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Hyde Daily Photo Volume 1 (2006-2011) which is now in archive mode. For recent photographs please visit
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Last September I reported that a
bus stop on Stockport Road was to go in order to make way for a new zebra crossing.
Later I showed you the
preparatory work.
Now here it is.
In the other direction the bus shelter has gone and there are some new bollards in the road.
See how it
used to look.
Time for another of my where is this quizzes?
I'll reveal the answer next week.
As I said a few days ago, I'm not here right now, so feel free to talk amongst yourselves.
All around the woods at
Hanging Bank, below Werneth Low, are clumps of daffodils.
Pott House Farm lies on Matley Lane near to the Rising Moon.
Posts are scheduled for the next few weeks as I expect to be without internet access for some time. In the meantime Rune Eide of Visual Norway will be keeping an eye on the blog in my absence.
The Rising Moon is an old public house on Matley Lane.
In the background is Hobson Moor.
I showed you this section of Godley Brook past the ABC Wax factory back in
May 2007.
The bullrushes are still there but have been joined, alas, by a discarded shopping trolley.
This so-called "road" leads from Matley Lane at Newton over the side of Matley Moor through Early Bank Wood and comes out at the top of Hough Hill Lane in Stalybridge.
"Unsuitable for Motor Vehicles" it says, but that doesn't stop certain motor-cyclists and drivers of 4WD vehicles from using it.
In fact I was taken over it in a Land Rover last April and you can get a taste of it (not the worst) on an unintentional video I recorded at the time and published on
Ackworth born, gone West.
This is probably the last of my photographs from the cold spell earlier in the year.
I've already shown you the scene looking down
Icy Richmond Hill.
Now you see it the same day but looking up from Back Bower Lane towards Werneth Avenue.
The last time I showed this view it was
foggy.
A view of Matley Lane as it sweeps through the Shaw Hall area of Newton.
The Jamia Mosque (still under construction) reflected on the bonnet of a car in Corporation Street.
This week (and a day) has been devoted to a series of photographs of Automasters.
Here we look again from the Manchester Road bridge, over the Peak Forest Canal, past the willow trees at the emptiness where once stood the mighty Automasters factory.
Check back if you will at this same scene
With the sky reflected in the still waters of the canal, today's photograph is our contribution this week to
Skywatch Friday.
This week (and a day) is devoted to a series of photographs of Automasters.
Today's picture is from early March 2009. Although the bricked door remains, the old black tanks have now gone as the diggers level the site.
This week (and a day) is devoted to a series of photographs of Automasters.
Yesterday I showed you the blue door and surrounding brickwork that was undemolished in October. Five months later in March 2009, the door still remains alongside the towpath of the Peak Forest Canal, whilst the rest of the factory wall has been totally done away with.
This week (and a day) is devoted to a series of photographs of Automasters.
Following on from yesterday's picture, after shooting from the Manchester Road bridge, I walked down the towpath and captured this of the brickwork surrounding an undemolished blue doorway.
This week (and a day) is devoted to a series of photographs of Automasters.
Today's picture shows some of what was still standing in October 2008 when the demolition contractors had got started in earnest.
It is a closer view of the scene published here on
22nd October 2008.
I later took a walk along the canal past some
fishermen and that picture shows a nearer view of what I assume are black storage tanks.
This week (and a day) is devoted to a series of photographs of Automasters.
Yesterday I showed you the original photograph as it came out of the camera last January. Some bloggers proudly claim that they never do any post-processing of their images as if it were some crime or other to be creative. In pre-digital days one would have done various things in the darkroom processing the image. Now we use software to do the manipulations.
Last year I cropped and processed the image to produce
Frosty Willows ignoring Automasters to concentrate on the bridge and the 1828 Warehouses which are Grade II listed.
This time I've cropped the original to concentrate on the side of Automasters and used (mainly) a technique known in
Paintshop Pro (Version 8.2) as "clarifying" to bring out the detail in the brickwork.
This week (and a day) is devoted to a series of photographs of Automasters.
January 3rd 2008 was a crisp, cold, frosty but sunny day and I took a long walk by the River Tame and the Peak Forest Canal taking a lot of photographs with my (then) new camera.
Many from that day have appeared here over the intervening months including my
Photo of the Year 2008.
This was taken passing the side of Automasters approaching the
Manchester Road Bridge, and appears here as it came out of the camera, unprocessed apart from resizing.
This week (and a day) is devoted to a series of photographs of Automasters.
The long established factory was demolished recently and I was regretting not having a decent photograph of the entrance on Manchester Road.
Last month I posted on
Old Hyde a photograph taken from a passing bus in April 2008 which I'd not used before as the quality was poor.
I've been looking through my archives and found this from November 2007. I had used a different crop of the original to highlight the
blue plague marking the site of the 1889 Hyde Colliery Explosion.
This new crop concentrates on showing part of Automasters offices. A better view from 2005 by Bob Adsell can be seen on
Old Hyde.
Another picture from the icy spell of several weeks ago.
Previous photographs of Stonepit Reservoir.
It may be getting more like Spring but it was still Winter when I came across these well-dressed horses grazing in a field.
Simon Marsh is a flautist who visits Clarendon Mall from time to time.
I can't give you a taste of his music, as he hasn't set up his website yet. When he does I'll let you know.
Looking from Stockport Road across to Pole Bank.
Beyond those trees in the background is
Pole Bank Pool. Check that earlier post for more information.
On the corner of what used to be Albion Street is a children's play area.
Looking back here towards the junction of Croft Street and Great Norbury Street.
Looking towards the junction of Henry Street and Onward Street.
On the left is the rear of the
Theatre Royal whilst ahead is a new residential nursing home, built on the site of the old Police Station.
Over the next four days we are looking at the Croft Millennium Green.
Whilst some terraced properties on
Croft Street have been modernised, the row between Henry Street and
Great Norbury Street was demolished together with those on Albion Street which no longer exists.
The Croft Millennium Green was created in that open space. I first showed you the area in a post on
August 5th 2008.
This is Mottram Old Road in the opposite direction from the photo I posted on
3rd February 2009.
Werneth Avenue is on the left and a right turn by Spring Avenue leads to Werneth Low Country Park. Round the bend is Alder School and the horseriders I photographed a little later and posted here on
24th Feburary 2009.
Just below
Green Lane Pool is Werneth Pool. I don't know if these are the correct names as they aren't marked on any maps I've looked at.
It was taken from the same spot as (and within ten minutes of) my skywatch photograph of
6th February 2009.
How deep they actually are, I wouldn't know, but such bodies of water as these don't have to be very deep to be dangerous!
This is the underside of the bridge that carries the M67 motorway over the River Tame.
More details of and links to other participants to
Broer som Binder can be found on
Visual Norway.
Glass is the CDPB theme this month so I'm showing again one of the stained glass panels at Hyde Bus Station.
The panels were created by Jo Ann Eisenberg with help from pupils of Dale Grove Primary School.
I first showed you this panel on
30th July 2006 and the second one on
7th Aug 2006.
In this picture you also get a glimpse of the
Astoria Bingo Hall which closed down last week.
Click here
to view thumbnails for all participants to the theme.
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