Monday 26th June 2017

A day out visiting Haworth today. We went by bus from Skipton and changed at Keighley. All the buses were on time, very comfortable and fitted with free wifi and charging points. The steepness of the street can hopefully be seen in these photos.

We passed the church where Patrick Bronte was the perpetual curate and he took up residency at the Parsonage with his wife and six children in 1820.

A cockerel in the graveyard was a little confused about the time as he was still calling dawn at 10.30am.

The dining room where most of the sisters' writing took place has been recreated very accurately.

The girls were prolific writers from a young age and wrote in tiny script as their early stories were for the tiny soldiers which they played with so the books had to be small so that the toy soldiers could 'read' them.

Visitors are taking part in an exercise to write out Wuthering Heights line by line using special pencils. The original manuscript is missing and the aim is to create a new manuscript this year for display in 2018 - the bicentenary of the birth of Emily Bronte. Both Graham and I wrote our lines.

The moors behind the house were very close and the sisters walked there wearing wooden overshoes called 'Patterns'to protect their shoes.

A very interesting day and yet again the weather forecasters were wrong as we had no rain and a fair amount of sunshine.