Robert Walton
@waltonbob.bsky.social
I take my hat off to built & natural environments, heritage, townscapes & the arts - 'Recorder of the unusual', using #fujifilm #X100VI
Follow my contributions to the Missing Places Project at https://historicengland.org.uk/profile/272036/RobertWalton/
Follow my contributions to the Missing Places Project at https://historicengland.org.uk/profile/272036/RobertWalton/
The new teaching wing in the redevelopment of The Woodlands Academy in Scarborough in looking good in this afternoon's sunlight. Funded by the Department for Education (DfE) as part of the School Rebuilding Programme, it is being delivered by Galliford Try.
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The new teaching wing in the redevelopment of The Woodlands Academy in Scarborough in looking good in this afternoon's sunlight. Funded by the Department for Education (DfE) as part of the School Rebuilding Programme, it is being delivered by Galliford Try.
Glimpses of the newly restored roof of the passenger train shed at Scarborough Railway Sta. After more than 3 yrs' work, scaffolding is coming down at the 1845 grade II station that 'retains the original G T Andrews roof structure, a unique survival for a station of this size.'
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Glimpses of the newly restored roof of the passenger train shed at Scarborough Railway Sta. After more than 3 yrs' work, scaffolding is coming down at the 1845 grade II station that 'retains the original G T Andrews roof structure, a unique survival for a station of this size.'
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Great turnout for Rashomon (1950) @thesjt.bsky.social #scarborough this evening - roll on next month's Moviedrome - Edward Scissorhands...
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Great turnout for Rashomon (1950) @thesjt.bsky.social #scarborough this evening - roll on next month's Moviedrome - Edward Scissorhands...
Tonight @thesjt.bsky.social, a Japanese movie in the 'Rashomon-like' vernacular when multiple tales are conflicting, subjective & contradictory versions by different people (disambiguation). Hosted @madbasil.bsky.social, Kurosawa's 1950 film excels in telling a good yarn or two (or three or four).
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Tonight @thesjt.bsky.social, a Japanese movie in the 'Rashomon-like' vernacular when multiple tales are conflicting, subjective & contradictory versions by different people (disambiguation). Hosted @madbasil.bsky.social, Kurosawa's 1950 film excels in telling a good yarn or two (or three or four).
Good today to see the former Hull Co-Operative Society (formed 1890) building in the centre of Bridlington is under wraps receiving restoration. The impressive decorative architectural elevations might be in Burmantofts Faience from that time by The Leeds Fireclay Co. Ltd.
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Good today to see the former Hull Co-Operative Society (formed 1890) building in the centre of Bridlington is under wraps receiving restoration. The impressive decorative architectural elevations might be in Burmantofts Faience from that time by The Leeds Fireclay Co. Ltd.
High Mill, beside the River Derwent at West Ayton, Scarborough, is dated circa 1800. It bears the arms of the Hewley family who had a significant historical connection to West Ayton, primarily through Sir John Hewley & his wife Dame Sarah Hewley, who acquired most of the manor in the 17th century.
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
High Mill, beside the River Derwent at West Ayton, Scarborough, is dated circa 1800. It bears the arms of the Hewley family who had a significant historical connection to West Ayton, primarily through Sir John Hewley & his wife Dame Sarah Hewley, who acquired most of the manor in the 17th century.
Water cascades over the weir in the River Derwent at West Ayton, Scarborough.
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Water cascades over the weir in the River Derwent at West Ayton, Scarborough.
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10 Films We Need to Talk About - my #scarborough based #film studies course starting in #january #2026 - [email protected] for more info/list or to join!
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
10 Films We Need to Talk About - my #scarborough based #film studies course starting in #january #2026 - [email protected] for more info/list or to join!
The water chute in Scarborough is by Charles Wicksteed, an industrial engineer who came to specialise in children's play equipment. Opened in 1932 as a feature of the Northstead Manor Gardens & grade II listed in 2017, the ride is owned & operated by North Bay Railway with Peasholm station close by.
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The water chute in Scarborough is by Charles Wicksteed, an industrial engineer who came to specialise in children's play equipment. Opened in 1932 as a feature of the Northstead Manor Gardens & grade II listed in 2017, the ride is owned & operated by North Bay Railway with Peasholm station close by.
One of the holiday apartments in the diminutive Lighthouse Cottage in Scarborough's Queen's Terrace is named after The Flatiron Building on Fifth Avenue in New York - significant for its unusual triangular street-corner appearance that both buildings have.
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
One of the holiday apartments in the diminutive Lighthouse Cottage in Scarborough's Queen's Terrace is named after The Flatiron Building on Fifth Avenue in New York - significant for its unusual triangular street-corner appearance that both buildings have.
The bus stops here...
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The bus stops here...
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I'm no cow expert but it looks like a limo.
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I'm no cow expert but it looks like a limo.
St Matthew's, a 12th-century Grade I listed church, has one of the region's largest churchyards, as it serves as the parish church for both Hutton Buscel and West Ayton - villages on the outskirts of Scarborough, at the eastern end of the Vale of Pickering.
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
St Matthew's, a 12th-century Grade I listed church, has one of the region's largest churchyards, as it serves as the parish church for both Hutton Buscel and West Ayton - villages on the outskirts of Scarborough, at the eastern end of the Vale of Pickering.
Grade I listed St Matthew's, Hutton Buscel, has a north aisle (pictured) that was rebuilt during restoration work in 1855 by William Butterfield. In the churchyard is a medieval cross, grade II.
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Grade I listed St Matthew's, Hutton Buscel, has a north aisle (pictured) that was rebuilt during restoration work in 1855 by William Butterfield. In the churchyard is a medieval cross, grade II.
Where's Derek?
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Where's Derek?
Pictures of red at Filey's Church of St Oswald (listed grade I), today.
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Pictures of red at Filey's Church of St Oswald (listed grade I), today.
Filey railway station, 1846, by G. T. Andrews has had restoration work done to it over the last year, so time for a set of pictures to show how fab it looks. It is listed grade II*
November 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Filey railway station, 1846, by G. T. Andrews has had restoration work done to it over the last year, so time for a set of pictures to show how fab it looks. It is listed grade II*
This morning, coffee was 'daintily & quickly served' at The Weston, 'small but positively first class' hotel on Scarborough's Esplanade. Established 1922, it still delights with 'praise without stint'.
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This morning, coffee was 'daintily & quickly served' at The Weston, 'small but positively first class' hotel on Scarborough's Esplanade. Established 1922, it still delights with 'praise without stint'.
Peasholm Park in Scarborough is a public park first laid out in 1912, with a Japanese theme. It is a grade II listed Park & Garden - voted one of the most favourite in Europe.
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Peasholm Park in Scarborough is a public park first laid out in 1912, with a Japanese theme. It is a grade II listed Park & Garden - voted one of the most favourite in Europe.
Halloween treat with something terrible @thesjt.bsky.social with @madbasil.bsky.social hosting a rare screening of Stephen King’s 1979 Salem’s Lot, starring David Soul (Starsky & Hutch 1975 -79). With a vampire, creepy atmospheres, timeless horror... & a gripping climax, it was a must tonight.
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Halloween treat with something terrible @thesjt.bsky.social with @madbasil.bsky.social hosting a rare screening of Stephen King’s 1979 Salem’s Lot, starring David Soul (Starsky & Hutch 1975 -79). With a vampire, creepy atmospheres, timeless horror... & a gripping climax, it was a must tonight.
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A proper Halloween treat from Moviedrome this month - a rare screening of Stephen King's Salem's Lot, directed by Tobe Hooper of Texas Chain Saw Massacre fame 👇
@madbasil.bsky.social
@madbasil.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A proper Halloween treat from Moviedrome this month - a rare screening of Stephen King's Salem's Lot, directed by Tobe Hooper of Texas Chain Saw Massacre fame 👇
@madbasil.bsky.social
@madbasil.bsky.social
Broxa Forest in the North York Moors National Park is an area with prehistoric burial monuments, both round & square barrows, as well as the remains of prehistoric land division - protected as Scheduled Monuments with Historic England.
October 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Broxa Forest in the North York Moors National Park is an area with prehistoric burial monuments, both round & square barrows, as well as the remains of prehistoric land division - protected as Scheduled Monuments with Historic England.
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On the Bickley Gate Trail in Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire, UK, ethereal forest scenes this morning as tall pines & beech trees stand with mossy pine-needle-strewn undergrowth; twisted trunks, ferns & skeletal seed heads create luminous, textured atmospheres in the shaded semi- #darkness.
October 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
On the Bickley Gate Trail in Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire, UK, ethereal forest scenes this morning as tall pines & beech trees stand with mossy pine-needle-strewn undergrowth; twisted trunks, ferns & skeletal seed heads create luminous, textured atmospheres in the shaded semi- #darkness.