http://becausetheyrethere.com ...and a few more reasons for climbing mountains Tue, 18 Aug 2015 01:07:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://becausetheyrethere.com 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/2014/10/28/restless-at-north-gare/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/10/28/restless-at-north-gare/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:00:09 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8462 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/10/28/restless-at-north-gare/feed/ 21 McEff north gare 1 north gare 2 north gare 3 north gare 6 This picture on an information board shows the Transporter Bridge and, above it, the Newport Bridge, which is a mile or so upstream We drive up the A19 and back along the north bank of the Tees to continue our journey towards North Gare, first revisiting the Transporter Bridge on the northern bank The River Tees is world-renowned for the production of iron, ships and apostrophes north gare 7 north gare 10 north gare 21 north gare 22 north gare 11 north gare 12 north gare 13 north gare 14 north gare 15 north gare 16 north gare 17 north gare 18 north gare 19 north gare 20 north gare 23 north gare 24 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/10/22/a-cooks-tour-of-the-cleveland-hills/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/10/22/a-cooks-tour-of-the-cleveland-hills/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:00:10 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8418 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/10/22/a-cooks-tour-of-the-cleveland-hills/feed/ 32 McEff cook 1 Captain James Cook (1728-1779) *oil on canvas *127 x 101.6 cm *1775-1776 The village of Kildale, in the Cleveland Hills cook 3 The Tories will privatise anything for a couple of quid. Private cattle grids. Whatever next? cook 5 cook 6 cook 7 cook 42 cook 9 cook 8 cook 10 cook 11 cook 12 cook 13 cook 19 cook 14 cook 15 cook 16 Aireyholme Farm, where James Cook's family lived, is on the left of the picture. Their cottage was demolished in the 1930s and taken to Australia, where it was rebuilt cook 17 cook 20 cook 21 cook 22 This half of a commemorative stone lies about half a mile distant from its other half, both of which have been incorporated into the surface of the Cleveland Way. I did a bit of Googling to see if I could track down Holy Trinity School but there are thousands of them. Someone else had tried as well, and the Cleveland Way National Trail body had replied to their query, stating that the stone slabs for the path are sourced in South Yorkshire and mainly come from old mill buildings. So the school is ??? or probably was ??? down south a bit. Possibly near ???Uddersfield cook 24 cook 25 cook 40 cook 41 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/2014/08/21/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/2014/02/13/wild-winds-and-the-wain-stones/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/02/13/wild-winds-and-the-wain-stones/#comments Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:00:07 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7377 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/02/13/wild-winds-and-the-wain-stones/feed/ 35 McEff wain stones 15 wain stones 3 wain stones 4 wain stones 5 wain stones 6 wain stones 7 wain stones 25 wain stones 17 wain stones 8 wain stones 1 wain stones 10 wain stones 11 wain stones 13 wain stones 14 wain stones 12 wain stones 20 wain stones 22 wain stones 23 wain stones 26 wain stones 28 wain stones 19 wain stones 18 wain stones 29 wain stones 30 wain stones 27