The Manor House Museum, Ilkley Isn't it odd that you'll often travel half way around the world to see things, and yet there are sometimes places right under your nose that you have never looked at ? Manor House Museum. So this morning after a quick ramble around the moors I popped in to have a look. There is a small museum with a potted history of Ilkley from the Romans, through the Dark Ages, the coming of hydropathy to Ilkley, there are also lots of old photographs of Ilkley locations past and present. Upstairs there is a nice art gallery which at the moment is hosting the Burley-In-Wharfedale & Menston Arts Clubs 2008 Annual Exhibition. There are 80+ paintings on view, nearly all of which may be purchased when the show ends. I was quite taken by Babara Tower's watercolour of 'Autumn Evening, Grimwith'. I've walked around Grimwith many times and the picture will be a nice reminder of pleasant walks when I get it put up on my office wall.