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[ianrauk]

Star Hill climb Knockholt, Kent.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Hanson House
A recently restored/modernised mid-1500s 'farmhouse', not too far from me (400yards in a straight line)



https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101253748-hanson-house-farm-normanton#.WfYpObp2vIU

I had the pleasure of looking around this, when it was still semi-derelict, and simply used as storage for the builders merchants that was on the same site (who, if memory serves owned it at the time)

This is how it looked 12-13 years ago

View: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3950348009413&set=a.3298627196800.2142501.1601508436&type=3&theater

 

[biggs682]

My car earlier today

 

[rualexander]

Nice day out in Perthshire.

 

[Dark46]

 

[uphillstruggler]

It's going to be a lovely day

 

[Thorn Sherpa]

Just got back from work, definitely a fresh one on the way back looking like a clear day ahead

Back from work

• Thorn Sherpa
• 30 Oct 2017

 

[Salty seadog]

Conducting running repairs on a friends snapped chain. I hope thats padded shorts I've got on under the strides or I need a nappy change.....

 

[briantrumpet]

The River Taw at Eggesford...

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Two contributions
First...............

Whilst driving to a few places with wife & daughter
I only realised where we were, when I saw the Clubhouse
I did know what it was, & the story...................


Huddersfield Sailing Club
Boshaw Whams Reservoir (south-west of Holmfirth)


What might look like just an elevated Control Tower, is (possibly uniquely?) a section of the Emley Moor TV mast that collapsed in 1969!!

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/huddersfield-sailing-club-race-control-tower


http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/emley-moor-mast-fell-46-8874429


Inside the present Mast; https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/emley-moor-tower.t19393#post-305867

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Two contributions

Secondly................

Wife & daughter, should have been in Barcelona this week (College half-term)
But, due to a family medical crisis, they cancelled it

So, whilst out, for a drive about, to take their minds off constant Hospital visiting, it was declared that a trip out was in order

The first thought, was a visit to the café/garden centre, up at Royds Moor - near the Wind-Farm north-west of Penistone
I knew of it, but had never been, this was turned down
So it was a circuitous route to the Oil Can Café, at Hepworth, via Carlecoates & Hade Edge, passing the Sailing Club, in the picture above

Digressing!!
I found a mega climb, just out of Hade Edge, rather twisty/steep, with a line of cobble too!! (around Washpit)
Green Lane, to Lamma Well Road
See here; http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4303350

Sadly, upon arrival, the 'OCC' was closed on Mondays

Joanne me about one that she, & her business partner had visited, near the Emley Moor mast, so we went there instead
https://www.thorncliffefarmshop.co.uk/

I did notice these interesting flavours in the shop section
(there was also a Jaffa Cake...)



Afterwards, it was decided to head over to Batley, a reasonable trek over) to visit the Foxes Biscuits factory shop
So, after a few cut-throughs (Emley, Midgely, Netherton, Horbury Bridge)
We were held up on Hostingley Lane, whilst a large herd of dairy cows were walked across the road


Then on arrival in Batley, the damned shop was also closed on Mondays...................

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Possibly, a trip to Halifax tomorrow dinner-time/afternoon

Thus, maybe pictures of the refurbished Piece Hall?
Plus, if we're there, I'll want a visit to Trooper Lane, Beacon Hill, & the wonderfully evocative Magna Via (aka Dark Lane)

 

[biggs682]

Wheel stripping last night

 

[briantrumpet]

Not a scene today, but a new addition to the collection. I've wanted an older Falcon for a while (my first 'grown-up' bike was a Black Diamond in the 1970s), and this one popped up locally on Gumtree. Turned out it was a parent of one of our Exeter Wheelers Academy riders, so no worries about its provenance...

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Possibly, a trip to Halifax tomorrow dinner-time/afternoon

Thus, maybe pictures of the refurbished Piece Hall?
Plus, if we're there, I'll want a visit to Trooper Lane, Beacon Hill, & the wonderfully evocative Magna Via (aka Dark Lane)

Got there

Had a wander around it, it seems so.......... sterile, compared to how it was even 10 years ago
My old 110 'Heritage' Station Wagon is there somewhere
(Sunday 7th October 2007


Granted, the stone looks better for the sand-blasting




(the infamous) Trooper Lane can be seen staggering up the hillside, in the distance, above the gate
I drove up it afterwards, still can't believe I managed to run well over half-way up it - to the first corner after the cobbles start