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

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 21st
1.

‘Summer House’
NewLands Estate
Altofts

Walking from our house, over to my parents

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2091017

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 21st
2.

’Trash Screen Bridge’
Aire & Calder Navigation Canal (where it crosses the River Calder, on 2 Aquaducts)
‘Stanley Ferry’
Stanley
Wakefield

Whilst walking from our house to my parents
Doris wasn’t that keen on the ‘meshing’, till she realised that the wheel tracks (RSJ) was walkable

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7419074
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6918432
15 foot or so, above normal (Calder) levels; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4740035
The Grade 1 listed Aquaduct; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2327530

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 21st
3.
‘Victoria Colliery’
Ferry Lane
Stanley
Wakefield

The last remnants of the ‘slag heaps’/spoil heaps

Alongside these fields, previously also a reservoir was there (before my time’)
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7755878

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.8&lat=53.70299&lon=-1.47005&layers=168&b=1&o=100

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 23rd

Goosehill Pond
Goosehill
Normanton

Whilst walking Doris

It use to be one of my short (20 minute) loops when l was running, but very overgrown since those days

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6093239

 

[biggs682]

New to me Benchmark just before Jubilee terrace, Caister

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 25th

“Dragon!!”

NewLands Lane
Normanton

Spotted whilst walking Doris the dog

It’s about halfway along here, on the left
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3516721[/I]

 

[biggs682]

Forgot to post this old mile post yesterday

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 27th
1.

From memory, I think it was actually a barbers?
High Street
KIppax
(east of Leeds)

More or less, by the Post Office; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/740936

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 27th
2.

High Street
KIppax
(east of Leeds)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 27th
3.

High Street
KIppax
(east of Leeds)

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101237465-33-37-high-street-ls25-kippax
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6836297

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 27th
4.

Barclays Bank
High Street
KIppax
(east of Leeds)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/740934

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 27th
5.

The White Swan
Junction of Leeds Road/High Street/Butt Hill
Kippax
(east of Leeds)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4448116

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 27th
6.

Grooming in an Italian style?
High Street (in a yard, off it)
KIppax
(east of Leeds)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 27th
7.

Kippax boundary stone (with the spelling as used in The Domesday Book)
Berry Lane
Great Preston

Near the site of Kippax Railway Station; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7435876

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 3rd
1.

(ex) Methodist Chapel
Hillside
Barnsley Road
Ackworth*

No benchmark photograph, as I didn't know there was one, until I got home & typed this (& found the links)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/339272
https://www.jcpowerco.co.uk/


*possibly most famous for;
The 'Quaker School' (my daughter went there)
The 'plague stone'
The quarries that abounded in the area
John Gully; bare knuckle boxer & MP lived there, a John Prescott of the early 1800s?
(my daughter went to school with the daughter of one of the families living there, house is split into 3 nowadays)
Luke Howard (he was the person who named all the clouds) lived there, & his daughter endowed a local School (still open)
'Fowlers House'