Archive for the ‘Homes Parks and Gardens’ Category
May 31st, 2010
We made our way East today and visited Burton Agnes Hall between Driffield and Bridlington in East Yorkshire. As we entered the grounds and made our way up to The Hall itself, we were struck by just how relaxed everyone seemed to be. Stepping inside to buy our tickets we quickly found out why. We [...]
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May 31st, 2010
If only we had gone for Tea and Scones first, then we would have known to dampen expectations for our first visit to Burnby Hall Gardens and Museum. Like the lack lustre affair you can see on the left, we were in and out of this small estate within 40 minutes. We parked up and [...]
May 29th, 2010
Paul and I joined some of my colleagues from work for an evening Karting session at Three Sisters Race Circuit in Wigan. We arrived before 7pm and were soon booted and suited in bright red overalls for the racing that lay ahead. We signed the disclaimers (nothing was left out it seems) and headed over [...]
May 28th, 2010
We went along to visit Newby Hall near Ripon in North Yorkshire last Sunday. It is about 30 minutes away from where we live and the journey from home was event free. Having set off late morning we arrived just before noon. We had skipped breakfast, so the first place we headed after parking up [...]
May 9th, 2010
This was my actual ‘Elevensees’ at Harewood House near Leeds in North Yorkshire taken with a macro lens on our new Canon EOS 550d. We had stopped for a little sit down in the Terrace cafe ‘Below Stairs’ at this famous country home. It is now run as an educational trust, but still serves as [...]
October 30th, 2009
We have booked a couple of tickets to pop along to the Hallowscream event at York Maze on Saturday evening which as you will know is the traditional date for Halloween in this country. Our ‘barber’ (Alex) had told me about it because he knows one of the people involved in organising it and from [...]
September 7th, 2009
Update: If you have just under £2m quid, you can buy Mother Shiptons Cave which went on the market today. With 65000 visitors a year, it could be a nice little hobby for someone. Original Post: We turned up around noon with the family and gained entry having paid £5.75 per adult (family tickets available) [...]
August 31st, 2009
We took a very short drive from home yesterday to visit York Maize Maze in Elvington near York. We’d heard this place mentioned many times and had even seen it in the news over the last few months for the many special events it holds. The most notorious being the Nudist Night, where people with [...]
May 25th, 2009
On Saturday, we went along to Chelsea Flower Show in London with our friends Steve and Russell. We arrived at around 10am having walked from the Crowne Plaza hotel on Buckingham Gate where we were all staying for the weekend. Entering through the gates, the memories of my last visit came flooding back. With the [...]
May 17th, 2009
Continuing the current trend where we visit stately homes on a Sunday, we travelled half an hour away from our home to Sledmere House near Driffield in East Yorkshire. Home to Sir Tatton Sykes, this is still a family home, that happens to be open to the public for six months of the year. Sam [...]