Trees around Pickering including High Oaks Grange holiday cottages on the road to Thornton-le-Dale. Guest artist Florence.
Trees around Pickering
Tag: Pickering
Great Moments in the History of Pickering
Pickering, a great town for a celebration . . . particularly a rather special one.
Happy birthday to Paul (last weekend).
Sir William Bruce
It’s likely that this albaster effigy of a cross-legged knight in Pickering church is Sir William Bruce (c.1295-c.1345) who founded a chantry chapel there on the Feast of St John the Evangelist Saturday 27 December 1337.
He’s said to have fought at the Battle of Boroughbridge (or possibly at a tournament held there). His family home was at Beck Isle, Pickering, where there’s now a museum of rural life.