Show on mapA short series of posts inspired by looking through my older printed photos, before going digital and before this website existed.
This spot is where Eller Beck flows through a ravine under a bridge on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
The stone commemorates Sydney Porritt who drowned aged 16 in 1908, in the photo my friends are doing their best to re-create that moment.
I like the way Rich and I look so retro. I don’t remember clearly but I imagine we drank lashings of ginger beer at some point.
Both elated and sorry to find this! In 1968 we found this on a family walk and mis read it as Sydney Potter. We then spent the rest of the walk making up rhymes to go with Potter not Porrit! I was just about to write a short story about Sydney Potter but will have to go back to the drawing board now!