EDWARDIAN days out could seem modest by modern standards. Popular local recreation and beauty spots abounded, like Heather Glen, Shipley Glen and Goit Stock. This was Glen Bridge, near Laycock, whose simple attractions were swings, seats and a cottage selling refreshments.

Lower down in the nearby North Beck valley, Newsholme Dean was rather more ambitious, providing a favourite resort for family picnics and Sunday School outings, with a terrace for seating, a refreshment-hut and a level meadow in a loop of the beck ideal for cricket, rounders and more seriously knur and spell.

Newsholme Dean’s installation of a juke-box in 1960 briefly attracted teenagers on weekend nights, but proved a short-lived enterprise as the proprietors failed to realise that they needed a music and dancing licence which, when belatedly applied for, was refused.