A few quick photographs of Malton in the Snow by Drone from this morning. In black and white AND colour!
The Talbot and The Mount
Malton in the Snow by Drone
Author: ChrisC
Yorkersgate Christmas Postbox Topper
Sadly rather late, but here is another entry in the ongoing TopperBlog series. This topper could be found on Malton’s Yorkersgate in the run up to Christmas 2025. t was a pretty thing though, alas, my photographs appear to have blown out the red – I’ll have to try and figure out why.
Peak Reddit?
So here’s an odd one: if you put Reddit into Google Trends then there is a distinct peak and then decline.
Trains of the Future, Trains of the Past
Here’s something to take the edge off that liminal space between Christmas and New Year; two nicely illustrated articles from Adam Rowe’s always fun 70s Sci-Fi Art.
First we have Trains of the Future…
…and then Trains of the Past.
Robin Hood’s Bay in Winter / Ethel Walker
Ethel Walker’s Robin Hood’s Bay in Winter.It seems to be on permanent exhibition at York Art Gallery and, I must note, looks better in person.
Winter on Fifth Avenue / Alfred Stieglitz (1893*)
Alfred Stieglitz’s Winter on Fifth Avenue. This was, apparently, one of the first times that driving snow had been photographed.
From Harvard Art Museum’s collection.
*Probably. Apparently there’s a little confusion around dates.
Surfing Santas and Christmas Toppers in Hawes
A double-bill today; first, a surfing Santa and his knitted elves at Hawes bridge on Gale Beck.
Snowflake Balloon
There’s a rather festive snowflake hot air balloon just outside of Malton’s St Michael’s Church.
Winter Sea / Paul Nash (1925–1937)
Paul Nash’s Winter Sea. Painted between 1925 and 1937.
Winterlandschap met Schaatsers en Vogelknip (Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap) / Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565)
Let’s start this Christmas week with a copy of Pieter Bruegel’s Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap.