http://becausetheyrethere.com ...and a few more reasons for climbing mountains Sat, 15 Aug 2015 09:11:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://becausetheyrethere.com http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/05/27/days-like-this-no-21-eternity-in-borrowdale/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/05/27/days-like-this-no-21-eternity-in-borrowdale/#comments Wed, 27 May 2015 09:41:19 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=9247 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/05/27/days-like-this-no-21-eternity-in-borrowdale/feed/ 43 McEff Borrowdale 1 Borrowdale 3 Borrowdale 4 Borrowdale 6 Borrowdale 5 Borrowdale 7 Borrowdale 8 Borrowdale 2 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 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/17/arkengarthdale-moor-and-the-death-of-sods-law/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/17/arkengarthdale-moor-and-the-death-of-sods-law/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:00:50 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8899 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/17/arkengarthdale-moor-and-the-death-of-sods-law/feed/ 43 McEff tan hill 1 Tan Hill 2 Tan Hill 5 Tan Hill 4 Tan Hill 3 Click map for full-size version Tan Hill 6 Tan Hill 7 Tan Hill 8 Tan Hill 9 Tan Hill 10 Tan Hill 11 Tan Hill 12 Tan Hill 13 Tan Hill 14 The Peat Cart, a painting by George Walker, 1814, from his Costumes of Yorkshire series. The mountain in the background is Ingleborough Tan Hill 15 Tan Hill 16 Tan Hill 17 Tan Hill 18 Tan Hill 20 Tan Hill 21 Tan Hill 22 Tan Hill 23 Tan Hill 24 Tan Hill 25 Tan Hill 26 Tan Hill 27 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2015 17:50:37 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8857 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/feed/ 29 McEff great dun fell 1 great dun fell 2 great dun fell 3 great dun fell 4 great dun fell 5 great dun fell 6 great dun fell 8 great dun fell 7 great dun fell 9 great dun fell 10 great dun fell 11 great dun fell 12 great dun fell 13 great dun fell 14 great dun fell 17 great dun fell 16 great dun fell 15 great dun fell 19 great dun fell 20 great dun fell 18 Click map for full-size version great dun fell 22 great dun fell 21 great dun fell 23 great dun fell 24 great dun fell 25 great dun fell 26 Silverband Mine was worked by the London Lead Company for galena, the ore of lead, during the 19th Century, though in the middle of the 20th Century it was mined extensively by the Laporte company for the mineral barytes. As recently as 2011, Silverband was producing barytes as an opencast mine (see footnote for YouTube video). great dun fell 28 great dun fell 29 The Laporte company installed an aerial ropeway for transporting barytes from the mine to the dressing plant near Dufton, several miles down the fell. This pylon is about all that remains . . . great dun fell 31 great dun fell 32 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/2014/10/14/south-gare-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/10/14/south-gare-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:58:10 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8376 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/10/14/south-gare-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/feed/ 32 McEff south gare 1 south gare 3 south gare 4 south gare 5 south gare 6 south gare 7 south gare 8 south gare 9 south gare 10 south gare 11 I like this view because it reminds me of home. Not that I was born on a slag-bank, but because great lumps of slag similar to these ??? which have solidified before being tipped from the wagon ??? are to be found along the shore in Askam-in-Furness over on the west coast. We used to play among them as kids. Ah, the simple things in life The mouth of the River Tees. That's Hartlepool on the horizon south gare 14 The last time I wrote about the South Gare fishermen's huts someone commented that they were originally built as an army camp during the Second World War south gare 15 south gare 17 south gare 18 Sea coal is the residues of colliery waste that has washed up over the years, plus coal from natural deposits outcropping on the seabed. There used to be money in scraping it up and selling it, but with the mass closure of the collieries (another toff tradition) it has tailed off south gare 20 south gare 21 south gare 22 south gare 23 This grand building is the South Gare Marine Club cafe ??? and what a splendid place it is. All the food is home-made. Roast dinner was on offer for a fiver. We had mugs of tea, chips with fish fingers, and gingernuts south gare 26 south gare 27 south gare 28 south gare 24 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/2014/09/02/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/2014/08/21/in-between-one-england-and-another/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/08/21/in-between-one-england-and-another/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:10:02 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8170 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/08/21/in-between-one-england-and-another/feed/ 31 McEff brettanby 1 That's the North York Moors in the distance. Or the Cleveland Hills, depending on where you come from brettanby 3 brettanby 4 brettanby 5 The post always gets through brettanby 7 brettanby 8 brettanby 9 Old Brick 1. Eldon is a pleasant rural village on the edge of Bishop Auckland, County Durham Old Brick 2: The Pease family built Darlington, apparently with their own bricks brettanby 13 brettanby 14 brettanby 15 brettanby 16 brettanby 17 brettanby 18 brettanby 19 brettanby 20 brettanby 21 brettanby 22 brettanby 23 brettanby 24 brettanby 25 brettanby 26 That's a noose on the right. This is rural North Yorkshire after all brettanby 28 brettanby 29 brettanby 30 brettanby 32 brettanby 33 brettanby 34 brettanby 35 brettanby 36 brettanby 37 brettanby 38 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