Friday Fun day with Smiles.

  Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Angela here again to show you what I've been up to this week well this was a few weeks ago now and when we left Whitby we went to Matlock Bath.

If you don't know this place it got the name because of the natural thermal water.

The history of this goes back to 1698 but the story is too long to cover today.

This is the hotel where we stayed.

 The historic grade 2 listed building dates from 1770 when it was originally part of the larger New Inn built during the height of the Georgian spa era. Subsequently bought by wine merchant Job Hodgkinson in 1830's the large oval sign outside still bears his name and much of the ground floor interior remains intact from this time. 

Great care has been taken to restore the remainder of the building to it's former Victorian splendor whilst satisfying the building to it's former Victorian splendor whilst satisfying the needs of the discerning traveller.

I think that's enough to give you an idea about it so here are some photos of this lovely hotel.

Breakfast.

And dinner.

 

Gorgeous food.

Scrummy chocolate.

And the rest of the hotel is just as good providing you don't want somewhere modern with boring grey walls that is!

Sitting room.

Hallway.

Bar and dining area.

Gorgeous old till.

Bet our friends at the Steampunk festival would love this.

I had no idea when I booked this what it was like so it was a lovely surprise.

I will show you more of what we got up to while we were there next week but for now we've been busy in the garden.

We brought this back from my mum's when we emptied the house and it's been to the sand blaster's. It originally came from a large house near the village where my mother lived, my Grandfather bought two of them when the house was being sold off but he sold one some years ago however mum kept her's much to the disappointment of the guy who would have liked them both so now it's got a new home and I love it.

Finally for today we've been cutting back the plants in the garden.

This is the Wisteria and it's massive!

Don't worry though because it will all grow back next year.

If you want a smile to finish off with, can you see who's watching what's happening?

Have a great weekend everyone and

 thanks for stopping by.

And if you would like some more smiles you just need to pop over to see what our other friends have been doing this week at Annie's for "This Week's Smiles" and you can also share your  smiles too.

Angela x