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

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 30th
1.

I'd gone back to pick our daughter (& her b/f) up, who'd stayed overnight, at a wedding, at the 'Wentbridge House'

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Great North Road
Wentbridge

Now a house

It's around the corner, out of sight, looking southwards; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2642236

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 30th
2.

Benchmark (very eroded)
River Went bridge parapet
Wentbridge
I missed it yesterday



https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101135505-went-bridge-darrington

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2281029

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 24th
2.

Marsh Street
Rothwell
(south-east of Leeds, & until the 1600s, of far greater importance than Leeds)

Number 2
View attachment 731884

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101184702-2-marsh-street-rothwell-ward
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1294306

Monday 1st

I’d taken my mother shopping to the ALDI (the photograph was taken from their car-park),so just walked over the road to Library to return some books
As l got to the far side, l noticed this stone

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 2nd

The Mexborough (as was)
Church Street
Castleford

We were in there earlier this morning, as Doris (11 month old Border Terrier) was dropped off for speying

The other 2 buildings seen are both pubs
The white one is closed, last open as ’Lagentivm’ (the Roman name of what became Castleford), & prior to that the Horse & Jockey
The tiled building is ’The Junction’

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/372666

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/372664

EDIT @ 12:29

The fort site was excavated a fair few years ago by ‘Time Team’
It’s just to the north of the ‘Mex’, & is now reburied, for future generations
The Roman crossing point of the River Aire is nearby too, & commemorated by a tile frieze; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/393608

 

[Badger_Boom]

Tuesday 2nd

The Mexborough (as was)
Church Street
Castleford

We were in there earlier this morning, as Doris (11 month old Border Terrier) was dropped off for speying

View attachment 736150

The other 2 buildings seen are both pubs
The white one is closed, last open as ’Lagentivm’ (the Roman name of what became Castleford)
The tiled building is ’The Junction’
View attachment 736151

View attachment 736149

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/372666

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/372664

EDIT @ 12:29

The fort site was excavated a fair few years ago by ‘Time Team’
It’s just to the north of the ‘Mex’, & is now reburied, for future generations
The Roman crossing point of the River Aire is nearby too, & commemorated by a tile frieze; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/393608

Time Team spent a jolly weekend there, but under various permutations the local authority's archaeologists have been excavating parts of the fort since the 1970s.

 

[PeteXXX]

A bolt in the entrance to Highgate Cemetery on yesterday's visit..

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 5th
1.

’Ghost Sign’
Church Street
Castleford

Presently used as offices for a taxi company

It's the red brick building to the right of frame; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2018559

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 5th
2.

Church Institute (as far as I know, that's what it was built as?)
Church Street (entrance on Bradley Avenue?)
Castleford

As seen from outside Chantry Vets

Seen to the left; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/628208

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 9th
1.

Miners Welfare Hall
Main Street
Garforth
(east of Leeds)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2788467

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 9th
2.


Pontefract Castle

In the visitor centre/cafe

The visitor centre/cafe

Richard II was held here, till his death
Henry VIII's 5th wife, Catherine Howard, commited the adultery that led to her beheading here
Mary Queen of Scots, lodged here

https://www.wakefield.gov.uk/museums-and-castles/pontefract-castle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontefract_Castle

 

[Badger_Boom]

Good old Bloody Pomfret. We rented part of the house opposite for a while. It was relatively modern (19th century), but had a stone-built cellar that was originally part of one of the gate houses to the outer bailey.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 15th

North-Eastern Hotel
Station Road
Castleford

I’m sure l read somewhere that George Hudson (‘the Railway King’) had offices in this building before his fall from grace?
(or a previous building on this site?)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/372996

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 18th
1.

Adjacent to a local GP surgery, to drop off a prescription, before taking my parents to the supermarket earlier this morning

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 18th
2.
Butcher Lane (junction with Carlton Lane/Marsh Street)
Rothwell (south-east of Leeds)

This is over the photographers right shoulder; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1561882

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 20th

Maythorne Cross (replica)
Holmeside Gardens
(between A6024/Huddersfield Road & A635/Station Road)
Holmfirth

Behind me, the footbridge over the River Holme

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4795877
The original, I've ridden/driven past it quite a few times; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1515922