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

[classic33]

Hope the water is better now.

T'is now.

They've built a few reservoirs since the book was published.

 

[Gravity Aided]

T'is now.

Good to hear. The research into conditions in the time of the Brontes was quite chilling.

 

[PeteXXX]

A couple from yesterday’s ride to MK

An old iron milepost near Wolverton Mill.

And a BM on one of the terraced houses in Hanslope.

 

[classic33]

A couple from yesterday’s ride to MK

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An old iron milepost near Wolverton Mill.

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And a BM on one of the terraced houses in Hanslope.

A mile in both directions!

Were they bolts along the bottom, or plugs from where they'd insulated the building?

 

[PeteXXX]

Were they bolts along the bottom, or plugs from where they'd insulated the building?

Damp proofing, I would guess, as houses like this were often built without a DPC.

 

[classic33]

Damp proofing, I would guess, as houses like this were often built without a DPC.

Fair enough.

 

[Tim Hall]

Sometime ago I threatened to post a photo of a telephone exchange. Here it is. Why is it such a good one?

 

[Drago]

@PeteXXX I used to have a cottage in Hanslope. Do you recall where the cut mark you found was?

 

[Gravity Aided]

Very fine looking teIephone exchange, but I dunno. Ours looks like a fortress, but it was built just after the Spanish Civil War, in which there was quite a bit of fighting around the telephone exchange in Barcelona during the May Days, and I think that the need for a telephone exchange to be a strong point was not a lesson lost on decision makers in the late 1930's.

 

[Gravity Aided]

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Sometime ago I threatened to post a photo of a telephone exchange. Here it is. Why is it such a good one?

That is also a fine looking cycle, @Tim Hall .

 

[PeteXXX]

@PeteXXX I used to have a cottage in Hanslope. Do you recall where the cut mark you found was?

It’s on the west side of Park Road, opposite Saxon Close.

 

[Drago]

It’s on the west side of Park Road, opposite Saxon Close.

I know where you're at. I'll have to have a nosey at that. I lived down the other end in Long Street.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Top Withens isn't that far from me. Nor is the house in which Emily was born.

I ran past Top Withins a few weeks ago, via the Stoop guidestone
http://www.woodentops.org.uk/index.php?topic=withins&subtopic=home
Route here; https://get.google.com/albumarchive...m503Vnx7OD41nEmPjPBcKiWWhoCJL0_JVm?source=pwa

Maybe a bit more distant, no bike in the shot, but surely a building incorporating a section of a collapsed TV transmitter mast is certain an odd 'geograph'!!

 

[Tim Hall]

Very fine looking teIephone exchange, but I dunno. Ours looks like a fortress, but it was built just after the Spanish Civil War, in which there was quite a bit of fighting around the telephone exchange in Barcelona during the May Days, and I think that the need for a telephone exchange to be a strong point was not a lesson lost on decision makers in the late 1930's.

I think it's a common theme that telephone exchanges are secure places. A good amount of mayhem to be caused by a miscreant inside one of them. Anyhoo, no one has answered the question. What is so good about the telephone exchange pictured, in relation to the general flavour of this thread?

 

[PeteXXX]

I think it's a common theme that telephone exchanges are secure places. A good amount of mayhem to be caused by a miscreant inside one of them. Anyhoo, no one has answered the question. What is so good about the telephone exchange pictured, in relation to the general flavour of this thread?

It's a trig point?