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.
Can any of you guess where this tunnel is?
Well of course it is somewhere in Hyde, or it wouldn't have a place on this blog, but can you quess what is above the tunnel?
To find the answer, visit
Hyde DP Xtra.
Back in June I showed you an artistic version of the former
Dukinfield Arms on the corner of Birch Lane and Cheetham Hill Road.
Today's photograph of the "Super Saver" grocery shop, as it now is, was taken from the other side of the junction.
Today's contribution to
Skywatch Friday was taken on the first Sunday of the New Year when Swains Valley was covered in crisp snow.
The sun cast
deep shadows [click the link to see] and a snowman was attacked by a
black dog [click the link to see].
The road ahead is Haughton Street. The house on the right behind the squeeze stile is on Markland Street. You can see more of it on this
Christmas Photo [click the link to see].
Markland Street used to run all the way down to Dowson Road but the section to the left is now blocked by the large garages you can see. I showed the detached part in
yesterday's post.
The hand car wash off Dowson Road was closed when I took this photograph one frosty morning a few weeks ago.
Normally during the day it is a hive of activity.
Together with the house in the background, it is on Markland Street which, like some other old streets in Hyde, is now a street in two halves.
I'll show you where the other half is tomorrow.
I first showed you this view of the bend in the Peak Forest Canal in
January 2008 [click link to view].
Then the canal was flowing and on the right the Automasters Factory still dominated the canalside.
This year the canal was frozen over. The factory has gone and behind the trees there are
new homes going up [click link to view].
At the end of the bend there is a
trolly on the ice [click link to view].
In the opposite direction is the
tunnel under the M67 [click link to view].
Another look at the
new homes that are going up on the site formerly occupied by Automasters.
The demolition of Hyde Mill which started in
September 2009 is nearing completion. Just a few walls remain standing.
You can see this gaping hole from a little further away on
Hyde DP Xtra.
A few weeks ago I showed you a view over the side of the
Clarendon Road Viaduct.
Here is another view from the top of the viaduct looking across to Flowery Field Church.
Looking up Hamnett Street from the side of the
Sorting Office towards the
Abbey.
The cleared snow has been piled up on the edge of the pavement, obscuring the double-yellow lines denoting "no parking". I wonder where the traffic wardens were.
This was Gower Road off Dowson Road about midday on Christmas Day.
After Christmas there was a brief respite before the snows took hold again.
To see the top end of Gower Road three days earlier when the first snows came, visit
Hyde DP Xtra.
The last time we looked across the motorway from the Western Clark Road bridge, the
Mary Street facade of the Caxton Works was still to be seen.
Now that most of the rubble on the inside has been cleared, the remaining outer walls have been demolished and you can see right across to Dukinfield Road.
Caxton Works: Earlier Posts
Yet another view of the Peak Forest Canal North of the Manchester Road Bridge.
The willow tree on the right is all bare, whilst on the left, the construction of new housing on the old Automasters site continues apace.
Beyond the shelter of the bridge, thick ice covers the surface of the canal.
Up ahead the canal bends West towards the bridge under the M67. An abandoned supermarket shopping trolley stands waiting for the ice to melt before it sinks.
You can see the trolley more closely on
Hyde DP Xtra.
Previous views of the Peak Forest Canal from Manchester Road:
They are probably not called binmen these days but I'm sure you know what I mean.
It used to be the case that it was the binmen (refuse operatives I presume) who drove the gritters, so when the snow came the bins (that's garbage for the benefit of my american readers) didn't get emptied.
Now the thaw has come so the refuse in the large wheelie-bins at the back of the market in Clarendon Mall can be emptied.
Before these offices behind the bus stop on Market Street were built in 2004 there was a pre-fab here housing the
Welfare Benefits Office which gave out excellent free advice to all who required it.
Presumably the council withdrew its funding, it closed and the building was demolished. For a few years the new building was home to a firm specialising in motorcross accessories but now it is empty again.
Out on
Swains Valley a week ago I came across this dog enjoying itself attacking the remnants of a snowman.
You can see a close-up of the dog on
Ackworth born, gone West.
All this snow has gone now and the green grass shows through again but it is still very cold with patches of ice in places.
For more shadow shots visit
Hey Harriet.
It takes more than a bit of snow to put off the traders and shoppers on Hyde Market.
The
children's carousel may be boarded up but the other traders have been busy clearing the snow into piles so the shoppers can still get around.
Another photograph from the opposite direction can be seen on
Hyde DP Xtra.
Another photo from the 2nd January when the snows first hit town.
This is looking down Clarendon Street from outside
Bosun's where I'd just shared breakfast with my son.
The Quality Save store was originally the Hippodrome Theatre. It closed in the 1960s and the building was converted into a
Supermarket. It actually operated as an "inside market" with various independent stalls on two storeys and included a very popular cafe. That closed in the 1990s and the building was vacant for a few years before opening as Quality Save. Now only the ground floor is used for retailing.
At the bottom of the street is the
Bus Station.
Has the snow gone from Dowson Road? Is this a night time picture?
Well no and no.
What I have done with the photograph is to apply edge highlighting to create this effect.
If you look at the original photograph on
Geograph, you can see that the road is clear and traffic is moving freely. The pavement and verges on the other hand are still full of uncleared snow and ice.
Another photograph from January 2nd.
On the left is the HSBC bank and across the road is the Royal Bank of Scotland on the corner of Corporation Street.
In the centre is the
Crown Pole erected in 2002 to commemorate the Queen's golden jubilee.
See it shortly after erection on
Old HydeSee how it looked in August 2009 on
Hyde DP Xtra.
The first snow of the winter came in
mid-December (click link to view) when I showed you the path leading from Garside Street to the TransPennine Trail.
Pan to the right and surrounding this corner of the Swains Valley are some tall trees that tower above the trail.
The slippery slope that leads down to the trail can be seen on
Hyde DP Xtra.
There has been much more snow since those photographs were taken.
I took a photograph last Sunday after overnight snow covered the whole area with the sun casting deep shadows across towards the entrance to Haughton Street. That photograph can be seen on
Ackworth born, gone West.
Another photograph from
last Saturday.
With more snow throughout the week and plummeting temperatures, I wonder how many stall-holders will be there today but I won't be venturing down to find out.
This was the scene last Saturday morning when I got dropped off in Clarendon Place about 9.30 am. It had been snowing for about an hour and so was fresh.
Compare it with the same scene in
mid-December.
I've no idea how it looks now as I haven't been anywhere near town since.
There is a closer view of the bench on
Ackworth born, gone West.
This was Garside Street on Sunday, January 3rd. Compare it with the view on
New Year's Day and on
Christmas Day.
Since then we have had several more falls of snow and it is probably even thicker now, although I've not ventured out to check.
Between snow showers we have had some bright sunshine but not enough to bring any thaw.
Today is the twelfth day of Christmas and the time has come to take down the decorations.
On
Christmas Day I showed you the Town Hall with all the lights lit up.
So now here is how it looked the Saturday after
New Year with the tree covered in freshly fallen snow.
You can see the top of the Town Hall on
Hyde DP Xtra or the whole view on
Geograph.
For other "Y" posts visit
ABC Wednesday.
More snow photos to come but as respite today's photograph is a mid-December shot of Ashton Road.
This row of terraced houses are across the road from
Hyde Mill.
All the houses seem to have TV dishes. Maybe they'll get better reception now the mill has gone.
Just by the bus stop is the boundary with
Dukinfield.
Not New Year's Day but the first Saturday in January around 9.45 a.m. Hyde Market is on the left and the Town Hall is on the right.
Overnight there had been a sharp frost and fresh snow started falling around 8.30 a.m. so by the time people went out to start shopping even the main roads were affected. The snow had stopped briefly which was when I took this and some other photographs. It soon started snowing again though and continued most of the day.
By lunch time the gritters had been out, the main roads were passable and the market ground was awash with salty slush.
This photograph looking up Market Street was taken from the middle of the road by the bollard you can see in the photograph looking down Market Street which can be found on
Hyde DP Xtra.
It snowed again yesterday and I took a number of very interesting photographs around the town centre, but let's leave them for another day and take a look instead at what has become a fascinating friend for many of my followers.
I've shown you the footbridge with the spiral ramp from various angles and the views therefrom. Today's photograph is a view of the footbridge taken from Clark Way.
Earlier photos of or from the footbridge:
This is a close-up of the slush at the bottom of Garside Street on Christmas Day.
You can see the whole street on
Geograph.
Although the snow at Christmas thawed leaving only a few patches of compacted ice, a sharp frost followed by fresh snow on New Year's morning led to a return of icy conditions as can be seen on
Hyde DP Xtra.
Edit 12:30 pm, 2nd Jan: Snow started falling just before 9am and is still falling so it is white-out again now.
The CDPB theme today is
Changes which (if three years can create a tradition) is a change in itself.
Traditionally today has been when we've published our best photo of the year, but this year that has been put back to January 15th.
As a result of that decision the deadline for voting for Hyde Daily Photo of the Year 2009 has been put back to 11.59 pm GMT on January 2nd, so there is still a little time left to make your choice. There are twelve contenders. Everyone has six votes to cast in the manner they choose. The photographs and voting form can be found at
Best of Hyde 2009.
Meanwhile, my contribution to today's theme is a photograph of Hyde Telephone Ex
change on Water Street.
Click here to view thumbnails for all theme participants
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