Riddlesden Me This

Poor puns aside, this is East Riddlesden Hall, where we went today. Finally getting out of the house and doing something other than working on some project or another. However I was just not in the mood which was annoying because it really is the first day for I don’t know how long that we had free. Luckily we will have next weekend to have another crack at it. Perhaps next week I’ll be feeling more chipper.

East Riddlesden Hall is a small National Trust property built in 1942 in Bradford and it looked pretty nice, but all of the excess weather did mean some of the gardens were closed for health and safety reasons. They had a group of musicians playing music that would be played around Christmas around the 12th-13th century with instruments of the period which was quite interesting, but you didn’t envy them, the hall was cold, they were sat down not moving much and none could have gloves to play the instruments.

The hall was still occupied right up to the 1930s and lay empty and was nearly demolished, but was saved and passed to the National Trust in 1933.

To be honest I think it would be a better place to go in the summer, feeding the ducks and having a bit of a longer walk in the land around the hall.