There’s a rather festive snowflake hot air balloon just outside of Malton’s St Michael’s Church.

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There’s a rather festive snowflake hot air balloon just outside of Malton’s St Michael’s Church.

Castle Howard lit up in green as part of their Christmas ‘Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ installation.

As we are merely days away from Christmas it seems entirely appropriate to drop some images of a fantastic Santa-themed topper in Malton.
Unlike most of the other toppers from Malton I have posted, this one can be found at the south end of The Shambles, just outside of Cosy Cottage Soap.

It’s time for another exciting update from the demolition and rebuilding of the former farm at Middlecave Yard.
The most notable changes made since my last update is the ducting for water, power, and comms has been installed – as has sewage piping – and, most importantly, the concrete slab that will make up the ground floor has been poured.

Slab! More of this later.
Continue reading “The Middlecave Yard Demolition and Rebuild – Late November 2025”TopperBlog returns with a set of Remembrance Toppers and other knitwear. I’m not posting any images from the memorial itself as I’m sure there are far better pictures from the service on Sunday already online.
There’s been a lot of work put into these commemorations and, sadly, I’m not entirely sure I’ve managed to find them all.

‘Lest We Forget’ by the Post Office. The boots and the helmet had really stood up to the effects of the weather.

And here’s mid-October’s update on the Middlecave Yard Demolition and rebuilt.

The site as seen from across Middlecave Road.
Continue reading “The Middlecave Yard Demolition and Rebuild – Mid October 2025”This blog’s slow descent into postbox topper fandom continues – this time with a nice ‘Harvest’ themed topper in Malton.


Time for another round of photographs from the Middlecave Yard demolition and rebuild.
I’ve also managed to dig out a target site plan, something that should help contextualise some of the pictures below. As always, bigger images are just a click away.
Continue reading “The Middlecave Yard Demolition and Rebuild – Mid September 2025”The hoardings for the Kemps Stores expansion from 11 to 13 have gone up!
