Parklife - Treeface

I loved this funny treeface in the park....

 

Parklife - Slogan

Ramsden Family coat of arms on the gate at Greenhead Park. Well they did pay for it. It has the slogan "God Helps the Industrious". ...or it could be "the diligent". Not sure I'd qualify then. I do seem to always see a rat when I'm sketching in the park...

 

Parklife

Life in the Slow Lane with my pals from Art Group, drawing in the park. Thanks folks, you're so brilliant.

 

Ancient Wood and an old moat

Exploring close to home, an old wood and the site of Crosland Hall, location of "The Ellan Feud" in  1304.....excavations in 1977 revealed the remains of the drawbridge supports and stone-lined moat, all now hidden in the garden of a barn and farmhouse. 

                                       

Pleisiosaurus, Ichthyosaurus

 Enormous fossils I managed to squash onto 2 pages and distort, but I enjoyed doing it!

Elf Folklore?

Aforementioned Whitby Pagan Theatre Group. Or Cult. What a shame we couldn't stay for the "adult harvest festival" at Whitby Brewery, but it looks like there's a subliminal message ......

 

Pagan Goings On In Whitby

This extremely nice Guest House in Whitby had absolutely nothing to do with the pagan theatre group performing at the Whitby Brewery. I just drew their poster on the same page......

 

Coconut Armour

Gilbert Island Warrior wearing coconut fibre armour, resplendent in a puffer fish helmet and carrying a shark's tooth lance......think medieval jousting, but with blokes poking each other. Sadly the mining of guano by Europeans made several of the Gilbert Islands uninhabitable and then America set up a big army base there and evicted lots of inhabitants.......and now, to add insult to injury, the islands are under threat of being submerged due to rising sea levels/ climate change. It's enough to make you want to poke someone with a big stick.

 

Whitby Brewery highly recommended....if you can make it up 199 steps! 

Arguments Yard best avoided.....it's actually named after a chap called Thomas Argment, who had a factory nearby in the 17th century

 

Witch Ball......and an old pump

An old cast iron water pump installed at the expense of a Whitby Whaling Captain....and some charms to ward off Whitby witches!