Scotland (part 2)

 The path from Cromarty to South Sutor Headland

 Looking across the Cromarty Firth

 North Sutor from South Sutor

 The village of Cromarty with a gas platform in the natural harbour of Cromarty Firth

Cromarty village - The ferry goes from here to Nigg on the Fern Peninsula in the background

 Looking down the Moray Firth

 The Moray Firth with the point of Fort George (left)

The Kessock Bridge over the Moray Firth at Inverness

Scotland (part 1)

Once again, a LancashireCam photographer has strayed over the border into Scotland!
Here is what he found - the A9 at Cairngorm.

A jackknifed lorry.....with an appropriate name!

 Inverness - the River Ness and castle

Another view of the river with the Mercure Hotel on the right

The city centre

 A footbridge over the River Ness in the centre of the city

 A night view (with raindrops) of the Ness

 Another night shot

Early morning light

Gisburn Forest

The start of walk through Gisburn Forest. Stocks Reservoir in the centre of Gisburn Forest

 The car park at the start of the walk

 One of the many forest tracks

 Bottoms Beck that flows through the forest

 Looking across to Hesbert Hall

 Another part of Bottoms Beck

 

 At first glance, there is nothing unusual about this group of conifer trees. Look more closely and you will see that they are growing from a single trunk of a tree which as fallen (to the left)!

 Hesbert Hall

 A young labourer is using his skill to build a dry-stone wall. It takes him a day to build two square metres.

Dalehead Church (St. James, Stocks in Bowland) Note the wind generator providing power for the church.

The church notice-board

Arriving back at the car park - a very different scene of Stocks Reservoir!

Samlesbury

 Samlesbury Hall

The rescued hens - note the 'tudor style' hen cabins!

The main entrance to the Hall

 Another view of the front of the Hall

 The villageof Mellor between Samlesbury and Blackburn

The Samlesbury site of British Aerospace

(The building in the foreground is a 'drive-thro' Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant.

The first KFC in Britain is in Preston)

Another view of the British Aerospace works

A Walk from Fulwood to Walton-le-Dale following the Guild Wheel

The sign at the start of the walk

 The Guild Wheel is a 21-miles footpath and cycleway circling Preston

 Fernyhalgh Lane on a winter morning

 Another section of the Guild Wheel (behind the Crematorium)

 The descent through Brockholes Wood

The 'floating' Visitor Centre at Brockholes Nature Reserve

The Tickled Trout hotel backs onto the River Ribble at junction 31 of the M6

The end of the walk at Fishwick Nature Reserve

The Samuel Crompton Trail - part 2

Samuel Crompton was honoured for his work by the erection of this statue, 

paid for by public subscription, in 1862, in Nelson Square, Bolton.

Crompton died in poverty because he never patented his Spinning Mule. This granite slab in Bolton Parish Church graveyard marks his grave.

Bolton Parish Church

 A illustration of Crompton and his mule on the side of the monument in Nelson Square

Hall i' th' Wood is also illustrated on the monument

 The local Wetherspoon's pub is named after his invention

 The only remaining Spinning Mule in Bolton Museum

An illustration of the Mule