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[Richard A Thackeray]

Today

Milestone
Manchester Road (A628)
Millhouse Green (west of Penistone)

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101151826-milestone-opposite-number-351-penistone#.Xm_UN0B2vIU

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6044717

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Another trip out
Ripon, this time

1.

Obelisk
Market Place

The benchmark is on the eastern face (left side, in this pic)

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101315492-obelisk-ripon#.XnEkdUB2vIU



https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4906694

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

2.

The Unicorn Inn
Market Place East

Lewis Carroll is associated with Ripon, & the Inn has a lot of images/information, including the Unicorn, and 'Tweedle-Dum & Tweedle-Dee' behind the bar
(his father was Canon, at the Cathedral)

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101150152-the-unicorn-hotel-ripon#.XnElN0B2vIU

Cabmans Shelter was nowhere to be seen today, but I have seen it before;
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3743044

https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/hotels/england/north-yorkshire/the-unicorn-hotel
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...was-really-alice-in-yorkshireland-697305.html

1st & 2nd articles; https://www.riponcathedral.org.uk/what-to-see/

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

3.
Wakemans House
WestGate

And the horn is stylised into a bench support, at the side on High SkellGate



https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101295808-the-wakemans-house-ripon#.XnEoz0B2vIU
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4950122
A nightly ritual; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/184330

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire.../07/10/ripon_hornblower_history_feature.shtml

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

4.
Hospital Of St John The Baptist
(off) BondGate
As in Almshouse, I guess?

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101149415-hospital-of-st-john-the-baptist-ripon#.XnEpq0B2vIU

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1597105

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

5.
House of Correction
St MaryGate

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101315485-deans-croft-ripon#.XnEsqUB2vIU
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/668538


And the adjacent Museum, as it is now

http://riponmuseums.co.uk/museums/prison_police_museum

There's also a Workhouse Museum (if you go to the Museums page)
Some older readers may remember elderly relatives shuddering with dread at the mere mention of such establishments
I know, that when I started in the NHS, some elderly patients didn't want to be admitted for that very reason... to them the Hospital was rthe Workhouse
A state of affairs that wasn't helped by the (closed) & let's be non PC here, Asylum next door

Workhouses were essentially abolished (in the accepted sense/nature of their existance) by the 1930s. but some were still in use, with less draconian regimes until the inaguration of the NHS in 1948


EDIT @ 21:43

@Drago
Thought this one might appeal
There's also a Courthouse Museum too!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This morning

'Black Dicks Temple'
A6188
Between Grange Moor (where the A642 Wakefield-Huddersfield road, meets the A637 from Barnsley) & Kirkheaton/Armitage Bridge

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101183892-the-temple-in-whitley-park-kirkburton#.XnIzMEB2vIU

Some history, below the picture, in this link; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/25154

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/black-dicks-famous-tower-could-5082838

https://paranormalplacesuk.blogspot.com/2010/09/black-dicks-temple-near-huddersfield.html

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

After photographing the above 'Black Dicks Temple', I stopped at one of the several milestones on the A642 Wakefield-Huddersfield road at Grange Moor, where it meets the A637 from Barnsley) & Kirkheaton/Armitage Bridge

This one is on the roundabout, the one in my picture is (more or less) above the 'MS' in the little map
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6048350

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...on-with-barnlsey-road-kirkburton#.XnI2YEB2vIU

 

[PeteXXX]

A meagre ½ a cut mark on Churches shoe factory, in Hamtun, on my walk to get my eyes tested..

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Whilst out for a ride, at dinner-time

Park Road (A639)
Between jct 32/M62 & Pontefract
It's practically on the roundabout, where there's the access to the Park/RaceCourse, and Halfords/McDonalds

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...y-entrance-pontefract-north-ward#.XnOpEkB2vIU

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6050675

NB; the 'Barnsdale & Leeds' (branch) notates that it's the road that left the Great North Road (A1) at Barnsdale Bar, following (in parts) the old Roman route to Castleford (Lagentivm), where it carries on (milestones have the same 'name' to the north of Cas) rejoining the GNR/A1 at HookMoor/Abeford

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Again, whilst out at dinner-time
Jacksons Bridge (apparently)
Weeland Road (A645 - the old road, to Snaith & Goole)
Knottingley

It's on the nearest stone parapet/abutment (in this picture)
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2037082

So. far-right, in my picture

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

At dinner-time
Weeland Road (A645 - the old road, to Snaith & Goole)
Knottingley

Just to the town side of the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal, spanned by the bridge in my previous posting
(ie; I rode back in the direction I faced to take the photo, & it's not far around the corner)

Marked here as 'MS', with the (now) illegible text notated, in 1905; https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=53.70948&lon=-1.24607&layers=168&b=1


https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6035567

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This afternoon, along the partial route of the 'Great Northern, North Eastern. Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway', aka the 'Methley Joint Line'
(as it was built/laid)

By my back wheel

After a diversion off the route, onto Barnsdale Road (A639 as it is at that point, onto WaterGate (B6145 - becoming Newmarket Lane, at the other end), I rejoined the old line, just west of where the M62 crosses it



This is the bridge, it's slightly to the east-side of the blue circle, not the live running line, it's part of the 'white road';
(bench mark is at the far side in the link) https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/259292

Although two of the Station buildings still exist as houses; this being the one I passed; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/259315

Seen as Methley (South Joint) Station; https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=53.72686&lon=-1.40017&layers=168&b=1

To add confusion, there was another station less than a mile to the north. there's a campaign to have one reopened there
Methley North
https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/...-plans-reopen-methley-railway-station-2000979

Scroll down to the last 3 -4 images; http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Cutsyke Methley.htm

 

[PeteXXX]

A worn cut mark & bolt on Cromer Parish Church Bell Tower, on yesterday's deserted Cromer stroll.

And a milestone, in Kelling, illuminated by some Scania headlights. I've driven past this numerous times, but last night was very quiet so I could stop.

 

[biggs682]

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A meagre ½ a cut mark on Churches shoe factory, in Hamtun, on my walk to get my eyes tested..

Is that the one just down from the old bus depot at jimmy's end ?