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Post by mouse on Nov 21, 2012 4:00:55 GMT -5
love the pic of the moors...very evocative
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Post by maggie on Nov 21, 2012 13:34:22 GMT -5
Lovely pics ratchets - I loved Whitby Abbey particularly.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2012 0:00:52 GMT -5
We all know from the film American Werewolf in London, that the moors harbor werewolves and not to walk on them at night.
I hope everyone in the U.K. really appreciates the beauty and history or your country; I know there are things wrong but there is so much that is right and you have history dating back centuries that you can visit and touch.
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Post by mouse on Dec 4, 2012 6:59:39 GMT -5
sadly not every one does apreciate what we have and are fast covering it in concrete
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2012 15:15:27 GMT -5
sadly not every one does apreciate what we have and are fast covering it in concrete once its gone it's gone forever and so much is lost. Where I came from in the Upper Penisula of Michigan, people refer it as the Land that Time Forgot.....I wish I could go back but then those I loved are gone so would it be the same or just filled with to many ghosts of those I loved and lost? |
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Post by mouse on Dec 5, 2012 3:47:05 GMT -5
absolutely cheffy once its gone.....wanton and deliberate destruction is very hard to come to grips with
as are the attitudes of those who simply do not care
a poster on another site once wrote """what good is the country side"""....it shook me and others ridgid that any one could seriously think that....needless to say that poster was a righton on left leaning PC following idiot...but it displays a mindset
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2012 16:15:22 GMT -5
In the town where I live, Vacaville, CA, fruit and nuts were a major industry but that has stopped and we buy foreign nuts and fruit while the land here sits barren or paved over for a mall or apartments.....we have lost much in the name of progress
I've seen so much farmland taken in the last fifteen years but at least the land between Dixon and Vacaville is designated green belt and only farms can be there; the wonderful smells we get from those fields is great when they cut the hay and the sunflowers are lovely.
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Post by ratchets on Dec 28, 2012 7:45:24 GMT -5
We all know from the film American Werewolf in London, that the moors harbor werewolves and not to walk on them at night. I hope everyone in the U.K. really appreciates the beauty and history or your country; I know there are things wrong but there is so much that is right and you have history dating back centuries that you can visit and touch. I agree! I don't think there's anywhere else you can find so much to do within a days drive - and not just history stuff, but any kind of vacation, beaches, etc. We've enjoyed it here, that's for sure. |
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Post by ratchets on Dec 28, 2012 8:00:48 GMT -5
Some recent pictures from southwest Scotland - Caerlaverock Castle:  Scenery:  |
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Post by ratchets on Dec 28, 2012 8:02:41 GMT -5
And Oxfordshire - The Oxford University Museum of Natural History (which was quite good):  And the White Horse of Uffington:  |
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Post by mouse on Dec 28, 2012 10:56:17 GMT -5
We all know from the film American Werewolf in London, that the moors harbor werewolves and not to walk on them at night. I hope everyone in the U.K. really appreciates the beauty and history or your country; I know there are things wrong but there is so much that is right and you have history dating back centuries that you can visit and touch. I agree! I don't think there's anywhere else you can find so much to do within a days drive - and not just history stuff, but any kind of vacation, beaches, etc. We've enjoyed it here, that's for sure. near to me..five mins by car or 10mins or so walking i can be with an efegy of a crusader in a church that dates back to 13-1400[ the site has had a curch on it even longer]... can look at a tudor school near the ancient church and down the road is the old court house in another direction theres the remains of a bronze age fort.. and another direction roman lakes then theres the roman road and the remains of a roman camp a couple of standing stones and a battle field of the celts and of course all sorts from the industrial revolution including the stone dye vats along the river and the seemingly endless moors..no zombies but dangerous as the weather can change in a tick..the moors have the remains of planes on them where they crashed during ww2...you can get very disorientated on the moors and walk round and round in circles untill your exhausted[people are always having to be rescued by the mountain rescue teams i guess we take it all for granted most of the time |
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Post by markindurham on Dec 28, 2012 11:16:51 GMT -5
I agree! I don't think there's anywhere else you can find so much to do within a days drive - and not just history stuff, but any kind of vacation, beaches, etc. We've enjoyed it here, that's for sure. near to me..five mins by car or 10mins or so walking i can be with an efegy of a crusader in a church that dates back to 13-1400[ the site has had a curch on it even longer]... can look at a tudor school near the ancient church and down the road is the old court house in another direction theres the remains of a bronze age fort.. and another direction roman lakes then theres the roman road and the remains of a roman camp a couple of standing stones and a battle field of the celts and of course all sorts from the industrial revolution including the stone dye vats along the river and the seemingly endless moors..no zombies but dangerous as the weather can change in a tick..the moors have the remains of planes on them where they crashed during ww2...you can get very disorientated on the moors and walk round and round in circles untill your exhausted[people are always having to be rescued by the mountain rescue teams i guess we take it all for granted most of the time I'm only 4 miles from the centre of Durham, which is still only a small city, & the centre in particular, dominated by the Norman cathedral, suffers from modern traffic, but calls to 'modernise' have, in the main, been rejected, & rightly so. It retains much of its old-world charm. Close by are also many Roman remains, including Binchester. Also nearby, are many remains of earthworks from the Iron Age, Middle Ages etc. I'm less than an hour's drive from Hadrian's Wall & its associated antiquities, then there's Arbeia, a reconstruction of the roman fort that dominated the south side of the entrance to the River Tyne, in what is now known as South Shields. Then, of course, we have all the more recent history from the Industrial Revolution, including the birthplace of the railways; technology that changed the world. Again in South Shields, William Greathead, who invented the self-righting lifeboat, is commemorated. many lives have been saved because of him. |
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Post by maggie on Dec 28, 2012 11:37:09 GMT -5
Love your new pictures rachets. You seem to be getting about!
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Post by beth on Dec 28, 2012 13:09:16 GMT -5
Wonderful pictures, ratchets!
Thanks for sharing.
pings
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Post by ratchets on Mar 5, 2013 16:27:36 GMT -5
near to me..five mins by car or 10mins or so walking i can be with an efegy of a crusader in a church that dates back to 13-1400[ the site has had a curch on it even longer]... can look at a tudor school near the ancient church and down the road is the old court house in another direction theres the remains of a bronze age fort.. and another direction roman lakes then theres the roman road and the remains of a roman camp a couple of standing stones and a battle field of the celts and of course all sorts from the industrial revolution including the stone dye vats along the river and the seemingly endless moors..no zombies but dangerous as the weather can change in a tick..the moors have the remains of planes on them where they crashed during ww2...you can get very disorientated on the moors and walk round and round in circles untill your exhausted[people are always having to be rescued by the mountain rescue teams i guess we take it all for granted most of the time I'm only 4 miles from the centre of Durham, which is still only a small city, & the centre in particular, dominated by the Norman cathedral, suffers from modern traffic, but calls to 'modernise' have, in the main, been rejected, & rightly so. It retains much of its old-world charm. Close by are also many Roman remains, including Binchester. Also nearby, are many remains of earthworks from the Iron Age, Middle Ages etc. I'm less than an hour's drive from Hadrian's Wall & its associated antiquities, then there's Arbeia, a reconstruction of the roman fort that dominated the south side of the entrance to the River Tyne, in what is now known as South Shields. Then, of course, we have all the more recent history from the Industrial Revolution, including the birthplace of the railways; technology that changed the world. Again in South Shields, William Greathead, who invented the self-righting lifeboat, is commemorated. many lives have been saved because of him. The next county we saw after your post was actually Durham, ironically enough. The highlights of our trip was the HMS Trincomalee and Durham Castle and Cathedral. I can't seem to locate the pictures though...:-( |
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