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

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tues 7th

Senior Management was undertaking some consultancy work at Scarborough Hospital
I arranged for a days annual-leave & drove her up (thus earning brownie points?)
We were up there, before 08:45 (with her meeting starting at 09:30)

Once dropped off, I had a few hours (not sure how many it would be) exploring....
Normally I consider Scarborough to be 'Blackpool-on-the- North Sea', but out of season today, it was quite enjoyable

#6


Custom House Steps



With The Bolts to the left, leading into Ginnels/passageway
I'd hazard a guess, that it's 'bolt' as in 'run'. not the crossbow bolt???
If you were near the Customs house with contraband, you'd run??

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tues 7th

Senior Management was undertaking some consultancy work at Scarborough Hospital
I arranged for a days annual-leave & drove her up (thus earning brownie points?)
We were up there, before 08:45 (with her meeting starting at 09:30)

Once dropped off, I had a few hours (not sure how many it would be) exploring....
Normally I consider Scarborough to be 'Blackpool-on-the- North Sea', but out of season today, it was quite enjoyable

#7

Newcastle Packet
Sandside

Hidden, but exposed timbers to the side





https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/646196

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101272912-newcastle-packet-inn-scarborough#.XhTaAXd2vIU

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tues 7th

Senior Management was undertaking some consultancy work at Scarborough Hospital
I arranged for a days annual-leave & drove her up (thus earning brownie points?)
We were up there, before 08:45 (with her meeting starting at 09:30)

Once dropped off, I had a few hours (not sure how many it would be) exploring....
Normally I consider Scarborough to be 'Blackpool-on-the- North Sea', but out of season today, it was quite enjoyable

#8
The Grand Hotel

One of those Air-Crew trainees was Alf Wight (whose pen name was James Herriot)



Same architect as Leeds Town Hall, & Corn Exchange
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101243163-the-grand-hotel-scarborough#.XhTZqHd2vIU





From the right (as I'm looking)
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/844268

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tues 7th

Senior Management was undertaking some consultancy work at Scarborough Hospital
I arranged for a days annual-leave & drove her up (thus earning brownie points?)
We were up there, before 08:45 (with her meeting starting at 09:30)

Once dropped off, I had a few hours (not sure how many it would be) exploring....
Normally I consider Scarborough to be 'Blackpool-on-the- North Sea', but out of season today, it was quite enjoyable

#9
Railway Station


It's at the base of the clock tower

On the side of platform 3



https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101243452-scarborough-railway-station-scarborough#.XhTbbnd2vIU


https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4843191

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tues 7th

Senior Management was undertaking some consultancy work at Scarborough Hospital
I arranged for a days annual-leave & drove her up (thus earning brownie points?)
We were up there, before 08:45 (with her meeting starting at 09:30)

Once dropped off, I had a few hours (not sure how many it would be) exploring....
Normally I consider Scarborough to be 'Blackpool-on-the- North Sea', but out of season today, it was quite enjoyable

#10

Leading Post Street

The timber-framed house is almost like something from (HP Lovecrafts) Innsmouth here..

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5091190

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...t-street-scarborough-castle-ward#.XhTcind2vIU

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tues 7th

Senior Management was undertaking some consultancy work at Scarborough Hospital
I arranged for a days annual-leave & drove her up (thus earning brownie points?)
We were up there, before 08:45 (with her meeting starting at 09:30)

Once dropped off, I had a few hours (not sure how many it would be) exploring....
Normally I consider Scarborough to be 'Blackpool-on-the- North Sea', but out of season today, it was quite enjoyable

#11
A final one, before I give up......don't want to overburden you all

A64, on the east (Malton) side of Rillington

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6061373

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

1st

A potter about today around the Castleford/Pontefract area
Including portions of the 'Wakefield Wheel' & a couple of bridleways

I followed this, but with no map, from #3 to #6, then circumnavigated Pontefract Park/Racecourse


I'd noticed a couple of these, when I did the ParkRun, with daughter on Sat 4th (event 449)
https://www.parkrun.org.uk/pontefract/course/
Granted, they'll have been there for years, but when I ran there (39 events) I was more concerned with catching the person in front, than looking around

Presumably, they're distance markers, for various race lengths?

Looking back up towards the Grandstand
I think the Horses run in the direction I'm looking??

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

2nd

A potter about today around the Castleford/Pontefract area
Including portions of the 'Wakefield Wheel' & a couple of bridleways

I followed this, but with no map, from #3 to #6, then circumnavigated Pontefract Park/Racecourse

There's the Results building
I was always given to understand that it was built as a private grandstand??

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2739806

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

3rd

A potter about today around the Castleford/Pontefract area
Including portions of the 'Wakefield Wheel' & a couple of bridleways

I followed this, but with no map, from #3 to #6, then circumnavigated Pontefract Park/Racecourse

An oddity, & something that is certainly not seen from the M62, which is at the top of the banking
It would appear that the National Grid weren't prepared to move the pylon, when the M62 was surveyed, & likewise, the Ministry wasn't prepared to re-route (albeit slightly) the course of the under-construction m/way

Look at the map, below the image; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/587138
This is on the footpath/cycleway/bridlepath that runs to the north of the M62, shadowing the east-bound carriageway & the recess is by the slip-road off, at jct 32

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This morning ; 1

Old gate-post
Black Hill
The opposite side of Black Road (A655) to the preservation village of Heath
(in fact, 'sandwiched' between the A655 & A638 Doncaster Road)

It's a slippery scratchy ride up to it, snaking between Gorse Bushes, with Duranos slipping on a slimey/grassy surface

'Retracing my wheel-tracks'

Oddly, there's no pictures of it on Geograph, so to all purposes, they're both not far from the 'c' in Black Hill, in the OS map below the picture; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3784592

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This morning ; 2

Bench/view-point
Black Hill
The opposite side of Black Road (A655) to the preservation village of Heath
(in fact, 'sandwiched' between the A655 & A638 Doncaster Road)

It's a slippery scratchy ride up to it, snaking between Gorse Bushes, with Duranos slipping on a slimey/grassy surface

Traffic on Black Road, & the car-park in Heath village, by The Kings Arms visible
http://thekingsarmsheath.co.uk/

Oddly, there's no pictures of the bench on Geograph, so to all purposes, they're both not far from the 'c' in Black Hill, in the OS map below the picture; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3784592

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This afternoon; 1

Theatre Royal & Opera House
Plus, 'Unity House' to the right

As seen from Smythe Street

Designed by the same man, as the Corn Exchange, in Leeds
(oh, & a provincial theatre, known as the London Palladium)

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101272860-unity-house-wakefield-north-ward#.Xh9jfHd2vIU
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101258906-theatre-royal-wakefield-north-ward#.Xh9i6Xd2vIU



https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2649289
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5942188

Unity House ('Hall', not House, to most in Wakefield)
As seen from Drury Lane (which is the no-entry road at the traffic lights in my picture; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5941624

Looking across the road, from the corner, where the red doors are, on the Theatre Royal; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5829003

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This afternoon; 2

1790's stone warehouses
'Facing' onto the River Calder

Now 'apartments'...…………………..

As seen in 1993, when they were still in industrial use; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3316300

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...se-3368-1988-wakefield-east-ward#.Xh9k4Xd2vIU

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This afternoon; 3


Trig Point

Junction of Doncaster Road (A638) & Oakenshaw Lane
Sadly, very awkward to get closer to (from Oakenshaw Lane, anyway)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1584687

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Slightly worrying..

We have the keys for one of the 20+ Grade 1 listed buildings in Wakefield, in our possession at the moment

I have to go in, this morning, collect something, & take the keys back
(wife signed for them, I have to sign them back in, but they know it'll be me returning them)
Obviously, a camera will be coming with me