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Baildon area

At various places on Baildon Moor there are these cup and ring marked stones. In some places there are similar ring marked stones. There are apparently pre-Celtic and the significance of the markings are unknown.

Barnby (site of the Cawthorne Basin of the Barnsley Canal)
	My great grandfather Samuel Bennett was a boat builder and is believed to have worked at Barnby Basin, which was at the end of the Barnsley Canal.
Cottages by the former canal basin.		Original topping stone of the canal wall at the end of the canal adjacent to the house.	The house, minus the recent extension was across the end of the canal. It was possibly the tally mans house for the coal wagons.

		The main traffic on the Barnsley Canal was coal to Goole and the coast via Knottingley and limestone in the reverse direction. In 1809 The Barnsley Canal Navigation Co built a waggonway to transport coal from the collieries in the valley 2.5 miles from Silkstone Cross.
The visible walls in the house garden are built up on top of the original canal walls.	A loading slab from the canal wall, in front of a brick building from the time of the canal.		A plaque and rails marking the track of the Silkstone Waggonway at Barnby basin.

Bingley area

	Damart Mill reflections, Bingley	Detail on the Damart Mill


The Five-Rise Locks Bingley.			Looking back to Bingley from the top lock.


Boat approaching the Five- rise locks	Boats at the Bingley Five-rise locks.	Above the Five-Rise locks.	Feeding time !

Bradfield area

Hallifield Hall.	Agden Reservoir.		High Bradfield Church.

Bretton (Yorkshire Sculpture Park)

The bridge.	Triple figures.	Twisted figures.	Wasp on castle.


Bee on stump.	Wasp in tree.	Bretton Chapel and figures.	Orchid.


Lady on bicycle.	Bending man.	Wooden figures.	Multiple legs.


Promenade.	Lilies	Lily with daffodils.	Toadstools.

Castle Howard

	Four aspects of the house.


Bridge over river	Fountain	The lake out the back	Temple of four winds

Cawthorne

Old 17th century house	Cawthorne Museum	Old cottages in the village	The old Co-op shop

Doncaster.

A flower pot man on a central reservation railing, 30th August 2003	St George, 30th August 2003		Mallard on the Sidings roundabout, 30th August 2003.


Vulcans lined up for take off on Bawtry Road, 30th August 2003.	A Vulcan on Bawtry Road, 30th August 2003.		The Mayflower on Bawtry Road, 30th August 2003.

Hardcastle Crags
	Gibson Mill was built around 1800. It was one of the first generation mills of the Industrial Revolution. The Mill was driven by a water wheel inside and produced cotton cloth up until 1890. In 1833, 21 workers were employed in the building, each working an average 72 hours per week. In the early 1900s, Gibson Mill began to be used as an ‘entertainment emporium’ for the local people. The facilities included dining saloons, a dancing hall, a roller skating rink, refreshments kiosks and boating on the mill pond. Since the Second World War, Gibson Mill has lay largely unused, until now when the Mill opens to the public for the first time in 50 years. The Mill has been brought back into use as a facility for visitors and for the local community. This ground-breaking project has renovated the Mill as a model of sustainable development, being run with minimum impact on its environment. The £1.6 million project was funded jointly by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Yorkshire Forward and other sources.
Approaching Gibson's Mill		Viewing the mill through the trees.


From below the bridge		The Mill yard


Gibson's Mill reflected.	Reflections in Gibson's Mill pond.		Hardcastle Grags


Mossy wall and path	Toll sign for bridge		Stepping stones below the bridge


Duck family on Hebden Water.	Hebden water

Harewood House

The main entrance to the house on the North Front.	Along the South elevation.		The south elevation overlooking the Terrace Gardens.


Penguins	Storks	Flamingos	A young white owl.


The Terrace Garden	Statue of Orpheus.	The vista from the Terrace Gallery.	The Archery border.

Hebden Bridge

	Boats at Hebden Bridge	Houses by canal


	Chemist shop displays in Hebden Bridge


	Boats at and near Hebden Bridge		Watching the boats go by!

Helmsley
	Helmsley Castle is surrounded by spectacular banks and ditches, the great medieval castle's impressive ruins stand beside the attractive market town of Helmsley. The fortress was probably begun after 1120 by Walter Espec - 'Walter the Woodpecker'. Renowned for piety as well as soldiering, this Norman baron of 'gigantic stature' also founded nearby Rievaulx Abbey and Kirkham Priory.
The Gateway			Warriors


Guarding the gate	The keep viewed through the gateway	The Keep

	But Helmsley is not only a medieval fortress. During the Elizabethan period the Manners family remodelled the castle's chamber block into a luxurious mansion, whose fine plasterwork and panelling still partly survive. The castle's first and last military trial came during the Civil War.
South Barbican and Chamber block		Chamber block	Fireplace and surround

		Most of Helmsley's surviving stonework defences were raised during the late 12th and 13th centuries by the crusader Robert de Roos and his descendants. They include a pair of immensely strong 'barbican' entrances and the high, keep-like east tower, unusually D-shaped in plan, which still dominates the town
Sky through the keep	General view of stonework		The south barbican


Helmsley Church from the Castle		Helmsley Castle Visitor Centre.

Heptonstall	It was around Heptonstall that the notorious Crag Vale Coiners, led by the so-called "King" David Hartley, supplemented their meagre incomes from cloth-making and farming by making new coins from "old". David Hartley was subsequently hanged for murder in 1770 and buried in Heptonstall churchyard. Their lives were laced with intrigue and murder and their legend lives on in the town to this day. Heptonstall had it own cloth hall, and its own Grammar School, which is now a museum open to the public. Rebuilt in the 14th and 15th Centuries, the remains of the early Parish church are still a focal point in the town. Its roof was torn off by gale force winds in the mid nineteenth century, but the new Victorian Gothic church was built close to the original site, without disturbing its ruined predecessor.		The chapel was erected between 1256 and 1260 and was dedicated to Thomas a Becket who was murdered in 1170, became a saint in 1173, and was a popular symbol of resistance to state authority. It had a chancel, a south nave, which is still standing, and a tower. Much re-furbishment occurred in the 14th and 15th centuries and eventually there were two naves, two aisles and two chantry chapels as well as a tower. It would have been a built quite low, so as to avoid the worst elements that the Pennine weather can produce. The fabric of the old building had begun to deteriorate and in 1847 a great storm destroyed the West face of the tower and plans were made to replace the whole structure. This plan was scrapped in favour of building a new church, and the old church continued to be used until 1854 when the new one was finally finished.



Howarth

The Information Centre at the top of the street, Nov 2003.	Looking down the cobbled main street, Nov 2003	A nostalgic look at the sweet shop in November 2003	The Bronte Parsonage, where the Bronte family lived from 1820. It is now a museum.


The Black Bull, where Branwell Bronte drank himself to death at the age of 31!	The pharmacy where Betty Hardacre sold Branwell the drug laudenum, which is an opiate.	Howarth Church of which Patrick Bronte was vicar from April 1820.	Bronte bridge is up on the moors and a clapper-type crossing South Dean Beck.


Another view of the Bronte Bridge.	The Bronte Falls, described by Charlotte as a 'perfect torrent racing over the rocks', but is usually just a trickle of water!		Top Withens, identified as the home of the Earnshaw family in Emily's novel 'Wuthering Heights'

Hull

Dolphin statue outside The Deep.	Shoal of fish in The Deep		Rocks, plant and fish.


Sharks in The Deep.

Hutton-le-Hole

Sheep and stream through Hutton-le-Hole	Stream	Seat on the green	Church


View up Hutton-le-Hole	Houses	Tearooms	Former school


Ryedale Museum and shops	Fordson tractor	Ryedale Folk Museum	Ryedale Folk Museum


Street in museum	Chemist shop		Through the window

Lastingham
	Lastingham has been a centre of Worship and devotion since the 7th Century. Sited in a secluded valley in the North York Moors, St Mary's has one of the most attractive settings of any church in Yorkshire. Its remoteness no doubt recommended Lastingham to St Cedd who, according to the Venerable Bede, founded a monastery here in 654. He was succeeded as abbot by his brother St Chad, but nothing is then known of Lastingham until 1078 when Stephen of Whitby restored the monastery as a Benedictine house. What survives of the early Norman church today is the crypt, the eastern arm and the crossing bay; the western arm was hardly started when the monks decamped to St Mary's Abbey in York in 1086. The church itself has an eastern apse and then two bays; originally one of these was intended to be the chancel and the second the base of the crossing below a tower that was never built. Outside there are flat buttresses typical of Norman work, and a corbel table with heads and grotesques. The aisles were added in the 13th - 14th century and the west tower in the 15th century.



		A radical restoration, in which the building reached its present form, including the wonderful stone vaulted roof which gives the building such good acoustics. The gift of Sydney Ringer, in memory of his daughter Annie, who had died in London on her seventh birthday.
Main Altar			Porch

	If you walk down the stairs to the crypt, you are stepping back in time. In this holy place the spirits of Cedd and Chad move on the stones of the floor and in the air that you breathe. Stephens first act was to build a crypt where the little stone church stood as a shrine to St. Cedd. So as you look towards the altar in the crypt, you may well be looking at the very place where St Chad celebrated Mass, and beside which his brother Cedd is Buried. An entrance from the outside on the north side enabled pilgrims to come directly to the shrine to pray at the place of burial of St. Cedd. The Arches are typically early Norman; the pillars show a gradual growth in ornamentation, but most have a simple ram's horn capital as in the work of the same period in the upper Church. The crypt is a little church in itself, with side aisles and apse. This is unique in a crypt in England. But the glory of Lastingham lies not in its architectural features, but in the atmosphere of Christianity which speaks to us across the centauries. The Crypt has remained virtually unchanged since the time of William the Conqueror.


		The crypt was built as a shrine to St Cedd on his supposed burial site. The original entrance was on the north side (access is now from the west) and it exists as nine vaulted compartments with an eastern apse. The vaults are supported on short robust columns. The capitals are either of the simple 'cushion' form or carved with simple volutes, intersecting arches and primitive leaves.
	A Viking hog back tombstone

	Sydney Ringer was a remarkable scientist and doctor, strongly associated with the village of Lastingham and St Mary’s Church through much of his adult life. He lies buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s, together with his wife Anne, née Darley, and elder daughter Annie, . who had died in London on her seventh birthday. You will see Ringer, and members of his family, named in several of St Mary’s stained glass windows, which date mostly from 1879 restoration. Later additions, in the west wall, commemorate his wife and his sister-in-law, Florence, who predeceased him.





	The Blacksmiths Arms, opposite the church, is a late 17^th-century stone built coaching inn well hidden in the North Yorks Moors National Park. The bar ceiling has a collection of tankards and beer mats and also has an old range and oven.
The bar ceiling		The range	Cottage in the village

Micklethwaite to Silsden on the Leeds Liverpool canal







Ripponden area

Snow drift above Ripponden, February 2003	Ripponden Church, February 2003.		A track in the snow near Ripponden, February 2003.

Saltaire area

Boats on the canal near Saltaire	The top of the Shipley Glen Cable Tramway, originally built in 1895.		A emerging from a lock near Saltaire.

Silkstone area

A reconstructed wagon, which was pulled by a horse, on reconstructed Track at Silkstone Cross.	A passing loop on the Silkstone Waggonway showing a reconstructed sample track on original rail footings. The waggonway was built to carry coal from the pits of the valley near Silkstone to the Barnsley Canal at Barnby Basin.		A ruined 18th Century blast furnace near the Silkstone Waggonway.


An interesting gate near Silkstone..		A plough built into a boundary wall as a seat near Silkstone.

York


	The Shambles

Jones of York	A flowery Punch Bowl	Stonegate	Mulberry Hall


Teddy Bear Tea Rooms	Coat or Arms on shop		Window display


Mallard at the National Rail Museum	Rocket at National Rail Museum	York Minster from the Wheel by the NRM	York and station from the wheel