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Aug 2025
Sunday Picture Quiz Answers: August 16
Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?
Image: Mural Minded.
1. Mural in Harrogate town centre
This stunning mural on Cross James Street – between James Street and Market Place in Harrogate – was created in 2021 by Harrogate-based artist Sam Porter of Mural Minded.
You can see lots of his other works in Starbeck, Knaresborough and beyond.
2. Barber's pole, Masham
This barber's pole, which is rather longer and thinner than many, is affixed to number 45 Silver Street in Masham. It commemorates Arthur Plumpton Sr (1934-2019), who – according to the blue plaque next to the pole – worked here as a barber for 60 years, sold fishing supplies, and was a fan of Robin Reliants, the three-wheeled cars that were common in the 1960s and '70s.
The property was a barber's shop for more than six decades.
The three-bedroom property, known as Barber's Bolthole, is now run as five-bed self-catering accommodation.
3. Coldstones Quarry, Greenhow
This picture, taken from the Coldstones Cut viewing platform, shows Heidelberg Materials' huge limestone quarry and the crushing machinery perched on its rim.
Situated at 425 metres (ca. 1,400 feet) above sea level on Greenhow Hill, above Pateley Bridge, Coldstones Quarry is one of the highest quarries in Britain.
It is worked on six terraced platforms, or 'benches', each 15-18m (50-60 feet) high, and reaches a depth of 300 metres (nearly 1,000 feet) at its base.
Coldstones provides an average of 600,000 tonnes of aggregate each year, and supplies building materials to West and North Yorkshire.
4. Mosaic floor, Chapel of St Mary Magdalen, Ripon
This tessellated floor must one of the oldest relics in full public view in our district. It lies at the east end of the Chapel of St Mary Magdalen in Ripon and is believed to have partially come from a Roman building, as similar designs have been found in Roman excavations elsewhere in the area.
The chapel was originally part of the St Mary Magdalen Hospital, which was founded by Archbishop Thurstan in the early 1100s for the lepers of the Liberty of Ripon.
This end of the chapel was rebuilt after a devastating raid by the Scots in 1321.
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