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Wed 29 Mar 2017
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On Wed 29 Mar 2017 my great friend and historian
Rosemary Boyd died. She is seen here at the unveiling of the
memorial to the demolished Clayton-le-Woods reservoir. |
Rosemary Boyd & Dr David Hunt |
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Cycling through York in the drizzle I stopped to take an
interior photo of the Minster |
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There’s nothing like a bit of blatant propaganda so I found
these carvings on a WW1 War Memorial at Sledmere House,
Yorkshire quite amusing.
The Hun are shown in several places
committing atrocities and being defeated by a single British
Soldier. |
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Mon 27 Mar 2017
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My first time over Holme Moss. It was much harder that I
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Sun 26 Mar 2017
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Its Mothers Day so I cycled to Pleasington and Withnell Fold to
pause for a few moments at each location |
Pleasington Crematorium |
Mum's memorial bench at
Withnell Fold |
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Sat 23 Mar 2017
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Early afternoon at Astley Hall, Chorley to see ‘The Forty
Collection’ Exhibition. |
Astley Hall, Chorley |
The Forty Collection
This beautiful
collection of objects was donated in 1984 by Mrs Vera Forty,
whose father was John Whittaker, an Accrington-based cotton mill
owner and later a local politician. Whilst a businessman in the
late 1800s. Whittaker and his mill-owner brother regularly
travelled to the far-East, often bringing back trinkets and
taking photographs. They travelled over on tea clippers to trade
cotton and machinery. We suspect the photographs were taken
whilst Mr Whittaker was travelling in the Victorian period, or
very early 1900s, but were later developed into colour images
through adding false colour. The paintings were done on silk and
this gives them a bit of a three-dimensional aspect. The main
themes of the paintings are individual people, boats, birds and
a lake and mountain scene repeated from different angles. |
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The ivories are of a variety of scenes and situations from local
folklore and were produced well before the 1947 international
cut off in the trade of ivory. Whittaker served as a politician
from 1895 until his death in 1929 and so will have travelled
considerably less in that time as his business commitments took
a back seat to his political work. |
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Astley Hall, Chorley |
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Fri 24 Mar 2017
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A new bench has appeared in the garden by the Whittle
and Clayton-le-Woods War Memorial.
It replaces an old rotten
one. |
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took this snap while out for a bike ride. It is the milepost by
Bury Lane and the A674 Withnell. The photo to the right is the
same spot exactly 4 years ago |
24th March 2013 |
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Wed 22 Mar 2017
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A cold and snowy walk across Tindale Fells, Cumbria. I used my
snow shoes for the first time. |
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Tue 21 Mar 2017
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The oak timber roof is now going on Frank's house
porch |
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Sat 18 Mar 2017
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A wet walk over Shilstone Hill Exmoor |
Wall in Brendon |
St Brendan's Church, Rockford, Devon
The current building
dates from 1738 with extensive re-construction in 1873. |
Church interior |
Church door |
Shilstone Hill trig post in the mist and rain |
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Fri 17 Mar 2017
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Early 19th century Sister's Fountain spring near
Countisbury |
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South West Coast path |
Fresnel lens of the
lighthouse |
Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse or the Countisbury Foreland
Lighthouse was completed in 1900 and was automated in 1994. The
lighthouse keeper's cottage is now a National Trust holiday
cottage. |
Foreland Lighthouse |
St John the Baptist Church,
Countisbury |
Church interior |
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Thu 16 Mar 2017
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Washford Railway Station on the way to the Quantock
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Lots of hores riders around while walking on the Quantock Hills |
Back at the Dead Woman's Ditch car park were some interesting
mountain bikes. This one has an electric motor for rider
assistance |
An amazing 50 tooth rear
cassette |
In Nether Stowey I visited
Coleridge Cottage. In 1797 the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
rented the cottage. While he lived there he wrote many of his
better known works such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and
Kubla Khan. |
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Coleridge Cottage kitchen but not the one
used by Coleridge |
The room where Coleridge wrote
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
and Kubla Khan |
Kitchen |
Bedroom |
Above Nether Stowey is the 11th century
Stowey Castle mound. |
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Wed 15 Mar 2017
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I'm visiting the Exmoor Somerset area for the first time. |
Woods near Bossingtom Moor |
Memorial near Selworthy Beacon to Sir
Thomas Dyke Acland (1787 - 1871) erected 1878 |
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland (1787
- 1871)
From Wikipedia |
Coastguard station on Hurlestone Point
which was built in 1900 and now roofless and abandoned |
Bossington |
Lower Allerford |
An interesting house near Selworthy |
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Sunset from Bossington Hill |
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Tue 14 Mar 2017
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My first visit to the Vue Cinema, Blackburn. |
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Sun 12 Mar 20017
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The new footpath link bridge is now in place
from Magill Close to Lady Crosse
Drive, Whittle-le-Woods. |
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Sat 11 Mar 2017
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This evening I decided to catch the bus into Chorley and walk
home along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The photo on the right
is the Moss Lane Bridge and below the lights of the Premier Inn
by the Malthouse Farm Inn. |
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Fri 10 Mar 2017
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I was walking over Talkin Fell, Cumbria and the weather was dull
and overcast. The left photo was treated to some digital
manipulation on the right. |
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Thu 09 Mar 2017
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Walking home from Wheelton the Leeds and Liverpool Canal towpath
is very wet and mudy |
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Tue 07 Mar 2017
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The Shell Filling Station at Clayton Green is having
a roof lift |
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Late morning cyclked to White Coppice to have butties for lunch
sat on the memorial bench to my primary SchoolMistress Miss
Elsie Whitehead. As a young girl she used to live in Rose
Cottage which is the white cottage in the background.
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died in a nursing home on Sat 12 April 2003 |
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Mon 06 Mar 2017
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This evening was an excellent presentation at Chorley
Photographic Society by
Chris Upton the Landscape and Travel Photographer. |
He uses the Fujifilm X-Series cameras to show how a smaller and
lighter camera can give high quality and produce extremely large
images. The first part of the presentation was a series of b&w
images taken over a 9 month period to document:
'THORESBY THE
END OF THE MINE'
Thoresby Colliery was the last pit in
Nottinghamshire and closed in July 2015 marking the end over 900
hundred years of mining in the county. |
Chris Upton |
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Frank is rebuilding the extension on the side of his house.
The oak timbers are being hand crafted by a specialist joiner. |
New extension |
Oak timbers |
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Sat 04 Mar 2017
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Out for a bike ride around the area to take 'now' photos of old
images, |
Hoghton Methodist Chapel Sunday School, Chapel Lane (date
unknown) |
The Sunday School is now a private house |
A675 opposite Dover Lane
(date unknown) |
The same location this afternoon |
The Leyland underground Water Res before demolition (Oct 2013) |
The Reservoir site is now a housing estate.
Back Ln.
Clayton-le-Woods |
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Fri 03 Mar 2017
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A rainy Friday evening walk around Whittle-le-Woods |
Copthurst Bottoms |
Waterhouse Green |
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