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

[classic33]

@classic33 Yes please!

@Bobby Mhor A cracking haul there mate. Nice work getting tea and cake and spreading awareness - top job all round.

I'll nip back and pick it up then.

 

[PeteXXX]

Good place to put one though. With views of the surrounding contryside!

Whoever thought of putting Trig Points at the top of a hill!!

 

[Bobby Mhor]

@classic33 Yes please!

@Bobby Mhor A cracking haul there mate. Nice work getting tea and cake and spreading awareness - top job all round.

Plus did a climb which I've never done without stepping down before,
chilled cider now flowing..
I found I can buy heavily discounted ferry tickets so more trips planned (half price)

 

[classic33]

Whoever thought of putting Trig Points at the top of a hill!!

Brigadier Martin Hotine.


There's two at the bottom of hills near me!!

 

[PeteXXX]

A decent BM on Piddington railway bridge, one of @biggs682 earlier finds, but, as I was passing, it would be rude to ignore it!

Then, after several dry runs on local churches, I eventually found a well weathered BM on Preston Deanery church.

 

[PeteXXX]

As a point of interest, or not, as the case may be..
Who actually chipped out all the BM's? Did the surveyor him/herself carry a mallet and chisel, or did he have a lackey following along behind him?

 

[Drago]

The Piddling bridge one was mine lovely downhill ride back into the village.

 

[classic33]

As a point of interest, or not, as the case may be..
Who actually chipped out all the BM's? Did the surveyor him/herself carry a mallet and chisel, or did he have a lackey following along behind him?

From what I remember from junior school, various teams nationwide. It would have been a stone mason, familiar with working the local stone, who made the mark you see left today.

 

[Drago]

They look like they've been cut by skilled hands.

 

[biggs682]

The Piddling bridge one was mine lovely downhill ride back into the village.

Yeah must admit i dont remember it @PeteXXX , i did Horton bridge on Sunday

 

[Drago]

You risked your life on the Horton bridge, but the cause was worthy. Did you see the remains of then old Salcey Forest Railway Station platform beneath?

 

[PeteXXX]

They look like they've been cut by skilled hands.

And all of the same size.
The BM's, not their skilled hands!

 

[PeteXXX]

Yeah must admit i don't remember it @PeteXXX , i did Horton bridge on Sunday

I mis-remembered the contributor.. apologies

 

[biggs682]

You risked your life on the Horton bridge, but the cause was worthy. Did you see the remains of then old Salcey Forest Railway Station platform beneath?

It was early-ish only traffic was a chap on a trip bike .

I looked and saw a building but didn't go exploring , nowhere to leave the bike .

 

[Bobby Mhor]

From what I remember from junior school, various teams nationwide. It would have been a stone mason, familiar with working the local stone, who made the mark you see left today.

They look like they've been cut by skilled hands.

The thing I've noticed, that in the same area, you get varying types of the mark as if done by different hands.
The bloke I spoke with yesterday had thought as the building was just above sea level thought it was a flood mark, boy, he said he was glad it wasn't. I told him, I'd swap my near top of the hill house for his, sadly not taken up.