Unusual Photographic Opportunities In and Around York

Unusual Photographic Opportunities In and Around York

At the West Front, where the visitors’ entrance can be found today, is a 1990’s version of an original Genesis cycle decorating the ceremonial doors.  God’s hand wraps around the globe in his first act of creation and then encircles Adam and Eve.  Noah is...
A Mediterranean Garden in Yorkshire

A Mediterranean Garden in Yorkshire

Beningbrough Hall, an 18th century manor overlooking the river Ouse near York has an exciting addition to its historic landscape: a Mediterranean Garden designed by award-winning landscape architect Andy Sturgeon. Created as part of a long-term masterplan for the...
Toast Art in Haworth

Toast Art in Haworth

I regularly stop at St.Michael & All Angels Church in Haworth on my Bronte tours. The church is next to the Bronte Parsonage Museum, but all that is left of the church from the Bronte sisters time is the tower, the rest of the church being re-built after Patrick...
Bradford’s Wool Exchange

Bradford’s Wool Exchange

The former Wool Exchange is one of Bradford’s three Grade 1 listed buildings and perhaps the most iconic reminder of the city’s illustrious past. It is now, possibly, the finest Waterstone’s Bookshop in the land.    The Exchange, where wool brokers,...
Saint Cuthbert in York Minster

Saint Cuthbert in York Minster

Saint Cuthbert, the North’s favourite saint, is closely connected to Melrose, where he trained as a monk, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne off the Northumberland coast, where he dedicated his life to God as monk, hermit and bishop and Durham Cathedral, where his shrine...
Little Railways of the Yorkshire Dales

Little Railways of the Yorkshire Dales

The inaugural run of the Stockton to Darlington Railway took place on 27th September 1825 so this year, as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the steam train, we also remember some of the little trains that once clattered along a network of narrow-gauge railways...