Your bike and a ruin

[tyred]

All that's left of St. Cholmcille's Abbey.

 

[T4tomo]

No chance lol I was staying at an isolated hamlet (too small for a village) called Ravenscar. Pretty location but nothing there, apparently was once meant to be developed as a rival to Whitby/Scarborough but nothing came of it.

I know it well, its has a station on the cinder track, the old Whitby to Scarborough railway - which I assume you cycled on to Whitby before taking the back road into the abbey from Hawsker / Stainsacre!

Nice Tea room and the slightly quirky Hotel, Raven Hall, which was the start and end of the mighty resort, albeit streets and sewers were built but the massive trek down to the underwhelming beach doomed the project.

 

[wiggydiggy]

I know it well, its has a station on the cinder track, the old Whitby to Scarborough railway - which I assume you cycled on to Whitby before taking the back road into the abbey from Hawsker / Stainsacre!

Nice Tea room and the slightly quirky Hotel, Raven Hall, which was the start and end of the mighty resort, albeit streets and sewers were built but the massive trek down to the underwhelming beach doomed the project.

Aye that's right, I was camping (£6 a night, in 2019 amazing value). I did Ravenscar<>Scarborough in the morning and then Ravenscar<>Whitby in the afternoon.

 

[Grant Fondo]

All that's left of St. Cholmcille's Abbey.

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A few roof slates and thats good as new

 

[Grant Fondo]

St John's chapel ruins Chester.

 

[iandg]

 

[FrothNinja]

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Over the years I must have photographed most of my motorbikes in that gateway - not been since they titivated it

 

[iandg]

Over the years I must have photographed most of my motorbikes in that gateway - not been since they titivated it

Lat audax I rode before I got hit with polymyalgia

 

[Alex321]

Ogmore Castle (what there is of it)

 

[FrothNinja]

Ogmore Castle (what there is of it)
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Wales in sunshine! Probably why they have the roof down.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Ogmore Castle (what there is of it)
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I know we have said it before, but some minor repointing and that castle is back to its former glory.

 

[tyred]

A ruin in front of a ruin. This may very well be the last time this old 3 speed will feature in the picture threads as a few miles later the bottom bracket shell broke. RIP old friend.

 

[Oldhippy]

 

[craigwend]

 

[ClichéGuevara]

No chance lol I was staying at an isolated hamlet (too small for a village) called Ravenscar. Pretty location but nothing there, apparently was once meant to be developed as a rival to Whitby/Scarborough but nothing came of it.

It is said that the first public toilet in the world was built in Hull to provide solvent for the alum trade. Quite how this method of production was discovered is not recorded.

It's the origin of the phrase 'doesn't have a pot to piss in'.

https://scarborough360.co.uk/day-trips/ravenscar