The Heritage Ride 7

I take back roads through the fertile wealthy lands of Hesketh Bank and Tarleton. When I was young in Preston my mother tried to encourage a friendship between me and neighbour Simon Booth who was heir to Booths grocers [big around these parts]. The friendship never blossomed but Booths obviously did as I enjoy an Americano in a swish Waitrose-esque supermarket. I cycle on through Longton and pause in Penwortham where we used to live. Whitefriars, our old house, is one of the few things from the past that actually looks bigger than I remember it. A magnificent Victorian pile that is now a heavily guarded nursery.

Whitefriars