Photos by Neil Irving: on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

The Sowerby War Memorial is on the village green outside St Oswald's Church, Sowerby, North Yorkshire.

Information about the men listed on the memorial

Thousands of Scots were forced out of their homes to make way for sheep during the Highland Clearances. Entitled The Emigrants, the statue, created by sculptor Gerald Laing, commemorates the achievement of the thousands of Scots who left the Highlands during the clearances of the 19th century.

Information about the statue and the history of Helmsdale

The Oude Kerk (Old Church) is a Gothic church in the old city center of Delft. The 75 metre high brick tower leans about two metres from the vertical. Photo taken from the tower of the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church).

Oude Kerk website

IN MEMORY OF THOSE OF THIS PARISH WHO LAID DOWN THIER LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 FAITHFUL UNTIL DEATH

CHARLES WILLIAM REGINAL, EARL OF FEVERSHAM - SEPTEMBER 15 1916

CLARENCE ELWYN - AUGUST 9 1915

PERCY WILLIAM ALLENBY - SEPTEMBER 7 1916

HENRY TROUSDALE - JULY 1917

JOHN WILLIAM GARBUTT - MARCH 21 1918

HARRY AINSLEY - AUGUST 29 1918

HARRY KNAGGS - NOVEMBER 14 1918

WILLIAM TASKER - FEBRUARY 24 1919

ROBERT ETHERINGTON - FEBRUARY 25 1919

really nice

Statue of in Delft market place of Hugo Grotius, 1583-1645, also known as Huig de Groot or Hugo de Groot). Jurist, philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet.

Wikipedia article

A monument which marks the death of John Henry Boyer Warner, who died aged 42 in 1891, a former resident of the nearby Kepwick Hall.

"He was a great and intellectual traveller throughout the world all his life: a popular candidate for parliament, a true and noble man."

Taken in March 2009. The white band at the bottom of the hedge is sheeps' wool caught on the thorny branches of the hawthorn hedge.

beautiful picture, voted, Greetings from Sweden

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in Greenwich, London, overlooking the River Thames. Includes a museum of astronomical and navigational tools.