A far cry from the romantic images of stage coaches and teams of four. Presumably most traffic on early Victorian roads would be goods vehicles like this.

I knew Sr George’s Hall had seen many historic performances (even attended a few myself: Everly Brothers, Crowded House) but Charles Dickens on tour - wow!

So sorry to hear this. Really hope you find a way of continuing your project that is workable and comfortable. So grateful you continue to share your beautiful work.

Drove down another Finkle St today- Knaresborough’s has a sharp bend on a steep, narrow street leading to the station.

Unless they attract a better range of shops it will still be a scruffy street doubling as a bus station 😏

Obviously trying to outdo the Howards of Castle Howard- a three tier mausoleum, and not one, but four obelisks!

Good idea but just a pity about quality of the retail outlets.

It’s random mischance in their case-the elder, Robert, was with the Anzacs having emigrated to Australia, while Alf had already been wounded but returned to the front with the KRRC in 1917. He had been recruited by the Earl of Feversham who was then killed at the Somme. So much pointless loss.

You can indeed and it’s a very nice place to stay in the guest house or farm cottages. The painting is a bit fanciful re landscape but the monument is accurate. Farm in the distance was my great grandparents’ last. They didn’t survive the sad loss of 2 sons at Passchendaele very long. 🥲

Astonishing and poignant account - thanks very much. Is it possible to identify exactly where the brewery and those streets were? Assume they disappeared when the St Giles’ rookery was cleared?

He needs a trip to N Leeds where our grandson’s diverse year 6 class could teach him a thing or two, thanks to their hardworking teachers. Then he could pop up the road to learn from Harewood House how Britain’s colonial past is being addressed by through its current Austen/Turner exhibition.

It’s a wonderful little building close to much more recent almshouses - a real window into a lost medieval world.

Antique Persian presumably? Sure Noah’s Ark Centre would appreciate a donation!

How lovely! We have never seen it before despite knowing the area very well indeed.

So sad to see empty Carnegie libraries around W Yorks. The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC has recreated Carnegie’s office in his former Fifth Ave mansion. Also has a lovely garden.

Do you think he wrote it himself? There’s quite a bit of technical detail there!

Lucy Mangan is doing her best to be uncharacteristically kind about a production which makes some great talents look like idiots, in a third rate fantasy saga. Neither good history nor good drama - and terrible sets.

Below the cave is the disappearing Hodge Beck. In current conditions you can walk along the stream bed which is made up of oolitic limestone containing tiny fossils. In spring the steep banks are covered in primroses, violets and a few wild daffodils.

The wildflowers in late spring are really lovely and the sheep are still safely grazing. A nearby lake attracts some interesting wildfowl too.