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Oct 2024
Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?
1. Gateway to Spa Mews, Starbeck
This imposing Grade II listed entrance to Spa Mews looks very Victorian, but its official listing describes it as early 19th-century, making it Georgian.
Whatever the truth of it, it is a very grand gateway, and that's because Spa Mews played an important role in Starbeck's development.
Built in 1824, it was originally home to the area's first public baths, Knaresborough Spa Baths, and was fed by two springs, one of mild sulphur water and the other, chalybeate (iron).
But in 1868 another sulphur spring was discovered nearby, and the Prince of Wales Baths was built around it in 1870. As a result, Knaresborough Spa Baths closed in 1890. The Prince of Wales Baths, on the other hand, is still going strong, but is now better known as Starbeck Swimming Pool.
2. Sign for Bradford Old Bank Ltd, Knaresborough
This lovely old sign is embedded into the wall of what is now The Music Bank, on the corner of Knaresborough's High Street and Market Place.
The Music Bank in Knaresborough.
Bradford Old Bank Ltd was founded in Bradford in 1803, and in 1907 it amalgamated with the Birmingham District and Counties Banking Co to form the United Counties Bank Ltd. That bank was in turn acquired by Barclays Bank in 1916.
3. The Strid, Wharfedale
Too far away to be on our 'patch', but close enough to be familiar to many of us, the Strid, near Bolton Abbey, has been called the 'world's most dangerous body of water'.
Social media posts scream of a '100% fatality rate for people who have fallen in', and even the New York Times has heard of it, publishing an article in 2016 titled 'Six Feet Across and Full of Peril: England’s Killer Creek'.
One reason it is so dangerous is that it's very turbulent, and people falling in can get trapped beneath underwater overhangs.
It's also effectively a river on its side – not very wide, but very, very deep. One YouTuber has measured it with a sonar device at 56 metres (184 feet). For reference, The Exchange high-rise building next to Harrogate railway station is 144 feet high!
4. Seating at Harrogate Town AFC
An easy one to end with. Harrogate Town, who play in League Two (the fourth tier of English football), play at the Exercise Stadium on Wetherby Road, which has a maximum crowd capacity of 5,000.
If you pop along to the ground tomorrow (Monday, October 6), you can watch the Sulphurites live, when they take on Crewe Alexandra at 8pm.
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!
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