Your bike and a ruin

[wiggydiggy]

It is said that the first public toilet in the world was built in Hull to provide solvent for the alum trade. Quite how this method of production was discovered is not recorded.

It's the origin of the phrase 'doesn't have a pot to piss in'.

https://scarborough360.co.uk/day-trips/ravenscar

Well well well you learn something every day.😀 Thanks for the info, I had a brief browse online about 'alum' and am going to have to read a bit more about it and the industries history.

Also I now imagine a real life Harry King (from Terry Pratchett's Discworld) owning a vast network of toilets collecting the piss to sell on👍

 

[FrothNinja]

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Byland?

 

[PeteXXX]

Inside Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn on Rousay, Orkney

 

[PeteXXX]

My bike in the background (as it wouldn't fit through the entrance) to Taversoe Tuick Cairn on Rousay, Orkney.

 

[FrothNinja]

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Inside Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn on Rousay, Orkney

I think I may have an odd memory - I recognized it with only 1/4 the photo open and I last saw it winter of '86/7

 

[PeteXXX]

I think I may have an odd memory - I recognized it with only 1/4 the photo open and I last saw it winter of '86/7

They're remarkably well preserved, aren't they, considering!..

 

[FrothNinja]

They're remarkably well preserved, aren't they, considering!..

They certainly are - I slept in the Dwarfie Stane, very waterproof

 

[slowmotion]

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Cool window.

 

[Sallar55]

Yesterday up Glen Artney

 

[FrothNinja]

Yesterday up Glen Artney

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I was out in similar conditions last weekend and my shoes kept letting loads of irritating grass seeds in. I kept stopping to get shot of them, hope you had better luck. It was worth it though - saw some great Shropshire border country.

 

[Sallar55]

Old farmhouse

 

[Grant Fondo]

They're remarkably well preserved, aren't they, considering!..

Fabulous!

 

[Grant Fondo]

Lligwy Chapel Anglesey.

 

[FrothNinja]

Crawford Castle - second time this year

 

[Grant Fondo]

Crawford Castle - second time this year
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I reckon that top section of the gable end just needs some localised bracing then it could be a great des res!