almscliffe crag

[Cardiarms]

Excellent!There's an old Soviet joke that goes like this.The local commissars decided to find out what people thought about where they lived int the Worker's paradise of the Soviet Union. On Old man was given his form to fill in and completed the questions as follows:Where were you born? St PetersburgWhere did you live when you left school? PetrogradWhere do live now? LeningradWhere would you like to live? St Petersburg.

[mourning_belle]

Cardiarms wrote: I've been told, and I don't know if it's true, but there's no higher point beteen the cragg and Leningrad (when I was told) and /St Petersburg now. Fantastic! Any idea where you heard that from? Very interesting

[mourning_belle]

buffaloskinner wrote: I have walked around it and up and down it many times with my dog and grandaughterLove the place but gotta be honest not aware of any folklore, still gotta do Little Almscliffe Crags very adorable dog + kid! Little almscliffe is great, views of menwith hill and stainburn forest/the hunter stones are worth a look.

[blackprince]

mourning_belle wrote: buffaloskinner wrote: I have walked around it and up and down it many times with my dog and grandaughterLove the place but gotta be honest not aware of any folklore, still gotta do Little Almscliffe Crags very adorable dog + kid! Little almscliffe is great, views of menwith hill and stainburn forest/the hunter stones are worth a look. Is Menwith Hill still a US radar station or was it closed at the end of the cold war?

[stevief]

Cardiarms wrote: I've been told, and I don't know if it's true, but there's no higher point beteen the cragg and Leningrad (when I was told) and /St Petersburg now. If indeed true,this piece of information reminds me of the classic TV sitcom 'Rising Damp'.Whenever a new tenant complained about the draught blowing through the window frames,Rigsby would reply 'That wind blows straight across from the Urals!'

[simong]

blackprince wrote: Is Menwith Hill still a US radar station or was it closed at the end of the cold war? It's still a radar station and is also involved in communications surveillance.I wonder if its position is to do with its anti-missile functions and its 'line of sight' to the Soviet Union?

[blackprince]

simong wrote: blackprince wrote: Is Menwith Hill still a US radar station or was it closed at the end of the cold war? It's still a radar station and is also involved in communications surveillance.I wonder if its position is to do with its anti-missile functions and its 'line of sight' to the Soviet Union? Thanks for the info. i used to do a lot of walking in the area in the 1960s and often walked on a path alongside the boundary fence of Menwith Hill radar station .

[Cardiarms]

AFAIK Menwith Hill is radio/microwave coms chatter intercepts not missiles.

[outofthefire]

buffaloskinner wrote: I have walked around it and up and down it many times with my dog and grandaughterLove the place but gotta be honest not aware of any folklore, still gotta do Little Almscliffe Crags I used to climb at almscliff years ago when I was in the Scouts. If the rock behind your Grandaughter is the lower part of the crag there is a vent into a pothole at the base of it, one day when I was waiting to climb I thought I was going mad and hearing voices when I looked down and there was a face looking back at me. I've no idea where the entrance is or where it comes out.

[dogduke]

Cardiarms wrote: I've been told, and I don't know if it's true, but there's no higher point beteen the cragg and Leningrad (when I was told) and /St Petersburg now. I worked with a manager in the 70's who had moved to WestYorkshire from Norwich.He reckoned that the control tower in Whitemoor Marshalling yard(is that the site of the prison) was the highest thing until you gotto The Urals,never tested the theory tho'