Advantages: Lovely town, Wonderful countryside Disadvantages: Gets busy in season
Do you enjoy seeing the likes of cascading waterfalls,delightfully unspoiltcountryside,thriving little market towns, a gentle pace of life and traditional arts and crafts ? If you do then a little spot just made for you is Hawes,a big village or little market town, located at the head of Wensleydale.
Wensleydale,once known as Yoredale,is absolutely gorgeous and
is actually the largest of the Yorkshire Dales. Busy little Hawes with its cobbled main street,is one of its gems.
Small it may be but Hawes has so much to interest the visitor. For
starters it is the highest market town in England at 850 feet
above sea level(asl) and is surrounded by some stunningly beautiful countryside.
The town itself has some very pleasant stone buildings,houses ,antique shops, a ropemaker,a glass blower, a woodturner,the Wensleydale
Pottery ...
Advantages: Interesting displays with a lot of interactive possibilities. Disadvantages: the Journey of Yorvik streets is short and could be slower.
called Hnefetafl. Then you will come across the blacksmith's home, an example of an old, simpler, single storey building made from wattle and daub, which suffered from severe dampness. Next you pass the woodturner's home, a brand new cellared building made entirely from oak. Don?t be surprised when the speakers by your ears become rowdy because you are just encountering the woodturner at work as well as an afternoon chat between two men and a woman. The woman is their neighbour in the opposite street and just leans over on her wall. Also don?t panic if you smell some unpleasant odours in the air, such as rotting fish or even worse than that, in particular when you see a man sitting on a Viking cesspit. Yorvik was home to 10,000 people and covered in filth and muck. Proper sanitation was a long way in the future.
When you ?ramble? around ...
Advantages: Huge product range, extensive product details, great customer service Disadvantages: Delivery time
Product Range
Axminster stock many different types of tools and accessories for many different trades. They stock hobby tools, trade tools, industrial tools and even production tools. Their catalogue tells you which categories the tool you are interested in falls in. As well as power and hand tools, Axminster also stock wood for woodturning, woodturning project kits and lime for carving. Just to top it off, they even sell books and DVDs covering a wide range of trades. I cannot give you a very good impression of the gigantic range of products that Axminster stock, so if you will have to visit their website. To put it into perspective, their catalogue is A4 size and has over 600 pages.
The Catalogue
The Axminster catalogue, as I said, has over 600 pages. It is full colour and every tool has a picture so that you know what you ...
matty0501 03.09.2007
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