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

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 30th
8.

Churchside
Howden
East Riding of Yorkshire

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101083192-2-churchside-howden#.Y16oxxbP3IU
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1265456

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 30th
9.

Vicar Lane (from both ends)
Howden
East Riding of Yorkshire

It's quite narrow!!

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4506249
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7105938

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 5th
1.

John Fowlers Works
Now the site of Costco

Hunslet Road/A61
‘Pottery Fields’
Leeds

The plaques are on the left-end of the wall; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/986077

There was one, at the Hunslet Road side of the grounds, this might be it, just relocated?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fowler_&_Co.

http://www.leedsengine.info/leeds/ildtec.asp
Someone's got the 'trading name'; http://www.jfowler.co.uk/

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 5th
2.

(ex) Midland Bank
junction of Stafford Street & Hunslet Low Road (A61)
Leeds

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5505800
October 1930; https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/67463

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 5th
3. On the corner, opposite image 2

Stephensons (they've occupied it since new*)
junction of Stafford Street & Hunslet Low Road (A61)
Leeds

Note one of the staff, in the window

Partially hidden light-switches!

They let us take several samples away, to hang in the wall, to see what we think over the next couple of weeks

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5505805
* since 1930 (built for them, presumably) according to the 'our history' page; https://www.stephensonwallpapers.co.uk/our-history

 

[Badger_Boom]

Saturday 5th
1.

John Fowlers Works
Now the site of Costco

Hunslet Road/A61
‘Pottery Fields’
Leeds

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The plaques are on the left-end of the wall; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/986077

There was one, at the Hunslet Road side of the grounds, this might be it, just relocated?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fowler_&_Co.

http://www.leedsengine.info/leeds/ildtec.asp
Someone's got the 'trading name'; http://www.jfowler.co.uk/

Wow! On 28 August 1979 I was there with my dad and younger brother to see the unveiling of the Fowler Works plaque. If memory serves me correctly (and it might not after all these years) it was originally somewhere else on the site and was moved when Costco took over years later.

 

[Badger_Boom]

Saturday 5th
3.

Stephensons (they've occupied it since new*)
junction of Stafford Street & Hunslet Low Road (A61)
Leeds

Note one of the staff, in the window
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Partially hidden light-switches!

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They let us take several samples away, to hang in the wall, to see what we think over the next couple of weeks

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5505805
* since 1930 (built for them, presumably) according to the 'our history' page; https://www.stephensonwallpapers.co.uk/our-history

There are some fabulous buildings in that area of Leeds, many of which seem to have been left behind during the 60s and 70s industrialisation and slum [sic] clearance. The wonderful and Grade II Listed Braime Engineering works opposite Costco is probably one of the best with its fantastic almost Art Nouveau exterior.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

There are some fabulous buildings in that area of Leeds, many of which seem to have been left behind during the 60s and 70s industrialisation and slum [sic] clearance. The wonderful and Grade II Listed Braime Engineering works opposite Costco is probably one of the best with its fantastic almost Art Nouveau exterior.

I’ve never been in, but have seen many photographs of the interior
It is utterly splendid

(as is ’The Garden Gate’ further along Hunslet Road

 

[PeteXXX]

Possibly one of the only Trig Points around that I can park a 44 tonne artic next to and photograph though the passenger window as the rain was lashing parallel to the ground! 😂

It's on the A1122 between Downham Market & Wisbech.

 

[biggs682]

3 new to me benchmarks this morning

First one on All Saints Church in Kempston Church End.

Second one on a barn just before Box end park heading towards Bromham

Final one on house right on the corner of Bridge end and Box end Road in Bromham

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 17th


’The Garden Gate’
Whitfield Way
Hunslet
Leeds

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...blic-house-city-and-hunslet-ward#.Y3ZLWSWnyEc

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3397029
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7140502

https://pubheritage.camra.org.uk/pubs/220

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 18th
1.

Cremation Ashes Area
Pontefract Park

The open area, is to the 'bottom end' of the trees, on the left of the photograph; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/250564

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 18th
2,
Pontefract Park
Just to the south of the grandstand, for the racecourse

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/258524

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 18th
3.


Pontefract RaceCourse
adjacent to jct 32/M62

The grass is recovering remarkably well, after the Yorkshire Cyclo-Cross Association event here a fortnight ago
(Sunday 6th November)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2465705

I hope anyone interested can see this?;

View: https://www.facebook.com/yorkshirecyclocross/videos/788342355798849

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wow! On 28 August 1979 I was there with my dad and younger brother to see the unveiling of the Fowler Works plaque. If memory serves me correctly (and it might not after all these years) it was originally somewhere else on the site and was moved when Costco took over years later.

There’s a house in Ackworth (between Pontefract & Barnsley, & also on the Wakefield- Doncaster Road) that is definitely a part of the Fowler story, & has a blue plaque

I’ve got a photograph somewhere, but here’s a link
https://steamploughclub.org.uk/commemorative-blue-plaque-to-john-fowler/