George Eglese

In the archives of Harlow Moor, Pinewoods appears not simply as scenery, but as somewhere to disappear into. Walkers, naturalists and artists came for its shade, its wildlife, its changing light and the promise of a little distance from the town below. Look closely at the old photographs and postcards of Harlow Moor and people are everywhere. They gather beneath the pines, wander through the heather in their Sunday clothes and stop where the woodland opens onto a view. An artist sits at an...

On 15 January 2026, at the launch of Harrogate Town Council in the Mercer Art Gallery, a new emblem for the town was unveiled. Designed by George Eglese, the Crown of Springs is intended as a contemporary mark of place for Harrogate. It is not a replacement for the civic coat of arms, but a wider symbol for the town itself, drawn from the natural phenomenon that first gave Harrogate its purpose. Harrogate grew around an extraordinary concentration of mineral springs. Sulphur, saline,...

Summer Spa Scene, Crescent Gardens, 1911 In an age before wellness retreats, biohacking, and superfood smoothies, there was Harrogate. A town not just built for healing, but designed around it—a place where the very air carried the promise of restoration, where water wasn’t just water but a remedy, and where even the architecture seemed to convalesce the weary. This wasn’t just a single treatment or a fashionable pursuit of the elite. The Harrogate Cure was a whole ecosystem of wellbeing, a...