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

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 17th
1.

Church Of All-Saints
High Street
Normanton
Wakefield

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Bacon,_Baroness_Bacon

She also has a Blue Plaque on the Town Hall


I knew the Geoff Lofthouse, who's mentioned in this 'Yorkshire Post' obituary;
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/new...-from-mining-community-to-westminster-1787000

In later years, he became Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Lofthouse
Circa 2009 - 2010, he was our Non-Executive Chairman, & an utterly splendid chap to talk to, get him talking about industrial heritage (for example) & you had a friend!! (not even Consultants/Board Directors wanted to interrupt him!!)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 17th

2.

Church Of All-Saints
High Street
Normanton
Wakefield

Penbank Lock & keepers house
The lock was superceded/fell into dereliction, when that section of the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal opened in the late 1830s
The m/way shown on the OS map, is the M62, between jcts 30 (north-west) & 31(south-east)
The later 'cut' can be seen passing east-west
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6481904
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6481896


Foxholes Tavern, named after the Lock opposite, that connected the River Calder to the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal
Foxholes Lock; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6717586


There isn't a photograph of the Tavern on Geograph, but it stood opposite the lock; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1941714
The buildings shown aren't part of the tavern, but.... when our daughter was at junior school (they called it a 'prep school' in all literature/circulars) the 2 daughters of the family that owned that house was in the same form
Not seen them for a long time, but I sometimes see the mum driving, if I ride down to/back from the Canal

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 17th
3.

Wakefield Road/A636
Denby Dale

The Pie Hall, & more appropriately the 'Pie Dish' is a landmark in the village

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9jq779kq7o


https://traditionalcustomsandceremonies.wordpress.com/2016/09/30/customs-occasional-denby-dale-pies/
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/980210
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2845422