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Thu 31 Dec 2009 evening
Early evening view of Winter Hill and the transmitter masts from
Hurst Hill |
Shortly before midnight view of Chorley. One of the last
pictures of 2009 |
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Thu 31 Dec 2009 morning
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Wed 30 Dec 2009
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the old Hygienic Laundry / Initial Washroom Solutions office
block commenced this afternoon. |
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Sun 27 Dec 2009
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I like to
go for a walk along the Leeds and Liverpool canal on Sunday
evenings and this photo was one I'd planned to take of
Whittle Springs. I was hoping the ice was still on the canal
and it was so I used a tripod to take 3 images at different
exposures and combined them in Photomaix software.
The exposures were at 800asa, f8, 1sec + 5sec + 15sec. |
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Thu 24 Dec 2009
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The Christmas
Eve tills were ringing merrily this morning as I did my last
minute shopping at 6am at Asda, Clayton-le-Woods. The car park
was already starting to fill up. |
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When I got home
the fresh snow was still on the ground by the Christmas tree on
Waterhouse Green. |
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Wed 23 Dec 2009
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| There was quite a lot of
deep snow on the fells near Wray and after a long slog
through it the sun began to come out. As I returned I looked
round to see this view. |
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Tue 22 Dec 2009
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had been quite a bit of snow overnight but the early busses to
Preston were running as normal. I saw the 05:40am and 06:00am
busses while out on my walk. |
The A6 Preston Road in the snow |
St John's Church across the cricket field |
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Fri 18 Dec 2009
A snowy Whittle-le-Woods. |
Chorley Town Hall and the Christmas tree. |
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Tue 14 Dec 2009
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Set off on a
short backpacking trip before Christmas. I was starting from
Giggleswick, Yorkshire and used public transport to get there.
Using the first bus to get to Preston then the 6:40am Glasgow
train to Lancaster, then the 7:10 Leeds train to Giggleswick I
was able to get there before 8am. This must be a record.
However, the Leeds train was rather bumpy and the seats ideally
need safety belts. Not in case of a crash, just to stop you
bouncing out onto the floor! |
Early morning Preston railway Station |
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The 07:10am Leeds train about to leave Lancaster |
A deserted Giggleswick railway Station |
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Sat 12 Dec 2009
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Caught the 114
bus into Chorley to see what the Christmas lights were like. I
didn’t think they were very impressive so took some general
night shots instead. |
Chorley Town Hall clock and the Christmas tree |
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Parish Church of St Laurence |
Botany bay and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal |
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Tue 08 Dec 2009
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One of the most
difficult presentations I’ve had to give was this morning to the
pupils of Withnell Fold primary school. I showed them my
illustrated talk on the Social History of Withnell Fold village
and the Paper Mill. Up to now all my audiences have been adults
but this is the first time I’ve spoken to a room full of 7 to 11
year olds and I wasn’t sure what level to aim at. I needn’t have
worried. They were attentive and very bright. At the end I asked
if there were any questions. A room full of hands shot up in the
air and didn’t come down until I’d answered them all. |
The school gates |
The pupils examining sheets
of paper made at the mill. |
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Sat 05 Dec 2009
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The cupboard
was partly bare of a few essentials; milk & bread etc, so I
thought a quick trip to the shop was needed. The 114 bus to Asda
was due at 17:00 so I was there waiting in the rain at the bus
stop. By quarter past it hadn’t arrived so I walked up the road
to the A6 and caught the 125 instead. At the Asda bus stop I
noticed that the timetables had changed again. The Mon-Sat times
are now split into Mon-Fri and Sat has it’s own times which vary
considerably during the day. To make things even more
complicated they can now arrive at either 38, 53, 08, 23 or 18
mins past the hour. Hardly a way to tempt people away from their
cars to public transport. |
A wet and windy Asda car park. |
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