Holme Moss to Temple Newsam

cheshire sign

One evening in 1964 or 65, we drove out to Holme Moss on the watershed of the Pennines, on the border of what was then the West Riding of Yorkshire with Cheshire.

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Apart from some disappointing contact prints, I’ve never been able to look at these badly developed photographs so I’m surprised to see that the sign ‘UNFENCED ROAD BEWARE ANIMALS’ is just about readable.

That’s my sister on the West Riding sign.

Temple Newsam

Temple Newsam

On another evening outing my dad drove us all to Temple Newsam, Leeds. This time that isn’t me on the plinth.

Temple Newsam

Walled Garden

Our visit to the walled garden at Temple Newsam brought back memories of working on the Readers’ Digest Guide to Creative Gardening, published in 1984. Rue and goldenrod, two of the plants that I needed to draw, are still growing there and I might have drawn a stately-looking Thalictrum here too, but I didn’t spot that on our visit.