Roberts Park - Parkrun

Start of the Roberts Park parkrun this morning.  It's a weekly organised event run by volunteers over a five kilometre course around Roberts Park and alongside the river Aire at Saltaire.  It was cold this morning but organisers were expecting around six hundred runners to take part.

Pauline, On The Leeds-Liverpool Canal

Not the usual vessel on the Leeds Liverpool canal these days, it's a much wider boat (and much older). The owner had a very brief chat with me and told me that the boat was one hundred and fifty seven years old, it was built for a canal the width of the Leeds/Liverpool, it would have been horse drawn on the canal and was originally built with a fold down mast and sail enabling its use on rivers. It was built in the same year as the famous tea clipper Cutty Sark and is pictured here at Dobson Locks, Apperley Bridge heading towards Leeds.