Prof Emeritus, CIPR Hon. Fell. & former President, Fellow Royal Society, Past Chair Global Alliance, Proud Yorkshirewoman. Passionate about professionalising PR
‘England - In Ruins but Beautiful - Taking a Photograph’ is a typical Peter Brook, portraying one of his favourite locations, the abandoned farmhouse of Raistrick Greave on Heptonstall Moor. Here, however, the setting is a warm summer’s evening with not a flake of snow in sight.
No county in England carries its past quite like North Yorkshire.
Written into every moor, every market town, every stone built village is a
sacred heritage that refuses to change.
This week is International Dark Sky Week. Since 2020 the Yorkshire Dales National Park has been designated an International Dark Sky Reserve. You can find out what that means, here
yorkshiredales.org.uk/park-a…
📸 Pete Collins | #YorkshireDales#DarkSkyReserve#IDSW
ALT Starry night sky with the Milky Way visible above a long, arched stone aqueduct shrouded in mist.
Happy Saturday, if you're in or around the National Park this weekend:
🚌 dalesbus.org for bus & train info
🐕 Please keep dogs on a lead as it's lambing time*
🚮 Take your litter home
📸 Ewe and her lambs near Gayle by Wendy McDonnell
ALT A white sheep with two black lambs standing in front of a weathered wooden door set in a stone wall under sunlight.
If you're going to be in or around the National Park this weekend, please:
🚮 Take your litter home
🐕 Keep dogs on a lead to keep lambs and ground nesting birds safe
🤝 Respect the life and work of people living here
📸 River Rawthey bank side by Wendy McDonnell
ALT Narrow wooden footbridge crossing a small creek with a winding dirt path leading up a grassy hill under a partly cloudy sky.
Happy Sunday! Each morning we open a window to the Dales and share some of our favourite views, like this one across Upper Wensleydale, just above Hawes.
#YorkshireDales#Wensleydale#StepIntoNature
ALT A bright winter landscape featuring gently rolling hills dusted with frost. In the foreground, a stone wall curves across a pale, frosty field. At the centre stands a pair of leafless trees silhouetted against the open countryside. In the background, layered hills rise under a clear blue sky, with scattered buildings and fields visible in the distance.
The Yorkshire Three Peaks are fantastic walks in their own right – find out about walking each peak individually, here 👇
ow.ly/pHBt50XXaif
📸 Andy Kay | #YorkshireDales#ThreePeaks
ALT Stone farmhouse and outbuildings set in frosty fields with a misty mountain backdrop of Pen-y-Ghent at sunrise.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Settle-Carlisle railway. The Ribblehead Viaduct is one of the most iconic pieces of Victorian railway engineering in the UK, carrying the Settle–Carlisle line across Batty Moss.
📸 Wendy McDonnell | #ThursdayThoughts#YorkshireDales
ALT Long stone railway viaduct stretching across a snowy landscape under a clear blue sky.
It's the 150th anniversary of the Settle-Carlisle railway, which opened for passengers in 1876. The final stone of the Ribblehead Viaduct, which was designed by John Sydney Crossley of the Midland Railway, had been laid by the end of 1874.
#TuesdayThoughts#YorkshireDales
ALT A long stone railway viaduct with multiple tall arches stretches across a grassy rural landscape under a bright blue sky, with a train traveling along the top of the bridge.
2026 is the 150th anniversary of the Settle-Carlisle railway. And from today Avanti West Coast services will be running along it. Download the new Traxplorer App for what to look out for
Apple - ow.ly/PyKK50XNyTk
Google - ow.ly/szBf50XNyTB@foscl | @AvantiWestCoast
Happy New Year everyone! As usual the first post is ‘January - Pennine Valley’, a classic Peter Brook scene with the snow covered landscape merging seamlessly into a heavy, grey winter sky. (From the ‘Twelve Months of the Year’ series of lithographs published by Agnew’s in 1978)