This site uses cookies, by continuing to use this site you are agreeing to their use. Learn More
3 landmarks
10 North St. Cromford, Causeway House and the Pineapple
| Click on the thumbnails to get a larger picture, then on |
 |
on the top LHS of the screen to return to this page. |
|
Most of the pictures were taken on a film camera and scanned. |
 This sycamore tree growing by Hadrian's Wall was cut down by a vandal in September 2023; these shots were taken in October 2006 |
|
|
|
cromford
|
 from Heights of Abraham |
 |
 |
||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 Mist
|
||||||||
 Boulder |
 |
 Don't fall over |
 Birches |
||||||||
 Unfortunate graffiti |
 |
 The animals were friendly |
 |
||||||||
 Ducks in the market |
 Virginia creeper |
 Wirksworth's old cruck/crook frame house |
 |
||||||||
 |
 Worksworth Church |
 |
 At Millstone Edge |
||||||||
 |
 |
 Crossed birches |
 |
||||||||
 Abandoned millstone |
 |
To the top storey - v. steep and standing at the top looking down |
 Bedroom at 10 North Street |
||||||||
 Kitchen range |
 |
 Sitting room |
|||||||||
 Alnwick Castle |
 |
 |
 |
||||||||
 |
 Pictures of Hadrian's Wall taken in 1998 on a miserable day. |
 Peter monarching |
|
||||||||
 The sheep set off to cross the wall and managed it without difficulty |
 |
 |
 |
||||||||
 |
 Coloured triangles |
bardon mill
Causeway House with a heather roof |
 Field behind |
||||||||
 |
 |
We went to Vindolanda - a Roman settlement on the Wall. Shopping lists were found preserved by the peat, giving some insights into domestic life. |
 Fountain from the same source as in Roman times |
||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||||||
 |
 Temple |
to Hareshaw Linn
|
 Fuzzy but a red squirrel
|
||||||||
 |
 Fungi |
 At the lunch stop |
|||||||||
 Rustic bridge |
 The waterfall- very overexposed |
 |
 Fungi |
||||||||
 The Angel of the North |
 Gateshead Millennium Bridge |
 A heavier bridge |
 Gateshead Millennium Bridge |
||||||||
 Armadillo - Gateshead
|
Gateshead Millennium bridge again |
 Bas reliefs to illustrate the song
|
 The Keel Row
|
||||||||
 |
|||||||||||
 |
World's first and only tilting bridge. We did not see it tilt. Times for tilting are on the web |
 |
 |
||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
the pineapple
|
|
 Inside the Pineapple |
 From the back lawn |
 The living accommodation was on the left and the bedrooms on the right. The loo was with the bedrooms |
||||
 Narrow boats on the canal |
 |
|
|||||
|
|||||||
 First glimpse of the Wheel |
 It's a a big bird |
 Canal on supports |
 Travellers on the barge |
||||
 View through the front of the boat |
 In the tunnel |
 Supported canal |
 |
||||
 |
 Barges waiting to use the lift |
 Circles reflected |
 |
||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||
 Inside the Pineapple with high key treatment - ceiling on the right |
 |
 From the garden |
 With glow |
||||
 |
 |
 Old Stirling Gatehouse |
 |
||||
 |
 The Wallace Memorial |
 |
 |
||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||
 |
 |
 |
 I called this picture 'Aliens', which must be appropriate as there is a flying saucer leaving the area. In reality it was a sculpture on a roundabout near a supermarket in Livingstone. |
||||
| rosslyn chapel |
 little devil |
 the stone is soft and crumbly just like Edinburgh rock
|
|||||
 |
 |
 |
|||||
 |
 Flying buttresses |
 |
 |
||||
 |
 |
 Steps to garden door |
 A picture of the Pineapple from the front. |
||||
