Robert Walton
@waltonbob.bsky.social
I take my hat off to built & natural environments, heritage, townscapes & the arts - 'Recorder of the unusual', using #fujifilm #X100VI
Follow my contributions to the Missing Places Project at https://historicengland.org.uk/profile/272036/RobertWalton/
Follow my contributions to the Missing Places Project at https://historicengland.org.uk/profile/272036/RobertWalton/
Where's Derek?
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Where's Derek?
Pictures of red at Filey's Church of St Oswald (listed grade I), today.
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Pictures of red at Filey's Church of St Oswald (listed grade I), today.
Filey railway station, 1846, by G. T. Andrews has had restoration work done to it over the last year, so time for a set of pictures to show how fab it looks. It is listed grade II*
November 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Filey railway station, 1846, by G. T. Andrews has had restoration work done to it over the last year, so time for a set of pictures to show how fab it looks. It is listed grade II*
This morning, coffee was 'daintily & quickly served' at The Weston, 'small but positively first class' hotel on Scarborough's Esplanade. Established 1922, it still delights with 'praise without stint'.
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This morning, coffee was 'daintily & quickly served' at The Weston, 'small but positively first class' hotel on Scarborough's Esplanade. Established 1922, it still delights with 'praise without stint'.
Peasholm Park in Scarborough is a public park first laid out in 1912, with a Japanese theme. It is a grade II listed Park & Garden - voted one of the most favourite in Europe.
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Peasholm Park in Scarborough is a public park first laid out in 1912, with a Japanese theme. It is a grade II listed Park & Garden - voted one of the most favourite in Europe.
Halloween treat with something terrible @thesjt.bsky.social with @madbasil.bsky.social hosting a rare screening of Stephen King’s 1979 Salem’s Lot, starring David Soul (Starsky & Hutch 1975 -79). With a vampire, creepy atmospheres, timeless horror... & a gripping climax, it was a must tonight.
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Halloween treat with something terrible @thesjt.bsky.social with @madbasil.bsky.social hosting a rare screening of Stephen King’s 1979 Salem’s Lot, starring David Soul (Starsky & Hutch 1975 -79). With a vampire, creepy atmospheres, timeless horror... & a gripping climax, it was a must tonight.
Reposted by Robert Walton
A proper Halloween treat from Moviedrome this month - a rare screening of Stephen King's Salem's Lot, directed by Tobe Hooper of Texas Chain Saw Massacre fame 👇
@madbasil.bsky.social
@madbasil.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A proper Halloween treat from Moviedrome this month - a rare screening of Stephen King's Salem's Lot, directed by Tobe Hooper of Texas Chain Saw Massacre fame 👇
@madbasil.bsky.social
@madbasil.bsky.social
Broxa Forest in the North York Moors National Park is an area with prehistoric burial monuments, both round & square barrows, as well as the remains of prehistoric land division - protected as Scheduled Monuments with Historic England.
October 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Broxa Forest in the North York Moors National Park is an area with prehistoric burial monuments, both round & square barrows, as well as the remains of prehistoric land division - protected as Scheduled Monuments with Historic England.
Reposted by Robert Walton
On the Bickley Gate Trail in Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire, UK, ethereal forest scenes this morning as tall pines & beech trees stand with mossy pine-needle-strewn undergrowth; twisted trunks, ferns & skeletal seed heads create luminous, textured atmospheres in the shaded semi- #darkness.
October 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
On the Bickley Gate Trail in Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire, UK, ethereal forest scenes this morning as tall pines & beech trees stand with mossy pine-needle-strewn undergrowth; twisted trunks, ferns & skeletal seed heads create luminous, textured atmospheres in the shaded semi- #darkness.
Quintessential village life with a continental feel in Thornton le Dale.
#Fujifilm #Eterna/cinema sooc.
#Fujifilm #Eterna/cinema sooc.
October 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Quintessential village life with a continental feel in Thornton le Dale.
#Fujifilm #Eterna/cinema sooc.
#Fujifilm #Eterna/cinema sooc.
In Thornton le Dale this morning capturing the autumn colours with #Fujifilm #Eterna/cinema SOOC.
October 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In Thornton le Dale this morning capturing the autumn colours with #Fujifilm #Eterna/cinema SOOC.
October 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Filey is the place to be this #Halloween... a beach party, or perhaps a wedding, is so much fun!
[Part of the treasure hunt that's on at the Filey Bird Garden & Animal Park]
[Part of the treasure hunt that's on at the Filey Bird Garden & Animal Park]
October 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Filey is the place to be this #Halloween... a beach party, or perhaps a wedding, is so much fun!
[Part of the treasure hunt that's on at the Filey Bird Garden & Animal Park]
[Part of the treasure hunt that's on at the Filey Bird Garden & Animal Park]
Waiting for me to catch up.
October 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Waiting for me to catch up.
Sewerby House, Bridlington dates from 1714 & has been added to & altered in C19 - it's grade I listed; the conservatory, gatehouse, courtyard archway & stable block (now a cafe) are all mid-C19 & each is grade II*.
Well looked after by the local authority & are popular as a recreation destination.
Well looked after by the local authority & are popular as a recreation destination.
October 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Sewerby House, Bridlington dates from 1714 & has been added to & altered in C19 - it's grade I listed; the conservatory, gatehouse, courtyard archway & stable block (now a cafe) are all mid-C19 & each is grade II*.
Well looked after by the local authority & are popular as a recreation destination.
Well looked after by the local authority & are popular as a recreation destination.
St John the Evangelist, Sewerby, Bridlington, is a 1840s church by one of the greatest church architects of the 19th-century, George Gilbert Scott. In neo-Norman style, it's atypical in Scott's work & one of the last of this style, briefly fashionable at the time. Grade II* listed.
October 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
St John the Evangelist, Sewerby, Bridlington, is a 1840s church by one of the greatest church architects of the 19th-century, George Gilbert Scott. In neo-Norman style, it's atypical in Scott's work & one of the last of this style, briefly fashionable at the time. Grade II* listed.
At Home Farm, Sewerby, near Bridlington, there's an Anglo-Saxon cemetery under the farmyard & grounds. Discovered when a new farmhouse was built in 1959, so excavated then & listed in 1961 as a Scheduled Monument for its protection - another smaller excavation was made in 1974.
October 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
At Home Farm, Sewerby, near Bridlington, there's an Anglo-Saxon cemetery under the farmyard & grounds. Discovered when a new farmhouse was built in 1959, so excavated then & listed in 1961 as a Scheduled Monument for its protection - another smaller excavation was made in 1974.
Sad memorial in St John's Churchyard, Sewerby, Bridlington, to a recently-married couple killed in the PIA plane that crashed into a mountainside near Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1992 with the loss of all 167 on board, including 37 Britons - on the first leg of the couple's round-the-world trip.
October 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Sad memorial in St John's Churchyard, Sewerby, Bridlington, to a recently-married couple killed in the PIA plane that crashed into a mountainside near Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1992 with the loss of all 167 on board, including 37 Britons - on the first leg of the couple's round-the-world trip.
The first event of the five-fixture 2025-26 rally season of The Siberian Husky Club of GB takes place here in Broxa Forest in the North York Moors National Park, 18-19 Oct. - & the final event returns here 28 Jan-1 Feb.
No good for Border Terriers... they're in another class of their own!
No good for Border Terriers... they're in another class of their own!
October 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The first event of the five-fixture 2025-26 rally season of The Siberian Husky Club of GB takes place here in Broxa Forest in the North York Moors National Park, 18-19 Oct. - & the final event returns here 28 Jan-1 Feb.
No good for Border Terriers... they're in another class of their own!
No good for Border Terriers... they're in another class of their own!
It had been a bank since it was built in 1891. Now redundant as a bank, the listed building is to be converted into hospitality for the ever-popular seaside economy.
Plans to convert Whitby’s former HSBC bank into a restaurant and holiday lets have been given the go-ahead by North Yorkshire Council. https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/whitbys-former-hsbc-to-become-restaurant-and-holiday-lets/
Whitby’s Former HSBC to Become Restaurant and Holiday Lets
Plans to convert Whitby’s former HSBC bank into a restaurant and holiday lets have been given the go-ahead by North Yorkshire Council.
www.thisisthecoast.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM
It had been a bank since it was built in 1891. Now redundant as a bank, the listed building is to be converted into hospitality for the ever-popular seaside economy.
In Scarborough, St James' church was founded as a mission chapel in 1885, becoming a parish church in 1894, designed by notable architects Paley & Austin with a Arts & Crafts oak interior & a rood screen that's a WWI memorial & tribute to those civilians killed in the Scarborough Bombardment, 1916.
October 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In Scarborough, St James' church was founded as a mission chapel in 1885, becoming a parish church in 1894, designed by notable architects Paley & Austin with a Arts & Crafts oak interior & a rood screen that's a WWI memorial & tribute to those civilians killed in the Scarborough Bombardment, 1916.
St Andrew's, the grade I parish church in Penrith, was rebuilt in 1720 after a fire destroyed much of the medieval structure. With panelled ceilings to Roman Doric arcades, wide aisles & theatre-like three-sided galleries & wall paintings around the altar, it's a stunningly impressive interior.
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
St Andrew's, the grade I parish church in Penrith, was rebuilt in 1720 after a fire destroyed much of the medieval structure. With panelled ceilings to Roman Doric arcades, wide aisles & theatre-like three-sided galleries & wall paintings around the altar, it's a stunningly impressive interior.
Today, appreciation of modern classicist style #architecture at the Penrith New Squares development, completed 2013, with principal architects Craig Hamilton Architects, classical architecture specialists.
October 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Today, appreciation of modern classicist style #architecture at the Penrith New Squares development, completed 2013, with principal architects Craig Hamilton Architects, classical architecture specialists.