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.
A cold Thursday afternoon on Hyde Market.
One of a pair of mousers that have been seen patrolling the pavements around Clarendon Square. They live, I'm given to believe, in the rear of a nearby store.
More K posts can be found at
ABC Wednesday.
This is the sign for the White Hart at Mottram-in-Longdendale.
See the whole pub on
Hyde DP Xtra.
Reflected in the entrance to Clarendon Square Shopping Centre is the Ring & Ride bus outside the Jolly Carter.
More weekend reflections at
Newtown Area Photo.
Last week's super moon passing over the nearby trees.
For more views of the heavens visit
Skywatch Friday.
A view now of the Peak Forest Canal from Moorside Place, the housing estate built on the site of the former Automasters Engineering Works.
As the building works near completion there is now easy access from Ann Street to the canal towpath. What it will look like when these young trees grow up remains to be seen.
It was only a few weeks ago that I posted a photograph of the
Bengal Spice which replaced the
"Bay Leaf" that replaced the
"Garlic".
Now it has become the
"Jaipur".
For more J posts visit
ABC Wednesday.
The sluice gates on the Peak Forest Canal have been spruced up and cleaned out.
See how it looked in
February 2008 with barbed wire on top of the graffiti-covered brick wall hiding Automasters Engineering Works.
Now behind the low railings are new homes.
See also how it looked last September on
Geograph when the sluice was clogged up with algae.
For the Eastward view along the canal see
Hyde DP Xtra.
I must have been by this sign many hundreds of times but I only noticed it very recently.
I know nothing of its history.
To see where it is visit
Hyde DP Xtra.
Last week I showed you a
bridge over Gower Hey Brook and the steps that lead to King George Road.
I went back there last week, crossed the bridge, climbed a few steps and took this looking down on the bridge with the sun casting the shadows of trees across it.
For the original wider and coloured version see
Geograph.
For more shadows visit
Hey Harriet.
For more bridges visit
San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.
Reflections in the upper windows of Bridgford's Estate Agents on Market Street.
For more Weekend Reflections visit
Newtown Area Photo.
This view from Nursery Road has opened up since I showed it in
February 2010 when the canal was frozen and before the demolition of
Toray Mill.
I posted a closer view of the mill site last week on
Hyde DP Xtra.
What more is there to say?
The latest occupant of the premises on the corner of Market Street and Croft Street is
Inspired Jewellery who seem to have been in business for quite some time and have now moved to these larger premises.
It used to be the offices of an Estate Agent but that closed down recently. Mind you there are two estate agents on Market Street on the other side past Croft Street and another two lower down in the same block below the florists.
For more I posts visit
ABC Wednesday.
The end house on the corner of
Dukinfield Road and Throstle Nest street was built in 1880.
A couple of cyclists on the towpath of the Peak Forest Canal passing under the M67 motorway.
In October 2009 I asked you to
choose your path out of Gower Hey Wood.
This is the right hand path leading to
Osborne Road.
Although now only a footpath, in the mid-19th century it was a busy road sett with cobbles leading to an industrial complex in the valley but none of that now remains.
On land at the corner of
Throstle Bank Street and
Dukinfield Road, in the Flowery Field area of town, is a piece of public art.
It looks like a sundial but lacks any figures that would indicate the hours. I think it might be a monument to the former industrial activity in the area, or perhaps it's just abstract art.
See the view in the opposite direction on
Hyde DP Xtra.
This memorial is all that is left of Hyde Lad's Club, opened in 1930 by
Prince Henry, third son of George V.
It is a rebuild of the memorial which was "knocked down" in
February.
The Club was on Beeley Street - see photos on
Hyde Cheshire.
According to Thomas Middleton's
History of Hyde (1932)
The Hyde's Lads' Club is one of the most novel social ventures of the day, and has excited interest throughout the country. It was founded by Mr. J.W.A. Danby, Chief Constable Of Hyde, and was opened on October 5th, 1928 in a room in the Town hall. As the membership rose to 316 in the first three weeks, the club was removed to the Wesleyan School on Water Street, where it continued to flourish. Then Mr. Danby acquired the Old Police Buildings and site in Beeley Street; the building was transformed; games rooms, library, reading-room and small lecture rooms were adapted from existing rooms; a large assembly room was made out of the old court room, and a billiards room was arranged beneath it. A large hall and gymnasium was erected on part of the site; and when completed the premises provided for every phase of work associated with such a club.
The new buildings were opened by H.R.H. Prince Henry, Duke Of Gloucester, K.G., on February 6th, 1930, and were inspected by the Home Secretary, the Right Honrable, J.R. Clynes, M.P. in 1931. The club has received the warm commendation of some of the leading social reformers of the day. The main purpose of the Club is the prevention of juvenile crime, and to rescue those who are criminally inclined by bringing them into contact with clean-living boys, and transferring their inclinations into a more healthy channel. The principal features of the Club are games, physical training and gymnastics, classes in First Aid, Library, Dramatic Society, and other educational agencies, and each Sunday evening a short service is held. The boys are in the hands of fully qualified instuctors, whose services are voluntary. The Chief Constable's hope was that the Club may be looked upon as a place where boys may spend their spare time away from the streets, and improve themselves physically, religiously, and morally.
The notice above the name-slab mentions nothing about the good Mr. Danby but reads
TO COMMEMORATE HIS HONOUR JUDGE THOMAS HUGHES AUTHOR OF "TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS" WHO USED THIS BUILDING AS COUNTY COURT JUDGE DURING THE YEARS 1882-1896
In the earlier 1990s it was demolished to make way for a car park - see photos of the demolition on
Hyde Cheshire.
For more H posts visit
ABC Wednesday
Now that some of the houses on Moorside Place are occupied, the new road open and the fence by the towpath removed, the view of the bend in the Peak Forest Canal has been opened up.
Compare it with the views in
Back in 2007 I reported on the campaign to
Save our Scout Group after the 3rd Gee Cross Scout hut was destroyed by storms.
The building work on the new hut is being spread over two phases. The first has been completed giving them a hall, kitchen. toilets and upper storey storage.
The second phase of building will provide a larger hall and bigger kitchen.
More information can be found on their
new website.
Two further pictures can be seen on
Hyde DP Xtra.
A view now of the Manchester Road bridge over the Peak Forest Canal.
It is taken from Moorside Place, an estate of new houses built on the site of the Automasters Engineering Works.
See how it looked in
January 2008 before the factory was demolished.
Manchester Road Canal Bridge was built in 1804. The original elliptical-arch tunnel which is grooved for stop planks was widened to the North in the mid 1800s with a truncated elliptical keystone arch which is now partly obscured by the 20th century footpath bridge.
See my post from
December 2008 for a view of the bridge from the South and an explanation of the term "roving bridge".
Across the canal is
Wharfingers House. This canal warehouse built in 1828 is a Grade II listed building now used as offices.
For the view in the opposite direction looking from the top of the bridge see
Hyde DP Xtra.
For more Sunday bridges visit
San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.
A look up Dukinfield Road from the end of Throstle Bank Street during a brief spell of sunny weather last Saturday afternoon.
The road is the A627 leading to Ashton under Lyne.
The long row of houses on the left date from 1880.
For more sky shots visit
Skywatch Friday.
The shop on Market Place between
Oakland Furnishers and the
Jolly Carter has been home to many short-lived businesses in the last few years.
It is re-opening soon as
Wild's Cards a business that is re-locating from inside Clarendon Mall.
The stream flowing through Gower Hey Woods just before it disappears into
a culvert.
See how it looked in
May 2010.
For more G posts visit
ABC Wednesday.
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