SUBJECTS COVERED

Landscapes: throughout the North of England, showing the rich diversity - including the Lakeland mountains, the Dales and Moors of North Yorkshire, and dramatic coastal scenery. Threatened landscapes (deciduous woodland, heather moorland, wetlands, heathland, coastal, limestone 'pavements', hedgerows, etc). 'Typical' landscapes, showing regional differences - such as the 'barns and walls' of the Yorkshire Dales, unenclosed uplands of the North York Moors, arable lowlands in the Vale of York, semi-industrialised South Pennines, etc. Moody landscapes: dramatic light, extreme weather conditions and seasonal variations.

Man-made Features : towns, villages., vernacular buildings (cottages, farmsteads, churches, chapels, almshouses, lock-keepers' cottages, toll-houses, barns), stately homes, date-stones & inscriptions above doorways, dry stone walls, lime-kilns, lonely farms, packhorse bridges, stone 'clapper' bridges, standing stones, market crosses, stone crosses on North York Moors, boundary stones, milestones, village pumps & ponds, stiles, old roads, tracks and 'paved' causeways.

Farming : farmers in the landscape, growing crops, rape seed crops, fields of red poppies, fields & hedgerows, hay-making, hay-baling, combine harvesting, tractors, mechanised hedge-trimming, dry stone walling, burning stubble & heather, forestry work & tree felling, horses, herding cows, sheep (flocks, new-born lambs, suckling, hand-feeding, shows, being judged, in snow).

Recreation : tourists, shoppers, markets, holiday-makers, picnics, children, runners, hikers, map-reading, orienteering, bird-watching, dog-walking, waymarking signs, long-distance walks (incl Pennine Way, Dales Way, Coast-to-Coast Walk, Calderdale Way, Cleveland Way, Three Peaks, etc), cycling, pony trekking, mountain bikes, purpose-built cycle tracks, anglers, leisure cruisers, canal boats, speed-boats, water skiing, wind-surfing, yachts, rowing boats, canoes, camping, tourist information centres, village cricket, preserved steam railways, ballooning, hang-gliding, sheep & agricultural shows, sheepdog trials, markets, fairgrounds, festivals, street performers, Punch & Judy shows, Morris dancers, buskers, pavement artists.

Environment : nature reserves and preserved habitats, effects of mass tourism on sensitive landscapes, eroded footpaths & their repair, villages and 'honey-pot' attractions spoiled by over-commercialisation and overcrowding, controversial developments within National Parks (quarries, time-share developments, speedboats, barn conversions), overcrowded car-parks, traffic jams, road repairs, cones, traffic-calming measures ('humps', chicanes, etc), off-road motor-biking, lorries, coaches, cycle tracks, wind turbines, flood barriers, power stations, Ministry of Defence land within National Parks, village ponds.

Industrial heritage : lead mining remains (smelt mills, 'hushes', & ravaged mining landscapes in Yorkshire Dales), textile mills in West Yorkshire & Lancashire, 'estate' & 'model' villages, water-mills, viaducts, canals (& their restoration), locks, lighthouses.

Transport : Railway stations, Inter-City 125 & local trains, steam-hauled trains, viaducts, road repairs, laying tarmac.

Rivers : Yorkshire (Calder, Cover, Dee, Derwent, Esk, Lune, Nidd, Ouse, Ribble, Rye, Swale, Ure, Wharfe), Cumbria (Eden, Derwent, Kent), Durham (Tees), Lancashire (Hodder, Ribble)... and river users: angling, boating, water-skiing, etc, river features (wiers, bridges, sluices, estuaries, etc).

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