The story of Cleopatra’s Needle journey to Britain

The well-known monument to Capt. James Cook was erected in 1827. The design of an obelisk has led some to speculate a masonic connection.

But the more probable reasoning was that obelisks were simply in vogue. In that year, Dublin had begun its erection of the Wellington Monument in Phoenix Park t ...

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A day of strange atmospherics

On this day in 2005, at 0601 in the morning, a huge explosion rocked an oil depot in Buncefield near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. It was the largest in peacetime Europe and the noise is said to have been heard as far away as the Netherlands.

I seem to remember people at work saying they had heard the boom ...

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An early start

It was dry when I left home but by Gribdale Gate, the wind had picked up and it was beginning to spit, and any thoughts of photography had been forgotten.

Still, it was pleasant to see Gribdale empty of cars; apart from two early dog walkers.

It's has always been a popular car park as the easiest ascent up to Capt. Cook's Monument, ...

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A brilliant day on Easby Moor for the Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team’s Remembrance Sunday gathering

The gathering took place at the memorial to the aircrew who died when their Lockheed Hudson aircraft crashed into the hill on 11th February 1940.

The aircraft took off from Thornaby-on-Tees at 04:10 and failed to gain suffient height due to …

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