Day to Day Info Site
Lotherton Hall is a favourite location for many people to visit, and with the ability to “get up close”, to the furnishings and fittings, is perhaps unique in Britains’ Country Houses. However like all old buildings some of the fabric of the house especially the interior décor, is showing signs of age.… Read the full article
This short video about dealing with bureaucrats really made me smile, I hope you like it! Posted on a wet and dismal May Bank Holiday.
During this very pleasant warm spell, which has seen a tremendous bounty of spring blossom across the country, I was delighted to find on a recent visit, some fabulous examples of Wisteria growing in verdant splendour on many fine old Georgian houses in and around Cheltenham. However I have rarely seen any competing examples here in Yorkshire.… Read the full article
If you enjoy the walk along Parlington Lane, from the junction with the old Great North Road in Aberford, west under the Light Arch, along and behind, the Dark Arch, or if you are unafraid of spooks, through the mud inside the arch; then past the Gamekeeper’s Cottage and along past the two Staithes Cottages, and down the hill to Throstle Nest.… Read the full article
The villagers of Aberford enjoyed an afternoon in the sun to celebrate the Royal Wedding, the event was organised by the school PTA along with the local pub, the Arabian horse. Pictures are on my Parlington history site here.
How long do you work for the tax man?
I believe this [see YouTube video below] should be an advert run between television programmes, then people might realise that being better off is not necessarily about earning more, it is equally about paying less, and without a shadow of doubt the elephant in the room on this one is, Taxation, by our Government.… Read the full article
Being interested in the history of our nation, and one who feels we have no need to apologise to anyone for our doings in the past. I don’t much like the way we have to fit in with everything the EU decides, and I’m convinced that if we get a vote in favour of AV, the tendency will be towards more coalition type government, which in my view will cause us to slide yet further down the league of nations.… Read the full article
I read with some interest the concerns of the Woodland Trust in an email sent to me earlier in the week, they [Woodland Trust] were raising the issue of the present Government’s [ConLib] commitment to sell some considerable acreage of forestry to the private sector. I have some serious doubts about this policy, not least because I have extensive knowledge of an estate in the west Yorkshire area, presently in the hands of a “private” concern.… Read the full article
A recent eBay auction for a postcard of Parlington Hall circa 1941 went beyond my budget and I was disappointed to miss the card, however I made some enquiries and did manage to obtain a reasonable digital version; frankly this is all I need to do analysis and set out the conclusions in future articles, the actual card is not required.… Read the full article
I have reverted back to the earlier design style, as a number of vistors said they preferred it, also I found some deficiencies with it so I was easily persuaded to press the delete button!
This new design is to reflect the changes that have occurred recently, not living at Parlington any more, I felt it necessary to keep adding new information as I came by it but also to enlarge the scope of the site.… Read the full article