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[Sebastian-Smythe]

As it is somewhat difficult for me as a new member to this group to expand on what they are seeking to accomplish I have added My link to their facebook pages.

They have found very few in favour of the Project. In fact very few people know about it. Another case of we'll get it going then ask, much like retrospective planning, in hope the rest of us will agree.

I put forward in a post to the Group instead of cluttering the Moor with another load of unwanted carvings there is an alternative. A unique place which everyone irrespective of their abilities could reach. Is on a regular bus route, has it's own carpark, and like the Moor is known world wide. Though there are still folk in the immediate who've never heard of it - DARWIN GARDEN MILLENNIUM GREEN

A point made in the original plans is that they be used whenever a time arose for carvings by local folk or otherwise to use. That time has now come. But will those who wish to carve on Ilkley Moor listen? It's upto you out there to voice an opinion on this. Ilkley Moor is a County and National Icon. Preserve it at ALL costs. Stand up and let's hear what you have to say......

Edited by Sebastian-Smythe, 15 September 2011 - 11:31 AM.

[weirdmusic]

Update on progress from the Ilkley Gusset: 2 more stones installed on Ilkley Moor

[Sebastian-Smythe]

All very interesting for the able bodied walker. But there are people less able who would wish to see these stones. However they are well out of reach. Had a bit more though been used there is an area in Darwin Gardens Millennium Green which was purposely left clear for such work as and when it appeared. Near the Green's car park, on the level and within reach of the most disabled of the community.

[weirdmusic]

Why don't you ask the people behind the scheme to provide reproductions of the "Stanza Stones" for placement in the area you suggest?

[Pongo]

That sounds like a sound idea. Where we live we have a monument to an awful tragedy that happened a few hundred years ago. The memorial marks the spot where the tragedy actually happened but it is a bit remote. There is a smaller monument up in town near the Cathedral which everyone visits. So if people want to have a look they don't have to make the trek out to main site.

If it's important enough to do it then you want people to see it, so put it where the maximum number of people can see it. We once spent an entire afternoon wandering back and forwards on Rombalds Moor looking for a stone mentioned in a book we read. We are both pretty good map readers and pretty mobile after a life time of military service and running youth groups but we couldn't find the damn stone for hours.

[weirdmusic]

Pongo, on 18 April 2012 - 09:45 PM, said:

............... we couldn't find the damn stone for hours.

What was the stone?

[Pongo]

Oh I can't actually remember but I think it was just a quite well preserved cup and ring marked stone or some such. We are both amatuer archeaology students and love ancient artefacts like that. It was on the hill above the big hotel not far from one of the main foot paths as I remember. We did quite a study of ancient wharfedale when we lived there, even used Verbea, the river Godess as one of our domain names when we considered running a small business.

[Sebastian-Smythe]

weirdmusic, on 17 April 2012 - 08:28 AM, said:

Why don't you ask the people behind the scheme to provide reproductions of the "Stanza Stones" for placement in the area you suggest?

Thanks for the above. Why did we not think of it before. I'll drop the Lit Fest people an email and see what can be done.

[weirdmusic]

According to reports there's supposed to be a seventh "hidden" stone. Anybody found it yet?

The six known Stanza Stones locations are:
‘Snow’, Pule Hill, Marsden,
‘Rain’, Cow’s Mouth Quarry,
‘Mist’, Nab Hill, near Oxenhope,
‘Dew’, Rivock Edge, off the Silsden to East Morton road,
‘Puddle’, Whetstone gate wireless station, Rombalds Moor
‘Beck’, Backstone Beck on Ilkley Moor

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I wonder how long it will be before one of the stones gets "artistically" amended?!

[weirdmusic]

Sebastian-Smythe, on 10 May 2012 - 09:00 PM, said:

I'll drop the Lit Fest people an email and see what can be done.

Have you had any response from them?

[Sebastian-Smythe]

Just looked back at Pongo's posts. I wonder which hotel they were on about? Cow and Calf, Craiglands or Troutbeck. It can't have been Wells House. That ceased as a hotel at the begining of WW2 and Rombalds is too far away.

I've been tied up with a host of other things. Not as yet but there's plenty of time.

Edited by Sebastian-Smythe, Yesterday, 02:58 PM.