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

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 11th
1.

Toll-Office/'Packet Office'
Confluence of the Rivers Aire & Calder
(off) Barnsdale Road/A656
Castleford

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5655656
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/684959


@Drago
Edit @ 20:26
Goods/passengers would be gathered here, for the trip along the River, or Canal
In fact, not too far away, on the River Aire, there is a surviving set of steps that gave access to a regular boat service to Goole!!


https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/649841

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 11th
2.

Not a structural feature, or marking an event/memorial
But, this is a semi-regular occurance (3 times already this year, I think?)


Flood plain, with very receded waters
Alongside Barnsdale Road/A656
Castleford

Taken on exiting the road, to the Lock & 'Packet Office' in the post immediately above

The road in the immediate foreground was closed to traffic on Monday, with Police asking every driver at Bridge Street roundabout, where they were going
If the answer was to the terraced housing/businesses on Lock Lane, they were allowed through, but if the answer was (for example) "Allerton Bywater"/"Kippax"/"Fairburn"/"Aberford"/etc...., they were turned around

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/952633


When the road floods it can get deep, up to armpit depth! (& for circa 400-500yards)

 

[Drago]

Towcester Racecourse, adjacent to main entrance.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 18th
1.

Boundary Stone?
Quarry Hill (A642)
Horbury Bridge
(west of) Wakefield

Practically opposite the road-junction; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/827826

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 18th
2.

The remaining 'underpass' to access the island platforms of Horbury & Ossett Station
(off) Quarry Hill (A642)
Horbury Bridge
(west of) Wakefield

http://horburyhistory.org/Horbury-Stations/
Third picture; http://horburyhistory.org/Horbury-Stations/

Accessed, via a public footpath between 2 houses, at the start of the hill (on right, as we look)
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/827826


EDIT @ 18:43
1905 OS 25"
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=53.65879&lon=-1.56733&layers=168&b=1

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 18th
3.

Barclays Bank (as was, now a bar)
Junction of MaryGate/Silver Street/Wood Street
Wakefield

Detail of stonework to a Wood Street doorway

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/949546

View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/30120216@N07/8498384706

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 18th
4.

The old Town Hall
Tammy Hall Street
(off Wood Street & Chancery Lane)
Wakefield

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101259842-old-town-hall-wakefield-north-ward#.YC6eejJxfIV
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6290356

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 18th
5.

Old Fire Station/Bridewell
Most recently, part of the Magistrates Court
Between Cliff Parade & Gill Street
(top of) Wood Street
Wakefield

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101242757-magistrates-court-wakefield-north-ward#.YC6fQTJxfIU

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1854873
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1026895

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 18th
6.

Do they still deliver?
Town Hall
Wood Street
(Sign is on the Gill Street facade)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 21st
1.

Taken, after dropping daughter off at work

Smiths Almshouses
Westfield Road
Wakefield
(projecting into the grounds of QuEGS)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1145721

https://wgsf.org.uk/qegs-senior/article/about/heads-welcome


The old Grammar School, which is of more interest!!
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1095544
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101358639-old-cathedral-grammar-school-wakefield-north-ward

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 21st
2.

House
Westfield Road
Wakefield
It was the brickwork on the side that attracted my eyes

@Drago
Possibly of your interest, Bishopgarth, part of the West Riding Constabulary HQ was located essentially behind this
Later to became West Yorkshire Police,
https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/bishopgarth-police-traning-wakefield-2018.115653/


The name has been kept for the present facilities, that are now adjacent to the M1, at jct 41
Traffic, Firearms, Dogs, Horses, are all there
As is NPAS

There's also a purpose built civil disorder training unit, with street/houses, for riot control training

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 21st
3.

Back Hatfeild Street
College Grove
Wakefield

There's not many street left with stone-setts out of the WestGate section of the city

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1650649

To the Hatfeild Street side;
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1337376
There is a local blue plaque on the house,
Note the name on the plaque on the homepage!
https://wakefieldcivicsociety.org.uk/blue-plaques/


Yes, I know it's an old spelling, but it's due to a local land-owning family of renown
There is also a Hatfeild Hall, in Stanley, that is now the clubhouse for a golfcourse
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6423987


EDIT @ 09:45
I think the plaque is for Mary Heaton. I'll investigate later today, if I can

https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/...ld-women-be-honoured-new-blue-plaques-3033632

EDIT @ 15:05
No it isn't for Mary Heaton
I tried to photograph the plaque, when I went for a ride, but the autofocus didn't like it too much
It's for a Clara Maria Clarkson

https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/...ld-women-be-honoured-new-blue-plaques-3033632

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 21st
4.

On the back of the above item mentioning 'Hatfeilds', I visited the golf-course
I pass it almost every working day (depends which way I go, due to a new 'bypass'/link-road)


On entering the grounds, this stone is seen
It wasn't on this site, for all that time
The Hall was, in 60s - 80s, a NHS property
Once an asylum, then offices

The restored (again!!) house, & extended substantially

Crest of the Hatfeilds

The ruinous Coach-house/stables

At the entrance, from Aberford Road
I do hope they get plenty of visitiors when they reopen

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...ll-stanley-and-outwood-east-ward#.YDJ3Y9VxfIU
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1052687
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3231359

http://www.normantongolf.co.uk/main_history.php
https://www.stanleyhistoryonline.com/Hatfeild-Hall.html

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 21st
5.

St Austins Roman Catholic Church
Wentworth Terrace
(runs between NorthGate & Wentworth Street)
Wakefield


I know there's a good sized plaque in Leeds, by the Town Hall, with the names of all the VC winners who were born in/lived in Leeds, but, this is a new one on me!!
Sir, I salute you!

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

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...-gate-piers-wakefield-north-ward#.YDKPSdVxfIU
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1220295

Saw Yard is long gone now, the only remnant left is a ginnel between buildings off Little WestGate. oppsite these buildings
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1200111



And, directly opposite is this one, for the Gissing sisters
Apologies for quality

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 21st
6.

Wakefield Girls High School
(part of a foundation with QuEGS, as mentioned above, in #1)
Wentworth Street
Wakefield

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...high-school-wakefield-north-ward#.YDKRa9VxfIU
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5831520
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1120692