Barrowford and Birthday celebrations

Friday 21 August - We came down Barrowford Locks with a lovely family on a hire boat. The female lock keeper was brilliant, setting up the locks to help us down.  She certainly keeps this set of locks tidy and has planted flowers in tubs etc at the top lock which look nice..


Views near Roughlee

 We were down all seven locks in an hour.... amazing!!  Moored at the bottom of the locks

The old St Thomas' Church

 and then went on a walk to the village of Roughlee which lies in the forest of Pendle.  It is a quaint village with a pub 'The Bay Horse';  is close to Pendle Hill and has links to the Pendle witches!!!

On the way back we passed the old and new St Thomas' Church in Barrowford.   The old quaint church was burned down in 1964 and a modern replacement church was built further up the hill in 1970..

Yummy pork pie!

Saturday - Happy Birthday Chris!!! The weather forecast was terrible, so we had planned a day in, however it turned out lovely, so we ventured out into Barrowford.
We bought a pork pie each from 'Beech's' Butchers, (we certainly know how to live it up)!!! Scrumptious and full of meat; we can certainly recommend!
After returning to Coventina, there were several youths sat at the picnic table just next to us and as more and more joined them, we decided to move on and not go out for a meal as initially planned.  We headed off,  mooring up just before Reedley Marina, stopping off at Morrisons on the way.  There is a small mooring place that actually has a gate leading into Morrisons car park, which is extremely useful.  This is hard to spot if you are not aware of it.  (between bridges 141b and 141a).  So, to celebrate, we had a tapas evening onboard and had a great time....

Sunday - a lovely hot day for a change. .. yippee



Nugget celebrating the sun!!

Went on a walk to 'Fence' a village nearby.  The paths were terrible on the walk and a lot were overgrown, but we made it there, hoping to have a Sunday lunch at one of the two pubs shown on the map.  The first one we came to was the 'Fence Gate Inn', which looked lovely inside and out, however a bit on the expensive side.  Unfortunately the other pub had closed down.... so after nibbling on apples and some sweets we had taken with us, we headed back to Coventina and had something onboard instead!!