This story ‘Across the Dales’  is taken from the very first Charlie Chadwick book and is reproduced here in full, over four entries,  but as our website is of more international appeal, its title has been amended slightly to properly reflect its location, so please enjoy ‘Across the Yorkshire Dales’.

This Winter story starts with a comparison of Upper Ribblesdale (the Yorkshire end of Lancashire’s biggest river, the River Ribble) in the Spring and in the Winter, a comparison well made.  But that is Charlie, he does everything well !   Written in February 1930, it is an evocative account of a weekend on his bike.

His description of the winter desolation he and his companion Fred experienced bring vividly to mind my own winter wanderings in that same area in my long past youth.