Dry stone wall - Monday

… there are lots of them round here constructed from the local sandstone.  Like this one, many are broken down with the gaps filled in with some kind if wire fence. I think this one must have been dismantled when they needed a wider access to the fields at the top of the hill,  maybe because at the time the hillside was an open-cast coal mine (70’s I think).

I needed to collect my prescription from the pharmacy so drove around the Thurgoland loop: Hand Lane, Thurgoland Hall Lane, Roper Lane (Thurgoland), Halifax Road, Millmoor, Crane Moor Road.

It would be fantastic to see Crane’s re-established here. When I first moved into the village i could hear the warbling trill of the Curlew in summer, but  no more.  The tawny owls are gone, swallows and martins too and its several years since I heard a cuckoo. The jackdaws are thriving though and setting up house in the weathered sandstone chimneys.