Diggle

Wanting to explore the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. Brian and I headed fir Diggle, which is the other end of the Stanage Tunnels from Marsden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standedge_Tunnels

After walking for about a hundred yards we adjourned to a canal-side cafe and enjoyed the pretty waitress and the date and walnut cake. Nearby I found a pile of tyres and rusty old fire escape.

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The canal descends sharply down an impressive flight of locks

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Road bridges added a bit of variety, especially when the sun reflected off the water.

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It is hard for me to resist canal-side reflections

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After a lamb and mint pudding lunch, at the Diggle Hotel, we explored Old Diggle; with weavers' cottages and a romantic level of dereliction.

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