Published on 12, July, 2020
Today on my walks I ended up in the village of Addingham. A small prosperous place with a shop, several pubs and plenty of traditional cottages and posh new housing estates.
Cottages with what looks like a traditional telephone box.
But it is in fact one of the new free libraries that are springing up. Where you can take a book and leave your own books
The village church of course.
One of the people I spoke with.
Parks and cottages.
On the way home on this humid day, I took a bus which was full of people and it stank like a public toilet.
A few weeks ago while on one of my walks I noticed a village with a clock tower in the distance.
Today I visited it.
It turns out it's a large former victorain mental hospital. Now being turned into luxury accommodation.
I wonder how many unfortunate autistics were incarcerated here for having behavioural problems and left here to rot?
Not just loony bins.
I expect a lot of us were similarly detained in the workhouse too...