New Pictures of The Picturesque Robin Hoods Bay.

Pictures & Images of Robin Hood’s Bay, North Yorkshire. Robin Hood’s Bay is a small fishing village on the North Yorkshire Coast whose houses tumble down the cliffs linked by a maize of small alleys. This picturesque village is famous for its tales of smuggling and the close proximity of the houses and their underground cellars led to the stories that smugglers could land their tea, brandy tobacco or gin on the beach then move the contraband up through the cellars of the houses to the top of the village without the Excise Officers ever knowing.

Robin Hood’s Bay was settled by Danish Vikings in about 1000. After the conquest of William The Conqueror in 1066 the area was given to Tancred the Fleming who sold it to the Abbot of Whitby.

The people of the Bay relied upon fishing and farming using as style of boat known as the Coble to catch herring which were then sent over the Moors to York. Today few fishermen work from the little harbour of Robing Hood’s Bay and the village relies upon tourism. Apart from the picturesque village visitors come to Robin Hood’s Bay to look for fossils in the layer of Jurassic shales that lies along the beach.

The whole of the East coast of England is slowly sinking into the sea and the coast is getting heavily eroded. To save Robin Hood’s Bay high sea walls have been built to protect the village.

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New Pictures of The North Yorks Moors National Park

New Gallery of North Yorks Moors National Park pictures, images & photos. The North Yorks moors are one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the United Kingdom and became a National Park in 1952. Located in the north east of England just south of the Tees the boundaries of the moors are defined by the steep scarp slopes of the Cleveland Hills to the north, the Hambleton Hills to the west, the Tabular Hills to the the south with the eastern boundary being the North Sea.

The North Yorks Moors is a domed shaped area rising to 1100 ft at Blakey. Valleys or Dales are cut into the dome radiating to the north & south. The geology is dominated is dominated by rock of the Jurassic period with shales, limestones and sandstone. Fossils can be found in the rocks of Robin Hoods Bay and iron ore was mined in Rosedale & Farndale. Alum was extracted along the coast and deposits of Jet are found around Whitby.

Visitors today see a wild landscape of heather moorland which bloom deep purple in late summer cut by remote green dales where sheep graze. The land is far from wild though and is the result of thousands of years of land management and farming. The moors are still separated into the feudal Manors the the Normans created when they conquered England in 1066. The heather moorland is populated by the Grouse which are managed and hunted for a short period each year who come from all round the world to pay £1000 a day to shoot grouse on the moors.

Rosedale was an industrial valley 150 years ago with iron ore mining all around the valley. It is hard to visualise that what appears to be such an unspoilt dale had a mining population of 5000. High above the ruins of 2 kilns linked by a an old railway track are all that is left of the important mining area that sent iron ore to the foundries of Teeside just north of the moors.

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Pictures of The Busojaras Hungary.

If you are in Hungary this Mardi Gras (day before Ash Wednesday) then you might like to join the strangely dressed Busos at the Busójárás in Mohács. This 4 day Šokci (Croats) festival fills the streets of Mohacs with the pagan rights that the carnival season springs from. It one of the last truely pagan festivals left in Europe and is still largely unspoilt by tourism. If you cannot join the Busos then theb photos in our picture gallery will give you a flavour of the Busojaras

[ Gallery of Pictures & Prints Mohacs Busojaras, Hungary]

Paul Williams Gallery Fine Art Photography & Fine Art Photos – “Homage” a from By The Sea

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Steve Jobs is dead. Four words that to many people will mean nothing. Steve who? Thanks to the iPod, iPhone, iBook etc etc, people may have a sort of idea who Steve Jobs was. Having owned Apple computers from before Steve launched the first visual interface, I have been part of Steve Jobs inspirational coaster ride from the beginning. In the early days his vision outpaced what the hardware could deliver but slowly the vision became a reality. Those of us that kept the faith and believed in Steve’s vision have benefitted from the liberation the Apple vision has delivered. Steve Jobs fundamentally changed the civilised world and for the better. Few humans can say that. I hope this will not be the end of his vision and those that are left in charge of his legacy will be good custodians, with his sense of adventure and innovation. Its a sad day, the world has lost an incredible mind too soon.

Posted with great sadness. Paul Williams

Paul Williams Gallery Fine Art Photography & Fine Art Photos – Ios Island Greece a from Day For Night

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Paul Williams Gallery Fine Art Photography & Fine Art Photos – Umberellas – Unreliable Sightings

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Paul Williams Gallery Fine Art Photography & Fine Art Photos – Holiday #1 “Alone” from By The Sea

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