The small fish pond off Parlington Lane, hidden behind the estate wall can be a very ominous place when the light is low on a winter’s morning, or evening. The view above gives that impression!
October, Picture Post
Above a lovely frosty wistful morning at Parlington, rendered into monochrome with a touch of stylised work, to make it more wintery.
Then at the end of the day, a watercolour like, washed out sunset at Parlington.
Heritage Day: Parlington
Yesterday, on a fine a sunny afternoon I took a walk with a party of enthusiasts, something over thirty in total, around Parlington. The “Walk and Talk”, was a Heritage Open Day function, promoted by Leeds Civic Trust, Leeds City Council, along with English Heritage, and like many others around the country was in celebration of some of our great architectural history, enabling people to explore places not normally open to the public.… Read the full article
Georgian Garden Buildings
Some months ago, in fact towards the end of last year I was contacted by a lady who was jointly producing a book on Georgian garden buildings. She had alighted on an image of mine of the Triumphal Arch at Parlington, being one of many I had posted on Flickr.… Read the full article
Cookie’s
A Short YouTube Video explaining the Cookie law
This site uses cookies via Google Analytics for the purpose of recording traffic, I don’t know anything about the user other than simple facts like Browser type, Operating System, screen resolution etc. As it stands, tracking the visitors is simply a measure of the volume of readers, which can be analysed in a variety of ways, harmless!… Read the full article
A New Industrial Landscape in the Dales
Electricity Generation in the UK
Yorkshire has a mixture of good and bad when it comes to the landscape, those areas which were once the backbone of the Industrial Revolution, have largely disappeared, leaving behind a post industrial wasteland. Sheffield and Rotherham for example were heavily polluted by the steel making, but rather than refining our techniques and cleaning them up so we could demonstrate to the World we could make the heavy stuff and still have a decent environment we exported much of our expertise to the less developed part of the World.… Read the full article
A Sign of the Times – Nothing really changes!
A quotation I recently chanced upon, set out below:
… Read the full articleHe says that, on his arrival at Cambridge, he found that the undergraduates drank hard, and that their conversation was even worse than their lives. As for work, they did none at all, but passed their time in cock-fighting, drinking, and creating disturbances.
York Minster Visit
Following a visit to York Minster, to tour the “Hidden Places”, along with 9 other members of the Barwick in Elmet Historical Society, I spent a good couple of hours climbing, descending, squeezing, through small apertures along very narrow corridors and up ever decreasing spiral stairways in the innards of York Minster, viewing at close hand the stunning masonry, much of it dating to the 1200’s.… Read the full article
Triumphal Arch to Feature in New Book
Some time ago I was contacted by a lady who was researching for a book about Georgian garden buildings, she had come across one of my pictures of the Triumphal Arch on Flickr and requested it be included for consideration in the upcoming book about Georgian garden buildings. Naturally I was pleased one of my pictures was in contention for a place in the book, although I have to say its not the one I would have used, however, never look a gift horse in the mouth… and anything which raises the profile of Parlington gets my vote!… Read the full article
R. O. Cockren, Aberford
I recently acquired an obvious studio portrait photograph of nineteenth century vintage of an elderly gentleman taken by the Aberford photographer R. O. Cockren, as below:
I have so far found that in 1834 listed in the Gazetteer of the County of York, a certain William Cockren was a Victualler at the Fox Inn, Aberford.… Read the full article