Some Pictures from Bakewell, England
Bakewell is famous for its tarts. "Bakewell Tarts"
they're called. They can be purchased from the tart shop in the town. Originally,
the Bakewell tart was invented by accident by someone who was trying to
make a Christmas cake, but got the ingredients wrong. When you see the
"real deal", the tart originale, it is easy to believe that the guy who
made it made a terrible mistake. In places the pastry was two centimeters
thick. Ever since, the tart has been expertly marketed by the town, their
greatest coup being in 1972 when Mr Rudyard Kipling condescended to repackage
the tart for wider consumption on the back of his undeserved reputation
for making exceedingly good cakes. It is a little known fact that the original
tart was an extremely intelligent alien lifeform, which, unfortunately
was gently toasted on its fall to earth, and was mistaken for nourishment
by a poor guy who substituted it for a partly cooked Christmas cake in
a house he was in the process of burgling. So the commonly believed story,
as is often the case, does have a small grain of truth in it.
Church
Haddon Hall
River Why
There are quite a few cats living in Bakewell. Most
have genuine personalities.
Chatsworth is also nearby. It is famous for requiring
the willful distruction of several small villages to create space for the
sprawling estate. I did not feel that I could condone this activity by
going to look at the product of such anti social behaviour. Also, it seems
that it's name is not attributable to the large number of French cats in
the vicinity.
These pictures free for non commercial private perusal. ©cip, 1999
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