Beautiful Lancashire

[Mathos]

The Smithy or Forge was very attractive.




Buildings of this nature absolutely fascinate me on a personal level.




There were some very attractive properties in the village. Everything was well maintained too.



The Ivy growing along the house walls had some amazing colours to vaunt.

They obviously make good use of the stone lying about the hills as well. Those slabs of rock used to keep vehicles from parking on the grass would cost a fortune to buy at a local Garden Centre for instance.

[Mathos]

[quote=Happyman;764577]

Originally Posted by Mathos

The Falcon has 4 miles of its own private fly fishing on the river Skirfare which gently winds its way down Littondale. The river is not artificially stocked and is inhabited by brown trout. Evidence of this is exhibited in a display case in the bar, a 3lb "brownie" certifying one fisherman’s skills. Fishing is available from Monday to Saturday during the trout season. Day tickets are free to Falcon guests and available to non-residents from the Falcon.



Right my friend- you have really blown it this time !!!

You know from some of my posts that the only thing that I miss from UK after 40 years away is the trout fishing .

I have endured, without complaint, over the weeks you constantly posting pics of fantastic "trouty" streams and rivers only been comforted by the fact that most are undoubtedly private so it was a case of "dream on "!!!

Now you go and post a pic of a stretch that is available on a ticket with the bonus that it is free if you stop in The Falcon !!

You have either a dark side to your character that gives you pleasure in tormenting people or have negotiated a good commission rate from The Falcon !

Consider us as not speaking to each other for the next 30 seconds !!! ( That will show you ! )

Time is up !

Did I mention I was booking a long weekend there later in the year?

I'll let you have a few photographs.




Flobo wants me to book the cottage.

Do you think I will enjoy the River Fishing for a few days?

[Happyman]

[quote=Mathos;765735][quote=Happyman;764577]

Originally Posted by Mathos

Do you think I will enjoy the River Fishing for a few days?

[Mathos]

This looked a superb Hotel/Pub in Malham.

The Buck Inn.



Apparently this building dates back to 1874 and was built on the site of an even older coaching house.


Buck Inn Malham
For more information please contact: The Buck Inn Malham. Contact Us:. The Buck Inn, Malham, ... The Buck Inn Malham, Nr Skipton



There was certainly no shortage of accomodation in the village.



Riverhouse Hotel, Malham, Skipton
Riverhouse Hotel, Malham, Skipton online brochure. ... This then leads you through to Reception and the Restaurant. The picture on the right is one of the ...
www.4hotels.co.uk/uk/hotels/riverhouse.html - 9k - Cached - Similar pages



Extremely picturesque.




This must have been the 'Village Store'




I love seeing the rivers running through the centre of the villages.




This place gets more interesting with every click of the mouse.

Malham
The water from this river flowed over Malham Cove to form a huge water fall. When the climate warmed around 12000 years ago the ground thawed and the river ...
www.gowilder.org.uk/geog/WASP/malham.htm - 20k - Cached - Similar pages



Another good link here as well.

Christine Whitehead Photography: Articles: Malham
The river from Malham Tarn disappears underground about one mile above the cove and beyond what it now a dry valley. It was thought that the water took the ...
www.christinewhiteheadphotography.co.uk/section144113_42554.html - 13k

[Mathos]

[quote=Happyman;765739][quote=Mathos;765735]

Originally Posted by Happyman

I asked for that.

Spoiled for choice here though.

Day Ticket Fishing Yorkshire Dales
On this page: day ticket trout fishing and grayling fishing in the Yorkshire .... Arncliffe - is where you need to head for day tickets to fish the River ...
www.yorkshire-dales-flyfishing.com/day-ticket-yorkshire.htm - 44k - Cached - Similar pages



Take care.

[Mathos]

We came across this ancient looking Church in another Hamlet, Kirkby Malham (The name Malham is very popular in these parts)

There'll be a reason for that as well no doubt.

Saint Michael the Archangel.



Kirkby means place of the Church or Church place. It's taken from old Danish, and it is likely that this church has it's origins in the 9th and 10th centuries.

This would be when the Danes over-ran the North of England.

There is quite a bit of interesting information here regarding the 'Old Church'


GENUKI: Kirkby Malhamdale Church by David Tippey
The Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Kirkby Malham. .... of Victorian whimsy) that as water had separated them so often in life so it should in death. ...
GENUKI: West Riding of Yorkshire IndexKirkbymalhamdale/KirbymalhamChurchDT.html - 18k - Cached - Similar pages


Bit of a daft one here I came across:-

Kirkby - Malham - Kirkby Malham Graveyard - The Gray Lady is said to haunt this graveyard. Many sightings have been seen here. Some tourists were visiting the church and saw a woman emerging from the grave the side of the grave was smashed. Nearly all the people in the village have spotted the ghost. The grave was only fixed early last year.

The Village itself was another attractive spot.



Not very big at all, but what was there was really neat and well presented.



Another really nice display of Ivy.




This was an exceptionally nice farm at the rear of the Church.




Just as a point of interest, do any readers or members of TeakDoor in particular have any stories of The Paranormal or do any of you live in or near a haunted location?

[Happyman]

Originally Posted by Mathos

Just as a point of interest, do any readers or members of TeakDoor in particular have any stories of The Paranormal or do any of you live in or near a haunted location?

Being the product of 4 years in a Jesuit Monastery school I an naturally an Agnostic!

However when I was working in Tanzania we camped overnight under a huge tree.
Was woken in the morning by a crowd of Masai standing 50 yards from the tree who were obviously a bit upset !
Turned out it was their local spirit tree, they were forbidden to approach it, and they were amazed that we were alive !
The whole of the next day was taken up by us being subjected to rituals accompanied by copious amounts of Pomba( Mealie Beer) to cleanse us !!!

[Mathos]

Originally Posted by Happyman

Being the product of 4 years in a Jesuit Monastery school I an naturally an Agnostic!

However when I was working in Tanzania we camped overnight under a huge tree.
Was woken in the morning by a crowd of Masai standing 50 yards from the tree who were obviously a bit upset !
Turned out it was their local spirit tree, they were forbidden to approach it, and they were amazed that we were alive !
The whole of the next day was taken up by us being subjected to rituals accompanied by copious amounts of Pomba( Mealie Beer) to cleanse us !!!

Great experience in life, a Jesuit education. I envy that issue. I can also appreciate your Agnostic stance.

Interesting tale as well. I have noted along life's trail that there are some very interesting stories regarding folklore, many times the same being referred to as folkloristics.

Flying visit tonight, off out early tomorrow.

Nice view on this photograph though, going towards Hebden from Jack Bridge at Blackshaw.



Decent height too, we were surprised how high we were.



Surprising though, there were some extremely dangerous sections with neither warnings or barriers with regards to some of the sheer drops virtually from the roadside.




Jack Bridge was nice though, I'll put more on tomorrow with a bit of luck.




Nice River running through as well.

[wanderering walter]

[quote=Mathos;767608]

Originally Posted by Happyman

Hi Mathos, the house I lived in at Higher Walton was built on the remains of an old coaching house, my then girlfriend owner said it was haunted, well there was more than me living there at the time! When I first moved in things started to disappear and footsteps could be heard upstairs! On one particular night around 11.00am a bedroom door or several were slammed shut! , I raced upstairs only to find all the doors were open! I learned that previous tenants had complained of similar experiances, After some months it all went quiet, my friend said they had got used to me.
Anyway Mathos I thought that you disregarded such!!! Walter

PS as an illustration of UKs economic woes just bought a Jaguar soveriegn LWB 1999 FSH (jag).on Ebay for 2000 quid!! inc 1 years m.o.t +tax,









Decent height too, we were surprised how high we were.



Surprising though, there were some extremely dangerous sections with neither warnings or barriers with regards to some of the sheer drops virtually from the roadside.




Jack Bridge was nice though, I'll put more on tomorrow with a bit of luck.




Nice River running through as well.

[wanderering walter]

Originally Posted by Mathos

You know from some of my posts that the only thing that I miss from UK after 40 years away is the trout fishing .

Hi Happyman just to piss you off further I am building a house in Thailand ,its going to include a small lake about 1/3 acre, going to stock it with Rainbows! not the same as Brownies from the stream but it will do for me! That house in lived in at Higher Walton was set in 6 acres of woodland, the Darren ran around its limits, there was a 2 acre fresh water lake within containing Brown Trout, the lake was originally a water supply for the Dye Works Steam Engine that existed then.
Walter

[peterpan]

^ Hope you have a big refrigeration unit, trout will die in anything above 24 Deg C

[wanderering walter]

Originally Posted by peterpan

^ Hope you have a big refrigeration unit, trout will die in anything above 24 Deg C

Many thanks for the info, would be relevant at sea level but as it,s in the mountains fed by a natural stream the water temp is around 18/20C ,
NB thanks for the RED and calling me a wanker!! Typical reaction of the "usual suspects" open gob and engage"brain???"afterwards




Just wondering why your Avatar is Old Man Steptoe? he was dirty ,smelly, obnoxcious,false teeth and thoroughly nasty, in real life (Wilfred Brambell) was all of those things plus being a Bum Bandit!! Ah just answered my own question,

[wanderering walter]

Originally Posted by Mathos

The water from this river flowed over Malham Cove to form a huge water fall. When the climate warmed around 12000 years ago the ground thawed and the river ...

WHOA there baby!! climate warmed 12000 years ago!! did we/they have factory "chimlies" then plus polluting cars , suppose we /they must have!!!

[Mathos]

Wandering Walter Wrote:-


Hi Mathos, the house I lived in at Higher Walton was built on the remains of an old coaching house, my then girlfriend owner said it was haunted, well there was more than me living there at the time! When I first moved in things started to disappear and footsteps could be heard upstairs! On one particular night around 11.00am a bedroom door or several were slammed shut! , I raced upstairs only to find all the doors were open! I learned that previous tenants had complained of similar experiances, After some months it all went quiet, my friend said they had got used to me.

Anyway Mathos I thought that you disregarded such!!! Walter

PS as an illustration of UKs economic woes just bought a Jaguar soveriegn LWB 1999 FSH (jag).on Ebay for 2000 quid!! inc 1 years m.o.t +tax,

Hi Walter, it’s right nice to see you back on the thread mate. Your input has been missed by many I’m sure of that. Thanks for paying a visit.


I couldn't help but notice you are building up a selection of ‘Reds’ Walter. What on earth have you been up to?

Anyway Mathos I thought that you disregarded such!!! Walter

I do Walter. However, I also obtain levels of enjoyment from some of the unbelievable stories I hear from time to time. It’s quite amazing what the human mind is capable of creating you know. Just think of Bram Stoker as a brilliant example.


There’s some background and facts here with regards to Stoker, which in a manner illustrate the need for interest in such amazing thinking characters, who use their thoughts as skills, beneficial to the interests of mankind. Such creations on paper make their ways to the box offices and the producers along with their fraternity gross millions from such a man’s thoughts.


It’s clever.


But I totally disregard the actual existence of anything remotely like ‘vampires’ or other such phenomenon as ghosts, spacemen kidnapping folk who live in America and other such amazing wishful thinking anecdotes.



The following is taken from:- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia

Stoker was bed-ridden until he started school at the age of seven — when he made a complete recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."


After his recovery, he became a normal young man, even excelling as an athlete (he was named University Athlete) at Trinity College, Dublin (1864 – 1870), from which he graduated with honours in mathematics. He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society".





In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager (at first as acting-manager) of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. On 31st December 1879, Bram and Florence's only child was born, a son that they christened Irving Noel Thornley Stoker. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables,


James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world. In the mid 1890s, Stoker is rumoured to have become a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, though there is no concrete evidence to support this claim.[5][6]. The Golden Dawn was a fraternal magical order that also included among its members author W.B.Yeats, occultist Aleister Crowley, author and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, Arthur Edward Waite, London stage actress and musician Florence Farr and others. Although there is no evidence that Stoker was actually a member of the order, one of his closest friends was J.W. Brodie-Innis, a major figure in the Order, and Stoker himself hired Pamela Coleman-Smith, the artist who created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, a major instrument in the Order, as an artist at the Lyceum Theatre.




Stoker supplemented his income by writing a number of novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula which was published in 1897. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent eight years researching European folklore and stories of vampires. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as collection of diary entries, telegrams, and letters from the characters, as well as fictional clippings from the Whitby and London newspapers. Stoker's inspirations for the story were a visit to Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire, and a visit to the crypts under the church St. John the Baptist where Stoker was baptised



The short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories was published in 1914 by Stoker's widow Florence Stoker. The first film adaptation of Dracula was named Nosferatu. It was directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and starred Max Schreck as Count Orlock. Nosferatu was produced while Florence Stoker, Bram Stoker's widow and literary executrix, was still alive. Represented by the attorneys of the British Incorporated Society of Authors, she eventually sued the filmmakers. Her chief legal complaint was that she had been neither asked for permission for the adaptation nor paid any royalty. The case dragged on for some years, with Mrs. Stoker demanding the destruction of the negative and all prints of the film. The suit was finally resolved in the widow's favour in July 1925. Some copies of the film survived, however and the film has become very common in current times

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There is no doubt in my mind that ‘Stoker’ had a brilliant thought train, perhaps an unhealthy fascination with the dead, or maybe he fantasised with regards to finding a way to obtain eternal life. Who knows?

There are others of course.

The Invisible man, a novel written by Ralph Waldo Ellison.


Dennis Wheatley really got carried away with his meanderings. But he didn’t half sell some books.

These are simple examples, we must not rule out The Mid-West Preacher, who for a monthly Standing Order to his bank account can get you a guaranteed place in heaven. If you up the Standing Order and give him a decent motor car to use on a regular basis, you can have a guaranteed seat on the right hand side of Jesus for eternity.

Wow! I need some of that.

Then there are matters closer to the truth of our history in general.
One book well worth reading if you can handle it, has to be;


The Malleus Maleficarum by Kramer and Sprenger.

With regards to your experiences at Higher Walton though Walter, I would imagine there are some very logical reasons concerning sounds like footsteps and closing doors. Plus people connected with or living in such places with a bit of a history of ‘ghost like apparitions etc’ do have a tendency to ensure the tales loose nothing in their originality.

Walter wrote:-
PS as an illustration of UKs economic woes just bought a Jaguar soveriegn LWB 1999 FSH (jag).on Ebay for 2000 quid!! inc 1 years m.o.t +tax,

That sounds a real bargain Walter. Well done. I take it you will be having it shipped across to Thailand then?

They are a nice car. Heavy on the old juice of course but if you only do a low mileage and considering the cost of fuel in LOS it has to be a great deal for you.
I’m not sure what shipping costs will be, I once priced up a container for a load of furniture to be shipped from LOS to the UK (Liverpool) that was a little over a thousand pounds, but it was a few years back.

Walter wrote:-
Hi Happyman just to piss you off further I am building a house in Thailand ,its going to include a small lake about 1/3 acre, going to stock it with Rainbows! not the same as Brownies from the stream but it will do for me! That house in lived in at Higher Walton was set in 6 acres of woodland, the Darren ran around its limits, there was a 2 acre fresh water lake within containing Brown Trout, the lake was originally a water supply for the Dye Works Steam Engine that existed then.
Walter

Hope you don’t mind me making comment on your post to Happyman Walter.


Just wanted to wish you all the best with you’re ‘House-Build in Thailand.’ I hope you are going to do a thread on the same, you know land and everything before you start, then foundations and everything up to completion. Those threads can be spectacular at times Walter and with you having such a bonus as a 1/3rd of an acre lake to go with it, it will make great reading. Make sure you put plenty of photographs on the thread as well.


I really wish you well with your project, new house, lake and Jaguar.

They’ll be saluting you up there Walter.

Have you decided on the style of house you intend building, modern Thai, Traditional Thai or perhaps an English Cottage appearance?

Keep us all up to date with this project Walter, it's great.


Just thought I would mention for your benefit too Walter, Preston is about to undergo a massive transformation. Virtually the whole of the City is to be demolished and rebuilt.

There was only a snippet of information on the Granada News the other night, once they start printing information up in the LEP I'll put some info. on here.

Bus Station is apparently the first to go under the hammer.

[wanderering walter]

Originally Posted by wanderering walter

I take it you will be having it shipped across to Thailand then

Well I will try to. cost now for shipping 1500 GBP inc, fuel is down to 41 p per litre here, Gas is much cheaper, might be worth a conversion, Thai customs are going to be the prob, Page 1 states the duty applicable, page 2 states that you are not allowed to import a car!! so whats the point of page 1 then? Monty Python??

[wanderering walter]

Originally Posted by wanderering walter

I really wish you well with your project, new house, lake and Jaguar.

Yep I am taking photos of the project, its taken 4 months to gain permission to build a bridge over the canal, this bit alone deserves a chapter!! they are building as I write,
The ground water level is currently at 1 metre below surface, so I will have to wait until this extended Monsoon ceases! before the lake can be dug,
As to the style of the house,well! I think a mixture of English/Thai, 1.5 plus levels ,spacious /airy! 3/4 beds /3/4 baths/ games room (3/4 snooker table) the inevitable Pool which will never get used! extensive gardens /fruit/veg growing areas, bit of a creation before I kick me clogs away!,

[wanderering walter]

Originally Posted by Mathos

Bus Station is apparently the first to go under the hammer.

Christ I am getting old, I remember the 1st one getting demolished off Lancaster Rd, in the 60s, plus St Georges Shopping Centre as well! 40 years ago!!!!F++k it

[wanderering walter]

Originally Posted by wanderering walter

Quote: Originally Posted by Mathos The water from this river flowed over Malham Cove to form a huge water fall. When the climate warmed around 12000 years ago the ground thawed and the river ... WHOA there baby!! climate warmed 12000 years ago!! did we/they have factory "chimlies" then plus polluting cars , suppose we /they must have!!!

What about this then????

[wanderering walter]

Originally Posted by wanderering walter

It’s quite amazing what the human mind is capable of creating you know

now that,s what got me in trouble!!! very simple statement but contains a major key to Existance!!! shit that,s f++ked it!!! aaaahhh.

[Mathos]

Wandering Walter wrote:-

WHOA there baby!! climate warmed 12000 years ago!! did we/they have factory "chimlies" then plus polluting cars , suppose we /they must have!!!

There are so many complications with occurrences to the planet Walter, they outstrip my knowledge with regards to global warming and past events of such happenings.
We know of course that they did not have factories, chimney’s, or motor vehicles.

Exactly what was happening with regard to the oscillation of the planet and or the obvious warming of the same or a creation of a greenhouse effect by excessive volcanic action all those years ago.

Tell you what though Walter, I think you really should start a thread with regards to your house building project, it would be very interesting from what you have already mentioned on here. The Bridge over the canal, the fishing lake and the design of course. Then there's the snooker room. It sounds really nice and would make an excellent thread.

Plenty of photographs, details regarding the builders, land preparation, etc etc.

Go for it mate.

Years back I came across a very English looking house near the Dusit Island in Chiang Rai, garden full of roses and all the bits and pieces you would associate with an English home.

It looked good. I might even have a photograph or two of it, I'll have a look in due course.

Couple of photographs here anyhow from your neck of the woods in Thailand.




It only seems like a few weeks since I took these, they were taken January this year.



Is the moat work all finished as yet?




Chiang Mai Sausages.



Nice memories, but I must get on with my Lancashire thread.