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

[Richard A Thackeray]

Today
#1

Dame Bolles Water Tower
Heath

A privately funded/built water-tower, taking advantage of a natural spring
Water was piped from here to the (demolished) Heath Old Hall

Reached, via a section of path via the site of the (demolished) Wakefield Power Station & around the headland of a ploughed field

It has a BM, but there's so much undergrowth around it, that it'd be too awkward to get to

This 'cellar' contains the remains of a water-wheel
I didn't fancy trying to get down the moss-covered stone steps in my Sidi CX shoes
Plus the leaf-covered area was quite soft & boggy

The remnants of the machinery within

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...flow-channel-warmfield-cum-heath#.XgoLtHd2vIU

http://www.heathresidentsassociation.co.uk/history/lady-bolles-water-tower

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5832517
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/356322

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Today
#2

Masonic Lodge
Zetland Street
Wakefield (city centre)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/654385

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Today
#3

Old Grammar School
(aka Elizabethan Gallery)
Brook Street
Wakefield (city centre, near Bus Station)

Built 1598

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1095544

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...mmar-school-wakefield-north-ward#.XgoPcHd2vIU

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Today
#4

Egremont House (known to us all as 'The Registry Office)
NorthGate
Wakefield (city centre)

BM is on the curved section at the left end of the wall

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101273417-71-northgate-wakefield-north-ward#.XgoQMXd2vIU
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1111158

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Today
#5

Portobello Road
(off Barnsley Road/A61)

It's on the other side, at the left, looking at it below

The bridge carries the Leeds - Doncaster - Kings Cross line

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4271893

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Today
#6

Off Portobello Road

Absolutely no sign of giant hammers, boxes of dynamite, or any other Weapons Of Cartoon Destruction

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4271879

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Today
#7

The former 'Shakespeare'
Teall Street - now, 'Tealle Way'
Wakefield (city centre)

Seen here, to the right; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5825763

There is a FB page, & a book '100 Closed Pubs Of Wakefield'
It's got a lot of the old 'ale-houses' that were in the old Yards
https://www.facebook.com/100-Closed-Pubs-of-Wakefield-185175128250641/

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/yorkshire/wakefield.html


As I remember it (not my photo)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Leaving work, at 14:00 today, I cut through the grounds to see a friend in another building
Having spoken with her, I left via a different route to normal (it was our North Entrance, pre PFI build)
Passing the Diabetes Centre, I saw this plaque

It was only put up last year
I'd have seen it, if I'd run at all, but with no 'footwork'...….

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Today
A ride around/through; Aberford, 'Bramham Cross-Roads', Barwick-in-Elmet


#1
'Mary Pannall' hill
A656; Castleford - HookMoor/Aberford road
Just to the north side of the cross-roads with Longdike Lane & Back Newton Lane


The 'HookMoor Branch' refers it it being (essentially) a Great North Road offshoot
It's (to all intents & purposes) the same road that leaves the GNR, at Barnsdale Bar, but is not side-streeted/built-on/realigned in Pontefract & Castleford)

Looking back towards Castleford & the cross-roads
B N L to the left (towards Ledsham & Fairburn)
LD L on right (to Kippax)

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101264130-milepost-at-se-428-299-kippax#.XhIRXnd2vIU

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6072361

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Today
A ride around/through; Aberford, 'Bramham Cross-Roads', Barwick-in-Elmet

#2

Aberford, to the north of HookMoor, & the route of the Great North Road, until the village was bypassed in 1963

A nice wide open 'boulevard' of a road
Now, anyway

Back-tracking slightly, as I passed this before the village sign above
The 'Gascoigne Almshouses'
Always good for a photograph

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/37610
http://www.parlington.co.uk/structures.lasso?process=3&subProcess=struct13

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...ached-wardens-cottage-parlington#.XhIT7Xd2vIU

GNR destinations/'Coaching Inns' marked

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6099145

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Today
A ride around/through; Aberford, 'Bramham Cross-Roads', Barwick-in-Elmet

#3

Aberford, to the north of HookMoor, & the route of the Great North Road, until 1963
A diversion, off, to the north of the village
An 'underpass' beneath the present A1. brings you onto this stretch

The underpass, is in the dip

This road was the GNR, pre-bypass, with Black Horse Farm to the south (behind me)

And........ by the entrance to Black Horse Farm
I'm not sure though, if it's for traffic to the farm, or a survivor (due to very little vehicular use?) from the old road. warning of the crest??

if you look at the OS map below the image, you'll see a small white road, leaving the yellow one (old GNR), disappearing under the (blue) A1, then reappearing to the east of it.....
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/89523


THIS is the 'small white road' to the south-west of the A1;

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Today
A ride around/through; Aberford, 'Bramham Cross-Roads', Barwick-in-Elmet

#4

A64 'Bramham CrossRoads'
After leaving Aberford, via Main Street, I got up to the roundabout that now takes the 'cross-roads' title
A surprisingly traffic-free negation, took me to alongside Cross-Keys Farm, on the start of the dual-carriageway to York

I've known of this for a long time, & ride up here every so often
BUT.... I'll have a guess, that if I mentioned to anyone (or wrote it here) that the original (well...…. 1900 - pre WW1??) cross-roads still partially existed, they'd possibly not believe me

This is the section off Paradise Lane (road from the r/bout to Bramham, which was the 'GNR')
Note the kerbstones in front of the bow-windowed cottage (1)

White Hart Inn, which became 'Cross-Roads Farm'

The roof is really suffering now

It's owned by Leeds University

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5296229


1. A circa 1910 image
Note the cottages & kerbs

2. 1950s?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Today
A ride around/through; Aberford, 'Bramham Cross-Roads', Barwick-in-Elmet

#5

Red Bus Cafe

A brief ride west, along the A64, from Bramham Cross-Roads (with some awful surfaces at points!!)
Traffic wasn't too bad, but it's years since I've even been along this stretch in the car, or on the bike

Looking east....
Leeds Country Way (bridleway...... too soggy to investigate) enters/leaves Saw Wood, just in front of the people-carrier

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/leeds-famous-red-bus-cafe-a64-close-248417

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/140442

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Today
A ride around/through; Aberford, 'Bramham Cross-Roads', Barwick-in-Elmet

#6
Kiddal Lane End/A64 Leeds-York Road

It's gratifying to see it referred to as a TurnPike
(as are the posts in Tadcaster)

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...ane-barwick-in-elmet-and-scholes#.XhIdFnd2vIU

Slightly scruffier; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3291915

 

[Mr Celine]

The largest collection of service box markers I've seen in one place.

The wall was built as part of the Selkirk flood prevention scheme in 2015, the footbridge which can be seen above replacing the original lower level one. The streetview image from the same location dates from 2011 but there are only two service boxes and no markers!