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.
With Christmas Day and Boxing Day falling at the weekend this year, Monday and Tuesday were officially UK Bank Holidays.
That means many small shops were closed until Wednesday and the buses were running only a reduced
Sunday service. Not that that stopped the bigger stores and supermarkets opening from Sunday onwards.
Tuesday is usually a very quiet day on Hyde Market anyway but this week it was totally empty - even the snow had gone!
There is a coloured version of this photograph on
Geograph.
For your delight on this Winter Wednesday I thought I'd give you a coloured-pencil presentation of the Xmas lights on Market Street.
The original version can be seen on
Geograph.
For more X posts visit
ABC Wednesday.
Behind St Michaels and All Angels Church at Mottram can be found the Old Grammar School, now a private house.
It is a Grade II listed building and you can view the official description on
Old Hyde.
This is the side entrance to Hyde Park from Park Road opposite Park Drive. This may have been the original entrance to Newton Lodge. The Lodge was the home of the Ashton family who gave the park to the people of Hyde in 1902.
A coloured version of this photograph can be seen on
Geograph.
The same view from the Eastern motorway footbridge by Hyde Bus Station looking under the Clark Way bridge over the M67 as I showed you
last week. That was taken before the latest cold snap hit. This was taken on Friday morning.
As before, I zoomed in on the Pennine Hills but they are now so snowladen that it is hard to tell where the sky begins.
For a view of the footbridge itself and the view in the opposite direction see
Hyde DP Xtra.
See more
Sunday Bridges at
San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.
A merry Christmas everyone.
Our Christmas tree reflected in the mirror of a table. The image has been rotated.
For more weekend reflections visit
Newtown Area Photo.
A Christmas Eve look inside the Central Methodist Church on Crook Street.
A view over snowy roofs towards the Hare & Hounds on Werneth Low.
The morning sun is somewhere behind the tree on the left.
I showed you this wood sculpture in Hyde Park back in March when it was still
an enigma.
The sculpture of a squirrel with a nut was created from a Turkey Oak by Preston-based artist Thompson Dagnall.
The tree was diseased and had to be felled. Rather than remove the tree completely it was felled to a safe height so that it could be sculpted.
Further W posts can be found on
ABC Wednesday.
The Old School House at Mottram is now part of the Community Centre.
It is a listed building. For the official description see
Old Hyde.
A view from the Eastern motorway footbridge by Hyde Bus Station looking under the Clark Way bridge over the M67.
These were taken last Wednesday before the latest cold snap hit.
I zoomed in on the Pennine Hills to capture the slivers of snow.
Now it is white all over.
See more
Sunday Bridges at
San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.
This was taken last Saturday by the frozen Peak Forest Canal next to Aldi superstore.
It is sad to see the debris littering the surface.
I was unaware when I took this late afternoon photograph that half a mile down the canal a man had been found stabbed early that morning. Someone has since been arrested and charged with his murder. Neither were locals.
Another photograph from just a little further beyond can be seen on
Hyde DP Xtra.
See more weekend reflections at
Newtown Area Photo.
Looking up Clarendon Road from just past
the viaduct.
The Police Station is just past the big tree on the left.
This is how Reynard Street in the centre of town looked a couple of weeks ago during our first bout of wintry weather.
Despite the conditions, the charity shop in
Quadrant House was open.
More snow is now forecast and today or tomorrow it may well look something like this yet again.
The time has come to vote for the best of Hyde Daily Photograph 2010.
The thumbnails above are just a taster. See the full sized photographs and vote for your three favourites from the twelve contenders at
Best of Hyde 2010.
Voting closes at noon GMT on 29th December 2010.
Visit
ABC Wednesday for more V posts.
On Saturday morning a group of musicians belonging to local churches led carol singing in Clarendon Mall.
There is another photograph of them on
Hyde DP Xtra.
The Bayley Hall in Hyde Park was converted last year into a café run by
Tameside Disability Living Services and is a roaring success for both customers and staff.
You can read all about it on this
Tameside MBC webpage.
This photograph from Summer 2009 features the village stocks at Mottram-in-Longdendale.
The stocks are a "Grade II listed building" - for the official description and an earlier photograph see
Old Hyde.
For more shadow shots visit
Hey Harriet.
The snows may have thawed for now but a week ago it was treacherous in town. No-one was sitting on the old tramstop seat. Inside the Post Office the queues stretched to the door with folk buying stamps for their Christmas cards.
It is usually magpies and crows that I see outside my window these days, but on Tuesday a pied wagtail came to visit. I grabbed my camera and just managed to get two shots.
For more information about pied wagtails visit the
RSPB website.
A late autumn look at the bandstand in Hyde Park.
It is a Grade II listed building and you can see the details of its listing on
Old Hyde.
This one passes under Stockport Road at Hattersley.
It leads from Chain Bar Lane into the estate proper.
Visit
ABC Wednesday for more U posts.
Sturdy early Victorian warehouses on Great Norbury Street still in use today.
I took this photo when I was walking down Market Street to watch the
switching on of the Christmas lights.
The pizza place would have been open for an hour or so and stay open until after midnight. The newsagents next door would have been open from early morning and be closing after the evening rush hour.
In the mile from the top of Market Street to the
shops on Manchester Road there must be more than a couple of dozen different takeaway food shops. Whether it is pizza, kebabs, fish and chips, burgers, curry, fried chicken, Indian, Chinese or whatever is your fancy, there is no excuse to go hungry in Hyde.
Compare this view of the Clarendon Viaduct with the one I posted in
December 2009.
It is still a derelict site with no public access and I imagine few of the people driving across it even realise they are on a viaduct as this view can only be seen by leaning over the wall.
This viaduct was erected in 1904.
See more
Sunday Bridges at
San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.
Last Saturday morning and as can be seen in this shot of Clarendon Place looking from the Jolly Carter towards the Queens we only had but a scattering of light snow.
The snow finally hit with a vengeance on
Wednesday morning.
Friday morning was fine, the main roads were clear and the buses were running, so I finally made it into town early afternoon. The side streets even in the town centre had hardly been touched and the footpaths were still full of hard packed snow.
Check out the slush on the other side of Clarendon Mall on
Hyde DP Xtra.
A couple of weeks ago we met these two stiltwalkers in Clarendon Mall.
They told us their names were Frosty and Sparkle.
The snow finally hit us yesterday morning but the milkman still got through.
This was the scene around 7.30am. It snowed quite heavily off and on during the day and though the main road saw traffic flowing slowly hardly anyone tried to move their cars.
I don't think I'll be going anywhere for the next few days or so.
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