We had breakfast and then checked out of The Yorkshire Hotel. Luggage loaded into the car; we drove to Wakefield to visit the Cathedral. The Church is large in size and has a lovely interior. We enjoyed our visit and I got my Cathedral passport stamped. The lady who put the sticker in my passport [...]
Archive for the tag 'Wars of the Roses'
Filed under Anecdotes, Harrogate 2025, Holidays
Harrogate – Day Four
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 19th 2025
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The Search for the Towton Rose Continues…
Since my last post about the search for the Towton Rose there have been some fresh leads but the Rose has still not been located and the search continues. In a recent Blog post George Algar notes that all the roses that have been identified as being taken from the battlefield are of the same [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Aug 24th 2010
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In Search of the Towton Rose
Earlier this week the Shropshire Star published an article about Shrewsbury Museums curator, Peter Boyd’s, quest to find the long lost Towton Rose. It is reported to have grown in its hundreds on the graves of the fallen in the in the Battle of Towton that took place during the Wars of the Roses. [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 10th 2010
