Peter Castell's photos
Spring is coming
Christmas decoration
Beware of the cat
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It's a vintage cake decoration, with the size of the cat the look on her face is understandable
To those living in the Northern Hemisphere Happy Winter Solstice
Sprinkled with Star Dust
Festive Knitting
8th December 1980
Start again (CWP)
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It took me a while to find out why it was there but it makes sense, it's gritstone someone ordered a trough sooner than struggle getting a boulder off the moor the weight was reduced by doing the work on the moor first the outside then the channel followed by the remainder of the inside but in this case a disaster it cracked, imagine doing all that work perhaps in bad conditions for nothing
Lunch with a friend
Waxicles
Cutting through the darkness
Collecting
The End is Nigh
Waiting
All Alone
Another Brick in the Wall
The Old Man of Calke
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The Old Man of Calke , the oldest tree on the estate is thought to be around 1,200 years old I wonder what it has seen in those years, the path by it was specially made to avoid visitors compacting the soil around it's roots, fortunately it is well away from the carpark so not to many venture out there. Many of the trees on the estate are classed as ancient