You can readily find things in the natural landscape which are worthy of photographing. Take the following example a tree trunk lying on the ground gradually decaying to nothing, but the softer inner wood has already gone, leaving only the outer harder wood, result a natural tunnel. Small rodents and other furry creatures, enjoy! This and many other things are available on your doorstep, just get out with a camera, if you have a digital variety, you can really make a difference, at no time in history has it been so easy to show off your photo experiences!

I puzzled long and hard as to where the scouts shown in the earlier post were actually camped and have come to the conclusion, based on the topography of the site that they were in the area I have marked with an arrow. Although this is an area cultivated today.

During the twentieth century the Guide and Scouting movement and Parlington were inexorably linked, many references have been uncovered which show the camping holidays that were enjoyed by the Scouts. Even on a recent visit to a heritage meeting at Leeds Civic Hall, one delegate explained that she had fond memories of camping at Parlington! Well here are two iconic pictures from around the 1920′s, kindly provided by David Teal quote: “I’ve dug out the photos of the Scouts in Parlington Park, I’m told it was the 13th Leeds N.E. group in about c.1920.”

There are some things here at Parlington which are quite unusual and are worth a mention, one, which is the subject of this first blog is the old Ice House. The picture above is a view of the entrance, which in recent years has been secured by the steel grill. The structure is built into an escarpment and is built of brick, it is shaped like a flat bottomed egg. The second image is a virtual representation of the structure, created in Sketchup Pro.