Greetings From Wakefield

[RichardAThackeray]

I'm 52. My dad died in 2001. Those Pollard's outings look like something out of Carry on Camping. Late 50s at a guess

I guess it would have been too much of a co-incidence for you to spot your dad in front of the coach

There's a fine Norman window in Birkin church

I'll call & have a look next time I ride past there

Very flat out there, post glacial lake bed. I used to cycle across to the Wolds in the mid 70s, till somebody nicked my bike and I took up running in 1978.

True, I know if you stand at a certain place between on the top of New Lane (between the A1, just west of the New Inn (now 'Squires' - the biker cafe, at Newthorpe; Sherburn-in-Elmet & Ledsham, you can see the towers of York Minster through the trees!
So it's fairly flat.

We used to live at Lee Moor (which is the top end of Stanley, before Carlton & Rothwell), & we could see across the Vale of York all the way to Drax.

And right to Saddleworth Moor, Wharncliffe, Emley Moor & HolmeMoss from the front room window.
(sadly, I can now only see HolmeMoss/Emley Moor from the attic windows at this house)