Out & About …

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

Tag: The Friends’ School

  • Rediscovering a ford on the River Leven: last captured in 1998

    Rediscovering a ford on the River Leven: last captured in 1998

    The other day, out of nowhere, I was jolted back to the year 1998 when a long-forgotten photograph emerged out of cyberspace. It shows the ford on the River Leven, nestled gracefully into the grounds of the Friends’ School at Great Ayton. Astonishingly, I have no recollection of ever capturing this moment, and the realisation…

  • The Friends School

    The Friends School

    The blossom on the stand of cherry trees in front of the old Friends’ School has survived the overnight gales. I’ve written about role of the The Friends School in assisting Jewish refugee children from Nazi controlled Europe before, In all, up to 1940, 32 children from Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary found a new…