From Huntingdon we travelled up to Buxton for an overnight stop.  We stayed at the Palace Hotel. My photo of the facade did not come out well.

The room they gave us was well appointed and we had a good stay. Unfortunately we returned later in the year and that room was looking extremely tired and in need of refurbishment, which kind of put us off going back.

Nevertheless, the hotel has an imposing staircase:-

And the dining room ceiling is quite fancy:-

I took another photo of the Opera House and adjacent Pavilion Gardens:-

Pagoda in Pavilion Gardens:-

Pond and bridge:-

Bridge parapet, pond and trees:-

A different bridge:-

15 goslings with parents in the Gardens:-

Incarcerated train. It was late in the evening; the miniature railway was shut for the night :-

Huntingdon’s War Memorial is the most prominent feature of the main square (Market Square.)

From this Information Board I found it’s called “The Thinking Soldier.”

Great War and World War 2 Dedications:-

Later Conflicts Dedication:-

Side view:-

Memorial stone in grounds of All Saints Church:-

“Ghost Soldier” in grounds of All Saints Church:-

On the way up from the ferry back from The Netherlands last year we stopped off to have a look at Huntingdon – a place we hadn’t visited before.

Town Hall in main square:-

Old building also on square:-

All Saints Church lies beside the main square:-

It has nice arched windows glass and statuary in niches.

View from other side:-

Huntingdon was where Oliver Cromwell was born and the constituency he represented in Parliament. A bench in the square (with All Saints church in background) and a rubbish bin seems an odd way to commemorate him though.

But they do have a Cromwell Museum:-

The bench with the yellow heart on it in the first photo of the Church above is a memorial to the victims of Covid:-