The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

Shade Chapel is being knocked this weekend by the way. Road closures will be in place Friday to Monday. Council have given the dates as the 26th to the 30th of this month.

Funny - I had never noticed the chapel and now it is going to go. It's a pity, but looking at the photos online, it really has to!

 

[classic33]

Funny - I had never noticed the chapel and now it is going to go. It's a pity, but looking at the photos online, it really has to!

Looking at the pictures, I'd agree. Question is why didn't the council do something to protect it.
They had their chance when it came to the flood defences over the years.

Diversionary route was Littleborough, the A58 and down/up Cragg Vale, and the reverse.

 

[screenman]

Watched a full earlier called The Wrong Missey, could have been the couple of large G&Ts but it is a long time since I fell off of the sofa laughing so much.

 

[classic33]

Watched a full earlier called The Wrong Missey, could have been the couple of large G&Ts but it is a long time since I fell off of the sofa laughing so much.

Just the once?
Any more and I'd blame the drink.

 

[screenman]

Just the once?
Any more and I'd blame the drink.

Once I fell onto the floor I thought it safer to stay there until the film finished.

 

[classic33]

Once I fell onto the floor I thought it safer to stay there until the film finished.

So long as you can avoid falling off the floor, it can't be the drink.

 

[ColinJ]

Looking at the pictures, I'd agree. Question is why didn't the council do something to protect it.
They had their chance when it came to the flood defences over the years.

Diversionary route was Littleborough, the A58 and down/up Cragg Vale, and the reverse.

Even more dramatic pictures HERE. They did enough to get a good look at the chapel, but obviously what they found was too far gone.

I just looked up the chapel on Streetview. I must have cycled past it hundreds of times but have no recollection of ever seeing it! I am usually concentrating on the traffic there, but it is still a bit shocking...

I have just realised that the roadworks by the end of Bacup Rd in the summer must have been for the culvert to be diverted. There was a huge temporary water main installed along the road from between the red and green signs to beyond the chapel behind where the Streetview car was.

 

[classic33]

Even more dramatic pictures HERE. They did enough to get a good look at the chapel, but obviously what they found was too far gone.

I just looked up the chapel on Streetview. I must have cycled past it hundreds of times but have no recollection of ever seeing it! I am usually concentrating on the traffic there, but it is still a bit shocking...

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I have just realised that the roadworks by the end of Bacup Rd in the summer must have been for the culvert to be diverted. There was a huge temporary water main installed along the road from between the red and green signs to beyond the chapel behind where the Streetview car was.

Split into apartments, whose owners won't have got the six figure sums they paid for them.

Viaduct, still being considered as a cycle route(Funding gained) is to go as well.

 

[ColinJ]

Viaduct, still being considered as a cycle route(Funding gained) is to go as well.

Just send the lazy cyclists up Knowlwood Rd?

When the roadworks were in place for the diverted culvert, I started going that way instead. I got up it ok on singlespeed so anybody with gears should be fine.

 

[classic33]

Just send the lazy cyclists up Knowlwood Rd?

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When the roadworks were in place for the diverted culvert, I started going that way instead. I got up it ok on singlespeed so anybody with gears should be fine.

And do what with the money they got to open it as a "greenway" cycle route.

 

[ColinJ]

And do what with the money they got to open it as a "greenway" cycle route.

You've got me going back to the satellite pictures now to see how far that greenway could go...

 

[ColinJ]

Not clear from the satellite pics... My suggestion for unspent cash would be to sort out the canal towpath between Todmorden and Littleborough!

 

[classic33]

You've got me going back to the satellite pictures now to see how far that greenway could go...

Not that far with the viaduct gone!

 

[Drago]

I have risen!

 

[screenman]

I have my head off the pillow, only by a couple of inches though.