Author: Fhithich
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Alum Clamp, Ayton Bank
The small knoll in the photo is an alum clamp, a relic of an 18c chemical industry to produce alum. Alum had many uses: medicinal, in tanning to make leather supple and durable, as a mordant in dyeing cloth. It does occur naturally and is known to have been used by the Greeks but on Ayton Bank and in other parts of…
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Black Bank
Recent felling of the plantation on Black Bank on the escarpment of Newton Moor has opened up a completely new prospect of Roseberry Topping. Revealed by the felling were a few interesting looking crags, so I battled through the debris resembling the Tunguska event for a nose around. The crags are nothing to shout about. The foresters…
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Tidkinhow Slack
Late evening walk across Guisborough Moor. The view is NNE across the small stream known as Tidkinhow Slack to Boosbeck, Brotton and the North Sea beyond. Tidkinhow Farm, located on the rise across the field, is almost at the same height above sea level as from where I was standing. It must be quite exposed yet I…
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Hand Stone, Ingleby Moor
On the moor above the village of Ingleby Greenhow is a sandstone post with a carving of a hand on it. I don’t think it actually has a name but most people know it as the hand stone. Above the hand there is carved: TO INGLE BY AND STOX LEY And on the opposite side: TO KIRBY AND HEM…
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Long-Spined Sea Scorpion
Stiff legged from yesterday so an easy day. Low tide at Saltburn this morning and a wander on the beach. Very cold and windy, a complete contrast to yesterday. Explored the rock pools on the scars below Huntcliff. Plenty of crabs and this fish was interesting. I think it’s a long-spined sea scorpion, sometimes called a bullhead or rockfish. It’s…
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Anniversary Waltz
Some couples for their wedding anniversary go out for a romantic meal, others give each other the traditional gifts according to the year (cotton for 1st, paper for 2nd etc.). Wynn and Steve organise a fell race. And have done so for the last nineteen years. The Anniversary Waltz Fell Race starts at Stair, near Keswick…
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Celandine
One of the ideas I had for my daily photo was to record the seasonal changes in the woods and moors. But every time so far I have taken a nature photo I’ve come across something else more interesting. Today was an active rest day. So just a wander around my local patch. In Newton Woods spring…
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Bus Shelter, Three Howes Rigg
In 2014 this bus stop was nominated as the most loneliest in the UK in the BBC magazine. It’s two kilometres from the nearest house at Commondale and once a fortnight the No. 26, operating from Glaisdale to Guisborough, passes at 10:30 in the morning (alternate Thursdays excluding public or bank holidays). That leaves you with two hours forty…
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Flying the Flag on Roseberry
This Union Flag was flying on Roseberry summit this morning. I thought at first it was a BNP publicity stunt, one has recently been erected on Eston Nab, but hand written on the flag were hundreds on names, one I recognised was Lee Rigby so I guess they’re soldiers who have died whilst serving their…
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Tripsdale – T’ Ship Steean
With the dog having had her walkies at the crack of dawn I took the opportunity to have a dogless run and not be restricted to using Public Rights of Way and having to keep her on her lead what with birds nesting and lambs about. So I found myself driving into the Chop Gate…