My local town of Yarm has a plethora of plaques, just right for the challenge Marilyn has set us for this week with this plaque of Pasteur treating a boy with a rabies.vaccine.
You may have seen a number of the photos in the post but not all at once.
Taking a tour of the town along West Street, travelling north, the first blue plaque you see is one on a building wall.
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| Blue Plaque - Hauxwell's |
A modern photo but as you can surmise the building is much older, even though now it has been turned into flats.
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| Hauxwell's - in the morning sun. |
Further down the street you come to an older site.
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| Hope House - 14th Century |
And the house itself dwarfed by the arches.
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| Hope House - with viaduct above. |
Across on the opposite is the church yard with this plaque on the wall.
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| Thomas Conyers Free Grammar School |
When we moved to Yarm in the 1970s my elder son was to attend Yarm Grammar School in another part of the town which had replaced the one demolished. By the time my younger son reached the age to attend. The PC brigade had had the Yarm Grammar closed and replaced by a comprehensive school - named Conyers. Later Yarm Independent School took over the Old Grammar School and built new premises in the grounds of a former engineering firm's headquarters, which further back had once been a friarage. My daughter became one of the first six girls to attend Yarm School in the Sixth Form.
I've mentioned the viaduct already and you will have noticed it in both the Hauxwell and Hope House shots. The viaduct has a plaque of its own.
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| Leeds & Northern Railway Company's Viaduct |
I won't ask you to count the bricks; it's easier to count the arches
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| Yarm Viaduct |
At the left of the picture you can also see a bridge crossing the River Tees - it has a plaque of its own.
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| Yarm Bridge Plaque |
And the bridge brickwork itself -
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| Yarm Bridge (west side) |
I could go on but it's time for a drink and where better to stop than at the:
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| George & Dragon |
It has some plaques, of course.
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| Stockton & Darlington Railway and Coaching House Plaques. |
Unfortunately you cannot catch a train or a coach to take you to other venues on Sepia-Saturday-184.
