Hedgelaying 1982

This hedge was laid nearly 30 years ago in 1982. This is Whitby taken on 'The Switchbacks', between Four Lane Ends and Stakesby Manor.  There is now a housing estate being built on the right hand side.










The Older hedgelayer seen here is Mr Nellis who laid many local hedges. It was the first hedge I ever saw laid. This is the same hedge as the picture above and taken from roughly the same position. Most books on hedgelaying describe 'Yorkshire style' as having a sawn wooden top rail nailed to the stakes. In this part of North Yorkshire it is more common to see hedges laid with stakes and no rails used.

The Biggest Drystone Wall in Europe?

On the island of Ireland are some of the most unique walls anywhere in the world. Just to give you a flavour of some of these walls is this one in the Mountains of Mourne in Northern Island. Pictured are the builders and I'll add further unusual walls later. This wall, one of many, is about 12ft tall.

Wall builder Phelim Doran and farmer Dermot Trainor built this wall, one of many using a JCB.

This picture appears with permission of the photographer and originally appeared in "Irish Walls" by Alen MacWeeney and Richard Conniff






Another fine view of one of their walls.  I think both are near Ballymartin co. Down.

A short walk from home

Another wall, this one collapsed because of tree roots and ivy growing through the wall. At the same location as the previous wall this too is made from a mixture of stone, some coming from an old building. Total length of fallen wall was 15ft:-



And after about 15 hours work, which included resetting a yard or two of the original foundations the wall was completed but without the original copes as it appears they've been re-used elsewhere around the garden!

Location:- Park Gate, Fylingthorpe.