Top of the world
Date: 08/16/2008
Before we went in we wanted to make a couple of calls, unfortunately there is no signal and no public phone, so we had to walk all the way to the top of the hill to get one bar of signal
Which way?
Date: 08/16/2008
As you enter, this chap points you in the right direction.
This way folks
Date: 08/16/2008
The Entrance
Date: 08/16/2008
Polly (our hostess for the evening) is showing us the way in.
Scary Faces
Date: 08/16/2008
Follow the path until you come to this fellow ... dare you walk inside?
A welcome or a warning?
Date: 08/16/2008
BY The Fact Tower Before the First Door
Go onward now, brave guest and see
The secrets hidden amongst the trees
Behind you please close every door
So none will know you've gone before
In sunny glade or dark world below
Watch your step and mind how you go
Follow the clues on the leaflet and track
And we may yet see you safely back
In the mouth of the beast
Date: 08/16/2008
I can hear belching
Which end is this?
Date: 08/16/2008
I may of been stuck in the beasts mouth, but I least I wasn't coming out the other end ...
If you go down to the woods today ...
Date: 08/16/2008
... you better make sure you don't play with the one that cheats!
(The little bear is hiding the aces behind his back)
Cheating Bear
Date: 08/16/2008
He has an Ace hidden between his ears.
Polly working out where to go next
Date: 08/16/2008
Little fellow in the woods
Date: 08/16/2008
Critters playing music
Date: 08/16/2008
Read the grave to find out the story
Date: 08/16/2008
No finer horse ----- and lees, Drew breath than mighty Hercules
No keener huntsman road along, Than Coverdales own son, John Armstrong
For years the dale folks heard the stories, of how they hunted down their quarries
Till one autumn day's hunting spree, in sixteen hundred and ninety three.
The day was frosty dark and menacing, the Armstrong would not get his venison
The dear did clear the yawning gape, But ground around being soft and slape
Een mighty Hercules fearsome stride, Could not achieve the other side
and the fearless pair took a mighty ------, and a fatal plunge into the ghyll
John loved hercules like a brother, so they're buried as they lived ~
One upon the other.
NB : I couldn't read it all, so the ---- are the words I dont know
NB :
Polly reading me the story
Date: 08/16/2008
Yorkshire Views
Date: 08/16/2008
View from the Maze
A very serious looking bust
Date: 08/16/2008
Cheeky Chappy
Date: 08/16/2008
This naughty little boy would try and catch you as you walked by.
Put it away now!
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Genteel Ladies
Date: 08/16/2008
Another naughty boy
Date: 08/16/2008
Shooting water out of two pipes, to ensure no matter how fast you were, he was going to get you
Gardens pet dog
Date: 08/16/2008
Polly took a shine
Look into my eyes
Date: 08/16/2008
Although you couldn't see them, you could hear the voices and screams of people below.
View through the eye
Date: 08/16/2008
I'll refer to this later on .... keep your eye out!
Going underground ...
Date: 08/16/2008
Polly a little scared of the dark perhaps?
Warning signs
Date: 08/16/2008
All the warning signs were comical like this.
The monk shows you where to go ...
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The exit to this tunnel is a little further on
Polly & Samantha
Date: 08/16/2008
BFF
Field of Deer
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No Entry
Date: 08/16/2008
Uh oh ! Have we gone the wrong way?
More water features
Date: 08/16/2008
This chap wasn't working this time, but he would of squirted you good before
Green man
Date: 08/16/2008
Finally an axe that I want
Date: 08/16/2008
Lady in the garden
Date: 08/16/2008
(dont ask where her butterfly tattoo is !)
Oh Samantha ...
Date: 08/16/2008
... boldly going where 1000's of others have been before !
Gate down to the deer field
Date: 08/16/2008
Wild Boar in the woods
Date: 08/16/2008
A lovely cool place to stop
Date: 08/16/2008
A tight squeeze
Date: 08/16/2008
Remember several photos back you saw a monk directing the way ... this is where you come out!
Scary mouth
Date: 08/16/2008
Talking Horse
Date: 08/16/2008
Another warning sign
Date: 08/16/2008
Floating griffin in the pond
Date: 08/16/2008
A walk along the stream
Date: 08/16/2008
Trying not to get wet
Roman building
Date: 08/16/2008
A wall of water was triggered by a pressure sensitive stepping stone. Timing is everything.
Roman Solider
Date: 08/16/2008
Entering Zeus's lair
Date: 08/16/2008
See at the bottom middle of the photo is a curved shape? Thats where the eye you could look through was .... high above the roman soldiers
Gates of Hell?
Date: 08/16/2008
Follow the snakes down the path
A Guardian
Date: 08/16/2008
Side note : Despite being close, Polly never noticed this chap (it is quite dark, my flash makes it look brighter than it is) and didn't believe she had passed it until I showed her this photo.
Medusa hidden behind bars
Date: 08/16/2008
That were made out of snakes
Demon of the Deep
Date: 08/16/2008
Behind every door ...
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.... is something new and scary
Pyramid of Glass
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Troll under the bridge
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As you got closer the water started to bubble and boil
Silver goose ...
Date: 08/16/2008
... do you think it lays silver eggs?
Cute little door opener
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Graveyard
Date: 08/16/2008
Edmund Rider
Death stopped his gallop in 65
Graveyard
Date: 08/16/2008
Willam the Woodsman
Interfered with the faires
Bad move
Graveyard
Date: 08/16/2008
Graveyard
Date: 08/16/2008
Les Archer
Warrior Man of War
Met his end with arrows four
No Les No More
Graveyard
Date: 08/16/2008
Graveyard
Date: 08/16/2008
Brainless Bill
Nowt in is Skull
Showed his arse
to Fred the Bull
XXXX
Bull scored, Bill Gored
Graveyard
Date: 08/16/2008
And finally ...
Date: 08/16/2008
... I aromatic walk through the Armstrongs Garden.