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

[PeteXXX]

Are you recovered enough yet ?

A few days, I reckon so.

ok just let me know

Just a thought, chaps... Watch out for asbestos down there!!

 

[classic33]

Just a thought, chaps... Watch out for asbestos down there!!

That may not be all they've to watch out for!

 

[biggs682]

Just a thought, chaps... Watch out for asbestos down there!!

True

 

[biggs682]

Only one this morning

A no find in the dark at Cogenhoe church.

Just a G R post box in Ecton

 

[PeteXXX]

I found nothing on Cogenhoe church either.

 

[Asa Post]

By Jove, I think you've got it! Nice work Asa! Alfreton never occurred to me (mind you, I try not to think about Alfreton. )

After making that post, I had a Google and found a useful website that agrees with my suggestion: http://www.derbyshireheritage.co.uk/Menu/Ancient/guidestoops.php

I don't really know Alfreton at all, but a man I used to work with referred to it as "bandit country".

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Something slightly different to a masons mark at a Church Lych-Gate
file dated Monday 10th July 2017




The Skulls are on the diagonally opposite side of the Church

 

[classic33]

Something slightly different to a masons mark at a Church Lych-Gate
file dated Monday 10th July 2017

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The Skulls are on the diagonally opposite side of the Church

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No idea who they were?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

No idea who they were?

These are replacements

A few myths, but it alleged that only one member of the local 'landed gentry' knew who they
He is purported to have taken the secret to his grave

http://mjwayland.com/hickleton-skulls/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-church-declares-a-skull-amnesty-5371952.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Wilfrid's_Church,_Hickleton#Lychgate_and_Skulls

 

[biggs682]

I found nothing on Cogenhoe church either.

it was only 6 am when i looked this morning and still very dark

 

[classic33]

it was only 6 am when i looked this morning and still very dark

There should be something called a light on the front of the bike!

 

[biggs682]

There should be something called a light on the front of the bike!

There is 2 on mine but still make looking for benchmarks hardwork

 

[Gravity Aided]

I was going to try and find this one, which may be near the grave of Elbert Hubbard, author of Message To Garcia, editor of The Philistine, and driving force behind the Roycroft Shops in upstate New York, part of the Arts and Crafts movement and decorative arts. Lost on the Lusitania,with his wife,1915. His famous quote, "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive."
Sadly, the benchmark was lost with the railroad. We'll still go and look for the grave, now lost even to the state historical society, I believe. They no longer have it signed.

 

[And]

After making that post, I had a Google and found a useful website that agrees with my suggestion: http://www.derbyshireheritage.co.uk/Menu/Ancient/guidestoops.php

I don't really know Alfreton at all, but a man I used to work with referred to it as "bandit country".

It's not as bad as 'eanor, that's the best I can say...
Great website, thanks for sharing

 

[Gravity Aided]

Found this on my ride this afternoon. Built too late for Lindbergh to have stopped here, but Pekins' Airport, now a veterans graveyard, did have him land there regularly on the air mail route.