Here’s a contender for the smallest monument (and possibly the smallest bike too 😉 ) . . .
“DO NOT CLIMB ON THE MONUMENT” . . . I had to, to see what it was . . . Newport Castle btw, also pictured in the background but trust me definitely not worth a separate pic 😆
Chartist mural – not sure if it counts as a monument or not . . .
Few ideas for next week: Sofa pics . . . but outside 🙂 . Bikes in unlikely places, eg, phone box, etc. Reflection shots.
Thornton in Craven near Barnoldswick
Not very remote but all I could find
Rode to the caff at Airton on some pretty quiet roads and didn’t see much in the way of monuments
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Damn annoyed I missed this thread, got a great little hidden memorial which I’m sure half (if not more) of the local population are unaware of.
Off Kingsford lane?
Next to the bunker entrance yep, I’m sure there must be something in the area you don’t know about
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mulletus – the insult was definitely self-directed! no offence intended 🙂
here’re my pics from the day. first, a tribute to some family or other in the pentland hills. it dates back to the 1700 and 1800s.
this is the castlelaw souterrain also in the pentlands – it’s an iron-age coldstore so i guess it’s kind of a monument to the past!
not so sure about this – this was outside dreghorn barracks. i’ve not really paid attention before, and i was too tired to do all the reading! but i think it’s rather impressive 🙂 the date on the front is 1666, but i suspect it’s far newer than that
He liked his monuments so he had another one built (it’s actually an obelisk). Only it couldn’t better than the one dedicated to himself because he thought he was the best.
And of course, everything had to line up nicely. The Coke monument the other side of the hall.
Just hidden in the woods near the obelisk is ‘The Temple’, a small neo-classical shooting lodge with a domed roof and collumned portico at the entrance. Inside there is a large fireplace and two alcoves either side which have trompe l’oeil paintings of Italian contryside seen through windows. I had a job on the estate when I was a teenager and sometimes it was preparing the lodge for the Earl and his guests who would have dinner there while on a days shoot. This was all the building was ever intended for and is still only used for this now as far as I know.
A previous Earl had the trees in front of the lodge cleared to provide a view down the hill over the lake and then a narrow strip of trees cleared out of the pinewoods two miles away all so that he could have a distant glimpse of the sea while eating lunch.
In that narrow clearance a complete replica of a German V1 flying bomb and launch site was created for the film Operation Crossbow.
<edit> just found a pic from today:
I also intended getting a shot of another maritime memorial but it was too dark by the time I got back to town. Can I sneak it in tomorrow?
I never noticed anything odd about the SMB war memorial in Mulletus Maximuses’ first photo all the times i stood in front of it holding a flag as a cub on remembrance day.