Bygone England

There's a small market town in Yorkshire that still has steam trains and a market on wednesdays and sundays. It has a high street and tea rooms and people will stop and pass the time of day. They will even talk to strangers. This town is Knaresborough located between York and Harrogate. A little bit of the England of my childhood.

One of Knaresborough's most famous residents is an English soothsayer named 'Old Mother Shipton'. There is a limestone cave in Knaresborough with running water and it has several artefacts that have been petrified in limestone by the action of the water. This is known as Mother Shiptons cave. Mother Shipton seems to have had an awareness of the prophecies of Nostradamus although she was born the year he died. She would've been a fairly low key character in the 15th c so quite how this was achieved no-one knows. There are rumours that several of her prophecies are the same as those of Nostradamus and several have been fulfilled over the years but this would need further research. Knaresborough castle was besieged during the Civil war by Cromwells forces just after the Battle of Marston Moor and the castle effectively destroyed.

Many years ago I was stopped in York and asked by an Australian tourist if I knew how to get to 'Canaries buroo'. It took a while for the penny to drop. English is the most amazing language

There's a small market town in Yorkshire that still has steam trains and a market on wednesdays and sundays. It has a high street and tea rooms and people will stop and pass the time of day. They will even talk to strangers. This town is Knaresborough located between York and Harrogate. A little bit of the England of my childhood.

One of Knaresborough's most famous residents is an English soothsayer named 'Old Mother Shipton'. There is a limestone cave in Knaresborough with running water and it has several artefacts that have been petrified in limestone by the action of the water. This is known as Mother Shiptons cave. Mother Shipton seems to have had an awareness of the prophecies of Nostradamus although she was born the year he died. She would've been a fairly low key character in the 15th c so quite how this was achieved no-one knows. There are rumours that several of her prophecies are the same as those of Nostradamus and several have been fulfilled over the years but this would need further research. Knaresborough castle was besieged during the Civil war by Cromwells forces just after the Battle of Marston Moor and the castle effectively destroyed.

Many years ago I was stopped in York and asked by an Australian tourist if I knew how to get to 'Canaries buroo'. It took a while for the penny to drop. English is the most amazing language

There's a small market town in Yorkshire that still has steam trains and a market on wednesdays and sundays. It has a high street and tea rooms and people will stop and pass the time of day. They will even talk to strangers. This town is Knaresborough located between York and Harrogate. A little bit of the England of my childhood.

One of Knaresborough's most famous residents is an English soothsayer named 'Old Mother Shipton'. There is a limestone cave in Knaresborough with running water and it has several artefacts that have been petrified in limestone by the action of the water. This is known as Mother Shiptons cave. Mother Shipton seems to have had an awareness of the prophecies of Nostradamus although she was born the year he died. She would've been a fairly low key character in the 15th c so quite how this was achieved no-one knows. There are rumours that several of her prophecies are the same as those of Nostradamus and several have been fulfilled over the years but this would need further research. Knaresborough castle was besieged during the Civil war by Cromwells forces just after the Battle of Marston Moor and the castle effectively destroyed.

Many years ago I was stopped in York and asked by an Australian tourist if I knew how to get to 'Canaries buroo'. It took a while for the penny to drop. English is the most amazing language

There's a small market town in Yorkshire that still has steam trains and a market on wednesdays and sundays. It has a high street and tea rooms and people will stop and pass the time of day. They will even talk to strangers. This town is Knaresborough located between York and Harrogate. A little bit of the England of my childhood.

One of Knaresborough's most famous residents is an English soothsayer named 'Old Mother Shipton'. There is a limestone cave in Knaresborough with running water and it has several artefacts that have been petrified in limestone by the action of the water. This is known as Mother Shiptons cave. Mother Shipton seems to have had an awareness of the prophecies of Nostradamus although she was born the year he died. She would've been a fairly low key character in the 15th c so quite how this was achieved no-one knows. There are rumours that several of her prophecies are the same as those of Nostradamus and several have been fulfilled over the years but this would need further research. Knaresborough castle was besieged during the Civil war by Cromwells forces just after the Battle of Marston Moor and the castle effectively destroyed.

Many years ago I was stopped in York and asked by an Australian tourist if I knew how to get to 'Canaries buroo'. It took a while for the penny to drop. English is the most amazing language

There's a small market town in Yorkshire that still has steam trains and a market on wednesdays and sundays. It has a high street and tea rooms and people will stop and pass the time of day. They will even talk to strangers. This town is Knaresborough located between York and Harrogate. A little bit of the England of my childhood.

One of Knaresborough's most famous residents is an English soothsayer named 'Old Mother Shipton'. There is a limestone cave in Knaresborough with running water and it has several artefacts that have been petrified in limestone by the action of the water. This is known as Mother Shiptons cave. Mother Shipton seems to have had an awareness of the prophecies of Nostradamus although she was born the year he died. She would've been a fairly low key character in the 15th c so quite how this was achieved no-one knows. There are rumours that several of her prophecies are the same as those of Nostradamus and several have been fulfilled over the years but this would need further research. Knaresborough castle was besieged during the Civil war by Cromwells forces just after the Battle of Marston Moor and the castle effectively destroyed.

Many years ago I was stopped in York and asked by an Australian tourist if I knew how to get to 'Canaries buroo'. It took a while for the penny to drop. English is the most amazing language