I seem, inadvertently, to be turning into a bit of a steam loco anorak! I just seem to be bumping into them all over the place. There I w...

I was delighted to be able to go and view our (Ilkley) camera club's exhibition at Cliffe Castle, Keighley. (It's on until 14 Ju...

The nature reserve the kind lady told me about is Low Wood, managed by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. It is apparently particularly no...

  I didn't have a walk planned last Sunday but it was such a lovely day that decided I had to get out. I set off a bit vaguely, heade...

A Bird of Paradise plant, Strelitzia reginae . You can see how they got their name!  The extensive glasshouses at Cliffe Castle w...

One of my favourite exhibits in Cliffe Castle Museum is the display of William Morris & Co stained glass rescued from various local m...

Our rape and pillage of the natural world is by no means a 21st century scourge, though it is clearly reaching critical levels. I was fas...

Cliffe Castle Musuem in Keighley has to be my all-time favourite museum. It is crammed full of all sorts of quirky treasures, so many tha...

A friend of mine, Ann Davies , has just had an exhibition of her paintings at Cliffe Castle, Keighley. (Click the link to see them.) ...

In Victorian and Edwardian times, when Keighley's Cliffe Castle was the home of the Butterfields (see my earlier post here ), it wa...

It seems a long time ago now but when I was fairly newly retired, I visited a local museum in Keighley called Cliffe Castle. At ...

If you're local, do please consider visiting Cliffe Castle museum to see Ilkley Camera Club's exhibition, starting this Saturda...

The Victorian owner of Cliffe Castle, Henry Isaac Butterfield  (see above), was a wealthy industrialist whose family originated in this a...

I'm loving being retired and able to visit all sorts of interesting places during the week. I'm determined to make the most of th...

This year's unpredictable weather has meant I haven't done many whole day 'expeditions'. Indeed, I seem to have spent a g...