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

[PeteXXX]

One from St Andrews Church in old this morning not sure if myself or @PeteXXX have already bagged it .

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I honestly can't remember..

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I missed a couple of others, as I was late arriving, & getting to them would have meant my 'mixing it' with the runners
So, another visit is in order
I'm not sure if it'll be this coming Saturday (weekend off!), as I may go to the Pontefract ParkRun instead, to try & catch some friends there
(held at the Park, also the location of the -horse- Race Course)

Didn't get to either

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

ASDA
High Street
Normanton
(previously a Netto)

As can be presumed by the stone inset, this was the site of the local Swimming Baths

It looked like this, before it was demolished, & rebuilt with a similar facade

I can't remember it open, as I had no real reason to come to the town, but there was a shop open to the right-hand side in this picture, after it was boarded up

There is also another stone inside, with the date, but I'll presume I'd need the managers permission to photograph that one

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/363094


From the local Councils history site....

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Next Friday (20th) I have to head up the A1, to either Newcastle, or possibly as far as Seahouses
Dependant on whether we can meet partway, or I have to drive right up

Hopefully, I'll be on the old 'Great North Road' for part of the route, so will be keeping my eyes open

That said... I've not been given any specific times yet, it could be post 15:00, so too dark by the time I get up there?

The 'exchange' (picking up an old school friend of daughters) is now at the Metro Centre, so it will -hopefully- be a steady drive up The Great North Road, via Boroughbridge, Northallerton & Catterick Bridge
With a side trip via Darlington

That's my plan, anyway.......

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The Forum

Outside the old 'Ship Inn' & Castle Motorcycles
Aire Street
Castleford

Lock Lane, & 'Hartleys Bridge' (over the River Aire) & hence onto Barnsdale Road, towards Aberford is to my right
SWMBOs (Toyota) C-HR behind

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/yorkshire/castleford_ship.html

Its previous incarnation was a lamp-post
'Forum' as in meeting place for discussions
https://wakefieldmuseumsandlibraries.blogspot.com/p/the-forum-castleford.html

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

CGR & Cattle-Trough

(end of) Balmoral Road
Hunslet Low Road (A61)
Leeds

Apologies for quality, it was a poor afternoon, & taken with iphone

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/807703

The inscription, along this face reads; Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Next Friday (20th) I have to head up the A1, to either Newcastle, or possibly as far as Seahouses
Dependant on whether we can meet partway, or I have to drive right up

Hopefully, I'll be on the old 'Great North Road' for part of the route, so will be keeping my eyes open

That said... I've not been given any specific times yet, it could be post 15:00, so too dark by the time I get up there?

It was a 12:00 pick-up, so plenty of light
If dull, grim, misty, conditions


Healam Bridge
Leeming Lane (A6055)
On the section between A1 junctions 50 & 51
This was the 'GNR'
The dual-carriageway, was built over the existing road, but the modern A1 runs a few yards to the east

I'd noticed it, when we drove up in October, for a week in Northumberland, but forgot about it on that return journey


It is benchmarked, but I couldn't spot one
It may be hidden, due to nature taking over?

Looking North;

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101315110-healam-bridge-burneston#.Xf0xcHd2vIU
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2897283

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Next Friday (20th) I have to head up the A1, to either Newcastle, or possibly as far as Seahouses
Dependant on whether we can meet partway, or I have to drive right up

Hopefully, I'll be on the old 'Great North Road' for part of the route, so will be keeping my eyes open

That said... I've not been given any specific times yet, it could be post 15:00, so too dark by the time I get up there?

It was a 12:00 pick-up, so plenty of light
If dull, grim, misty, conditions

The other (first??) Londonderry
This was the 'GNR', on its run into Leeming & Leeming Bar

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4874111
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...e-exelby-leeming-and-londonderry#.Xf0zgHd2vIU

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Next Friday (20th) I have to head up the A1, to either Newcastle, or possibly as far as Seahouses
Dependant on whether we can meet partway, or I have to drive right up

Hopefully, I'll be on the old 'Great North Road' for part of the route, so will be keeping my eyes open

Leeming Bar
On the old 'GNR', at the crossroads with the Bedale - Northallerton road

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6049944

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

And, another, in Darlington

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Next Friday (20th) I have to head up the A1, to either Newcastle, or possibly as far as Seahouses
Dependant on whether we can meet partway, or I have to drive right up

Hopefully, I'll be on the old 'Great North Road' for part of the route, so will be keeping my eyes open

Inside the MetroCentre, as we were earlier than the 'other party'

These were on the corridor to the toilets, at the Debenhams end

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Next Friday (20th) I have to head up the A1, to either Newcastle, or possibly as far as Seahouses
Dependant on whether we can meet partway, or I have to drive right up

Hopefully, I'll be on the old 'Great North Road' for part of the route, so will be keeping my eyes open

Inside the MetroCentre, as we were earlier than the 'other party'

Which Angel came first?

 

[biggs682]

Sure this benchmark has been done before

The church is well of the beaten track in Stoke Goldington

 

[Cuchilo]

Not a bench mark but probably a pirates grave ⚓ St Marys church opposite Eel pie island in Twickenham .

 

[Gravity Aided]

Memento Mori.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori