Saturday morning and we’re off to West Yorkshire, to a little town called Elland, near Halifax and Huddersfield and also Keithley!
Elland Hall Caravan Park is a small site located just off the M62, so is straight forward to get to. Access is via a small car park protected by a rising/falling security post. We soon arrived and were greeted in the car park by the owner. We were shown to our pitch and duly began levelling and pitching up for the week.
With such a brief trip to the site, we arrived in good time and were set up by noon, so we decided to head into the town of Elland itself. Not a great deal of action here, but very pleasant with the canal running through. We soon covered the area and headed back to the site.
Sunday and a trip to the Keithley and Worth Valley Railway was most definitely on the cards. We headed to Oxenhope at one end of the line and travelled through to Keithley itself, where I was pleasantly surprised by the Keithley Model Railway Exhibition! Couldn’t have planned it better if I’d tried! A small exhibition in comparison with the one and only exhibition I’ve seen at home (RailEx NE), but great all the same! We were fortunate to travel steam on the way up and also on the return journey. We got off at Oakworth on the way back to see the infamous ‘Railway Children’ station. From here we decided to walk through to Haworth following the trail. Well, we got so far along the route and then came a little unstuck as the leaflet we were following started bearing little resemblance to our actual surroundings. After a little back tracking we ended up back at Oakworth and caught a diesel back through to Oxenhope. We detoured at Tesco’s on the way back to pick up one or two items to conclude the meal planning purchases. Back at base I started to work on some digital electronics with the PIC18 chip and hooking it up to the LCD module, with great success! Food and TV, Sunday night came to an end.
Monday, weather still not so clever, we decided to have a relax day at the site. Perfect opportunity to wash the ‘van which I did. Following which I continued with my studies of the PIC18, interrupts and timer on the agenda! Meal planning was going well and steak stew and potatoes went down a treat!
Tuesday and a visit to Halifax was in order. More good food and films and I also got the servo working on the PIC18, monitored with the DSO213, all going very well!
Wednesday saw a trip to Huddersfield with the weather showing signs of improvement! Upon return we cleaned the ‘van internally and I also fixed the leg sensor which had been playing up recently. We even managed an hour sitting outside in the sunshine before the clouds crept back in again. Managed to calibrate the DSO213 after a little practise!
Thursday, the penultimate day and a trip to Brighouse. A very small town just along the road from Elland. Again not much there but we really enjoyed the canal and studying the locks that were there. We pondered about life on a canal boat but then concluded that caravanning was better 🙂
Friday and time to pack up. A leisurely return as we were not time pressed. Weather was very good as it continued to be all weekend, thanks for that! A nice vacation, the site was nice although the wash block was situated off the site down an incline nestled in with the residential homes which were adjacent to the site. They were adequate, certainly clean but felt a little remote. We had some commercial visitors to the site for a few days which was a new aspect for us. One little ‘van opposite was residential, but the rest came and went during our stay. We didn’t put the awning up due to the weather, but we did deploy the new mud grips on the steps which worked really well!
- Date: 15th March 2014
- Nights: 6
- Pitch #: 5
- GPS: 53.689426, -1.844775
