High Tor has been the subject of countless paintings and photographs over the years but this old postcard, dating from about the 1920s, is very different as there is no soft landscape surrounding the Tor. The sheer, stark rock face is totally dominant and, clearly, nothing else mattered to the photographer but the hard stone and the long drop of the cliff face. It is a powerful image.

"It [High Tor] has furnished the subject of many a picture, and even in our school-boy days has been used as an arithmetical question. In the lapse of years since it was first noticed, it has lost none of its interest, and it continues at the present time as undiminished a source of attraction, as if it had only just emerged from the overflowing waters. It is 396 feet in height, but being composed of solid limestone, looks massive in the extreme^[1]". Although he was writing about High Tor a hundred and fifty years ago, Jewitt's description is true today, even if local schoolchildren are probably not set maths questions about its height.