Milner Field & Shipley Glen

When we stayed in the caravan in May we bought a series of books from the local library: walks around Baildon. What a find!

Milner Field was Titus Salt Jr's residence, once an impressive mansion, now barely traceable in the woods. 

Here Tine's standing in the giant conservatory...

...with the mosaic tiles still showing through the autumn leaves.

Most of the stone was used in constructions elsewhere

Steps leading up to the main house, methinks

Remains of one side of the entrance archway

Have a look at the following short video: http://www.milnerfield.co.uk/Video_of_Milner%20Field.htmlThere's more information on Read more about it here - http://www.milnerfield.co.uk. I can highly recommend the book too!

Continuing our tour we walked through Shipley Glen, a favourite haunt of young Philippe and his mates!

This is an old water hydrant marker, not far from Milner Field

The end of a toboggan run!  

The information below comes from http://www.baildontowncouncil.gov.uk/pdfs/Coach%20Road%20to%20Shipley%20Glen2.pdfHere, close to the pond in the lower part of the wood, is the remains of Sam Wilson’s Toboggan Run which was one of the many attractions associated with Shipley Glen in late Victorian times. The riders were carried in small cars from the top of the edge of Brackenhall Green down to this area. On Whit Sunday 1900 one of the cars on the upward side fouled the steel cable which lifted it back up to the top. This resulted in several injuries and Sam Wilson immediately closed it, never to reopen it. So ended ‘The Largest, Wildest and Steepest Toboggan Slide Ever Erected in the World’.

An old railway van randomly left in a field!

But of course, all this walking gives you a thirst and an appetite. Thankfully my (perhaps) ancestor is no longer around to watch the pints being pulled!