This is
Hyde Daily Photo Volume 1 (2006-2011) which is now in archive mode. For recent photographs please visit
Hyde Daily Photo Volume 2. Additional material and links to blogger friends can be found at
Hyde DP Xtra.
The Hyde Bangladesh Welfare Association occupy these premises at the corner of Chapel Street and Henry Street.
Last month I showed you a section of the TransPennine Trail
near Donald Avenue.
Turn North off the trail there and this path will take you to Walker Lane.
The cobblestones tell me that the footpath is probably an ancient route preceeding the date of the railway line it leads across.
Time for another photograph featuring the footbridge with the spiral ramp.
Earlier photos of or from the footbridge:
More to follow at a later date!
In
February 2007 who would have envisaged that Woolworths would no longer dominate British High Streets?
However, in the
run-up to Christmas 2008 they were offering large discounts.
Come
New Year 2009 they had closed and the shop looked forlorn.
By
April 2009 there were still no takers for the vacant premises.
As we've previously remarked on
Old Hyde, before it was Woolworths it was Brownson's Clothiers and now it seems £-pound stretcher are moving in.
You can view the coloured version of this photograph on
Geograph.
When I saw these flowers in the verge of the exit slip road from the M67, I thought it was a bit late in the year for dandelions, but I've been assured that these are actually
hawkbits.
Today's photograph was taken from a train leaving Hyde Central Station for Manchester.
Below is the M67 motorway as it slices its way around the town centre.
On the right is Mary Street and the remains of the
Caxton Works.
It is the opposite direction view to the one I posted last month from
Clark Way bridge.
John Street, like many others in Hyde, had its middle demolished and destroyed in the 1970s with the building of the M67 motorway.
Here is the Southern section leading into the Market Place. On the right is the Postal Sorting Office
Here is the Northern end of John Street.
Left is the
Clark Way bypass and right is the sliproad on to the motorway.
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ABC Wednesday.
This is how the bank behind Gower Hey Gardens looked a few weeks ago.
In June it was covered in
buttercups.
The houses in Gower Hey Gardens (over the fence) have been built on the site of Gower Hey Bank, a large house, once the home of Thomas Middleton, one time Mayor and author of the
Annals of Hyde.
More recently in the 1950s it was the home of then teenager Denys Meakin who emigrated to Canada in 1959. His photograph of the house can be seen on
Old Hyde.
This 19th century house has, I think, been converted into flats.
It lies behind Ewen Fields, the home ground of
Hyde United FC.
Here is my latest view of Godley Brook down by the ABC Wax Factory on Hoviley Street.
Compare it with the view in
March 2009.
Spot the differences.
Today's photograph was taken on the same windy day as the one of the
Town Hall Flag.
What drew my attention to these chimney pots were the starlings alighting thereon. There are a few similar chimneys on the late 19th century buildings along Market Street, but they seemed to be aiming for this one in particular.
At least three birds are here, maybe four.
This is the path into Gower Hey Woods from Osborne Road.
Compare it if you will with the same view in
August 2007 or the view in the opposite direction in
June 2009.
Looking down Stockport Road from Gee Cross into Hyde from near the crossroads with Osborne Road and Peel Street.
See how it looked about 100 years ago on
Old Hyde.
The scene then was dominated by Slack Mills. The site was taken over early in the 1900s by James North whose firm patented the PVC glove in 1947.
I recently posted a
1993 view of the factory from Werneth Low.
It was demolished in 1998 and the only monument is the restored
James North Clock.
The original full-colour version of this photograph can be viewed on
Geograph.
I reported at the end of May that
Hyde Mill was due to be demolished.
The process has now begun. The first thing to go has been the iconic
Hyde Mill Tower. I was passing yesterday in a taxi and managed to get a couple of photographs through the window.
The other one can be viewed on
Hyde DP Xtra.
Alas it is not the
dairy product that is for sale but the most central one of the
three pubs in Hyde bearing that name.
A JPT bus on the 343 route at Hyde Bus Station. In front of it is a parked Speedwell's bus.
The 343 goes on a round the houses route from Hyde to Oldham via Flowery Field, Stalybridge, Carrbrook, Micklehurst, Mossley, Grotton and Lees.
As Martin of
Ashton-under-Lyne DP reported earlier, the service was in danger as Speedwells who run the majority of journeys on the route are withdrawing it in October 2009.
A Facebook Group was launched to save it and recent news is that the route will probably be run by "First" buses from October 3rd 2009.
Information on the history of the route can be found on the
Saddleworth buses website.
Most of the stained glass windows of
St George's Church were destroyed by or removed after a WWII bomb that exploded nearby.
Four windows on the South side of the church have now been restored.
Matthew and
Mark were re-instated about six years ago and now the windows celebrating
Luke and
John have also been installed.
Photos of the other two windows can be viewed on
Hyde DP Xtra.
There are plans eventually to restore the original East window which can be seen on
Old Hyde.
Whilst wandering around
Mottram Church last month, just below the burial ground, I came upon this wall dated 1769.
As far as I could tell the door doesn't seem to lead anywhere in particular. I imagine there was once an enclosure of some sort here but now there is just this wall.
Last Friday it was so wet and windy that the flag on the
Town Hall had half wrapped itself around the flagpole.
The weather back in February was much better. That was when the chimney was
wrapped in scaffolding for maintainence. Then the flag flew freely.
For more pictures of the sky around the world, visit
Skywatch Friday.
Hyde Town Hall clock at 09:09 on 09/09/09.
[click on the picture for more detail: For some reason blogger turned my picture sideways on upload - something it seems to do from time to time - I've therefore hosted the photo elsewhere, but blogger crops it above rather than re-sizes it.]
I'm not normally out and about at this hour as I can't use my travel-pass until 9.30 am weekdays. However I was up early and it was nice weather so I walked down into town and took two shots at the bewitching moment.
For a closer view of the clock see
Hyde DP Xtra.
For a more distant shot see
Geograph.
The Warhill Sundial is behind
Mottram Church.
It was a Medieval cross originally, but heavily restored in 1760 and 1897. The stepped circular ashlar plinth is inscribed "Restored in commemoration of the sixtieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria 1897". The octagonal shaft on the moulded base has a foliated capital and supports a cubical sundial with 3 copper faces. The front face is inscribed "hora pars vitae", the rear "and watch and pray time hastes away when time is done eternity comes on".
According to the
Public Monument and Sculpture Association "It is widely assumed that the present sundial stands on or close to the site of the Mottram Cross though both the documentary and archaeological evidence of an older cross is frustratingly slight. It is unclear when a cross was first built and when a sundial was added. Writing shortly after the erection of the present monument, Thomas Middleton repeated the local tradition that the cross was erected in or about 1760 though he did note that there appeared to be some confusion about whether the reports referred to the Mottram Crown Pole which was also raised in that coronation year. Aikin, or more likely Stockdale who had first-hand knowledge of Mottram, noted the existence of an ancient cross by the churchyard in the much quoted volume of 1795. Notes made by John Wagstaffe, churchwarden at St Michael's, state that the sundial was the work of a Mr Wardleworth. It is, however, known that the present sundial was built using stone from the earlier cross, and erected in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The new sundial was situated a short distance from the place where the cross stood and was paid for by 'a few private subscribers'."
Until recently this squeeze-stile was the access point from Garside Sreet to the Trans Pennine Trail near
Dowson Road.
The trail is a 215 mile coast-to-coast route from Southport to Hornsea and according to the
TPT website Easy gradients and surfaced paths make many sections suitable for families, gentle exercise and people using wheelchairs and pushchairs.
Until last week that was, when the squeeze-stile was replaced by a metal kissing gate. No way a wheelchair can get through there. A single pram might manage it but a double-buggie wouldn't.
At the end of Miles Street, the signs proclaim "Residential Parking Only".
The reason for them is that at the end of the street is
Ewen Fields, the home ground of
Hyde United FC.
A Congregational church was established on Union Street in 1824 and rebuilt in 1843.
Since then it has amalgamated with Chapel Street Baptist church and become "The United Church".
During the week it lets out its carpark to commuters.
Since starting this blog I've got to know most of the length of the Trans Pennine Trail between Apethorn and Godley.
This section is near Werneth Brook. On the left is Donald Avenue and on the right is Grange Road North.
Just up the road from
Mottram Cricket Club is Mottram Library, set back from the main road by a small park.
It isn't just pubs that are closing down these days.
The Nawabi Balti on the corner of Edna Street is currently looking for new owners.
Meanwhile I understand that
Route 66 next door (originally the
Church Inn) has been closed down by the authorities after recent troubles arising there.
As shown in a photo from 1902 on
Old Hyde the Nawabi Balti itself started life as "The Borough Inn".
There is a
double pillar box on the Market Place outside the
Post Office.
At the appointed collection time, a man drives up in a Royal Mail van to empty it and take the mail round the corner to the
sorting office on Hamnett Street.
The CDPB theme today is
Big. When I asked my friends "What's Big in Hyde?" quite a lot of people came up with the boxer
Ricky Hatton.
Last Wednesday Mohammed Ali (aka Cassius Clay) visited Ricky at his
gym in Hyde.
Lots of media people were there beaming their stories about the meeting around the world. I just photographed the photographers.
Check out the video reports on
BBC news and on
BBC Sport.
To find out what is
Big around the world
Click here to view thumbnails for all participants.
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