Last weekend I visited my Cheshire family and went with Mother and Dad for a beautiful walk in their beloved Derbyshire Peak District. We parked the car at Middleton (which features in the magnificent book The Hike by Don Shaw) and walked through beautiful Bradford Dale.
Mother & Dad on a clapper bridge over the River BradfordIn the hollow leading down to the River Bradford we came across this intriguing piece of sculpture. Can any blogger tell us anything about it? We'd love to know how something so unexpected came to be there!
Click to enlarge and read the words
Click to enlarge and read the words
Old House in YoulgraveAlong with Auntie Kath, we also visited Tatton Park near Knutsford
where the Japanese Garden is a particularly beautiful feature
8 comments:
Looks like a TBR pile. :)
Sorry, I have no idea what to make of the sculpture, but the pictures are beautiful.
Hi Sarah,
I love that sculpture. It looks like a pile of books!
I thought you might like to know that my blog, Classical Bookworm, has moved. It is now located at http://philosophia.typepad.com/bookworm. Would you mind updating your blogroll link? Thanks very much. Sorry for the trouble!
Gabriele - Yes it does look like a TBR pile! Still none the wiser about what it means, though.
Sylvia - I've made the change and thanks for letting me know. I tried to access your blog at old address the other dy and wondered what had happened to it!
Thanks! I'm afraid my move was a wee bit abrupt; even Google hasn't caught up with me yet!
Thanks for your nice comment on my blog. The sculpture is intriguing and I don't know anything about it nor have I seen it. A visit to Bradford Dale is obviously called for and I'll try to solve the mystery. I come from Cheshire too - was born and grew up in Macclesfield. I had my wedding reception at The Wizard in Alderley Edge! Small world.
Sarah, It's a poem about a sheep dip and it can be found here at Sites of Meaning.
http://www.sitesofmeaning.org.uk/site04/details04.htm
Sorry, I can't make it work as a click url, you'll have to type it into the address bar or Google for it. It's part of a milennium project.
Rowan - what a coincidence. I expect you find the area very different nowadays if/when you visit. The Wizard is now a rather posh and trendy restaurant.
Elizabeth - thanks so much for the finding the splendid link! This info makes it all the more fascinating as it's so informative about the sculpture and the idea behind it - as well as providing links to other inscriptions we must have missed on our walk.
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