The CC Trig Point bagger thread, now incorporating other interesting geographs

[Richard A Thackeray]

Waller Bridge
Broadcut Road
Calder Grove

Over the Calder & Hebble Navigation Canal

Where (about 1/2 mile from jct 39/M1) http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2540048



The arched single-track road bridge


Looking from the Canal bank (to the left of the above pic)


Looking east, towards the M1, & Wakefield


Looking west, towards Horbury Bridge

 

[classic33]

A locally made hexagonal post box

Made by these folk.

Base has been repainted too often, so name can't be seen in a picture.

 

[biggs682]

Another find this morning that I have ridden past loads of times .

It's on Scaldwell road , Brixworth .

And nice and secure and in quite good condition .

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Two recent cut bench marks from me, spotted whilst walking. Love the cut marks, I always imagine the person cutting it out with his hammer and chisel.
Firstly on the United Reform Church, Congleton.

Then one on a gatepost on the road from Congleton to Rushton Spencer, just opposite a stone age burial chamber, the Bridestones.

The Bridestones burial chamber, love places like this aswell, very atmospheric.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Another find this morning that I have ridden past loads of times .

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It's on Scaldwell road , Brixworth .

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And nice and secure and in quite good condition .

You've reminded me, there's a nuclear bunker museum relatively near me which I've never been to. Must rectify that.
Just checked the website, it's called Hack Green nuclear bunker, it looks fantastic. Planning a route now!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I passed lots of lovely milestones yesterday, & a few (ex) Toll-Houses, but due to traffic, & time-restraints wasn't able to stop the car, to run back to them

Most were between Kildwick & Settle, via Skipton, so standing, looking through a viewfinder alongside the A65 didn't appeal that much...………….

Quite a few were stone, not the cast-iron frontispiece!

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...tre-from-parish-boundary-skipton#.W59pofZFzIU

EDIT @ 11:09
Like this one on the A65, just north-west of the roundabout, with the A59
Seen on the grass

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@53.971314,-2.059072,69.98h,-5.72p,1.18z

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Just had to drive to Pontefract to pick something up, before I go for a ride ('long weekend' - days-off Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues)
I caught a glimpse of it, as I queued under the bridge on the 'inbound', so came back the same way

Park Road railway bridge
(between jct 32/M62 & Pontefract itself)

Looking from the other side of the bridge, towards the M62; http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2628073

Pontefract RaceCourse (& Park) are to the other side of the bridge, on the right
I believe it's the UKs longest 'flat' race-course

It's at the opposing end, on the left-side



Of course, the ParkRun there doesn't feel flat, as seen here. in one of my shots of 'event 79' there
Saturdays was #379

 

[classic33]

Even the ctc have started a similar topic

https://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=124884

The mod replying on there appears to be getting his trig points and bench marks mixed up.

Bench Marks were used to mark a known height, not to transect the country.

 

[biggs682]

The mod replying on there appears to be getting his trig points and bench marks mixed up.

Bench Marks were used to mark a known height, not to transect the country.

i would like to distance myself from any moaning or groaning where mods are involved

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

'Hartleys Bridge'
aka, the Ferrybridge

Where the Great North Road crossed the River Aire
Made redundant in the 1960's by the adjacent concrete viaduct - which is now itself surpassed by the 'new' A1, a mile to the west!

From under the 'old' viaduct


Completed in 1804
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101167483-ferry-bridge-brotherton#.W5-4AvZFzIU


Late 1950's?

 

[Bobby Mhor]

i would like to distance myself from any moaning or groaning where mods are involved

Yeah, mods are off their rockers..




See, what I did
Four today in Dundee, post when I get back to Mhor Towels

 

[classic33]

i would like to distance myself from any moaning or groaning where mods are involved

Thought someone would point out the error of their ways.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Two from four found on a ride along Dundee's waterfront
First one, on a Tay Rail Bridge support

Riverside Drive , sea wall

The other two, bog standard and most likely done the same time.

The new £80 million V&A Museum (taken from the Tay Road Bridge)

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Yesterday I visited Hack Green nuclear bunker, following @biggs682 's photos. It was great, brought the Cold War alive, although that brought shudders down the spine.
On the way back I saw the largest mushroom I've ever seen, which was a bit spooky as I'd just seen loads of photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Then, just down the road, a cut bench mark at Smallwood Church, near Sandbach. No prizes for guessing what the football shaped object in the bag is.

 

[biggs682]

@Tail End Charlie that is one big mushroom for sure
Must admit those bunkers do make you think a bit but then so do some of the Churches you find out in the middle of now where