The StridThis section of the river Wharfe in Yorkshire is known as ‘The Strid’. It has long been regarded as the most dangerous stretch of river in the world. It looks deceptively easy to jump across – it is only about 5 ft. wide, but if you slip you will die. No one who has fallen in, and there has been many, have lived to tell the tale.
Recent soundings have put the water depth at nearly 200 ft. and undercurrents will suck you down into the depths. I live about 5 miles from The Strid and often visit it – but I stay well away from the sides.
When I was at school we once went on a Geography Field Trip to The Strid. One of the boys jumped across. When the teacher discovered the boy on the other side of the river he went crazy, shouting and swearing at him. He told the boy to walk along the other side of the river for about half a mile downstream until there was a bridge and we would meet him there. A few minutes later the child joined us – he had jumped back across to our side and the teacher nearly had a heart attack! That was the end of all school trips the The Strid!
Here are inscribed on these walls the names of the known Latvian dead from World War 2
This is Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire. It is here that Bram Stoker said that Count Dracula first landed in England. A fitting place indeed.
This is the 5000 year old Duddo stone circle in Northumberland in England. The fluted stones make a singing noise on windy days – hence the name – ‘The Singing Stones’…
Rocking Hall – an ancient shooting lodge and abandoned farmhouse, miles from anywhere on remote Barden moor in North Yorkshire. With grandson Domonic.
This is Dob Park Lodge – the remains of a 300 year old hunting Lodge 2 miles from where I live. It is reputed to be haunted by a talking dog who guards a treasure under the fire place….I have had a poke about one day but didn’t encounter the dog – nor the treasure!
Sat alone on the North Yorkshire Moors in winter, the inhabitants of this old farmhouse can only brace themselves for the oncoming storm.
Monochromia 
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