Harrogate & Knaresborough, England

My first visit to Harrogate was in December 2000, when I was attending a company Christmas event in the Old Swan Hotel, made famous by its being the hiding place for Agatha Christie when she disappeared suddenly in 1926. However, the weather on that weekend and the camera that I was using at the time conspired against me when it came to capturing the place on film. A photo minilab that produced prints with a distinct blue cast didn't help either.

To remedy that lack of luck, I returned on a sunny Saturday during the autumn of 2003 to get better results. To get some digital images, I returned in June 2026, even if cloudy skies challenged image capture; patience was tested while awaiting some of the blue skies and sunlit scenes that you see above. That has updated things a lot, and there may be more to plunder yet from the collection I captured during that visitation. At least, it bettered my expereeince in 2014 when resolutely grey skies would not break for me.