Found By Fire.....Fylingdales Stones,

I was fascinated by the top stone, revealed after moorland fires burnt back the peat in 2003....I recognised the same pattern on chalk drum-shaped stones from Folkton on the Wolds....and the pattern is found on Orkney. What did these shapes and symbols mean, or were they just easy to scratch onto rock?!

See the excellent article 

                         http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/folkton.htm

 

Bronze Age

Bronze Age Weapons at Whitby Museum

 

Whitby Stone Heads

Stone heads from Whitby Museum

 

Sailmaking

In Whitby's sail lofts sails were handmade, rigged and stitched, back-breaking work. (Whitby Museum)

 

Whitby Abbey

I was going to draw the bowhead whale bones in Whitby, where everyone has their photo taken, but my 21st century sensibility was disturbed by the site of the harpoon on top....this collection of whaling tools from a bygone trade with macabre purposes...."flensing" knives, "strand" knives, blubber spades, a lance and harpoons...(Trip to Whitby Museum, last visit in 1977 with Mum, Dad, Nick and Matt , walking the Cleveland Way!) 

 

27 Foot Deep Well Found Under Chip shop!

Discovered under the floor of Cliffe Ash Fish and Chip shop during its conversion to the Colne Valley Museum, the old  well is under the floor, its shaft being where customers unknowingly queued for their chips!

Eagle-eyed people will spot the Museum moved the position of the door and window has been moved when the floor was repaired. With thanks to Alan of Colne Valley Museum for an entertaining trip underground in my hard hat!!

 

Haigh Cross

After reading up about this cross in  "Huddersfield Highways Down the Ages" by W.B. Crump, I located it 3 years ago on  the sad remnants of Lindley Moor, behind a high wall by a truck factory....