Doug Shepherd's photos

Low Mill Weir on the River Derwent, which forms the border between the villages of East and West Ayton, North Yorkshire.

Low Mill Weir on the River Derwent, which forms the border between the villages of East and West Ayton, North Yorkshire.

Yedmandale Road - West Ayton

Derwent Mill is a water mill that utilised the waters of the nearby River Derwent for the production of flour from corn.

The antenna or array was invented by Shintaro Uda of Tohoku Imperial University, Japan, in 1926, with a lesser role played by Hidetsugu Yagi.However, the name Yagi has become more familiar, while the name of Uda, who applied the idea in practice or established the conception through experiment, is often omitted. Yagi filed a patent application in Japan, without Uda's name in it, and later transferred the patent to the Marconi Company in the UK. Incidentally, in the US, the patent was transferred to RCA Corporation. Yagi antennas were first widely used during World War II in radar systems by Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. After the war they saw extensive development as home television antennas, as in the picture above. Ref: Wikipedia

This small building contains machinery used by an irrigation system for what was until recently a Forestry England nursery. Seedling pine trees were grown here, and when mature enough, distributed to various Forestry plantations for replanting. The plantations served are located in the north of England and southern Scotland. Since the closure of the nursery, nature has been slowly encroaching on areas that are no longer in use. The fields themselves are used to grow crops, such as maize and wheat.

Rosehip of the Dog Rose

Wykeham Forest

Wykeham Forest

Here the bark, which is peeling off the birch tree, is illuminated by the morning sun.

Manor House Farm