Out & About …

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

Day: 21 December 2022

  • The story of Cleopatra’s Needle’s journey to Britain

    The story of Cleopatra’s Needle’s journey to Britain

    The well-known monument to Capt. James Cook was erected in 1827. The design of an obelisk has led some to speculate a masonic connection. But the more probable reasoning was that obelisks were simply in vogue. In that year, Dublin had begun its erection of the Wellington Monument in Phoenix Park to commemorate victories by…