Spanning the Years
We’ve just spent a peaceful week in the lovely Shropshire market town of Ludlow. There are plenty of good walks...
This week’s picture is from the Ryedale Folk Museum in the lovely village of Hutton-le-Hole in North Yorkshire. This daylight...
Another good old fashioned Lancashire word. To Larrup means to beat or thrash. As a kid the last thing you...
This week’s picture is of St. Gregory’s Minster, near Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire. The minster dates from Anglo Saxon times. The...
This week’s word is another northern english dialect word you don’t hear much of nowadays. A ginnel is a narrow...
Here’s one from the archives, when holiday making was a serious business Now that we’re in the middle of the...
Getting up close in Pickering Castle Lunchtime on my first full day’s shift at Pickering Castle was a leisurely stroll...
…with words and pictures. I’m a writer and photographer living in North Yorkshire, England. I write about family and community history, the world around me and how literature and the arts bring the story of the past to life.
