Weekend Reflections: Travis Street

Travis Street runs between Nelson Street and Union Street and then across Union Street to Iceland.

You can view the fuller picture on Geograph.

For more weekend reflections visit Newtown Area Photo.

Waiting at Newton Station

I took this a few weeks OK when it was fine weather.

A Manchester bound train is pulling into Newton (for Hyde) station.

The one waiting passenger seems engrossed in her book as it approaches, but the train did stop and she did get on.

Broadbottom Scarecrows 2010

These scarecrows were to be seen recently in the stable block at the Etherow Centre.

The scarecrow competition is now an annual event organised by the Broadbottom Community Association. You can see all of the 2010 entries on the Broadbottom Village website.

ABC WednesdayBus Station, Hyde 2010

Bus Station, Hyde 2010. In the background is the now closed Astoria Bingo Hall.

Hyde got a new bus station in 2005. The buses circulate around the outside while passengers wait within an all-weather designed area.

In the previous bus station, passengers waited on the outside under draughty "shelters" with inadequate seating.

An even earlier bus station can be seen on Old Hyde.

For more B posts visit ABC Wednesday

The Beautiful Game Brings The World Together

Well Dressing is not confined to Derbyshire but takes place in a few surrounding counties too.

It was Gee Cross Well Dressing ceremony a few weeks ago. I've already shown you Booth's Well.

A walk is taken to six sites around the village and the wells are blessed. After Booth's Well the parade goes to two wells up Joel Lane. I didn't get up there this year. The fourth and fifth stops I'll show you at a later date.

The final blessing takes place outside Hyde Chapel where the display this year was The Beautiful Game Brings The World Together produced by year 7 students from Alder Community High School.

Their theme for 2010 was the World Cup. The display, made out of recycled materials, tries to show that saving the world's resources is everyone's responsibility and that the World Cup is a way of bringing people together to celebrate all the different nations of the world.

Kingston Recreation Ground (site of Hyde Hall)

Kingston Recreation Ground lies off Mill Lane above the River Tame. The area was originally the site of Hyde Hall the family estate of Hyde John Clarke.

The original Hyde Hall, dating from the seventeenth century, was considerably altered in the mid eighteenth century creating a Georgian country house. The hall was demolished in 1857, although a farm building survived into the twentieth century. The site of the Hall was purchased by Hyde Corporation in 1924.

Another photograph of Kingston Recreation Ground can be found on Hyde DP Xtra.

A view of Hyde Hall in 1794 and more details about its history can be found on Old Hyde.

Etherow Riding Arena

The riding arena at the Etherow Centre in Broadbottom.

The Etherow Centre is a charitable trust that looks after a converted railway warehouse.

The property and surrounding land were purchased from British Rail Property Board in 1985. Renovation work began in 1986 and the initial phase was the restoration and adaptation of the lower floor to create an indoor riding centre.

The second phase of the renovation work in 1987 involved the adaptation and restoration of the upper floor to create a permanent indoor gymnastics facility.

In 1989 funding from Children In Need, small charitable trusts and individual donations enabled the building of this outdoor riding area for the Kingfisher Riding for the Disabled Group.

In 1997 a stable block was added.

In 2009 the Tameside School of Gymnastics moved to Pinfold in Hattersley and the upper floor of the centre was modified to provide a home for indoor bowling and other community activities. The Etherow Bowling and Activity Centre, run by Tameside Sports Trust features an indoor bowling green built to national league standard.

See Hyde DP Xtra for a view of the centre from Broadbottom station car park and The Etherow Centre's website for more about their work.

Weekend Reflections: Hyde Town Hall

The typical British Summer: two fine days and a thunderstorm!

When the heavy rain hit Hyde last Saturday the market traders hardly had time to cover their wares.

I took a shot of the Town Hall reflected in the waters across the market ground.

A fuller version can be seen on Hyde DP Xtra.

For more weekend reflections visit Newton Area Photo.

Cycle for Life

The "Dowson Trail" is a series of footpaths around the playing fields of Dowson Primary School. This is by the Balmoral road entrance.

Gower Hey Woods are in the background.

Another view of the playing fields from the York Road entrance can be found on Hyde DP Xtra.

The Queens' Chimneys

Last week I asked you Where are these chimneys?.

Darryl & Ruth from Williamsburg, Virginia were almost right in suggesting they belonged to an old hotel, but Steffen from Stuttgart was more spot on by describing at as pub.

As Ian said

not every passer by will have a clue unless they walk around looking upwards

Not surprisingly, Ghost of Red Pump Street correctly identified them as belonging to The Queens on Clarendon Place.

In a Pub Cricket game, The Queens might score 12 - look at the Inn Sign - it refers to the wives of Henry VIII.

ABC WednesdayA is for Animal Shelter

The Tameside Animal Shelter can be found at the end of Raglan Street by the side of the Peak Forest Canal just beyond yesterday's photograph of a canal-user asleep.

They have a fund-raising shop on Reynold Street.

This part of the canal is called Over Yonder and on the other side are the old Adamson mills which can seen on Hyde DP Xtra.

For more A posts visit ABC Wednesday.

Asleep by the Canal

Earlier this month I posted a photograph of the Peak Forest Canal near Aldi.

A little lower down the towpath a narrowboat was parked and one of its occupants was laid out on the grass fast asleep.

Lillybank Stores

Lillybank Stores lies on the corner of Stockport Road and Lilly Street near to the Big Tree Memorial.

The plaque on the wall of the attached cottage bears the date 1862 and as you can see in the close-up on Hyde DP Xtra is spelled with a single L.

Shadow Shot Sunday:Rosemary Drive, Gee Cross

In the bright sunshine last Sunday I found myself walking down a quiet cul-de-sac called Rosemary Drive.

Looking back from the end of it the little lane was covered in shadows.

You can see the full, uncropped, colour version showing more of the lane itself on Geograph.

For more shadow shots visit Hey Harriet.

Weekend Reflections: Queen Adelaide's Vault

In most old pubs the rooms were divided into various classes such as "Public", "Saloon", "Snug" each catering for different types of clientèle.

The front rooms at the Queen Adelaide in Gee Cross were the "Bar Parlour" which probably housed a piano for entertainment and the "Vault" which probably catered for the more hardened regulars.

Reflected in the window of the "Vault" is the door of the house opposite.

You can see the pub itself and the "Bar Parlour" window on Hyde DP Xtra.

For more weekend reflections visit Newton Area Photos.

Thistley Fields

Last week I showed you Foxholes Road at the point where it divides into two sections.

They meet again at Thistley Fields where an old terrace (a row of two-storey cottages) now looks across at the modern houses in Foxholes Road.

Behind my viewpoint is a footpath that leads towards the bottom of Apethorn Lane.

On Hyde DP Xtra is a photograph of the modern houses on the Eastern arm of Foxholes Road.

Where are these chimneys?

A quiz photo for you today.

For non-local readers, the question is, what sort of building sports these chimneys.

For local readers though the question is exactly where are these chimneys.

The answer will posted next Thursday, so to give non-locals a chance to make an intelligent (or wild) guess first, perhaps the locals will wait until after the weekend before posting their answers.

Zibba Hairdressing

Across Market Street from Nelson Street is Church Street.

On the corner is Zibba hairdressing. A few years ago it was a computer shop and before that ... I don't remember.

For more Z posts visit ABC Wednesday.

Broadbottom Station Car Park 2010

I recently posted a photograph of Broadbottom Station taken from Moss Lane.

This is from the other side of the station looking West from Mottram Road down into the car park.

Compare it now with Ben Brooksbank's 1965 photograph on Old Hyde taken from about the same point. Then there was a huge ramp in the car park and a clear view of the station buildings and Moss Lane bridge. The car park is much fuller now and the abundant foliage obscures any view of the station buildings.

Over the RainbowBooth's Well 2010

Yesterday was the 2010 Gee Cross Well Dressing ceremony.

Booth's Well is decorated by members of the Gee Cross & District Women's Institute.

The 2010 theme is "Over the Rainbow" from the "Wizard of Oz".

A closer view can be seen on Hyde DP Xtra.

More information about the Well Dressing in Gee Cross can be found on History Alive Tameside.

Hatton Grange

Two years ago I showed you a crane over The Unity.

In March 2009 I showed you the view across the Croft Millennium Green towards Onward Street and Hatton Grange which was then nearing completion.

The new residential care home built on the site of the old Hyde Police Station was opened in Autumn 2009.

This is the view from Oldham Street along Onward Street.

Waverley Road Green

A green space in the middle of the Cheetham Fold estate.

Foxholes Road (North)

Foxholes Road leads South from the junction of Grosvenor Road and Grosvenor Crescent.

Beyond its second junction with Grosvenor Crescent, it divides into two. Confusingly, both arms are called Foxholes Road and they meet at Thistley Fields, which I'll show you at a later date.

Meanwhile you can see more of Grosvenor Crescent on Hyde DP Xtra.

At The Edge of Dowson Road Bridge

This the edge of the Dowson Road Bridge where it crosses the Trans Pennine Trail.

You can see the original version of this shot on Geograph.

You can see a closer view of the tree stump on Hyde DP Xtra.

ABC Wednesday:Y is for Yorkshire Bank

The Hyde branch of the Yorkshire Bank is on Market Street in the Town Hall Buildings sandwiched now between the Chicken Hut and Subway.

Check out the 1990 view on Old Hyde and you'll notice that it had different neighbours twenty years ago. The shop above was Etcetera which I think was a ladies dress and accessories shop. The shop below was Granada TV Sales & Rentals and to the right of that was Greenwoods Gents Outfitters.

According to Wikipedia

the bank was established on 1 May 1859 by Colonel Edward Akroyd of Halifax. Based in Leeds it was known as the West Riding Penny Savings Bank. It had originally been planned as a provident society but the status of savings bank was eventually chosen. ... The bank was operated on a non-profit making basis and in 1860 it was decided to extend operation to the other ridings of Yorkshire {and later obviously to surrounding counties}.

To recognise this the name was changed to the Yorkshire Penny Bank. In 1872 it issued cheque books for the first time, primarily for small tradesmen. At that time the bank became the first to create school banks, to encourage the idea of saving at an early age. {I recall as a child having a number of savings boxes and piggy-banks donated by the YPB}

... In its centenary year of 1959 the bank's name changed to the more familiar Yorkshire Bank Limited. During the 1970s the bank became one of the first to offer fee-free banking whilst in credit, a move that took bigger rivals a decade to follow. In 1982 it adopted public limited company status.

In 1990 it was acquired by the National Australia Bank who in 2005 announced its intention to merge the Yorkshire Bank with the Clydesdale under one operating licence, in which the former would be a trading name of the latter. Both operate under separate identities although the Clydesdale brand is the one that has been used in further expansion into the south of England.

For more Y posts visit ABC Wednesday.

Diamond Row Open Space

On the site of a covered reservoir named after a group of cottages which were on the corner of Back Bower Lane and Stockport Road.

Broadbottom Station 2010

This view of Broadbottom Station with a train just waiting to depart for Manchester Piccadilly was taken from just below the bridge on Moss Lane.

You can see how it looked from the same position in 1965 on Old Hyde.

You can see Moss Lane and the bridge itself on Hyde DP Xtra.

Shadow Shot Sunday:Shadows on a Fence

These shadows thrown on a fence are by the side of the footpath that runs between Clough Fold Road and the junction of Grosvenor Road and Grosvenor Crescent with Foxholes Road.

The original photograph from which this was cropped can be viewed on Geograph.

Another view of this same footpath looking in the opposite direction can be found on Hyde DP Xtra.

More shadow shots can be found at Hey Harriet.

Weekend Reflections:At the back of Aldi

Alongside the Peak Forest Canal banks of white flowers are reflected in the water.

The building in the background is the Aldi supermarket.

The last time I showed you a bit of Aldi there was ice on the canal.

For more weekend reflections visit Newton Area Photo

17 Nelson Street

Nelson Street runs parallel to Vernon Street and similarly consists of Victorian terraced houses.

One terrace has been demolished and the land used to provide a car park for residents.

The house on the other side of the street is #17 which has a blue plaque commemorating the artist, Harry Rutherford, who had his home and studio here.

There is a close-up of the plaque and more information on Hyde DP Xtra.

July 1st 2010CDPB Theme: Reflections

The Jolly Carter in the windows of Lloyds TSB Bank.

The CDPB theme is "Reflections".

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