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Oct 2024

Last Updated: 24/10/2025
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Sunday Picture Quiz Answers: October 26

by The Stray Ferret

| 26 Oct, 2024
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Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?

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1. Tour de France sculpture, Knaresborough

These are two of three cyclist figures created to mark the passage of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France through Knaresborough in 2014.

Harrogate Borough Council paid £13,500 for sculptures, which were created by Yorkshire artist Graham Anderton and first displayed as part of the council parks team's garden at Harrogate Spring Flower Show earlier that year.

The sculptures are now on permanent display at the World's End gardens on Bond End – right on the route taken by Stage 2 of the Grand Départ 11 years ago.

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2. Abandoned lead mine, Nidderdale

This is a particularly fine example of an old lead mine entrance, just down the hill from Middlesmoor in upper Nidderdale.

Nidderdale's lead mining history dates back at least to the second century CE. Roman lead ingots were found here with imperial stamps dating from the reign of Emperor Trajan.

Demand for lead grew through the Middle Ages, and in the 15th century lead from Nidderdale was being exported as far afield as France, the Netherlands and Poland.

Lead production reached a peak in the 18th and 19th centuries, when Britain became the world's biggest producer. But by the turn of the 20th century the mines of the Yorkshire Dales could no longer compete with cheaper imports, and one by one they all closed.

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3. Home dugout, Harrogate Town AFC

On home match days, this part of the Exercise Stadium on Wetherby Road is where you'll find Simon Weaver. He's the coach who – with the financial backing of his father, chairman Irving Weaver – has pulled Harrogate Town up two divisions, from the Conference North to League Two, and is currently the longest-serving manager in league football.

Harrogate Town, nicknamed the Sulphurites, was founded as Harrogate AFC in 1919 – the same year as Leeds United. The club disbanded in 1932, was revived in 1935 at Harrogate Hotspurs, and renamed Harrogate Town after the Second World War.

Harrogate Town are next in action at home on November 8, when they host Oldham Athletic.

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4. How Hill Tower, Studley Royal

The 300-year-old How Hill Tower is a folly built in the early 18th century by John Aislabie, the owner of Fountains Abbey who created the Studley Royal water gardens.

It was built on the site of the 13th-century Chapel of Saint Michael de Monte, and it has since been used as a farmhouse, cottages and, during the Second World War, a Home Guard observation post.

Now grade II* listed, it is currently in a state of disrepair, but its owner, the National Trust, recently gained planning permission to carry out a major programme of repair and restoration.

Too easy or too difficult? Let us know what you think of our quiz by contacting us at letters@thestrayferret.co.uk.

Please do send us tricky pics of the area that we can include – and we'll credit your contribution. Thank you!