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Mar 2025
Sunday Picture Quiz Answers: March 29
Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?
Image: Google Streetview.
1. The cabmen's shelter, Ripon
The Cabmen's Shelter in Ripon's Market Place built in 1911 for use by cabmen waiting for customers.
Built by Boulton & Paul of Norwich, it was paid for by a legacy of £200 from Sarah Carter, a former Mayor's daughter.
In 1982, Cllr R Simpson acquired the shelter and passed it on to Ripon Civic Society. But by then it was is a state of serious disrepair, and has since been extensively restored twice, the last time in 2021.
In 1999, Ripon Civic Society gave it back to Ripon City Council.
2. Tour de France chainsaw carving, Harrogate
This is one of many monuments and markers around the district commemorating the Grand Départ of the Tour de France, which was held in Harrogate in 2014.
Two of the three stages of the Grand Départ were held in Yorkshire, and the third ran from Cambridge to London. The first stage set off from Leeds, headed through Otley, Ilkley, Skipton. Wharfedale, Bishopdale, Wensleydale, Swaledale, Masham and Ripon, before finishing in Harrogate.
Huge crowds in central Harrogate for the Tour de France in 2014.
The second stage set off from York, passed through Knaresborough, Harrogate and the Washburn Valley (who can forget the climb up the Côte de Blubberhouses?), before passing by Bolton Abbey, Keighley, Haworth, Hebden Bridge, Huddersfield and Holmfirth, before finishing in Sheffield.
Huge crowds watched the riders race up Parliament Street on the home straight of the first stage.
According to the official post-event report, the Grand Départ attracted 310,000 spectators to the Harrogate District and generated an estimated £19 million for the local economy.
3. Town pump, Boroughbridge
This pump was given the people of Boroughbridge by a Mrs Lawson of Aldborough Manor in 1875.
The pump itself.
A plaque on the well says it is 256 feet deep.
4. Coldstones Quarry, Nidderdale
Limestone has been quarried in the area for centuries, but quarrying only began at Coldstones on Greenhow Hill above Pateley Bridge in 1897.
The vast pit on this 30-hectare site now produces an average of 600,000 tons of crushed rock aggregate a year for all kinds of construction work.
The quarry is owned by Heidelberg Materials UK, which was previously known as Hanson UK and since 2007 has been a subsidiary of the German group HeidelbergMaterials AG.
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