Thirsk is a town in North Yorkshire. We’d never visited before so dropped in on our way back up from Knaresborough and Harrogate.

The Clock Tower in the market place was decorated for Remembrance Day:-

I spotted the Ritz Cinema:-

And this nice bridge over the Cod Beck:-

Wow! Just wow!

My jaw dropped when I turned a corner in Harrogate and found this:-

This must be one of the most stunning examples of Art Deco cinema architecture in the UK.  Most 1930s Odeon cinemas were fine illustrations of Art Deco but this has just about everything. Thin stepped tower with deco fonted lettering on the word ‘Cinema’, the canopy, the cream and green curve above it leading into the curved cream tower with thin line of windows and green streamlining at top, rule of three in the windows on the brick portion.

Side view. Look at those windows and green detailing below roofline:-

The curved tower is beautiful:-

By the door on the cinema’s wall is this plaque outlining its history. It’s even been featured on a stamp:-

Harrogate is a town in West Yorkshire. We visited it in Novemeber 2022. Its War Memorial is a huge tapering stone obelisk on a square base in the monumenatl municipal style. It lies by the main A 61 road through the town.

Dedication. “Our Glorious Dead, 1914-1918, 1939-1945”:-

Side views:-

Frieze of bugler:-

Frieze of Victory:-

Great War Names:-

Names for both World Wars:-

Poppy Crosses by Harrogate War Memorial:-

VC Recipients Plaque, below Harrogate War Memorial:-

Poppies for Remembrance, outside Betty’s Tea Rooms, Harrogate:-