing.

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The Roman Baths, Bath

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Louise Jayne

You may remember that my last visit to Bath was cut short due to Storm Darragh. My friend and I had to reschedule our Roman Baths tickets and chose the last weekend in March figuring, quite rightly as it happened, that we would have some nice weather for our return. Driving in Bath is very much not recommended so we parked as usual at the Lansdown Park and Ride and took the bus into Bath – the Roman Baths are only about a 10 minute walk from where the bus drops you off.

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Arundel Cathedral of Our Lady and St Philip Howard

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Louise Jayne

I’d heard that Arundel Cathedral was a beautiful example of Gothic architecture so on my first afternoon in the town I’d gone to take pictures of the exterior before exploring inside a couple of days later. In 1868 Henry Fitzalan Howard commissioned Joseph Hansom (who also designed the famous hansom cab) to design a cathedral that would be in keeping with the impressiveness of Arundel Castle.

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Arundel Castle

Posted on July 8, 2025 by Louise Jayne

The main reason for my trip to Arundel was to visit the castle. I’d seen a video online which inspired me to research more about it and once I saw how easy it was to reach by train I was sold. I will say though that as a visitor and from the ground there is no real way of seeing the whole place in its glory (other than on approach by train) as it is surrounded by trees but the gardens and interiors more than made up for it.

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Arundel, West Sussex

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Louise Jayne

Last September I visited Arundel in West Sussex for three nights – my main aim was to visit the castle but I also wanted to visit the cathedral and the Wetland Centre, all of which will feature in their own posts. I found Arundel to be a really pleasant market town with lots of independent shops and cafes that were reasonably priced. The train journey from Nottingham was quite long, requiring a change in London that lead to a bit of a mad dash via tube but all in all the trains worked well and I was blessed with glorious sunshine for the whole time I was away.

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Evzones at the Presidential Mansion and Unknown Soldier Square, Athens

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Louise Jayne

Historically the Evzones were light infantry units in the Greek army, today they are members of the Presidential Guard. They stand guard at both the Presidential Mansion and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I knew that they do changing of the guard ceremonies and I wasn’t particularly interested about going out of my way to see them but after leaving the Panathenaic Stadium I happened to come across one such ceremony outside of the Presidential Mansion.

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Hadrian’s Library, Athens

Posted on June 3, 2025 by Louise Jayne

Hadrian’s Library was created by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in 132 AD to the north of the Acropolis. Having spent a long time at the Athenian Agora that day as I wandered through the streets of Athens doing a bit of souvenir shopping I hesitated at the library entrance but ultimately decided that I was both a bit too hot and a bit too ancient monument fatigued to pay the entrance fee and go inside. What I did do was take some photos as I was walking by.

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