To Haworth by train and Elizabethan mansions

A pilgrimage to Haworth can only be a pilgrimage to the places where Emily Brontë actually lived and wrote with her sisters Charlotte and Anne. The sound produced by the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway's steam locomotive, the ephemeral sculptures drawn above the trains by the puffs of steam of this historic railway that has preserved the original signs transport one directly back to the time cherished by the Brontë family, so devoted to letters, as can be deduced by visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum, originally a country parsonage where the small world of objects dear to the author of the novel Wuthering Heights has been reconstructed. Lunch at the Old Post Office, Haworth's original post office, is very atmospheric, and then walk along the Brontë Way towards the Yorkshire Moors to reach Top Withens at dusk, the house that would have inspired Emily's descriptions of the home of

Heathcliff, and the nearby Brontë Waterfalls. The rather solemn Elizabethan manor house of Oakwell Hall in Birstall famous for its dark wood-panelled rooms and finely decorated ceilings, and the melancholic East Riddlesden Hall with its grey façade, low-ceilinged rooms and creaking floors also convey the restlessness that permeates the film. It is in these places that the intense dialogue recited by perhaps the most famous lovers in literature comes to mind: "What would you do if you were rich, Heathcliff?" "I suppose I'd do what rich people do: I'd have a nice house, I'd be cruel to servants, I'd take a wife." "Wife? What wife."