Day Twenty One

Burleigh House closed for the winter.......Doddington Hall closed for the winter. One of the down sides of coming to this part of the world in the winter months, many tourist places are closed. So it was in to Gainsborough for a bit of shopping. Marshall's Yard is the latest shopping area. An old engineering works has been revived as a shopping area with shops in the old parts of the factory and with the addition of some new buildings, designed to merge with the old, a derelict space has been turned into a very attractive place to shop. There are the usual concerns that it will remove trade from the older established high street shops but I suspect there is room for both. After a coffee we went home for a lunch of cold meats, including the aforementioned haslet, some excellent ham and pickles in fresh bread rolls.