Telling Stories With Words and Pictures
This week’s picture is of St. Gregory’s Minster, near Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire. The minster dates from Anglo Saxon times. The sundial in the porch was probably donated to the church sometime in the 1050’s or 60’s. This beautiful small church is well worth a visit if you’re passing.
A new adventure in some interesting places. I’ve always fancied living in a castle, and now I’ve found the next best thing. Looking for something a little different to do, I’ve landed myself a part-time job with English Heritage at Pickering Castle. A couple of weeks ago I published a post about our visit there. …
Keeping the balance with a word from over the Pennines Most of my ancestors are from Lancashire and Derbyshire, but I do have a few from Yorkshire. So I thought it was only fair that this week’s word came from over the Pennines. This week’s word is courtesy of The Yorkshire Dictionary by Arnold Kellet. …
Liz and I had a midweek trip out to the pretty village of Coxwold to visit Newburgh Priory. Despite its name the priory is actually a Tudor house, built on the site of an earlier religious building and has belonged to the same family, the Wombewell’s, since 1545. Unfortunately we were on allowed to take …