Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 12 February 2019

  • Excavation of James Cook Senior’s Cottage

    Excavation of James Cook Senior’s Cottage

    An archaeological dig is currently underway in Great Ayton. For those of you who are not familiar with the story, the cottage of James Cook, the father of the famous explorer, Captain James Cook, was sold in 1934, dismantled stone by stone and shipped to Australia where it was re-erected in the Fitzroy Gardens in…