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Upon the threshold
Offering new beginnings
The gates stand open
Will you embrace adventure
Passing through to Beyond
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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken in Winster, Derbyshire, named for the outcrop of rocks on the moor above the village, Wynn’s Tor.
I came upon the gates when I stopped there to visit a church that proved to be locked. The gates took my eye, carved as they are with foliate heads … Green Men. They lead to the Dower House that was built in the late sixteenth century.
St John the Baptist, Winster
Winster is an interesting village with a long history. Narrow ginnels run between the rows of cottages and grander houses that bear testament to the prosperity of the lead mining industry in the eighteenth century, when, for a little while, the village became a thriving town. Lead mining here may have begun during the Roman occupation and continued until the last mine closed in 1938, its decline due largely to flooding in the mines at the deeper workings.
Market House, Winster
Evidence of the town’s prosperity can still be seen in some of the buildings, most notably the famous Market House. Built some time in the sixteenth century, it was the first property in the county to be bought by the National Trust in 1906, at a cost of fifty pounds.
Its people go back much further, though, and two Iron Age burials were found within the Manor grounds, as well as an Anglian burial at White Low, where a beautiful gold and garnet brooch dating to around 650AD was discovered. Winster lies close to the Portway, an ancient track and trade route, and very close to Robin Hood’s Stride, the settlement at Cratcliffe and the Nine Stones Close circle. It is inconcievable that these ancient sites played no part in the life of the earliest settlers here.
Nine Stones Close
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Thank you so much to everyone who took part this week…even sharing ‘extra’ poss, there was no way to reblog them all! I wish there was space to share all the contributions, as there are some beautiful pieces every week that I would love to reblog, but which come in after I have filled all the allocated slots.
All the posts are listed below, so please click on the links to read them and leave a comment for the author. Thank you too, to everyone who reblogged the prompt, round up and the individual resposes.
A new prompt will be published later today. I will reblog as many contributions as space and time allows, as they come in… and all of them will be featured in the round-up on Thursday.
Pingbacks do not always come through… and I can miss things too, so if you have written a post for this challenge and it does not appear in the round-up, please leave a link to your post in the comments and I will add it to the list.
A Reminder and an invitation
As there are usually too many contributions to reblog all of them every week, and so that we can get to know their writers, I would like to invite all writephoto regulars to come and introduce themselves on the blog as my guest! ‘Regulars’ does not mean you have to take part every week… Click here for details
Come and join in!
Many thanks to this weeks contributors:
Luccia Gray at Re-reading Jane Eyre
Dnyanada Kulkarni at dnspectre
Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files
Ashwini Nawathe at Kaleidoscope of my Life
Diana Wallace Peach at Myths of the Mirror
Dorinda Duclos at Night Owl Poetry
Kerfe Roig at methodtwomadness
Ennle Madresan at Abandoned Amenities
Christine Bolton at Poetry for Healing
Jan Malique at Strange Goings on in the Shed
Hélène Vaillant at Willow Poetry
Anita from Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie
Janette Bendle at What She Wrote
Daisybala at freshdaisiesdotme
Michele Jones at Out of the Shadows
Ramyani Bhattacharya at Panache
Fandango at This, That and the Other
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Sisyphus at Of Glass and Paper
Trent P. McDonald at Trent’s World
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
What a lovely round up poem truly hopeful and enticing . The Village too is very interesting. xx
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It may be somewhere we’ll need to explore a bit better 🙂 x
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It is really interesting 💜
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🙂 x
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Wow. Great to know all of this. 🙂
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🙂
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Hello and good morning. I am reading this post, and do not see the press this or re-blog buttons today. Quite unusual. Makes the second post I have found to be this way. I will check again. Great post to everyone.
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Very strange. They are showing here, Patty.
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Thank you 🙂
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Great takes!
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A surprising variety too 🙂
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Indeed!
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Always nice to get the context of these photos. And great stories and poems, as always. (K)
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That’s why I like to use my own photos…there are always stories to share 🙂
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Beautiful prompt and poem, Sue, and great to learn more about the actual gate. So many stories! Congrats. 🙂
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The gateposts just caught my eye…one detail amongst so many in that village 🙂
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So many great entries, Sue! The new prompt is lovely! ❤
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Thanks, Dorinda. Hope it will spark as many ideas as the last ones 🙂
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I could get lost there 😉
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It is easy to do that at this spot 🙂
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