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

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 3rd
2.

Flower bed
Oak Avenue (off Lime Pit Lane)
Stanley
Wakefield

I'm old enough to remember when most of the (Council) estates had flower-beds in them. the public parks too
Even the roundabouts in the city centre, such as the Bull Ring had flower-beds too!

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4031114

EDIT @ 21:40

Early-mid 70's, looking at the vehicles
This is The Bull Ring looking towards MaryGate/Wood Street/WestGate

Looking in the same direction, but to the (above) photographers left; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1485773

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 10th
1.

Remnants of WW2 gun emplacements
Otley Old Road
East Carlton
Leeds

(just north of Yeadon Airport…. Leeds/Bradford as it was renamed)

AV Roe had an aircraft factory adjacent to the airfield, this was part of the defences

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1276078

https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/th...rcraft-battery-yorkshire-february-2019.36892/
https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/6364/Anti-aircraft-Battery-Carlton.htm

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 10th
2.

Old routes
Johnny Lane
(off Birdcage Walk)
Otley
Leeds

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 10th
3.

Archimedes Screw
Wharfe Meadows Park
Otley
Leeds

Teaching children some principles of physics, by putting a ball (or whatever in it)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 10th
4.

Lido (derelict/abandoned/filled in)
Alongside River Wharfe
Fearnley Lane
Otley
Leeds

Nothing much is happening
I cut round the side of the gate/fence in the photograph below, to have a look from this side

I’m pretty certain that this toilet block was the entrance (directly to changing rooms?), hence the large window to the left (payments?)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7372762

Go to ‘the derelict site’ section, for an aerial photo that seems to back my supposition up

https://www.otleylido.com/

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 10th
5.

Weir
River Wharfe
Otley
Leeds

I’ve seen the river totally hide the weir at times

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7042158

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 10th
6.

The 3 R's
Wharfe Meadow Park
Otley
Leeds

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7186015

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 10th
7.

Wharfe Bridge
Otley
Leeds

Ribbed arches are the old section

From the upstream side (Manor Garth Park)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7555968

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 10th
8.

The Old Grammar School
ClapGate
Otley
Leeds

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101200411-16-manor-square-otley
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/423378
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2981652

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 10th
9.

Church Lane
(off KirkGate)
Otley
Leeds

Ironwork protects the pillars from cart wheels

The 'Tunnellers Memorial' is up here, I didn't photograph it, just the plaques
Thus it's an old photo (hence different lighting)

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101135240-memorial-to-victims-of-bramhope-tunnel-disaster-otley
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2981649
The real thing; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/707547

KirkGate Arcade

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1914557

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 10th
10.

'Milestone'
Farnley Lane
Otley
Leeds

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6094888

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 10th
11.

The Sun Inn
Brame Lane
Norwood
Harrogate
Between Otley & the A59, joining it, where the 'golf-balls' are (Menwith Hill, the US 'listening station)

This was our destination for dinner, & very good it was too!!
We've been before, quite a few times, the last was March 2023, en-route home from a long weekend in Cumbria (27 images)

Joanne was happy, as it's still a Theakstons pub, but she had their 'Best Bitter' (instead of the usual; Old Peculiar)

https://www.thesun-inn.com/
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3372716

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 10th

The Missing Image

This is the site of the (almost) legendary ’Dunnys’
Officially the ’Wharfe View Cafe’
Closed in 2014

Known, & loved, by countless cyclists/walkers/towns-folk

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4436746

A vehicular visit here, as that's my old Discovery

We used to reckon that if you ate £5 of food, you'd not want to ride out of Otley, via East Chevin (or West), up past Wharfedale Hospital & 'The Spite')
Even Leeds Road might have it 'revisiting'

Real chips, these were thinner than nomal
The Pie was made in a 'baking tray', not the little individual (tin-foil) pie

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 12th
1.

Old Railway Bridge
New Road
Old Snydale
Wakefield

This bridge abutment, is one of the remains of a branch-line to Don Pedro Colliery (slightly amended name from 'Dom', after the Emperor of Brazil, he visited in the 1870s)
The opposing one is long-gone

There's a large (1960's?) detached house to the left of the bridge, it has a huge garden
The owner was a client of my wifes (she co-owns a home care company)

It's the north-south line; https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.4&lat=53.68881&lon=-1.39827&layers=168&b=1&o=100
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/368679

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 12th
2.

The Royal Sovereign & The Crown
(junction of) Wakefield Road & Queen Street ('WR' goes straight ahead past the blue sign & the old Chapel)
Normanton
Wakefield

The high building in the background, behind The Crown, was one of the local cinemas

The rear view is seen here



Before we bought the house we're in now, we considered this, as it was still one dwelling at that point
Now it's several flats
The Auditoria is now the garden (or was)
https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/47652


Royal Sovereign; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4772016
The Crown; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2734973