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.
Here is the Western edge of Werneth Low
["Low" is an Old English word meaning "hill"].Poking into view is the steeple of Hyde Chapel.
You can tell from the trees which way the wind blows.
Today is theme day for members of City Daily Photoblogs and this month the theme is
Edges.
Click here to view thumbnails for all participants.
Next week Hyde DP will be five years old!
OK it is February now, but I wasn't able to post this earlier.
A view over snowy roofs towards the Hare & Hounds on Werneth Low.
The morning sun is somewhere behind the tree on the left.
I had the pleasure of visiting Werneth Low Golf Club last week and took a few shots from the clubhouse.
Camera shots, that is; I've never lifted a golf club in my life, a few rounds of
Crazy Golf excepted.
According to the
club website the course was founded in 1912.
There may have been an earlier clubhouse - see the post on Tom & Nancy's
Hyde Cheshire blog.
Another four photographs can be found on
Hyde DP Xtra.
Yesterday was the summer equinox which started for me shortly after sunrise at 5am BST (4am GMT) when, still rather bleary-eyed, I leaned out of the window and aimed my zoom lens at the Hare & Hounds up on Werneth Low. I then went back to bed.
This is how it looked at noon GMT (1pm BST).
Sunset was at around 21:45 BST (8.45pm GMT) which is when I took this third shot of the day.
See how it looked at the same time
last year.
These communication masts on Werneth Low Road are just up the road from
Windy Harbour.
They can be seen in older views from 1993 and 1999 on
Old Hyde.
For more M posts visit
ABC Wednesday.
Site of the restaurant at
Windy Harbour.
Windy Harbour has had mixed fortunes over the years. Once it was a popular restaurant but at various times the buildings here have lain vacant. Despite plans for a new restaurant and hotel, the buildings were badly damaged by arsonists and demolished in 2000. Since then no plans to restore the facility have come to fruition. The carpark has been fenced off.
The only photographs I have of the old restaurant are from a distance but you can see them on
Old Hyde.
Well it looks like it doesn't it?
Actually
Journey's End is the name of the private house on the right which has an entrance off
Cock Brow.
The public footpath from
Windy Harbour leads left of Journey's End over Idle Hill towards
Low End Farm.
For more J posts visit
ABC Wednesday.
Spring is coming in like a lion this year with a lot of wet weather.
Late yesterday afternoon dark clouds hovered over Werneth Low and heavy rain arrived.
Shortly afterwards a rainbow appeared. Because of the angle of roofs and windows that don't open wide, I wasn't able to capture the full semi-circle. I was however able to catch the edge of it on the left horizon in this shot looking towards the Hare and Hounds on the right horizon.
About ten minutes after I took this photograph, the skies darkened, the rainbow disappeared and the rain returned.
This is a similar photograph to the one I posted two weeks ago
Hightailing it on Werneth Low. It was taken about half an hour earlier and a few feet further East. It shows the footpath leading onto the Low.
Winter Hill and the Lancashire Fells are in the far distance.
For visions of the sky around the world, visit
Skywatch Friday.
Meanwhile, Renee of
Rochester Daily Photo [dead link deleted] has sent us the Sunshine Award. Please see the details on
Hyde DP Xtra. I've passed it on to 12 other deserving blogs. Please take a look and visit them if you can.
Last week I showed you the view North from
Windy Harbour viewpoint.
This is the view East across the flank of Werneth Low.
{Do click on the photograph to see it full size.} In near-distance is the
War Memorial on Hacking Knife. In mid-distance is Audenshaw Reservoir and beyond the Northern parts of the Manchester conurbation.
See the view East from Windy Harbour on
Hyde DP Xtra.
Lumn and Lower Cliff are a couple of farms off Apple Street on the South-East edge of Werneth Low overlooking the
Etherow Valley.
A week or so ago I posted
February Fields. In the background was Back o' th' Hill which is farmland on the Western slope of Werneth Low.
This is some two to three miles from the Eastern edge of the Low past
Windy Harbour.
Looking over the plinth at Windy Harbour viewpoint towards the Lancashire fells beyond Oldham and Rochdale.
The building dominating the near background is the
Kerry Foods Factory and West of that is
Godley Reservoir.
A detailed view of the toposcope plinth can be seen on
Hyde DP Extra.
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.
Last week a friend, who regularly walks her dog on Werneth Low, took me up to Windy Harbour on the Eastern edge of the Low.
It was cold and icy but sunny. I took quite a number of photographs in an area that is normally a bit too far off the beaten track for me to get to. I'll be showing you some of them, off and on, over the next few weeks.
You can see the whole dog on
Ackworth born, gone West.
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.
For more F posts visit
ABC Wednesday.
Looking from Grange Road South over Alder School towards Mottram Old Road and Werneth Low.
The
original photograph has been post-processed as a pencil sketch.
The last time I showed you the Hare & Hounds on Werneth Low was at
mid-summer.
This was taken at 8.30am on the 1st December when the sun was just beginning to rise over the Low and melt the heavy overnight frost.
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