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

[Drago]

And when Martin Biggs gets a sniff of a trig, benchmark or marker, his alter ego bursts forth...

I'm off to Pitsford in a bit so I'll be on the look out.

 

[Tim Hall]

Out of the country, minus bike, but managed to get this one:

 

[PeteXXX]

And when Martin Biggs gets a sniff of a trig, benchmark or marker, his alter ego bursts forth...

I'm off to Pitsford in a bit so I'll be on the look out.

There's supposed to be a bolt in the northern damn wall on the bank aiming away from the main res. I did take a look a while back but it's very overgrown, steep and slippery there.. Good luck!

 

[biggs682]

Scottish Brick History
&
Old British Building Bricks

been looking at the 2nd link and that brick co were last seen in 1940 , might go back and try to find it again and bring it home

 

[classic33]

been looking at the 2nd link and that brick co were last seen in 1940 , might go back and try to find it again and bring it home

Have your reason for carrying a single brick with you ready.

 

[classic33]

Unable to locate Catherine Slack. Then again no-one will as it's buried. "Landowner" could be a bit more helpful.

Roper Lane, Queensbury. Everyone says its the cover(Yorkshire Water, late 1970's)

Soil Hill, higher of the two

Informed that this is the visible remains of the base of the lower one

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[classic33]

Local "Stone Circle" & what is shown as a former farm house.

Blamed for loss of the trig point

 

[classic33]

Two from Roper Lane. The first, above the trig point, being pointed out to me. Nervous home owner concerned about new houses.

The view over the other side of the road from the above point.

Onto Perseverance Road

Scant attention paid to the lower stone. Two names below what can be seen.

 

[classic33]

Brighouse & Denholme Road, A644.
Down from "The Raggalds".

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To prove what road it was

And this on top

 

[classic33]

Different sides of the same corner of a building being cleaned. Snook under the scaffolding

Meanwhile, over the road there was this

 

[Gravity Aided]

Different sides of the same corner of a building being cleaned. Snook under the scaffolding
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Meanwhile, over the road there was this
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John Briggs of the second instance any relation to James Briggs of the first?

 

[classic33]

John Briggs of the second instance any relation to James Briggs of the first?

Possible, a common name round here at the time, with the Black Dyke Mills just down the road, in the center of Queensbury.

You've got me wondering now.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Possible, a common name round here at the time, with the Black Dyke Mills just down the road, in the center of Queensbury.

You've got me wondering now.

As in the Band?

 

[classic33]

As in the Band?

Brass Band, aye.
A number of large mills around here had them. Continue down the road I was on and you get the Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band.

 

[classic33]

The Black Dyke Band

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTH6mQxbpG4


Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElnCI1fkfFM

Number 2 in the UK charts, November 1977.


“From Hull, Hell and Halifax, Good Lord deliver us!”
Hull, prison was a naval prison, built in the river so subject to the tides.
Hell, obvious
Halifax, The Gibbet, from which:
"The Maiden" in Glasgow was copied. They hired theirs out.
The Guillotine was a refined version, from a model built, and transported back to France, whilst Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was staying near Halifax.