Tuesday 23 August 2011

Improving the Cat Run

So, we had already built the cat tunnel and run but as our girls got bigger we wanted them to have more space to play in and explore. It was a "3 dimensional" space... as they could climb ON the Kitty Shack and the wooden crate as well as get inside them and they had the large tree branches to climb on... but they soon got used to it and kept looking into the garden shed through the window!

You could see them thinking "I wonder what's in there?"
So I got a saw...

Tuesday 2 August 2011

Wetherby Photos Past and Present

Fascinated by how things used to be compared to how they look now...

I am hoping to start a photographic archive of Wetherby - comparing photographs from the past with those of the present.

See, also, our page of photographs and information about Wetherby Railway Station

Here is a start:

York Road - HMS Ceres Naval Training Base - (now Wetherby Young Offenders)


HMS Ceres, Wetherby, Main Gate
HMS Ceres, Wetherby, Main Gate
 This shows the main entrance and gatehouse of HMS Ceres Naval training Base. Originally built in 1942 and intended to be one of two hostels for the munitions workers at the nearby Thorpe Arch Royal Ordnance factory (now a retail park!). However it was commandeered by the Admiralty and became the training base HMS Cabot, renamed HMS Demetrius in 1943, finally becoming known as HMS Ceres.

In 1958, when the Navy base moved to Chatham, the site became a borstal - Wetherby Young Offenders Instiute - and is now known as HMYOI Wetherby Secure College of Learning and this next photo shows the same view today.