A Saturday afternoon run to keep the old legs moving.  Punctures, they seemed bedevilled by punctures all those years ago, I suppose it was the quality of the rubber and the state of the roads.  Charlie mentions Hoghton Tower, an old mansion house on a rocky outcrop, owned by the de Hoghton family for years and years, and still is.  One of its claims to fame is the fact that William Shakespeare lived and worked there for a period of time to educate, as master, the family children, after he left University.

The other major claim is that the ‘loin’ of beef served on a visit to Hoghton Towers by King James was thought to be so superb that the King knighted the joint there and then.