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Oct 2024
Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?
1. Doric columns, RHS Harlow Carr
These columns were originally part of the Spa Rooms, built in 1835 where Hall M of Harrogate Convention Centre now stands.
Harrogate's Spa Rooms were built in 1835 and demolished in 1939.
That building was dismantled in 1939, and the columns were put into storage, and then erected in their current place at Harlow Carr in 1964.
Hall M of Harrogate Convention Centre.
When Hall M was built, there were plans to use these columns in the design, but in the event replicas were used instead.
2. Phone box mural, Knaresborough
This incredibly realistic painting stands at the crossroads where King James Road meets Aspin Lane, Crag Lane, and Stockdale Walk.
It was painted in 2021 by local artist Shirley Vine, who was commissioned by Matt and Lynn Curl, the couple who lived in the house behind the hedge.
There used to be a real red phone box on this spot, and the Curls had long described their address to visitors as "the one behind the phone box". So when BT removed the phone box, they decided to do something about it, hiring local builder Neil Watts to build a frame, and Shirley to work her trompe l'oeil magic.
3. Water trough, Ramsgill
Variously described as a water trough and a drinking fountain, this striking structure stands on Ramsgill's village green, in front of the Yorke Arms.
The Yorke Arms in Ramsgill.
The structure appears to be topped with a couple of sections of column from a church. Where exactly they come from, we haven't been able to find out, but Ramsgill itself was founded in the Middle Ages as the principal grange of Byland Abbey, so perhaps that provides a clue.
4. Farrah's, Starbeck
Farrah's was founded in 1840 and is most famous for making its unique Harrogate Toffee, which is flavoured with lemon to counter the unpleasant taste of Harrogate's sulphur water.
That stinky stuff was served to visitors in their thousands from the Royal Pump Room, and Farrah's toffeeworks was situated just across the road. The connection was revived in recent years when estate agents marketed new apartments on the upper floors as being in 'The Toffeeworks'.
Farrah's Harrogate toffeeworks occupied the same block as Hale's Bar.
For many years, Farrah's had its shop on Royal Parade, where the Old Bell pub later stood (now the Harrogate Brewing Co), but later moved to the other side of the Crown roundabout and eventually closed its retail operation.
Yet the confectionery trade pioneered by Farrah's hasn't deserted this part of Low Harrogate entirely – Harrogate Olde Sweet Shop still does good business from the last premises the toffee-maker occupied here, and it still sells Harrogate Toffee.
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