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Aug 2024
Sunday Picture Quiz Answers: August 31
Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?
1. The White Hart Hotel
The White Hart Hotel in Harrogate dates from at least 1765 and was originally a coaching inn.
Contemporary accounts describe coaches drawing up outside and scattering ducks that had settled on the pond in front of its entrance – an area that is now better drained, and part of the Stray.
The White Hart Hotel in Harrogate.
The hotel, which has more than 90 rooms, was requisitioned during the Second World War by the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Works and later served as the National Health Service's only conference venue.
It became a listed building in 1971, graded II*, and is now owned by Harrogate-based hospitality company HRH Group.
2. Starbeck Baths
Starbeck Baths were built in 1870 as the Prince of Wales Baths to serve as a public swimming pool.
They traced their origins back to 1828, when a modern range of baths were created around the springs in Starbeck to cash in on the popularity of Harrogate's spa industry.
Starbeck Baths.
A few years ago, there were plans to demolish the building, but local residents joined forces and successfully campaigned to save them. They are still open, and still popular.
3. Owl mural, Knaresborough
This fantastic mural is one of many around Knaresborough and the wider area painted by Sam Porter of Harrogate-based Mural Minded.
The Half Moon pub in Knaresborough.
You can find it on the side of the Half Moon pub on Abbey Road, just near Low Bridge.
Photo: Helen Walton.
4. Obelisk, Ripon
No excuses for getting this one wrong – not only does the obelisk tower above the Market Place in the heart of the city, but we also used this beautiful photo by reader Helen Walton as our Photo of the Week two weeks ago!
The 82-foot-high monument, which is grade I listed, was erected in 1702 by John Aislabie, the owner of the Studley Royal estate, who initiated the creation of the water gardens at Fountains Abbey.
When Daniel Defoe toured the British Isles in the 1720s, he described Ripon's Market Place as "...the finest and most beautiful square that is to be seen of its kind in England", adding "In the middle of it stands a curious column of stone, imitating the obelisks of the ancients".
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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