Poppy & Jess

MAY DAY and week end over

One good thing about living here is the number of excellent Restaurants, many in updated pubs.
On Sunday we visited the Hinchcliffe Arms in Cragg Vale, named after the family who had the Cotton Mills there - long gone.
We used the Restaurant rather than the Bar and had 3 good meals. I had the Sunday Lunch menu of Lamb with nice selection of vegetables.

While the Ladies were chatting I took our 2 Terriers for a walk and found a footpath at the side of the Pub and discovered there was a Tennis Club, with pavilion and floodlights. The only access being this narrow footpath. I assume it was the Tennis Courts for the Hinchcliffe Family House. It is a popular walk as on our return we passed a group of 12 or so Ramblers all kitted out for their walk.

Our black & tan Terriers were from a litter on a smallholding near York and born last July, so they are sisters, but very different characters. The breed is cross Border and Patterdale, so one 'Poppy' is a Patterdale and 'Jessie' a Border. They do enjoy their walks.




As I am involved in researching family history I find Ancestry very helpful.
My father in laws family lived in Manchester and one sister married a John GRESTY and they had a son John Richmond Gresty who was killed in 1917 in WW1.
This weekend an Ancestry search found the family of John Gresty's mother, previously unknown to us, and provided 2 useful contacts to them.

On my side of the family I recently found an Andrew branch who emigrated from Yorkshire to Toledo Ohio and now have a new ' cousin ' to correspond with living in California