http://becausetheyrethere.com ...and a few more reasons for climbing mountains Mon, 17 Aug 2015 22:02:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://becausetheyrethere.com http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/05/07/on-a-whim-to-william-gill/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/05/07/on-a-whim-to-william-gill/#comments Thu, 07 May 2015 10:25:01 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=9206 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/05/07/on-a-whim-to-william-gill/feed/ 33 McEff william gill 14 william gill 2 william gill 3 william gill 4 william gill 5 william gill 6 william gill 12 william gill 12a william gill 12b william gill 7 Someone has tried and failed (not me, I add) to lob these great rocks down the shaft. Good job there was a grille on top or they might have ended up down there themselves william gill 9 william gill 11 william gill 13 william gill 15 william gill 16 william gill 10 william gill 19 william gill 20 william gill 21 william gill 22 william gill 1 image1 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/04/14/gibbet-hill-and-carlin-gill-thats-entertainment/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/04/14/gibbet-hill-and-carlin-gill-thats-entertainment/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:00:14 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=9141 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/04/14/gibbet-hill-and-carlin-gill-thats-entertainment/feed/ 29 McEff IMG_0004 Gibbet Hill is the slope in the foreground, immediately above the road, which is Roman in origin. This section of the road is known as Fairmile Road Roman road plus ancient chariot made by Germanic tribes Fairmile Road is in the foreground, with the West Coast Main Line and M6 motorway on the far side of the Tebay Gorge. The River Lune flows through the gorge but you can???t see it A collection of bones, none of which belongs to William Smurthwaite. I assume the larger samples are the remains of fell ponies, many of which roam wild in these hills IMG_0005 IMG_0007 IMG_0008 IMG_0010 IMG_0013 IMG_0017 IMG_0018 Little UlGill Beck tumbles down Black Force to join Carlingill Beck in Carlin Gill The Spout, at the head of Carlin Gill. The path continues up very steep ground to the left of the waterfall Stone of destiny. It would be nice to think this stone marks the site of the gibbet on Gibbet Hill, but it probably doesn't. Near enough, though . . . http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/12/16/moor-prance-neath-the-cover-of-december-skies/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/12/16/moor-prance-neath-the-cover-of-december-skies/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:03:12 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8643 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/12/16/moor-prance-neath-the-cover-of-december-skies/feed/ 42 cropped-masthead4.jpg McEff baysdale 1 baysdale 2 baysdale 3 baysdale 4 baysdale 5 baysdale 6 baysdale 7 Shooting butts make a very useful shelter in a strong wind baysdale 9a baysdale 10 baysdale 11 baysdale 12 baysdale 13 baysdale 14 baysdale 15 Armouth Wath is a pleasant place to stop on a warm day Ruin at Armouth Wath The view into Westerdale Shooters' bothy. Locked against vagabonds and robbers Bothy water supply. Or perhaps it's where they wash their wellies. Christmas trees always brighten a place up baysdale 23 baysdale 24 baysdale 25 baysdale 26 baysdale 27 baysdale 28 baysdale 33 baysdale 29 This is the downcast shaft. That doesn???t mean it was sad all the time ??? it???s primary function was for ventilation purposes, to deliver fresh air into the mine. The bad air escaped through the upcast shaft. Click on picture below for more details. baysdale 31 baysdale 32 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/12/01/sweet-tees-flow-softly-black-friday-aftermath/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/12/01/sweet-tees-flow-softly-black-friday-aftermath/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:00:52 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8592 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/12/01/sweet-tees-flow-softly-black-friday-aftermath/feed/ 51 McEff Piercebridge 1 Piercebridge 2 Piercebridge 3 Piercebridge 7 Piercebridge 8 Piercebridge 9 Piercebridge 10 Piercebridge 11 Piercebridge 12 Piercebridge 4 Piercebridge 5 Piercebridge 6 Piercebridge 13 Piercebridge 14 Piercebridge 15 This is part of one of those ceramic insulating pots you used to see on telegraph poles. I find it in the shingle at the side of the river. Only last week the young Inspector Morse charged a bloke with murder after finding one of these at the crime scene. It???s a scary world. Piercebridge 17 Piercebridge 18 Piercebridge 19 Piercebridge 21 Piercebridge 22 Ah, a recycled Belfast sink . . . Piercebridge 23 Piercebridge 30 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/11/27/not-everything-is-black-and-white-on-barningham-moor/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/11/27/not-everything-is-black-and-white-on-barningham-moor/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:51:56 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8552 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/11/27/not-everything-is-black-and-white-on-barningham-moor/feed/ 47 McEff How Tallon 2 How Tallon 3 How Tallon 1 How Tallon 17 How Tallon 5 How Tallon 6 How Tallon 7 How Tallon 10 How Tallon 8 How Tallon 11 How Tallon 14 That's the trouble with traps . . . How Tallon 18 How Tallon 21 If you were hoping to park a car or camp for the night and spied these two signs hovering above the grass verge, and you were feeling bolshie and fancied yourself as what people used to call a barrack-room lawyer, you might fancy taking a risk and challenging the authorities. NRCC stands for North Riding County Council, which disappeared in the local government reorganisation of 1974. Further along there???s a sign written in Latin banning chariot racing. Just kidding. walkabout 2 Crossing a field on a public right of way, I notice someone has placed a stone on top of a fence post. Closer inspection reveals the stone to be full of crinoid fossils. I???m not sure, but I think they were the stems of plants which inhabited this part of the world during the Carboniferous era. walkabout 4 The A1 is always good for a photograph. We???re right on Scotch Corner here, which along with Viking, Forties, Dogger, Sole, Fitzroy, Bailey and Hotton is famous for being one of those places that everyone has heard of ??? but has no presence in the physical world. This looks like it might be an Iron Age earthwork of the type incorporated into the nearby Brigantian fortress and Stanwick, but it???s the spoilheap of a 19th Century copper mine at Low Merrybent Farm. This part of the country is famous for its lead mines, but the copper-mining industry is very much a forgotten chapter. Diesel pump at Low Merrybent Farm walkabout 8 Just in case you were considering straying from the footpath . . . This is a section of Dere Street, the Roman road that runs from York to the end of the empire. Hadrian wouldn???t have approved. These terraces in the fields beneath the village of Middleton Tyas are the remnants of a mediaeval farming system We are still out in the country, but this wall surrounding a cottage garden has been capped with what appears to be furnace slag. More remnants of the Middleton Tyas and Merrybent copper-mining industry? And finally. Back to the allotment for a sit-down at the close of another dank and dismal November day . . . http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/11/07/faggergill-out-of-the-fryingpan-into-the-mire/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/11/07/faggergill-out-of-the-fryingpan-into-the-mire/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:12:58 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8502 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/11/07/faggergill-out-of-the-fryingpan-into-the-mire/feed/ 27 McEff faggergill 1 faggergill 2 faggergill 3 faggergill 4 faggergill 5 There should be a telephone number on this because I'd like to hire it faggergill 30 faggergill 7 faggergill 9 faggergill 10 faggergill 13 faggergill 14 faggergill 11 faggergill 12 The humble Belfast sink is one of Britain's most enduring inventions. I wouldn't be without one ??? and today I'm not faggergill 16 faggergill 17 faggergill 18 faggergill 19 faggergill 20 faggergill 21 faggergill 31 faggergill 22 faggergill 23 faggergill 24 faggergill 25 faggergill 26 faggergill 27 faggergill 29 faggergill 8 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/09/30/high-street-and-fusedale-war-and-pieces/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/09/30/high-street-and-fusedale-war-and-pieces/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:00:08 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8329 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/09/30/high-street-and-fusedale-war-and-pieces/feed/ 35 McEff high street 1 A wet morning in Pooley Bridge High Street 3 All aboard. Smiling faces greet we happy travellers High Street 10 Dunmallard Hill rises above Ullswater and Pooley Bridge High Street 6 High Street 9 High Street 8 High Street 7 High Street 12 High Street 13 High Street 14 High Street 15 High Street 16 High Street 17 High Street 18 High Street 19 High Street 22 High Street 21 High Street 20 High Street 24 High Street 25 Looking down onto Hayeswater The view along Martindale High Street ??? a Lakeland mountain over which Roman legions once marched High Street 26 High Street 27 The ruins of Lowther House shooting lodge. All that remains is this piece off chimney breast High Street 31 A lone walker takes a break on the top of Loadpot Hill High Street 33 A green mile left to walk to Pooley Bridge and the van High Street 40 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/09/22/great-burney-one-small-step-one-giant-leap/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/09/22/great-burney-one-small-step-one-giant-leap/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:05:57 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8306 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/09/22/great-burney-one-small-step-one-giant-leap/feed/ 19 McEff burney 1 burney 2 burney 10 burney 4 burney 3 Black Combe rises through the haze on the far side of the Duddon estuary burney 6 burney 7 burney 8 burney 9 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/09/02/humber-southeasterly-four-moderate-or-good-rain-later/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/09/02/humber-southeasterly-four-moderate-or-good-rain-later/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:25:23 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8213 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/09/02/humber-southeasterly-four-moderate-or-good-rain-later/feed/ 47 McEff Spurn 12 spurn 1 Spurn 3 spurn 2 The breach in Spurn Head where the tide has washed away the road Spurn 4 Spurn 7 Spurn 6 Spurn 8 Spurn 9 Spurn 10 Spurn 11 Spurn 13 Spurn 14 Spurn 16 Spurn 15 Spurn 18 Spurn 19 Spurn 19a Spurn 17 Spurn 20 Spurn 21 Spurn 22 Spurn 23 Spurn 24 Spurn 25 Spurn 26 Spurn 27 Bull Sand Fort stands in 19ft (5.8m) of water at low tide Spurn 29 Spurn 30 Spurn 31 Spurn 32 Spurn 33 spurn 40 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/08/05/green-hurth-where-the-big-wheel-turns/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/08/05/green-hurth-where-the-big-wheel-turns/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2014 07:30:25 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8118 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/08/05/green-hurth-where-the-big-wheel-turns/feed/ 41 McEff Green Hurth 1 green hurth 34 Green Hurth 2 Green Hurth 3 This building is believed to have been the powder house. It is situated a fair distance from the rest of the mine for safety reasons Green Hurth 5 The remains of Swan's Shaft. The hole was originally 231ft deep One of the ruined buildings at Swan???s Shaft has a slot in the wall that has been blocked up. Perhaps a winding cable or machinery belts once passed through it. That???s just a guess, by the way Green Hurth 8 Green Hurth 9 Green Hurth 36 Green Hurth 37 green hurth 35 Concrete engine beds for a steam engine at the top of Swan???s Shaft Green Hurth 15 Green Hurth 14 Green Hurth 16 Green Hurth 17 Green Hurth 18 An old level, or tunnel, beneath the spoil heaps A bundle of buddles ??? or what's left of them . . . Piece of a 19th Century bottle Green Hurth 20 Green Hurth 22 Green Hurth 23 Green Hurth 24 Green Hurth 26 Green Hurth 27 Entrance to the main level. No room for a horse these days View from the main level. This is what the miners would see after a day's work underground Green Hurth 28 Green Hurth 31 The old tramway from Swan's Shaft to the main mine Green Hurth 33 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/06/17/lindisfarne-a-pilgrims-progress/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/06/17/lindisfarne-a-pilgrims-progress/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:25:52 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7975 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/06/17/lindisfarne-a-pilgrims-progress/feed/ 49 McEff lindisfarne 1 Lindisfarne 2 Lindisfarne 4 A car crosses the causeway at low tide Lindisfarne 9 Lindisfarne 3 Lindisfarne 5 Lindisfarne 6 Lindisfarne 7 Lindisfarne 10 Lindisfarne 11 Lindisfarne 12 Lindisfarne 13 Lindisfarne 15 Lindisfarne 16 Lindisfarne 17 Lindisfarne 18 A second shelter. Very basic but it does the job This appears to be a line of cairns, possibly markers that preceded the posts Lindisfarne 22 Lindisfarne 21 Lindisfarne 23 Lindisfarne 24 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/05/09/old-roads-a-fallen-lady-st-jude-and-thoughts-for-the-day/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/05/09/old-roads-a-fallen-lady-st-jude-and-thoughts-for-the-day/#comments Fri, 09 May 2014 07:00:42 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7827 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/05/09/old-roads-a-fallen-lady-st-jude-and-thoughts-for-the-day/feed/ 30 McEff cow green 1 cow green 3 cow green 4 cow green 2 cow green 5 cow green 6 cow green 7 cow green 8 cow green 9 The collapsed shaft is the black hole, which now has a wall around it to prevent animals and people meeting a terrible end. The steam engine would have been situated on the foundations to the right of the picture and would have worked the pump at the foot of the shaft by a system of reciprocating rods, probably with an ???angle bob??? ??? to convert the horizontal motion to vertical motion ??? at the shaft collar. There would also have been a means of hauling materials up the shaft, though this is not immediately obvious. The main adit level at Green Hurth Mine. Whereas the pumping shaft appears to have worked the lead veins beneath ground level, this tunnel appears to have been the main access to the working in the hillside above. Water still drains from the tunnel mouth. The headwaters of the River Tees. The mountain in the background is Cross Fell, which at 2,930ft (893m) is the highest peak in the Pennines and the highest peak in England outside the Lake District cow green 13 The old road veers off the A6277 cow green 15 cow green 16 cow green 17 cow green 18 cow green 19 cow green 20 cow green 21 cow green 25 cow green 26 cow green 22 cow green 27 cow green 28 cow green 29 cow green 30 cow green 31 cow green 32 cow green 33 cow green 34 cow green 35 cow green 36