Easter Morning at the Chevin Cross

A crowd of worshippers gathered at this wooden cross this morning for a 7 AM service. The cross is erected each year at Easter on Otley Chevin, a viewpoint which overlooks the Wharfe valley. The cross stands 32 ft high and is around 16 ft wide and is made from timber salvaged from the IRA bombing of Manchester on 15th June 1996, there were no fatalities but 212 people were injured, some of them seriously.

Silsden Sewer Rats - Easter Egg Run

     I went along to an Easter Egg run organised by the Silsden Sewer Rats motorcycle club today.  The club members gather in a car park in Silsden before riding out to nearby Airedale Hospital with Easter eggs and donations for the children's ward.  There were quite a few machines on the car park with custom paintwork, sweeping exhaust pipes, and acres of chrome, almost mobile sculptures you could say.  If you get the impression that I like these machines, I do, and then there's the noise they make...