Woodlesford Wondering

 Wednesday 6th April. 2022.             Woodlesford    Wondering 

Today’s adventure for the lads would take them to Woodlesford, a suburb of Leeds, their mission to follow the Aire and Calder Navigation back towards the city centre. Those taking part would be Colin and John making their way to Woodlesford by train, Dave came by means of a bus ride, while Alan took a bike ride. All meeting up at the railway station at Woodlesford, rendezvous time of around 11:15 was suggested and that is indeed what occurred.

 

From this point the lads took the roadway leading them down to the canal consuming pork pies has the walked along, our memories of Eddie supplying us with the same kind of sustenance came flooding back for a brief moment. Our walk continued along the pathway, past the lock situated in this particular lovely stretch of the canal and on into a wooded area before we reached open countryside, off in the distance we could here the noise of traffic as it thundered along the motorway in either direction, soon we past under this construction has we made our way to the outskirts of Leeds

, a little further on and it was time to take a brief rest and consume our delights courtesy of Greggs, a pity there are no seating arrangements on this particular  stretch of the canal, so it was standing room only. All the expenditure had gone into the laying of a rubberised footpath, ideally suited for the cycling fraternity along with the  odd runners and pedestrians. Time now to resume our wondering has we slowly made our way on past the old Thwaits Water Mill complex and the beginning of the various industrial sites constructed in this area of Leeds.

 

Up to now the weather conditions had been fine with even the odd glimpse of sunshine, but alas we were caught out by a 6 minutes shower of rain during the final home straights of this almost 5 mile amble, with the time almost reaching 2pm we left the canal side and headed for Hunslet Road a location at which point we would be able to catch buses to our respective homeward destinations, bidding farewell to each other as we parted.

This had been a memorable experience for lot’s of different reasons.

Cheers Lads.