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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · 7d

V O L C A N O N I G H T

Alnmouth, September 2025

Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Sep 8

Back in the 1930s and 1940s more than 300 tons of damsons were sent down to the jam factories of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The income from the damsons was often used to pay the annual rent of a farm. Now the growers just pick to sell on the roadside or for private customers.

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Sep 8

T H E D A M S O N R O U T E
Aug / Sept 2025

One of my very favourite road trips is along the Lyth Valley following the damson signs to the farms in the low fells. And this year the harvest has been huge with so many stalls along the route.

#cumbria

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Aug 25

Stiffkey saltmarsh
5.24am

#norfolk

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Jul 22

S E A L A V E N D E R

Stiffkey, Norfolk

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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · Jun 18

One more #SheepOfTheDay from Greenholme: congratulations to Joshua Capstick, who won first prize in the Lego model class in the handicrafts tent with his splendid Rough Fell tup

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Jul 12

T H E B A Y

Last light.

#morecambebay

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Jun 1

T A N H I L L S H O W

Another wild and windy day for the annual Tan Hill Swaledale Sheep Show up in Arkengarthdale/Swaledale this week.

#yorkshiredales

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · May 23

K E S W I C K M A Y F A I R

The judges table for tea, a Herdwick tup, Anthony Hartley’s trophies including The Edmondson Cup for the best shearling.

This was first presented in 1928 and is the most coveted cup in Herdwick showing. It was also once won by Beatrix Potter.

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · May 2

Love a proper paper tide table 😊

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · May 2

This bank holiday weekend is the very last chance to see FARM / MILL / BAKE at Ryedale Folk Museum.

Free entry
10 – 5

A special thank you goes to Nelly Trevelyan, Ryedale Folk Museum and all the farmers, millers and bakers who worked with me to share the story of bread in our region.

#bread

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · May 2

Thank you for visiting x

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Apr 23

Such a great story - inspiring, beautiful and important.

#nidderdale

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Why a man walked 53 miles dressed as a curlew over Easter

Matt Trevelyan, formerly a puppet maker, made his lightweight costume out of polystyrene and bamboo

www.independent.co.uk

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Apr 21

World Curlew Day is a grass-roots initiative which champions curlews worldwide. Created by Mary Colwell in 2017, the day shines a light on the dangers curlews face due to habitat loss, land-use changes and climate pressures.

Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Apr 21

WORLD CURLEW DAY

Over the Easter weekend, Matt Trevelyan, a FiPL officer for Nidderdale National Landscape, walked the 53-mile Nidderdale Way to raise awareness of one of our most iconic and threatened birds: the Eurasian Curlew – dressed as Cathy the curlew.

#nidderdale

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Apr 20

🐰 H A P P Y E A S T E R 🐰

Cruffin and hot cross buns - from Haxby Bakehouse and Stark Farm Bakery.

#yorkshire

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Apr 11

O N T H E R O A D

Road tripping in and around Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park and the reindeer herding areas

#finland

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Apr 11

The snow is now compacted and frozen and can hold your weight so I am also free to wander away from the cleared path for the first time. This is not normal for April.

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Apr 11

U P T H E F E L L

-6 and no wind. Completely silent other than my feet crunching through the snow. It’s so different this time, there’s a new footpath going further up the fell than before.

#finland

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Apr 5

Currently on show at Ryedale Folk Museum www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk/whats-on-2/

Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Apr 5

Thank you to @realbreadcampaign.bsky.social for sharing images from FARM / MILL / BAKE in the latest issue of their supporters’ magazine 'True Loaf'.

You can get your copy by joining the Campaign via their website: sustainweb.org/realbread/

Image: Haxby Bakehouse, York

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Mar 31

En route….

#lincolnshirewolds

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · Mar 29

Marking her new exhibition 'Farm / Mill / Bake', Ryedale Folk Museum speak to documentary photographer @tessabunney.bsky.social about capturing organic bread production from field to table: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/03/farm...

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Mar 25

🤩NOW OPEN🤩
until 5th May (except Friday’s)!

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Tessa Bunney @tessabunney.bsky.social · Mar 14

Thank you Rob!

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