|   Here's
a painting that my granddad, Maurice Swift, a cabinet maker and funeral
director in Sheffield, bought from the Castleton artist Ernest
Bowler, some eighty years ago in the 1920s.
My mum suggests that it's a view near Hollow Meadows,
which I expect would mean somewhere overlooking the moors above Rivelin
Valley, in the Redmires Reservoirs/ Stannage Edge area to the west of
Sheffield. I guess that could be the ridge of Loosehill in the background
but today, driving along the A57 the Snake Pass between Ladybower and
Glossop, Barbara and I passed a place with a similar look to it. On Featherbed
Moss here the Pennine Way crosses the road there's a small pool
by the roadside with views across the moors to the north west with a triangulation
point at 621 metres above sea level 2 kilometres (a little over a mile)
to the north.
The Rainbow Bistro
 We've
never taken a close look at Glossop before but it turns out to be a pleasant
place to spend a couple of hours: a open air and a small covered market,
an Oxfam bookshop (and a small regular bookshop) and the Rainbow Bistro,
which is a bit hidden away, in what was the cellar of a Victorian house.
Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk
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