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BB2520
: We Need Your Help, Please!
Wednesday
4th June 2025
Yes,
we need your help. We saw something
today that has us baffled and we hope that
someone out there will be able to explain
its meaning. Quite simply, it is the
markings shown on the header above. I'll
explain where we saw it a little later but
I don't think its location is relevant.
Can you help decipher its meaning?
We
had hoped to be climbing High Street but the prospect of near certainty of showers,
some probably heavy and possibly thunder, plus winds gusting over 40 mph and a
feels-like temperature of zero, combined to dampen our enthusiasm as I am sure
it would yours (unless your name is Bryan,
of course).
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We
started late, waiting for the
rain to pass, lurking in a cafe
for an hour. or so. It eased
so we then took our chance and
parked beneath Warton Scar with
the intention of doing more
or less the reverse of BB2424.
It
was dry as we wandered through
the old, linear village. At
its northern extreme is a road
sign announcing the end of the
30 mph zone (cars, not wind).
It was on that sign that
the puzzling graffiti was found.
We
await your edification.
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Yealand
Conyers was our first objective which we
reached by the path through the woods. Those
of us who used to work for Provincial Insurance
know the village well as it was the site
of our old training school. Or at
least we knew well Yealand Manor and the
New Inn. The rest of the village was
not something to which we paid too much
attention in those days.
I
knew it as an old Quaker village though
these days it is full of rather fine, gentrified
properties. However, the Quaker church
and burial ground retains its modesty so
we went to investigate.
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As
it happens, had we arrived an hour earlier,
we could have joined in their mid-week service.
By the time of our arrival there was
just one man and one woman left in the building.
They were very welcoming and we enjoyed
a long chat with them about various aspects
of Quakerism, the village and folk that,
somewhat to our surprise, were mutually
known. I made reference to the anomaly
of Aled Jones singing "How
Can I Keep From Singing",
recorded in the Brigflatts
Quaker church,
as I thought that Quakers did not sing hymns
in their services. I was put right.
At Christmas, they do sing carols.
Continuing
through the village, Robert was keen to
point out the weather vanes that had inspired
him to have one commissioned for Diane.
Across
the road are the steps we used to use for
the stagger back to the Manor from the Pub.
It's a public footpath so we climbed
them, quite possibly the first time sober!
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The
path leads round the back of the manor and
into a field that I have always liked. It
was a great place to stop for lunch.
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Continuing
on into the wood, we decided, Status Quo-like,
to take the shortcut to Leighton Hall that
involves going down, down, deeper and down
to Deepdale Pond. Unfortunately little can
be seen of it other than the reed beds.
The climb out is not as severe and
the path led us to Leighton Hall Farm.....
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and then the Hall itself, which seemed to
be exceedingly busy judging by the number
of parked cars and coaches.
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Not
having our Historic Houses membership cards
to hand, we climbed the hill, site of
many a Last Night of the Proms outdoor concert.....
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back
towards Yealand Conyers but a the top turned
south then west down to Leighton Moss.
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Here
we turned south and soon east on a long,
long, climbing, cattle drover's path known
as Occupation Road. It was a rather
convoluted route we were following but there
was no real alternative if staying on legitimate
footways.
Our
target was the trig point and beacon on
the top of Warton Crag, though it is the
view that is the most impressive thing.
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The
descent back to the car was quite steep
and at times tricky without being dangerous,
despite the proximity of the cliffs to the
right of us.
Surprise,
surprise, we ended up at the Old School
Brewery where there was another strange
sign to decipher. This one didn't
represent quite the same challenge as the
first but you can see it at the right of
this text. Can you make it out? No
prizes for that but a modest reward awaits
the person with the best interpretation
of the one mentioned at the outset.
Don,
Wednesday 4th June 2025
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