A walk led by local poet and stand up historian Glyn Watkins. From The Ling Bob, Wilsden to the Malt Shovel, Harden. The walk will start and finish with Nicholson poems about beer, and stop at Wilsden Cemetery and Goit Stock Falls for Nicholson poems about those places.
John Nicholson was Bradford’s first famous poet. He died 14th April 1843, aged 52, after falling in the River Aire at midnight, whilst he was drunk. His funeral a few days later at All Saint’s Churchyard Bingley had a crowd of over a thousand; and until a few decades ago school children around Eldwick used to be taken to Nicholson’s Rock, where he carved his name and wrote some of his poems. The walk is part of a campaign by Glyn Watkins to revive interest in Nicholson and his works. The walk will be a little under 4 miles long and travels footpaths over potentially slippery rocks, down steep slopes and past nettles, so sensible clothes and footwear and reasonable fitness are a must.
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