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

[PeteXXX]

Just one find this morning as I wasn't really on a Trig Hunt..
A Harrold BM, on the corner of the High Street and Dove Lane, on today's ride.

 

[biggs682]

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Just one find this morning as I wasn't really on a Trig Hunt..
A Harrold BM, on the corner of the High Street and Dove Lane, on today's ride.

There's another one just as you enter the village from Olney way

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Whilst driving to Birmingham, on Saturday, to take daughter to new house (ready for Uni), I passed a couple of 'traditional' Fire Stations

You know the type, stone façade, big red (wooden) doors
Like they're in 'Trumpton'!!

Sorry, no photographs, as I was in a LWB Mercedes Sprinter van, & parking would have been awkward, even if I'd seen them in time
Both were on/alongside the A38 (as I presume it still is, in the city centre)

Went down again, Sunday tea-time. but in my Octavia this time
I parked very briefly, on the entrance to the yard, not in front of the doors

There's a far more ornate (former) station. near Snow Hill Station (if I have my bearings correct, but that would take planning to photograph)
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1894131

 

[PeteXXX]

I cleared a few leaves & cobwebs off this iron utility plaque on a florists business on Harborough Road yesterday.

 

[Gravity Aided]

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I cleared a few leaves & cobwebs off this iron utility plaque on a florists business on Harborough Road yesterday.

Maybe when the tuck-pointers come in, they can hit that plaque with a brass wire wheel, as well.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Northfield Railway Station
Birmingham

'Bank Holiday Monday' (26th August)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Kings Road Lock 'Occupation Bridge'
Foxholes Lane
Altofts
The River Calder provides the parish boundary, with Stanley, over the far side (100 yards to the north, or the left, in 2nd picture)

Circa 12:45, today
Aire & Calder Navigation Canal

I'd looked for this one before, but not seen it, as I thought it was on the other side of the Canal
I only saw it, on Sunday, as SWMBO & I had a short pootle along the towpath, & approached the bridge, from the opposite direction to my ride today (ie; we came from the M62 viaduct)

Occupation Bridge, with identical stonework to 'Birkwood Bridge' (also occupation bridge)
The large rectangular blue object in the distance, is a truck on the M62 viaduct, that crosses the Canal, between jcts 30 & 21

The benchmark is 'hidden' by the wooden pole, as I look at it

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5701994


'Foxholes' Lock'
Stopped & filled in
I'm not sure when it happened, but it's still shown as in use, on a 1960; 1/25,000
There's probably a 15 foot difference in water levels, when the Calder is at normal water
The Calder is only 30 foot, or so away, just beyond the trees

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1941711
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3278080
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1941716

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wakefield Corporation Water Works
Station Road
Altofts

At the junction with Greenfield Road, & the bridleway to Alftofts Hall Road

Very definitely pre-1974 boundary changes, & I'd guess at 1920's - 1930's??

There are three side by side, all with the 'WCWW' on them

They're approximately, where the opposing vehicle is; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2762288

 

[classic33]

Wakefield Corporation Water Works
Station Road
Altofts

At the junction with Greenfield Road, & the bridleway to Alftofts Hall Road

Very definitely pre-1974 boundary changes, & I'd guess at 1920's - 1930's??

There are three side by side, all with the 'WCWW' on them

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They're approximately, where the opposing vehicle is; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2762288

Wakefield Council Water Works(WCWW)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wakefield Council Water Works(WCWW)

When I was a kid (7, 8, 9?), my grandfather was a dustman, & always referred to it as the 'Corporation', hence I always think of that era, with that name
(he worked for the Wakefield services)

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Took a run out to Linlithgow along the Union Canal, intended to find and follow the John Muir Route then join NCN 76 back to Falkirk.
Couldn't resist a trip up to Linlithgow Palace,
the birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots
With her head in place

Linlithgow Palace

What a f'in stupid place to have a car park (imho)
the mark (not on OS D/base, but shows on 1st edition 1843-1882 map)

Adjacent is St Michael's Church with its aluminium crown spire

and its bolt

Finally, a mark seen on the Main St

 

[PeteXXX]

I took a stroll around High Wycombe this evening. Poor pickin's.. Maybe because it was dusk, and not so easy to spot stuff.

Easy to spot were the mile markers on this building..

Not so easy was a scrubby looking BM (must have been the last chiselling job on a Friday afternoon!) on the corner of a building on the High Street.
Still, it was a couple of miles exercise instead of sitting in the cab..

 

[Gravity Aided]

I took a stroll around High Wycombe this evening. Poor pickin's.. Maybe because it was dusk, and not so easy to spot stuff.

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Easy to spot were the mile markers on this building..

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Not so easy was a scrubby looking BM (must have been the last chiselling job on a Friday afternoon!) on the corner of a building on the High Street.
Still, it was a couple of miles exercise instead of sitting in the cab..

Inn, where the stage coaches stopped?

 

[PeteXXX]

Inn, where the stage coaches stopped?

Quite probably. It's an old town, on the London to Oxford route.

 

[biggs682]

A new to me benchmark as you come in to Gayton after the two bridges .

@PeteXXX have you done this one ?