Licenced today: the town hall in Northallerton, North Yorkshire...
Thursday, 7 October 2021
Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Horse & trap...
An independent enquiry and a devastating report have revealed that at least 330,000 children were victims of sexual abuse by clergy and lay members of the Catholic church in France over the past 70 years.
I don’t know how many paedophiles saw the church as an opportunity to get unsupervised access to children. I don’t know how many Catholic priests, forced to be celibate, were tempted to find another way to express their sexual feelings. I only know that the trust placed in parish priests - traditionally the most trusted figures in any community - has leaked away like water through sand. Would any parent now leave a child alone with a Catholic priest?
A favourite shot, licenced today: a horse & trap on the beach at Redcar…
Monday, 4 October 2021
Sunday, 3 October 2021
Heptonstall graves...
What a coincidence! Licenced two images today, to different buyers, both featuring gravestones in Heptonstall. The famous one is poet Sylvia Plath. “King” David Hartley was the leader of the Cragg Vale coiners, who produced fake gold coins in the late 18th century to supplement their meagre earnings from hand-weaving. They ‘clipped’ the edges of real coins, and melted down the shavings to create counterfeit coins, impressing a new design into the metal with a stamp and a hammer. David Hartley was hanged in York on 28 April 1770 (these days he'd probably be called an independent financial adviser)…
Saturday, 2 October 2021
Stillington...
The vast majority (at least 90%) of the people now in hospital with severe Covid are unvaccinated. Vaccined people are getting Covid too, but, crucially, they’re not being hospitalised. Nevertheless, the vaccine programme seems to have stalled. As we approach winter, when Covid cases are likely to rise, I wonder what it will take to persuade the ‘vaccine hesitant’ to reconsider their options…
Licenced last week: an MG Roadster sports car in the village of Stillington, north of York...
Packwood House...
Had my flu jab this morning. The good folk at Howden Medical Centre are wonderfully well drilled; I was in one door and out the other in just two minutes.
Licenced yesterday: Packwood House in Warwickshire...
Friday, 1 October 2021
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