Nantwich

We spent a couple of days at Nantwich, a spectacular town with lovely old buildings. The River Weaver runs through the town and like all rivers at the moment it is pretty high.

The visitor mooring is on a big embankment and actually above the roofs of the new houses below.

There was another big aqueduct that we walked down.

There are wooden statues made of old lock gates along the embankment. The horse was the largest one.

The town was very busy Thursday for the market. We visited an old fashioned style grocers shop and pork butcher, A T Welch.  The lady cut the bacon as you ordered it and used a hand turned cutter. At the back of the shop is a cafe which doubles up as a museum. There is an exhibition of old tins, packets & jars in some of the old shop furniture.

There was an impressive array of colour by the river where the leaves have fallen and some purple berries on a garden bush, they looked unreal.

 












After our market shopping we had a few pints in a lovely old pub, The Black Horse which had a roaring fire. 

 

The day before we had been very disappointed when we visited The Talbert, it was a lovely old pub on the outside, but like so many had been modernised and had it’s heart taken out, in our opinion.