Haughton Dale Nature Reserve

This is the entrance to Haughton Dale Nature Reserve off Mill Lane.

On the left is the River Tame on the other side of which once stood Hyde Hall.

Here was Glass House Fold, where a company of refugee Flemish glass makers and blowers had settled during the reign of Elizabeth I and where the Clarke family worked coal pits but these were abandoned by the mid 19th century.

Nowadays Haughton Dale is the largest reserve in Tameside covering 40 hectares.

The River Tame (a sepia view)

Taken some weeks ago from near the entrance to Haughton Dale off Mill Lane.

Hyde Mill Wasted

Hyde Mill was demolished last year and now the site has been cleared.

The trees in the background hide from view three schools off Yew Tree Lane in Dukinfield.

Another photo of this wasteland can be found on Hyde DP Xtra.

Up the Junction 2010

I recently took this photograph of the junction of Cheetham Hill Road with Birch Lane/Ashton Road from outside the former Dukinfield Arms.

Compare this with the photograph on Old Hyde which Alan Young took twenty years ago from the same spot.

The building on the left of which we can see just the gable end is no longer the Junction Inn. Like others it has been converted into a private residence.

There is now a shelter by the bus stop.

Apart from these changes it looks very much the same now as it did then.

Impenetrable Impasse

This thick wood, a western enclave of the of the once extensive Gower Hey Wood, lies south of Wood End Farm overlooking (if you could see through it) the river Tame as it flows through Haughton Dale.

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Upper Reaches of the Etherow Valley

The Northern side of Werneth Low looks out over the Manchester conurbation.

This is the other, quieter side that looks over the Etherow Valley across towards Stirrup, Ernocroft Wood and Compstall.

Junction Street

Remember my post of the entrance to Hyde North Station?

This is the other end of Junction Street as it joins the A627 main road. The right fork leads to Victoria Road, Dukinfield. The left fork leads to Dukinfield Road, Hyde.

Behind the tree-lined triangle is the Village Hotel.

February Fields

These fields are on the boundary of Gee Cross, Tameside and Woodley, Stockport.

In the background is the Western slope of Werneth Low leading to Back o' th' Hill.

I'm not sure if that is hard frost or light snow up top.

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Looking Down Johnsonbrook Road

Johnsonbrook Road runs along the boundary between Hyde and Dukinfield from near the former Dukinfield Arms past a green space and down to a tunnel near Hyde North Station.

Take a look UP Johnsonbrook Road on Hyde DP Xtra.

Big Tree 2007

The original "Big Tree", which stood at the corner of Lilly Street and Stockport Road by the Diamond Row reservoir, traditionally marked the boundary between Hyde and Gee Cross.

The reservoir was covered and the nearby Diamond Row cottages were demolished, to create an open space.

In 1983 a new "big tree" was planted as a memorial to sacrifices made in Northern Ireland and the Falklands.

This photograph was taken in 2007; compare it with Janet Howie's photograph taken in September 1983 on Old Hyde.

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The Former Dukinfield Arms

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.

Ashton Road

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.

The Stockport Boundary

I recently showed you the old Werneth Bredbury Boundary Stone on the A560.

This is the modern boundary sign on the opposite side of the road.

I've aged the photograph to try and give it a bit more charachter!

Just up the road is the bus stop from which I took my Autumn Leaves photograph.

You can see the road from a little further back towards Stockport on Hyde DP Xtra.

Kingston Lodge

Opposite the Farm at Broomstairs is Kingston Lodge.

It is now very much hidden by trees but from the shape of the building I think it must originally have been a turnpike house. They were built to have a good view up and down the road. At Broomstairs boundary between Hyde and Denton this would have been where traffic on the route from Manchester to Sheffield would have had to stop to pay a toll for using the road, which is now the A57.

Green off Johnson Brook Road

This green space is just off Johnson Brook Road which leads down from near the Dukinfield Arms to the tunnel at Hyde North.

It was taken in spring time!

Autumn Leaves

Autumn is here and the winds blowing from the North have collected the leaves into piles alongside the pavement opposite the Joshua Bradley near the Stockport boundary.

The Werneth Bredbury Boundary Stone

In the wall outside what is now the Joshua Bradley a stone marks the boundary between the ancient townships of Werneth and Bredbury.

Now it is the boundary between the Metropolitian Boroughs of Tameside and Stockport.

You can see the wall in context from across the road on Hyde DP Xtra and a 1984 closeup by Janet Howie on Old Hyde.

Dukinfield Arms

Just over the border at the junction of Cheetham Hill Road and Birch Lane is the Dukinfield Arms.

At least it used to be, but the pub closed some years ago and was converted into a licensed grocers.

The View from the Bench

Last week I asked people what they thought they might see from this bench.

The majority guess was for the canal, but that was wrong.

Dick with his Eye on Texel suggested a walking path and trees and he isn't wrong as this is a section of the Tameside Trail.

Meditteranian Kiwi in Hania said a river and is not wrong neither as the bench overlooks a bend in the River Tame.

What nobody guessed (and why should they?) is that across the river is the Kingston Sewage Works. The area was once nick-named the Kingston Stink but I think that was more to do with a factory in the area rather than the sewage works.

The bench, by the way, is actually over the border in Haughton Green, but who cares about that?

Mill Lane

Mill Lane links Haughton Green to Hyde.

The bridge over the River Tame was erected in 1895.

Haughton Green is part of Denton, Lancashire and uses a Manchester postcode, whilst Hyde is part of Cheshire and uses a Stockport postcode.

Since 1974 both are part of Tameside Metropolitan Borough in the administrative county of Great Manchester. The continued existence of administrative counties called Cheshire and Lancashire does not alter the boundaries of the geographical counties.