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

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 1st
5.

Westmorland Street
Wakefield
(near 'The Raven')

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Barstow

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 1st
5.

Westmorland Street
Wakefield
(below 'The Raven')

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Frobisher

There is a Junior School, in Altofts (village of birth), named after him

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 1st
6.

Westmorland Street
Wakefield
(below 'The Raven')


Writer/composer of the muscial 'Me & My Girl'
He was a chorister at the Cathedral, where there is also a blue plaque

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Gay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_My_Girl
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1178262

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 1st
7.

Westmorland Street
Wakefield
(below 'The Raven')

Of 'Be Bop Deluxe' fame
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nelson_(musician)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 1st
8.

Westmorland Street
Wakefield
(below 'The Raven')

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_O'Hare_McCormick

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 1st
9.

Halifax Building Society (now!)
The Springs
Wakefield

A Pub stood on this site, called 'The City Of London'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_the_City_of_London

Curiously, there was a 'Pindar (spelling) Of Wakefield' pub in Grays Inn Road, in London

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 1st
10.

New Dolphin Inn (as was)
(at the junction of) The Springs/Lower WarrenGate & KIrkGate
Wakefield

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2985302

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 1st
11.

The Star (or 'Starr)
(junction of) Lower WarrenGate & Vicarage Street)
Wakefield

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 1st
12.

ABC Cinema (as was)
KirkGate (continuing onto Sun Lane)
Wakefield

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/3787
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2646667
https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/threads/a-b-c-cinema-wakefield.3171/
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1048319

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

5 days-off now
I guess I'll see a few more notables

I know I have to go to York on Tuesday, probably via Tadcaster (for a shop there), so will be on the look-out

Visit for medical reasons

I didn't take as many photographs as I wanted to, due to traffic/parking difficulties


Tuesday 2nd
1.

St Andrews Evangelical Church
St Andrews Gate
(off) Aldwarke
(closest Bar/Gate is MonkBar)

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...vangelical-church-guildhall-ward#.YD4yCE5xfIU
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/675367

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 2nd
2.

The Broken Bridge
(previously The Leeds Arms)
York Road
Tadcaster


Renamed after the December 2015 floods that collapsed the Wharfe Bridge, dividing the town

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5306417

The Bridge at the time of collapse (upstream side) https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4799733


NB;
There is also a 'Broken Bridge' pub (Wetherspoons) in Pontefract, but the towns name is taken from the Latin for that phrase...... Pons Fractus..... thought by local historians to refer to an early bridge collapsing at FerryBridge

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 2nd
3.

Junction of Leeds Road (A659) & the FerryBridge Road (A162..... 'Tadcaster TurnPike' to me)
Tadcaster

Halton Dial referring to its Leeds end, where it joins Roundhay Road

John Smiths Brewery to the rear

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...-at-junction-with-a162-tadcaster#.YD44eU5xfIU
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6102526

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 2nd
4.

Ride out, this afternoon
Just a 'potter about', not far (or fast)

(adjacent to) River Calder
Whitwood
(between Wakefield & Castleford)

What a difference a bit of rain makes
Same beck/drain
Today

Sunday 7th February
Same tree, on the side of the path, just a few yards further away

At a rough estimate, it would have been about 15 feet deep

Taken a couple of hundred yards from this plant; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/867646

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 2nd
5.

(by) LaFarge Concrete
(side of) Aire & Calder Navigation Canal
Whitwood/Altofts
(between Wakefield & Castleford)


A new sign!
Previously, it was just the red-lettered sign on the gate

It was easy to tell the weather was cold/over-cast/intermittant drizzle, as I had the entire route (to Foxholes Lock) to myself, not a plethora of walkers/riders

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2723576
Looking back; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2723571

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 2nd
6.

Stopped/filled-in lock
Fairies Hill Cut
Aire & Calder Navigation Canal
Whitwood/Altofts
(between Wakefield & Castleford)

Looking towards me; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/867704