Pictures
Many is the time I have driven along the B6001 between the villages of Calver and Hassop. Almost every time, I have glanced across fields to the right to see a scenic barn and thought, "I need to photograph that!" Unfortunately, along that road there is nowhere to park up for a while so I had another thought. Perhaps I could leave Clint in the nearby village of Rowland and then walk along an old lead miners' track upon the ridge and through the woodland behind the barn. This plan came to fruition on Wednesday morning as these two barn pictures show. It is off the beaten track and not by an official public right away so I guess that very few photos if any have ever been taken of this particular barn. You can see the original roof has caved in but at the north end of it the farmer has done a partial re-roofing with steel sheets. Below, above the village of Rowland, I spotted a flying saucer landing pad. Actually, it's the top cover of a small reservoir tha...