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

[biggs682]

In Southampton today on work duties and spotted

The Vestry bar in an old church building .

 

[Gravity Aided]

Now that's a way to encourage attendance at vestry meetings. (Said the former church warden).

 

[Gravity Aided]

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.

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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.

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If I found that in the States, I would say that is a puffball mushroom. We had one occur in our yard, and my father fried it up very nicely.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

If I found that in the States, I would say that is a puffball mushroom. We had one occur in our yard, and my father fried it up very nicely.

It is indeed a giant puffball and I had a slice last night, fried with garlic and a bit of chilli.

 

[biggs682]

Italian flair outside the only house designed by Rennie Mackintosh in England .

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Cut bench mark seen at the entrance to a house near Alderley Edge.

And today, a cut bench mark on a postbox, also near Alderley Edge.

Just noticed, if I take the next photo with the rear of the bike in shot, you'll all have the complete tandem!

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I saw some of these on the bridge sides along the Lancaster Canal the other day, but I didn't understand the thread.

 

[classic33]

I saw some of these on the bridge sides along the Lancaster Canal the other day, but I didn't understand the thread.

No pictures!!

 

[Deleted member 26715]

No pictures!!

No, I'd seen this thread & visited the the linked site, but still don't understand what it was all about.

 

[classic33]

No, I'd seen this thread & visited the the linked site, but still don't understand what it was all about.

Seeing how many are actually left visible, and recording their locations. Also a reason to get on your bike, for the Trig Points at least.

They're not something that seems to hang around now. Three local ones lost to "sympathetic restoration" on two buildings in the last year.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Heath Pinfold

Practically every building in Heath, which is deemed a 'conservation village' to the south-east, of Wakefield is listed

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4913359

http://www.heathresidentsassociation.co.uk/history/pinfold

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Barnsley Canal
Walton
Closed, & abandoned in 1953

Part of the Trans-Pennine Trail & Wakefield Wheel

Lock 12(?)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2811850
http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/barnsley/ba36.htm


Gate pivot-point

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Barnsley Canal
Walton
Closed, & abandoned in 1953

The grooves, worn by tow-ropes from the Horses

It's the bridge to Walton Hall
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/74959
The home of Squire Charles Waterton, who her, created the Worlds first Nature Reserve, with a 3 mile stone wall encompassing his estate, to keep Poachers out

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/walton_1.shtml

https://www.watertonparkhotel.co.uk/hotel/history/

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/74959


Situated on an island, within a lake, it was a Maternity Hospital (1950s-1960s?) & the Midwives carried babies over the bridge to 'dry-land', after various attempts to thrown (unwanted) babies into the lake!!!
It is now under threat, from HS2, & there is a campaign, backed by David Attenborough to get UNESCO 'World Heritage Site' listing for it

 

[Gravity Aided]

Heath Pinfold

Practically every building in Heath, which is deemed a 'conservation village' to the south-east, of Wakefield is listed

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http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4913359

http://www.heathresidentsassociation.co.uk/history/pinfold

Now I know what a pinfold is. I live not far from the old cattle pound.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Two cut bench marks from my ride yesterday.
First on Prestbury church.

There's an 11th century Norman chapel and a Saxon cross in the church grounds. Had some renovation in 1747 though.

Then spotted one on a house in the village centre as I was wheeling my bike past some road works. It's just behind the rear wheel.