Photo thread of Local history

[peanut]

A recent post by Betty Swollocks has given me an idea .

Heres a great opportunity for all you budding photographers to carry a digital camera out on your rides.

How about posting a picture and potted history of any local memorial or Heritage site, such as follies, pillboxes,milestones,mills, bridges, anything with a bit of history or interest .

You'll need to include a piccy of your bike of course to prove that you were there.

Few rules I suppose might be usefull. Let me know what you think.
One image and maximum description length of say 20 lines ? or preferably a link

ok lets spell it out .

1. Take and post a single picture with at least some part of your bike in the image.
2. Include ,either a short history (20 lines) in your post or.. a link to a potted history of the object.

 

[HLaB]

Most of my picc of historic things are of old castles and towers and the bike is not in them, I found this one with the bike in the shot, Captain Cook's Discovery in Dundee.

 

[peanut]

Most of my picc of historic things are of old castles and towers and the bike is not in them, I found this one with the bike in the shot, Captain Cook's Discovery in Dundee.

Good start HLaB but the idea is to take pictures on future rides not cheat and drag up old pics
Maybe we could give monthly awards for best picture

 

[snorri]

You'll need to include a piccy of your bike of course to prove that you were there.

It is easy to include the bike in a pic of a castle or large monument, but some of these items of interest are quite small, and it is necessary to read a small plaque in order to get the story. Would you want a long shot including the bicycle and a close up of the point of interest?

 

[peanut]

It is easy to include the bike in a pic of a castle or large monument, but some of these items of interest are quite small, and it is necessary to read a small plaque in order to get the story. Would you want a long shot including the bicycle and a close up of the point of interest?

Well we will need to use a bit of commonsense for the tricky ones. I would suggest a small plaque is going to be too dificult to photo clearly anyway so just get a bit of your saddle or wheel or other bike part into the picture and then google for a internet image of the plaque if its important.

Afterall no one is going to know for sure whose bike it is in the picture anyway but at least a bit of a bike proves a bike has been there.
Otherwise pick one of a thousand other subjects . There is surely enough out there unless you are on the moors

 

[Arch]

Dear god, if I start doing that round here, it'll take ages!

Good idea though. I'll have to remember to carry my camera more...

 

[bleakanddivine]

Arch

You could start with a pic of the Cross Keys pub I spotted in your video. That's historically important because I wasted a lot of my evenings as a stoodent in there in the late 70's.

Jonathan

 

[Arch]

Arch

You could start with a pic of the Cross Keys pub I spotted in your video. That's historically important because I wasted a lot of my evenings as a stoodent in there in the late 70's.

Jonathan

Jonathan

ok... more important than the largish cross shaped stone building behind it, obviously.

ooh, actually, that gives me an idea for a location though. It's maybe more local interest than history...

 

[marinyork]

There's a massive monument on Marston Moor just outside of York. Was really surprised when I went past it.