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

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 2nd
7.

Aire & Calder Navigation Canal
(bottom of) Lock Lane
Lower Altofts
(between Wakefield & Castleford)

The bridge is the M62, between jcts 30 & 31
30 (west) to the left

I was on the right-hand bank, as you look at this photograph; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6716572

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 2nd
8.

Foxholes Lock
Aire & Calder Navigation Canal
Foxholes Lane
Altofts


Quite out of the ordinary names....

Both boats would be to the photographers immediate left; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/395375

NB;
Stanley Ferry Marina, roughly a mile to the south-west has, or had, such names as
'Elvira'
'The Green Man'

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 3rd
1.

Foxholes Lock
Between Aire & Calder Navigation Canal & the River Calder
(bottom of) Foxholes Lane
Altofts
Abandoned/'stopped' at some point between 1960 & 1965

When I arrived, there was a disturbance in the water, as though 2 big fish had jumped
As I watched 2 Cormorants resurfaced

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6717586
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6717564

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=53.71729&lon=-1.43135&layers=168&b=1

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 3rd
2.

Spoil Heap
Presumably from 'Fox Coliery' (seen on the map linked, in the last posting)
It's in the bend formed by the Calders meanders

Used as an ad-hoc BMX/jump track
Quite surprisingly, there's little sign of MX bikes tearing it up

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1941764

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 3rd
3.

Aire & Calder Navigation Canal
Between Kings Road Lock & Birkwood Lock
(looking west)
Altofts

It's quite deep here, due to the amount of commercial traffic it saw

The warning sign is gone, in my photograph; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4908730

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 3rd
4.

Tuesday 2nd
8.

NB;
Stanley Ferry Marina, roughly a mile to the south-west has, or had, such names as
'Elvira'
'The Green Man'

I had a ride down to Stanley Ferry

From a previous encounter;

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 4th
1.

Boat Lane
Lower Mickletown
Methley
(between Castleford & Rothwell)

This was the route to the 'foot-ferry' across the River Aire, to Allerton Bywater
Correspondingly, there is also a Boat Lane, at that side of the river
Plus 'The Boat' pub

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2627941

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5691332

The footpath to the river banking is temporarily closed, due to flooding (& pumping)

Seen here as, Allerton Ferry; https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=53.74094&lon=-1.36838&layers=168&b=1

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 4th
2.

Caroline Bridge
River Aire
Mickletown
Methley


'Oddball' can just be made out, above my 'bars, in the distance (blue/white rectangle)

And, just to the other bank of the river

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6081479
Oddball; http://www.walkingdragline.org/

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 4th
3.

The Cage (& other memorials)
Miners memorial
Station Road
Allerton Bywater

The Cage

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3662732

https://northernfringegallery.co.uk/harry-malkin/
http://allerton-bywater.synology.me/memorial/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-19529857

 

[Drago]

Top work Mr T, putting the rest of us to shame as usual.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Top work Mr T, putting the rest of us to shame as usual.

Thankyou


I did try to photograph the '99 Arches' (Leeds - Wakefield - Doncaster railway) leading into Wakefield WestGate this morning, from unusual angles, but it didn't work, due to a number of factors
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1080483

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Top work Mr T, putting the rest of us to shame as usual.

@Drago

Back to work this week, on the despised 'late-turns'
However, I'm weekend off, & senior management wants to go "somewhere nice, for a drive & a walk"
I'll think about it, & try to choose carefully, to attempt to give maximum input for this thread

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

With regard to the above, I hope to get to;
An African country
A country on the North Sea coast
A city in Russia
The furthest place you can go/the apocalypse
A road that tells fibs about its length
A waterfall

Oh, & hopefully also a lovely curving railway viaduct, that's now a footpath/bridleway/cycle-route

That's where I have plans to take her.............

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

In addition to the above, a namesake of a site of a fortification that was destroyed by sonic warfare (this could be mythology, or part of your religion?)

Sadly, this was demolished (by conventional means!) in the early 1980s

 

[biggs682]

Last time I saw this trig post it was well buried and hidden by the hedge but not this morning

Between Denford and Raunds .