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

[Bobby Mhor]

Blimey, About 2 miles ENE of me. I never knew that was there!

Just check HERE
(dunno if you were 'gone' when this appeared, excuse if known)

One find yesterday, high above Bonnybridge/Falkirk
Lochgreen Farm

Edited to add..
Bearsden (posh Glesca)
sitting in traffic and spotted this...
phone camera zoom

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

Holy Trinity Church, on Boar Lane, Leeds.

 

[biggs682]

Some new to me benchmarks from this morning's ride

First one on the road towards Milton Keynes coming out of Hanslope

Second one was on the bridge as you enter Newport Pagnell from Stoke Goldington.

 

[Drago]

@biggs682 Martin, the one in Hanslope is that on the final row of cottages on the right as you leave the village towards MK?

 

[biggs682]

@biggs682 Martin, the one in Hanslope is that on the final row of cottages on the right as you leave the village towards MK?

It is @Drago

 

[Drago]

Thanks buddy. That one isn't on the benchmark website, so I'll seek it out myself.

 

[biggs682]

Thanks buddy. That one isn't on the benchmark website, so I'll seek it out myself.

It's very strange because it's only the second time i have gone that way and it just jumped out in front of me as i cycled past this morning just after 6 am

 

[Drago]

Let me know in advance next time you're up my end and I'll get the kettle on.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Senior Management & myself took my parents down, to see our daughter, in her Uni flat today
As part of the day, we ended up heading over through Moseley, towards Sarehole

With it approaching dinner-time (circa 12:30) we parked up in Moseley, free as well, with pops 'blue badge', so he didn't have far to walk
At random, we went into the 'Elizabeth of York' pub


And, as I looked up (photo taken from upstairs)

Smaug
As Tolkien lived in the area





Some more pictures here;
https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pub-histories/england/west-midlands/the-elizabeth-of-york-moseley


Sadly, viewing Sarehole Mill is nigh on impossible, from the public road
It is the inspiration for the mill at Hobbiton, in The Lord Of The Rings

https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/sarehole/highlights/signposts-to-middle-earth

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3686443

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Senior Management & myself took my parents down, to see our daughter, in her Uni flat today
As part of the day, we ended up heading over through Moseley, towards Sarehole

Sadly, viewing Sarehole Mill is nigh on impossible, from the public road
It is the inspiration for the mill at Hobbiton, in The Lord Of The Rings

https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/sarehole/highlights/signposts-to-middle-earth

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3686443

There was, however, this 'Eye Of Sauron'. atttached to the fence, by the visitor centre

And Old Joe, the clock-tower at the University of Birmingham is purported to be the model for The Dark Tower (Saurons tower), & the illuminated clockfaces, as the Eye Of Sauron

There is also plaque, on the campus, for a Dr J Sampson Gamgee...... whose name Tolkien abbreviated & used
(I didn't see the Sam Gamgee plaque, as that was on the new Library building, Gamgee lived opposite a relative of Tolkien)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1279323/

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Hoping to have a few niceties next week, as Senior Mangement & myself are off up to Northumbria for a week

 

[winjim]

Me and him at Stanage Pole. Weather's closing in so I'd better get back to the car before he wakes up from his nap.

ETA: there is a baby under that flamingo blanket, I don't just walk around like that.

 

[PeteXXX]

A few from a stroll around Gorleston, while I was 'working' last night...

A compass, at the top of some steps, on the Coastal Walk.

A boundary board on the Three Tuns pub.

And a cast iron mile post, made at the Ipswich foundry, in 1818. You can just make out the makers details, but they are a bit obliterated by age.

😊

 

[PeteXXX]

Another day, another delivery to Gorleston. Weather.. Piddling down!
Still, I took a stroll in t'other direction from yesterday's finds, and came across this soggy bit of metal in The Albion pub.

😊

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This afternoon

Skinner Lane (1)
Pontefract

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/584050

1. A pointer to the industries of the area?
Although, there's no reference on the 1905 map, but the trade will be a lot older than that!!