classic33
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Walking on water shouldn't count!
Hope you were at least wearing trunks when that picture was taken.
Walking on water shouldn't count!
Nothing from the Silver Jubilee?
Neither yourself nor @Mo1959 have anything from the Golden or Diamond Jubilee?
Bar a tin of Quality Street, unopened, produced for the Golden Jubilee, I've nowt either.
Bar a tin of Quality Street, unopened, produced for the Golden Jubilee, I've nowt either.
Local beacon, on Beacon Hill, was due for lighting at 9:45 tonight, and I couldn't be bothered going onto the road to see it.jIn 1977 I was even less interested than I am now.
Local beacon, on Beacon Hill, was due for lighting at 9:45 tonight, and I couldn't be bothered going onto the road to see it.
Its a 15 minute run up and back down from the Piece Hall.I could only just about be bothered to look up where Beacon Hill is in Halifax!
(From the railway station, look up over the top of the Nestlé factory opposite. It is above Trooper Lane, an extremely challenging climb which I had always intended to cycle to Halifax to tackle, but never got round to. I probably never will now because my heart doesn't like very tough climbs as much as it used to!)
Its a 15 minute run up and back down from the Piece Hall.
There's a road* that goes up, from Berry Lane, at the opposite end of the Nestle site from Trooper Lane.Not the way that I 'run'... Or ride!![]()
There's a road* that goes up, from Berry Lane, at the opposite end of the Nestle site from Trooper Lane.
*Trooper Lane isn't steep compared to it.
Nearly, you've got the start point.If you mean Southowram Bank... Yes, that looks tough, but I have just checked the data and Trooper Ln has it! SB is 932 metres at 13.6%; TL is 723 metres at 17.8%.
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To make it more obvious I have overlaid the profiles...
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Also... TL has a sting in the tail - COBBLES! SB also has a reminder of old Halifax...
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... but there is a handy tarmac strip to cycle up in the middle of the road.
Trooper Ln though...
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AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps we should challenge @PaulSB to go over and attack some of the tougher Calderdale climbs!![]()
Nearly, you've got the start point.
On the map, the grey road off Berry Lane/Bailey Hall Road. Goes straight up to Southowram Bank, you cross it and continue up to Beacon Hill Road. Then, from there, it's a dirt track to the top.