Wortley Top Forge is an industrial museum chock full of old stuff
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The grounds are littered with any old iron
I have photographed this steam roller before but it seems to have been shy on this occasion.
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After the rusty chaos of Top Forge I moved to the ordered gentility of Wortley Hall.
Alice Stuart Wortley was a "friend" of Elgar. He called her Windflower and she was the inspiration for his violin concerto. She may have walked through this door on her way to Saint Leonard's church.
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The stables are impressive but in a poor state of repair.
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One wonders how much the residents of the hall, with all its formal aloofness, reflected on those that dug the coal and smelted the iron to keep them superior.
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A muddy walk in a nearby wood got me back in top old habits.
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