Fountain, Temple Newsam House - Leeds

It occured to me the other day that although I have posted several stories on the Leeds daily photo about Temple Newsam I had not yet shown any photographs other than the parkland and the Home Farm, Temple Newsam, Leeds.

So today the above photograph shows a fountain in the ornamental gardens of the Tudor house on the Temple Newsam estate. Behind the fountain in the picture you can see one wing of the Temple Newsam house.

The Temple Nesam estate is quite historic having once been owned by the Knights Templar when they were given it in around 1155. The Knights Templar owned several pieces of land around Leeds and today there are still signs of this. However in 1307 on October 13th, a Friday, king Philip of France (Philip the fair) decided he had had enough of the growing power and wealth of the Templars and secretly ordered the arrest of hundreds of Templars throughout France. They were rounded up tortured and then executed on the orders of the French King. Later when the other rulers around europe realised he had done this with impunity Pope Clement V having given in to pressure from Philip the Templars were done for.

The Temple Newsam estate was handed over to Sir Philip Darcy by royal decree in 1377.

Between 1500 and 1520 a Tudor house was built on the estate Temple Newsam house.

In 1622 the estate was bought for the then huge sum of £16,000 by Sir Arthur Ingram who over the next 20 years rebuilt the house.

The estate was sold to Leeds corporation (Leeds city council) by Edward Wood in 1922 for a nominal sum with covenants on the sale to ensure its future. I guess he did not trust the council after they had compulsorily purchased 610 acres of the estate to build a sewage works in 1909. Wood later become Foreign Secretary and Vireroy of India, later being appointed the British Ambassador in Washington, finally becoming chairman of the BBC. If I was Edward Wood I think I would most like to be thought of today as the person behind the preservation of the Temple Newsam Estate. But I guess most people visiting the estate today might just possibly remember him as the 1st Earl of Halifax.

Bounce, Bounce, Bounce - Tom Walking in Leeds

I was sat on the steps outside the corn exchange in Leeds eating a donut and a banana milkshake when 2 young men bounced past on stilts. Normally I would have ran after them with my camera but I had only just sat down.

Later walking down past Waterloo House I saw them practising on their "stilts" by the railway arches so I went over and said hi.

In the photograph above you can see Tom on his Powerizers striding adjacent to the railway arches. I had never seen anyone with these things before so was pleased that Tom said OK when I asked if I could take some pictures. Tom has had them for a couple of months and is still learning the ropes as it were.



You can see in the photo above a better view of the kit attached to his legs. These spring-loaded stilts were patented in Germany by Alexander Böck in 2003. His name is now used when performing jumping, running and acrobatics using these stilts as 'Bocking' or 'PowerBocking'.

The Leeds Library - A Quiet Corner

I was looking through the photographs that I took of the inside of The Leeds Library a few weeks back and I quite like this photo of an old windsor chair in a quiet corner surrounded by books.

Since I first looked around The Leeds Library I have paid up and become a member, working in Leeds city centre I find it really handy to have somewhere to go and read a newspaper and have a tea or coffee. Yes I could go to Starbucks but this library is a haven in the midst of the bustle of Leeds city life.

I love these old wooden windsor chairs, named after the town on the river Thames in Berkshire. We had a few when I was a boy at home and the design with a few variations is much the same since they first appeared in the 17th century.

Copyright of Photographs on The Net

When I started the Leeds daily photo on Christmas Eve 2008 I had no real idea of where this blog my take me. I hoped my photography would improve and that I would explore places in Yorkshire that I had never been to.

I never thought much if at all about copyright and its application to my work after all I am not much of a writer and never have pretended to be so. That said I guess like many of the Daily photo community my photographs and photography is a whole different issue.

I created the image above showing the copyright symbol showing the circle enclosing a c because I did not want to use an image belonging to someone else. I am no wiz with graphics but it did not take me long to create my own image with the copyright symbol on it and then I watermarked this picture with my

(C)www.yorkshiredailyphoto.com.

I well recall Babooshka over at Ramsey daily photo doing a good impression of someone outraged by the theft of one of her images by a well known BIG media company. Having read her story I guess I was more surprised that a big household name company would do such a thing rather than outraged.

My story today means that I get to post a photograph from earlier on the Leeds DP a new thing for me. So far each photograph on my blog is a new one, until today that is. I posted about Temple Newsam home farm in March of this year and included in the post a photo of a Tamworth piglet with part of a small girl in the photo.

This image you can see below, I have added large watermark copyright to make my point!



Last night I was looking at Google images around Leeds to see how well I was doing with various search terms and was quite pleased with the results. Then I noticed the picture of the Tamworth piglet and little girl and underneath was the URL: name "teachers-guide.co.uk". Now I have never heard of this outfit nor had any dealings with them. I have always had a soft spot for pigs, especially those rare breeds including the Tamworth pig.

This is the original post that I did about Temple Newsam home farm, Leeds. Showing on the post my original picture of the Tamworth piglet, note I never used to watermark copyright into my pictures.

This is the borrowed image of the same Tamworth piglet Note the URL is nothing to do with Leeds DP and I have never given, sold or licensed any pig image.

Interesting... Now I have given some thought to this issue today and think I have several options. Do I....

A, Send the company an invoice for the image £250.

B, Ask the company to explain my Tamworth pig image appearing on their website.

C, Ring them up and ask them if they want to buy some stock photographs. If they say they never do refer them to option B.

D, Send hosting service of the website a cease and desist notice giving them 24 hours to remove the offending image.

Then finally the nuclear option...

E, If option D fails mail Google (hard copy) and ask them to remove the offending page from their SERPS and file a DMCA complaint (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) with Google.

Oddly I mentioned the image being used to someone I know this afternoon and he said "well its in the public domain", now you should know this guy earns his living by a picture framing business that he owns and runs. By that thought anything on a shelf in the supermarket could be thought of as in the public domain.

A couple of months ago I started to watermark the images I used in this blog.

Your thoughts on this subject will be appreciated.

Cat on Stone - Yorkshire

I was driving along a country lane just north of Leeds not far from the village of Arthington when I saw this cat. As you can see in the picture there is a cat painted on the field entrance stone.

It is beautiful countryside between Leeds and Harrogate and on this day the sun was shining and the birds were singing my roof was off and everything was fine.

Whenever I travel anywhere now I am always on the lookout for subjects to photograph and write about for the Leeds daily photo, so seeing this cat I pulled over and got my camera out.

I am slowly building a portfolio of photographs of the countryside in and around Leeds with the idea that eventually I will have a decent library of stock photographs of this part of Yorkshire.

Sheep in Churchyard - Rawdon, Leeds

This photograph shows something I have not seen in many years, sheep in a churchyard being used as a lawnmower. This was quite a common sight in the Cotswolds where I lived as a boy.

There were several sheep in the Rawdon churchyard, but I think they were camera shy running off when they saw me.



The church in the photograph is Saint Peter's Church, Rawdon, Leeds.

Rawdon is a village in Leeds, West Yorkshire, Saint Peter's is the parish church, built in the 17th century by Francis Layton of Layton Hall and enlarged in 1864.

This is the 250th post on my Leeds in Yorkshire daily photo blog. When I first started this blog I would never think of asking someone to pose for me to photograph them so the early pictures were mostly buildings. Today I asked someone to pose for this blog, gave them my card to which they said "cool".

Concorde G-BOAC - Manchester Airport

The answer to my Can You Tell What It Is? can be seen in the photograph above. It is G-BOAC Concorde 204 formerly the flagship of the British Airways fleet.

The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde aircraft was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport (SST).

Concorde 204 had its maiden flight 27th February 1975 Filton, England, flew 6 761 supersonic flights and flew its final flight October 31st 2003 - LHR - MAN.

G-BOAC now lives in retirement at Manchester Airport’s Aviation Viewing Park in a specially built visitor centre.

I may be wrong but I think that concorde is probably the only passenger plane ever built that all 18 surving planes of the 20 built now reside in museums. Two of the concorde aeroplanes did not make retirement 203 F-BTSC crashed as Air France flight 4590 from CDG, Paris killing all 109 passengers and crew and 4 people on the ground. The other concorde that no longer exists is 211 F-BVFD this plane was used for spare parts and was later scrapped.

As a boy living in Oxfordshire not far from RAF Brize Norton I used to see concorde quite often back then they trained pilots on concorde using the long runway.

Well done Silverback you got the right answer, it is concorde.

Different Kind of Bird at Manchester Airport

Whilst I was waiting for the plane carrying my friend Bridget to take off I watched this little sparrow coping with the rather blustery conditions. When I looked more closely at him I noticed that he had a ring on his leg.

I have quite often seen a pigeon with a ring on its leg, but I think these birds are mostly racing or homing pigeons that have absconded or got lost and become feral.

Before I wrote this piece I knew that quite a few birds were ringed by wildlife organisations to enable them to build up a picture of the birds life. Here in Europe there is Euring which is the the European Union for Bird Ringing. Euring promotes research needed to inform the conservation and scientific understanding of wild birds

Through the Euring website the public can use a form to report the finding of a bird marked with a ring or band.

In North America there is a similar scheme and the public can report an encounter with a marked bird wearing a band.

Ringing of birds for scientific purposes was started in 1899 by Christian Mortensen, a Danish schoolteacher and his work was soon followed in several other countries.

Looking on Wikipedia I saw this...
An Arctic Tern ringed as a chick not yet able to fly, on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast in eastern Britain in summer 1982, reached Melbourne, Australia in October 1982, a sea journey of over 22,000 km (14,000 miles) in just three months from fledging.

So if you find a bird with a ring or band on its leg you now know what to do and so do I.

I will post the answer to my can you tell what it is? from yesterdays blog post tomorrow.

Can You Tell What It Is?

I went to Manchester Airport to drop my friend Bridget off for her flight back to MN, USA or at least the first leg of the journey. I saw a sign for the plane viewing area not far from the airport and thought it would be nice to see if I could see her flight take off. I was quite early and mooched about for quite a while and noticed the building in the photo above.

The building was like a decent sized hangar, but not quite the correct design for that purpose at least to my view. I was intrigued so walked much closer and was amazed at what the building was for. Maybe I already knew but I think not. I knew I really had to get access inside for some pictures for the Leeds daily photo.

I did get access and was pleased that I had done so.

Can you tell what the building housed? Answer and photo tomorrow.

Wipeout Band Busking - Leeds City Centre

The photograph shows four boys, members of a band playing in Leeds city centre, just across from Boots in Albion Street.

These young men could really play and they soon had a reasonable audience listening to them. They are a band called Wipeout from Doncaster. I would like to give you a link so that you could listen to them but I cannot find one on the net.

Update: Ben (Guitar/Keys/Vox) contacted me Wipeout band now has a website.

Isaac Dewhirst Warehouse - Leeds City Centre

Its funny but I have walked by this building located in the city centre of Leeds, Yorkshire many times before but never realised its history.

The building shown above in the photograph is the Dewhirst building formerly the warehouse on Kirkgate, Leeds that was premises owned by Isaac Dewhirst. Michael Marks used to have business dealings with Dewhirst and asked Isaac if he would become his business partner. Dewhirst turned him down but suggested that his cashier, Thomas Spencer, might be interested. The rest is history, Marks and Spencer recently celebrated its 125th birthday since it was founded right here in Leeds, Yorkshire.

History, whether local or indeed national is all around us. As I discover quite often when I look more closely at a building wondering if it would make a suitable subject for the Leeds daily photo.



As can be seen in the above photograph the Dewhirst building is marked by a blue plaque by Leeds Civic Trust. The blue plaque reads:

"This was the warehouse of Isaac Dewhirst, wholesale haberdasher and manufacturer of hosiery, pinafores, underclothing and aprons. Obtaining supplies here, the Ploish immigrant pedlar, Michael Marks, met Dewhirst's cashier Tom Spencer. In 1894 they formed the most famous partnership in British retailing."

Puttin' On The Ritz - Sarah Williams at The Adelphi, Leeds

I was invited to an evening at The Adelphi on Hunslet Road, Leeds a few evenings ago hosted by Belle Epoque Vintage Clothing.

The star of the evening was the lady seen singing in the photograph above Sarah Williams. Sarah has a fine voice and I was pleased to have attended and heard her sing.

Dan Collins - Street Entertainer

The man in this photograph is street entertainer Dan Collins who I spotted, not difficult considering the stilts, whilst walking down Briggate in Leeds early in the evening.

Dan was promoting a later shopping initiative in Leeds city centre, some of the shops will remain open longer on a Thursday evening.

I thought Dan was very smart in his bright red and black outfit, turns out he has them made to measure.



As you can see from the photo above some young people wanted to get in on the act. One thing about walking around Leeds city centre with a camera there is almost always someone or something there to be photographed. Just as well or I would really struggle to get subjects for my Leeds in Yorkshire photography blog.

A River Runs Through It

This photograph shows a stream that runs through the village of Arncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales.

Perhaps because of the water I noticed several herbs growing wild next to the flow of water including mint and tansy.

I thought at first this stream was the river Skirfare that run through Arncliffe, but having looked at an OS map it is actually Cowside beck that also runs through Arncliffe. In northern England a beck is another name for stream.

The really great thing about Arncliffe and the beautiful wide open countryside that surrounds it is that it is around 40 miles from Leeds city centre to the spot where this photograph was taken.

Teddy - Almost a Bear

The dog in this photograph came bounding down a small track in the Village of Arncliffe, I was a little concerned having been bitten by a stranger rottweiler last autumn.

Turns out this dog is Teddy and he is a four year old Bouvier des Flandres, I do not recall ever seeing one before. He is friendly and just well rather large as dogs go, when his owner came round the bend I was rather relieved.

In the past Bouvier des Flandres were used for herding and cart pulling.... Having seen Teddy I would think they would also make a good small pony substitute for a small child.

The Leeds Library - Founded 1768

I saw this mug, a penguin books - The Body in the Library, when I first visited The Leeds Library and I knew I really ought to use it in a photograph on my Leeds in Yorkshire photography blog.

I often passed the doorway to The Leeds Library, it was always shut and could perhaps be mistaken as an entrance to the building society adjacent.

Having run this blog for more than 6 months now I am much more likely not to put a closed door stand in the way of a chance of a few pictures. So having looked up The Leeds Library on google I emailed and asked if I could have a look around and take some photographs for the Leeds Daily Photo.

Founded in 1768 The Leeds Library is the oldest surviving subscription library here in the UK.



You can see the building that was built in 1808 to house The Leeds Library on Commercial Street in the heart of Leeds in the above photograph. The entrance to the library is just behind the blonde girl with the ponytail.

Today the building built by Thomas Johnson in a Greek revival style is grade II* listed and rightly so.

The first secretary of The Leeds Library was Joseph Priestley (13 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) who was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen.

Thanks to Claire for hunting down the mug and washing it for my photograph.

The Leeds Library can be contacted at this address and phone number:

The Leeds Library
18 Commercial Street
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS1 6AL

Tel: 0113 245 3071
Fax: 0113 245 1191

Not My Car 2

This photograph shows a view of the foot pedals in a car that is not mine.

My car is in the dealers to be repaired following minor accident caused when the chap in the car in front of mine at a junction rolled backwards then forwards a few times then finally reversed into my car. Arrggghh!!!!

The dealer has lent me a car whilst my Smart Roadster Coupe is fixed. You can see the car, a Nissan Note in the photo below.




The reason I showed the pedals is because it has been quite a while since I drove a car with a normal gearbox and clutch pedal! After the girl dropped it off it took me 10 minutes to get out of the car park. Being a cautious chap I realised that using standard stick gearbox was a lot more complicated than the semi auto tiptronic in my Smart Roadster.



My car or a least a small view of my damaged vehicle can be seen above. Luckily the woman in the car behind mine was outraged that he should just drive off after shunting my car and gave me her details for the police and the insurance company as a witness to what really took place.

My car tax is due at the end of the month also my MOT but I cannot get either till it is fixed. Although in theory pretty simple repair I really do not want to think about what a Nissan dealership will make of my baby. But that is the garage my insurance wanted.

Not My Smart Roadster

This photograph shows a Smart Roadster Coupe in blue I saw whilst out and about not far from where I live.

I must point out that this is not my car, although some of my friends do not understand this. They see my car not far from where they live and or work and think I did not call in to say hi. However as I said this car in the picture above is not my car. It is the same model and colour with the same wheels, but that still does not make it my vehicle.

I see this car quite often in Shipley, West Yorkshire but have yet to meet the owner, there are not too many of these around and if I see one I usually wave or say hello if they are parked.

To the many bloggers in the USA you may never see one of these Smart Roadsters in real life, the company no longer make them so I guess they would be quite rare in the US.

Grand Theatre - Leeds

This photograph shows the Grand Theatre, Leeds also known as Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House.

This post was requested by Marley Cheltenham DP, I would have gotten around to it in time but here it is.

I have only seen a couple of productions here in all the years I have lived and worked in Leeds.

Designed by James Robinson Watson, chief assistant in the office of Leeds based architect George Corson, the theatre opened on 18 November 1878. The theatre is a Grade II* listed building. It seats approximately 1,500 people.

The theatre is home to Opera North and is regularly visited by Northern Ballet Theatre. It has hosted many touring productions, musical artists and comedians.

At one time the building also housed The Plaza cinema 1912-1978.

North Country Guide - Rob Simpson

This photo shows Rob Simpson and his nice dog Millie pictured in the village of Arncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales.

I was showing my friend Bridget around Yorkshire and had arrived in the small village of Arncliffe when we got chatting to this chap and his dog. On the back of his Land Rover was the name of his company North Country Guides, seeing this I asked Rob about his work and if I could feature him on my blog.

Rob runs a company called North Country Guides providing walking tours for small parties in the Yorkshire Dales and the English Lake District. This is something he has been doing for many years and it is something he is clearly passionate about.

On the day that I chatted with Rob he was out with a party enjoying the wonderful scenery of the area around Arncliffe. His dog Millie is a beautiful black Cocker Spaniel and she loves attention.

Roz - Victoria Quarter, Leeds City Centre

This photograph shows Roz promoting a fragrance in the Victoria Quarter, Leeds.

I knew as soon as I spotted Roz I really wanted to put her on my Leeds in Yorkshire photography blog. I loved the outfit Roz was wearing and she is happy putting her best foot forward.

Thank you Roz and good luck with the future.

Yorkshire Tea

Ask people who are not English to describe or say something about the English and I suspect tea would be high on any list.

Here in Yorkshire a popular brand of tea is Yorkshire Tea a black blend of tea made by Taylors of Harrogate, one of the few remaining family tea and coffee merchants in the UK.

I may be wrong but I think we are the only county in the UK to have our own blend of tea. When my good friend Bridget returned home to Saint Paul, MN she carried with her my small gift of a standard pack of this nice tea. So even in Minnesota Bridget can enjoy a nice cup of Yorkshire tea.

Actor Seen in Yorkshire

This photograph shows Scottish actor Bill Paterson on location in Yorkshire.

My friend Ellen Massarella who has a cafe in Saltaire was asked by a TV production company if they could film in her backyard. The drama that Hardy pictures was making for the BBC is being shown this week on BBC 4 here in the UK.

The drama is the story of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic and one doctor's pioneering efforts to protect the people of Manchester from this deadly virus.

Bill Paterson well known actor of stage, screen, TV and radio plays Dr James Niven, Manchester's Medical Officer of Health in the drama Spanish Flu - The Forgotten Fallen.

I spotted Bill between takes on location here in the village of Saltaire just outside Bradford in West Yorkshire. I asked if he would mind if I got a photograph for my blog and I said I had seen him The Crow Road (TV drama based on book by his fellow Scot Iain Banks. More recently you may have seen the 2008 BBC production of the Charles Dickens novel, Little Dorrit, in which Bill played Mr Meagles.

Although this drama is set in Manchester in 1918 it was filmed here in Yorkshire, with locations including Victoria Hall, Salt's Mill and Saltaire Village nr Bradford; Armley Mills Museum in Leeds; Keighley Worth Valley Railway Station, Lister Park in Manningham and Dewsbury Town Hall. The only location I do not know well is Dewsbury Town Hall, the other places I have photographed for my Leeds in Yorkshire photography blog.

View to Arncliffe Village

This photograph shows the view from just off the road down into the small village of Arncliffe in Littondale in the Yorkshire Dales.

OK I will admit you have to look hard to see the village, but in this picture you do get a sense of its location.

Here is another view down into Arncliffe village.

Mr Fox - Arncliffe, Yorkshire Dales

Todays photograph is Mr fox who resides in the hallway of The Falcon Inn in the small village of Arncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales.

Pity Mr fox is stuffed, I quite like foxes, do not keep chickens so no problem there.

The Falcon Inn - Arncliffe

This photograph shows The Falcon Inn, a pub in the small village of Arncliffe in Littondale in the Yorkshire Dales national park.

I love The Falcon Inn, for many reasons including its location and the fact that it is a nice walk over the moors from Malham. I love this walk, Malham is a very busy tourist hotspot not far from Skipton, but walk over the moor towards Arncliffe and a few hundred yards out and you will see perhaps a handful of people on the entire walk.

Another reason I love The Falcon is that is a really unusual pub not just here in Yorkshire but perhaps nationally also. The pub has no pumps, they serve beer from the barrel via a jug. Lastly the location is very beautiful with the small River Skirfare flowing nearby through Littondale to join the river Wharfe.

Pretty Calf On Yorkshire Moor

I was driving up over the moors to show my good friend Bridget from MN the pretty village of Arncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales. I saw this very pretty calf on the side of the road and thought that it would make a nice photograph for my Leeds in Yorkshire photo blog.

I may be wrong but I think this cow and calf are of a breed called Irish Moiled.

I have been moving house this week so I am struggling to post and keep up with my blog because I have yet to be connected at my new place. I told a friend and she said "no phone , no internet, no life" sadly that is almost true.

Milking Time in Yorkshire Dales

This picture shows a typical scene in the Yorkshire dales, cows causing minor traffic jam. If like me this day, you are a tourist it is quite a welcome break. i was driving back to Leeds from visiting Bolton Castle, North Yorkshire.

St Oswald's Church - Castle Bolton in Yorkshire Dales

This picture shows the small church of St Oswald's in Castle Bolton in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire dales.

St Oswald's church is adjacent to the 14th century Bolton castle. The church is a small but beautiful and mostly unaltered medieval place of worship.



The above photograph shows the interior of St Oswalds church, Castle bolton.



I saw this notice on the door of the church and smiled inwardly. "Please close the door to stop the swallows flying into the church. They make a great mess".

Bolton Castle, Yorkshire - Fortress and Home for 600 years

This photograph shows a view of Bolton Castle in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire dales.

Built between the years 1378 and 1399 it is owned today by Lord Bolton a descendant of the original builder Richard le Scrope, Lord Chancellor.

The castle was damaged in the English Civil War, but much of it remains.

Mary, Queen of Scots, was held for six months in the castle. Mary was moved to Bolton Castle on 16 July 1568 and remained there under the care of Henry the 9th Lord Scrope, until 26 January 1569, when she was moved to Tutbury Castle.

Several movies and television productions have used Bolton Castle as a location including Ivanhoe 1952, Elizabeth 1998, also for TV Heartbeat, and All Creatures Great and Small.

Traffic Jam in the Yorkshire Dales

Picture of border collie driving sheep along a country lane in Yorkshire.

Today the 1st of August is Yorkshire Day founded to promote the historic English county of Yorkshire.

Yorkshire Day, a day to celebrate everything Yorkshire, will be celebrated around the county.

One thing I do like about living here in Yorkshire, you know where you stand. Yorkshire folk have a reputation for being blunt and speaking their mind, so some Yorkshire men would call a spade a bloody shovel!

In my small way I do my bit to promote Yorkshire with the photograph above showing a minor traffic jam in the Yorkshire dales. This scene I came across whilst driving in Wensleydale within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. I was driving on a minor road to Bolton Castle.

I came upon the farmer and his sheepdog driving the sheep along the road ahead of me and thought "camera, action". So I parked up and ran up the lane following the sheep. The dog was keeping the sheep at a steady pace and it took me a while to catch up to them. I had a chat with the farmer and it turns out he was taking them back after being clipped (sheared). I said you have missed some to which he replied that they were this years and they did not clip them.

His dog is a fine border collie called Jess. Jess zig zagged across the lane behind the sheep driving them forward looking constantly for further instructions.

In the background of the photo you can see Bolton castle in the distance. I will post about Bolton Castle and the adjacent small village called Castle Bolton tomorrow.