Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Part III: Back in Yorkshire, July 2 - 13

 The glasshouse at the Botanic Garden
 Arbor Low.

 The Nine Ladies


 The Kelham Island Industrial Museum.
 Granny: "the Year Knife: originally made by a Sheffield firm (of course) Peter thinks for the 1851 Exhibition, it has a blade for every year, starting with 1851 blades, but he thinks the firm adds another each year. Not very practical."
 York Minster
Granny: "the Castle Museum (where there was a good exhibition on WW1, and reconstructed Victorian city streets)"
 The Clifford Tower, all that remains of the actual York Castle.

 The Derwent and Howden Reservoirs (Dambusters).

 From walks in the Porter Valley.

Yorkshire Wildlife park.

 Leeds Town Hall.
 Royal Armouries in Leeds.
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  Ditto.  Granny: "the only extant complete set of elephant armour, apparently - I can't remember date, but not that old."




 That's finally it for the Armouries.
Entering the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
 "The Last Supper"
 "Molecule Man"



 Feeding ducks at Forge Dam (descendants of ducks he fed when he was about 7.)  From Thomas's last walk before his return home.

Part II: Devon, 27 June to 1 July

 Knightshayes House.
Ditto.  (Grandpa: "I think this is the room which was a shrine for the son who died in WW I)
 Hickling Cottage (chez Grandpa and Margaret) taken from the back deck, up on a slope
 The pool, above that.
 Grandpa: " Knightshayes: the main hall from the balcony built for ladies to ogle the men"
 The lawn, Grandpa thinks, at Castle Drogo.
 Grandpa: "the vista from the terrace in front of Knightshayes House, with the haha in the middle distance (invisible, obviously)"
 Ditto.
 Knightshayes House.
 One of its rooms.
 The garden at (Grandpa thinks) Killerton House
 Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum.  (Thomas played Grandpa at an oversized chessboard there when he (Thomas) was tiny.)
 Grandpa: "appears to be a train going north from St David's Station, Exeter"
 Dartmoor: start of walk, Arms Tor on the horizon
ditto, flanks of Arms Tor
 Thomas's very own Tor, named after him by Grandpa (it's official!)
 Grandpa surveys his domain.

 Thomas's Tor and view to the north, including Great Nodden
 Grandpa: "Little Links Tor, I think"
 Grandpa struggling to keep up on the slope up from Thomas's Tor to Great Links Tor

 Old peat railway track

 Stoke Woods, just down the road from Hickling Cottage.

Thomas's photos with grandparental comments: Part I, Sheffield, 22-26 June

 The Monsal Trail (first cycle outing) taken from the Monsal Viaduct.

More Monsal Trail.






Various walks from Granny & Peter's house.  (Park reachable by steep nettly path through fields.)

The Winter Garden in central Sheffield.