Birch

I used to feature this silver birch in the journal quite a bit, although usually from the other side looking out to the moor (e.g. Rainbow Birch).

This evening I was over playing some socially distanced football with the kids, and otherwise hadn't had much of a walk today, so I thought I'd turn my camera back into the city for a change.

The stone building in the foreground, Moorfield House, was once an outlying farm in its fields (extra), accessed up what is now the footpath at the side of the moor. Since the 1930s, the settlement has grown out around it, up to the boundary wall of the moor. The moor is common land, and has proved an effective barrier against further spread of the city. So this is more or less the northern limit of the hard line between urban Bradford and the moors and dales.

The familiar landmark of Wrose Hill presents itself on the other side of Airedale. (Last viewed in this journal from the other side where it is a close neighbour of Eccleshill FC. Ah, football - those were the days.)

And so this neighbourhood Geography lesson concludes. Ever the pedagogue.