#Wharfedale

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Waterways, Linton Falls

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At The Stag Den

Another weekend closer to the end of the season and this time, action from the Airedale and Wharfedale Senior Cricket League.

Last weekend was the first time I managed to cover Beckwithshaw's second team, who are on a winning run to the league title.

The home team batted first and Colton Institute 2XI took to the field; Beckwithshaw hitting a respectable 288 for eight wickets in their allotted 45 overs.

Anywhere over 220 on that ground is a good score, that can be defended...and so it proved.

Colton struggled to put runs on the board from the off and they were bowled out in just under 26 overs having scored 105 in response.

Despite the score being rather one-sided, the game was actually quite good to watch with a few personal battles going on in and around the stumps.

As I write, there are not that many games left for Beckwithshaw to claim that title - two wins and it should be theirs.

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Bolton Abbey in the fog (ph. Peach and Thistle)

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Evening light on the lovely Dales village of Kettlewell, Upper Wharfedale in the Yorkshire Dales NP

📸 by @MaureenPlatts / via X

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I was always interested in finding out what have happens on the photo. What gave them the idea of depict Paul's funeral: why the funeral, why Paul? Well…I have an answer, I suppose

More legendary than most, however, were a band briefly signed to Brian, the Big Three. Other musicians on the scene seemed to regard this band with awe. They were the original power trio, real sonic bruisers who’d built themselves the biggest amplifiers - nicknamed Coffins - that anyone had ever seen.

(Liverpool - Wondrous Place by Paul Du Noyer, 2002)

Epstein made his way to the Cavern club to see the group perform at a lunchtime session on November 9th. He wrote later that he had never seen anything like The Beatles on any stage. <…> "I loved their ad libs and I was fascinated by this, to me, new music with its pounding bass beat and its vast, engulfing sound." <…> The "pounding" bass that Epstein described was due in part to a new addition to The Beatles' equipment line-up. In the early 1960s there was really no such thing as a proper bass amplifier. Most bass players would use the most powerful guitar amplifier that they could get their hands on. But these were not designed for bass guitar, and did not provide the deep, throbbing bass tones that bass guitarists wanted. As The Beatles evolved their sound and Best perfected his "atomic beat" the group were searching for a stronger and more solid bass sound.

The band considered by many to be the loudest and most aggressive in Liverpool was The Big Three. They bad started out as Cass & The Cassanovas, a four-piece until leader and frontman Brian Casser left during the beginning of 1961. The remaining members stayed together to form The Big Three: Johnny Gustafson on bass, guitarist Adrian Barber, and Liverpool's loudest drummer, Johnny Hutchinson, on the skins.

Barber says that when they became a trio there was an instant problem: he and Gustafson weren't loud enough to project over Hutchinson's drumming. Even the relatively punchy Selmer Truvoice amp was not enough. Barber, however, had an interest in electronics from his days in the merchant navy. <…> Barber went out and bought a book about loudspeakers produced by G A Briggs, who owned the British Wharfedale speaker company, and inside he found construction details for various sizes of cabinets. "I decided on one, and Denis Kealing said he could get me a 15-inch speaker," recalls Barber. "I built a set-up for the bass guitar and for the vocal, in a cabinet about five feet tall by about 18 inches square. <…> I used that and mounted it in a metal ammunitions case, so we could carry it around without killing it. Johnny Gustafson used it as his bass amp, and it was very successful. "When we carried it we bad to lower it on its side, because it was long and skinny. The first time we took it down to the Cavern, we struggled down the tiny stairs there. As we carried this black-painted thing across the room it looked just like a coffin - and that's how it got its name: the Coffin. Now, the Cavern was the underground basement of a warehouse, with three vaulted brick-built archways. Over the years water had seeped down and brought calcium deposits with it, which had settled in the ceiling bricks. So when Johnny plucked that first bass note it was like a shower of snow corning down. People went, 'Wow look at that … and listen to that.' So we were really impressed, and I got ambitious at that point." <…> Other bands began to notice the relative sophistication of The Big Three's amplification, especially the bass gear. "Liverpool wasn't a competitive scene, before it got commercial," explains Barber. '"All the bands co-operated with one another and backed each other up. It was a cool scene, and I started to build these things for other people. Paul McCartney asked me to make him a Coffin. It had a single 15-inch speaker in a reflex-ported cabinet, with two chrome handles and wheels on the side."

McCartney started to use a Barber Coffin speaker cabinet during the late part of 1961. <…> McCartney himself recalls, "Adrian made me a great bass amp that he called the Coffin. And, man! Suddenly that was a total other world. That was bass as we know it now. It was like reggae bass: it was just too right there. It was great live." Pete Best too remembers the Coffin. "Neil Aspinall and I used to carry it. Every couple of shows there'd be a flight of stairs which you had to carry this thing up, and it was then we'd wonder why he couldn't have got something smaller. We'd have sweat streaming off us. But the beauty of it was, with all the laughing and joking aside, it did produce a great sound. The first time Paul plugged it in and used it, we just said my god, this is incredible. It added to The Beatles sound."

(Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments from Stage to Studio Hardcover by Andy Babiuk, 2010)

So, I guess, Paul is lying on his bass amp that they called the Coffin - and it's the reason of the pantomime on the photo.

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Hydro power plant, Linton Falls

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-A Wet Road By Moonlight, Wharfedale-

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Wharfedale, Yorkshire Dales, England by A.Leighton

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Wharfedale, Yorkshire WR.

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Moonlight, Wharfedale, John Atkinson Grimshaw, circa 1870s

Oil on card 17 ⅜ x 21 in. (43.8 x 55.2 cm)

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#OTD in 1916 – Approximately 1,000 copies of The Proclamation of the Irish Republic are printed in Liberty Hall in a print office set up by James Connolly.

The proclamation would be read by Pádraig Pearse outside the General Post Office on Sackville Street (now called O’Connell Street) on Monday 24th April. The proclamation was printed secretly on an old and poorly maintained Wharfedale Stop Cylinder Press in the printing office that had been set up by James Connolly in the basement in the original Liberty Hall in Beresford Place, Dublin. All seven…

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England 2022 (2) (3) by badnewf

Via Flickr:

(1) After completing the walk of more than 7 wet miles to Bolton Abbey and back north, the rain finally stopped, the sun peeked over the dales, and a mist seemed to follow us. The River Wharfe is in Yorkshire, England, and originates within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. For much of its middle course, it is the county boundary between West and North Yorkshire. Its valley is known as Wharfedale. (I'm told that the Wharfe is also one of the best rivers in the UK for swimming.) (2) Flora and fauna along the Dales Way trail astounds. The footpath, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, tracks both sides of the River Wharfe, north of Bolton Abbey. (3) This beautiful turreted bridge crosses the River Wharfe north of the Strid and doubles as an aqueduct. The clever castellations hide the pipe that carries water from the reservoirs at the top of Nidderdale to the cities of West Yorkshire.