The Outwood Experience

 Wednesday 7th October 2026.          The Outwood Experience 

Today’s outing for a small group of the Lads would see them meeting up at Outwood Railway Station, this would be John and Colin travelling by train from Leeds whilst Dave and Kevin would take the train from Wakefield. Meeting them there would be Brian, his daughter had brought him by car.

A suggested time of 10:30 was arranged and that is indeed what took place, from the vicinity of the railway station the lads now ventured into the Lofthouse Colliery Nature Park and began a walk taking in some of the aspects of this particular location , woodland and small fishing ponds etc. This particular part of the walk taking about 50 minutes or so to complete.

Arrangements had been made to meet up with Derek and John Howarth at the 509 cafe situated on the high street in Outwood at about 12:15, from the Nature Park it was about a steady 15 minutes walk for these lads to meet them. 

We have visited this particular cafe on numerous occasions and enjoyed their selection of various meals etc. This time it was a rather hurried affair, unbeknown to us lads last orders would be 12:15. Fortunately for 5 of us we had arrived at a few minutes before midday and were able to place orders for the missing lads. Eventually we all got seated around an appropriate table and were soon relishing our various options of meals.

It was a limited time spent in the 509,  nevertheless all in all we had enjoyed our time here in Outwood.It was just before 1:00 pm as we each said goodbye to each other and began our journeys homeward bound.

Cheers Everyone for taking part even though it was relatively short and sweet.