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

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 29th
2.

Church Of All-Saints
High Street
Normanton
Wakefield

Cherry Blossom
It’s the only tree in the churchyard that’s blooming on the trunk
That was the ‘Keepers’ house behind

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101253747-church-of-all-saints-normanton-and-altofts

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7173082

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 6th

The Robin Hood
'Ship Corner' (after another pub that stood nearby, the building is now a private house)
Birkwood Road
Altofts
Wakefield

Note, that the Robin, as well as wearing a quiver of arrows, is standing on a Bow

Seen here, with a more traditional sign, with him in the usual 'Lincoln Green'; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1405439

The stone house on the right was The Ship; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1405432

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 13th

The Old Toll House*
Town Street
Carlton
Rothwell
(south-east of Leeds)

I can remember there being an old stables at the side of this
Old maps on the 'NLS' site show a 'Ropewalk' behind it
(probably where 'Greenfield Produce' is now, along Cemetary Road?)

*I can't find it marked as such, on the maps of the 'NLS' site

It’s almost opposite Pit Field Road; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1561385

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 21st

Assembly Street
(as seen from Queen Street car-park)
Normanton
Wakefield

Even though I've walked over there untold times, I'd never noticed the roofline of the building to the right, before today

Ie; 3 stories at the rear, 2 at the street-side

Assembly Street, from the north-eastern end; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1415238
Named for the 'Assembly Rooms' in the High Street; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/363107

 

[PeteXXX]

Just seen this on the Ordnance Survey site.. 👍

 

[biggs682]

Two from my morning stroll around Millbrook first one on the wall outside the old school and the other on the church

Both found using the interactive OS page

 

[PeteXXX]

A couple from yesterday..

A worn BM on a gatepost to Stand Wood on the Chatsworth Estate during the morning hike.

Carved into a wall in Rowsley.. 10 feet from what I know not! 🤷‍♂️

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 27th

Hatfeild Hall (correct spelling)
Stanley
Wakefield

Now the grounds are owned/used by Normanton Golf Club (who sold their own venue for housing about 30-35 years ago)

It has been an asylum (an ‘annex’ to Stanley Royd) & in the 70s, the HQ of Wakefield Health Authority)

I can remember it being derelict twice, after fires

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101313261-hatfeild-hall-stanley-and-outwood-east-ward
https://hatfeildhall.co.uk/
See the last paragraph of 'Sports'*, for the 'Mulberry Bush'; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley,_West_Yorkshire
(Stanley Royd also lays claim)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1052687

OS 25"; https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18.0&lat=53.70667&lon=-1.48535&layers=168&b=ESRIWorld&o=100


The 'Folly' can't be reached now, but I've seen it described as a chapel, a coach-house, a stables; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3231359


* quite surprisingly, Barry Hoban isn't mentioned, as he grew in the village

 

[PeteXXX]

Lutterworth town centre, on a quick walk while I was at work.
One other, nearby, wasn't found.. Possibly rendered over ☹️

 

[biggs682]

Two new to me benchmarks from this morning's ride

In Glapthorn and Woodnewton

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 8th
1.

One of the remnants of the Midland Railway branch to the Dom Pedro Colliery (which stood, approximately, where Normanton Industrial Estate is, by jct31/M62)
It's adjacent to the Normanton Bypass/A655, close to Havertop (the main Wakefield Police Station
I pass under it sometimes, whilst dog walking, but it's generally in late spring/summer, as it can be a nuddy mess

Looking towards the bypass
(the corresponding embankments still exist, barring the removed section for the bypass)

OS 25"https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.1&lat=53.69591&lon=-1.39647&layers=168&b=ESRIWorld&o=62

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/368530
As seen from the bypass (the 'Deep Water' sign is for an adjacent ditch/sunken field) https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2578794

See last paragraph of 'Growth'; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normanton,_West_Yorkshire

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 8th
2.
Woodhouse Junior School (as was)
Wakefield Road
Normanton
Wakefield
I've featured this old school before, so won't go over it again
Due to a lack of foliage, I spotted fhe benchmark

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

We're heading over to Whitby tomorrow
I think, daughter & her chap are driving though, so sadly that'll cut down greatly on what I photograph en-route (I'll try though)
(to my mind, they expected me to drive & also pay for dinner!!)

We're off to look at the venue they've booked for their wedding next year
I'm not sure why we have to look, if they like that's good enough for 'management' & myself

In a way, we're not too happy, be that far away, as her grandparents (my parents, in-laws have both passed) certainly can't travel that far, so will miss it

 

[biggs682]

A new to me benchmark on the Fox and Hounds In Clapham

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

We're heading over to Whitby tomorrow
I think, daughter & her chap are driving though, so sadly that'll cut down greatly on what I photograph en-route (I'll try though)
(to my mind, they expected me to drive & also pay for dinner!!)

We're off to look at the venue they've booked for their wedding next year
I'm not sure why we have to look, if they like that's good enough for 'management' & myself

Well, they actually drove!

From near the top of ;Blue Bank'/A169

Sneaton Castle
(west side of, but still '10 minutes walk' from town centre)
Whitby
An 'ex Country Gentlemans residence', then a Nunnery

Links below photos

The Nuns Chapel

One of the reception areas

https://sneatoncastle.co.uk/
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101148250-sneaton-castle-st-hildas-priory-whitby

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3408431
The Chapel, in 'the Nuns day'; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/914047

How it all started; https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/cou...ack-with-a-glamping-site-and-a-castle-3092553