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Sun 30 Sep 2018
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The present Glenlyon Church was built in 1828 and is
now the only church in the glen. |
Glenlyon Church, Scotland |
The church behind the trees |
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Returning home from Scotland I stopped by the Tay Bridge at
Aberfeldy to photograph the St Andrews University canoe club
passing under the bridge. Tay Bridge is also known as "General
Wade's Bridge" and was one of around 40 important bridges built
by General George Wade as part of a network of 250 miles of new
roads built across the Highlands in the aftermath of the 1715
Jacobite uprising. The bridge was formally opened in August
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Thu 27 Sep 2018
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Return to McGregor's Cave Scotland near the Schiehallion
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Interior |
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Wed 26 Sep 2018
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Ian Rae cutting down the last tree on the land adjacent to my
garden. He had to leave it for a while until a nesting pigeon
had left. |
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Mon 24 Sep 2018
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Leaving Cramond Island to head home |
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Rodney Street Tunnel Glasgow |
Rodney Street Tunnel |
Heading home from Edinburgh
Waverley Railway Station |
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Sun 23 Sep 2018
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At Burnside west of Edinburgh is this Standing stone and
tumuli in the background. |
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Apples on Cramond Island |
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Sat 22 Sep 2018
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Fly Agaric on the approach to Livingston |
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Fri 21 Sep 2018
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Off to Scotland with my bike to do some exploring. First stage
is the train from Preston to Glasgow. |
Preston Railway Station |
Stan Laurel (1890 - 1965) |
The Britannia Music Hall,
Trongate, Glasgow, Scotland is the oldest surviving music hall
in the world. It was built in 1857 In 1906 Stan Laurel (1890 -
1965) made his first stage appearance there on amateur night. |
Britannia Music Hall |
Britannia Music Hall |
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Riding through Coatbridge, Scotland |
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Tue 18 Sep 2018
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A very windy Coledale Hause, Cumbria. Shortly after taking this
photo I had to turn back because of the wind. |
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Sun 16 Sep 2018
Today Simon Yates won the
Vuelta a España Tour of Spain
As a mediocre racing
cyclist way back in the 1960s how could I ever, ever, ever have
imagined this could happen?
British cycling celebrates
historic triple of Grand Tour success.
Chris Froome wins the
Giro d'Italia,
Geraint Thomas wins the Tour de France,
and
Simon Yates wins the Vuelta a España.
No nation had ever
taken all three Grand Tours in the same year with different
riders. |
Chris
Froome, Geraint Thomas & Simon Yates. |
My brother Dean reminded my that way back in 1969 the
Divisional Road Race Championships I won has the results on the
internet. |
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Cycled to Brinscall to take this photo of the Pike Lowe
Reservoir roof with the trig post showing in the middle. |
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Sat 15 Sep 2018
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The first new car I bought was this Peugeot 106 in the year
2000. It was a fantastic car and gave me over 100,000miles of
trouble free motoring. I got another car in 2008 and gave this
Peugeot to my daughter and asked if she could try and get it to
200,000miles. Ten years later the car is still with us with a
current mileage of 205,410. Jill and Pete have kept her going
with a lot of work, welding and TLC. Unfortunately there is too
much work to get her through the next MOT so the car is now
advertised on eBay for spares and bids are coming in. A
fantastic family car and she still looks as good as the day I
bought her and we’ll both miss her. |
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Fri 14 Sep 2018
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The National Open Heritage weekend is underway and several
locations around Chorley are open to the public. This morning
(Fri 14 Sep 2018) I visited St George’s Church, Chorley and was
given a fascinating insight into the church and how it came to
be. Bill Walker gave an illustrated presentation on the 1818
Church Building Act which provided funding to increase church
capacity as the Industrial Revolution, especially in Chorley,
meant that the population was increasing too fast for church pew
places. Without the Act St George’s wouldn’t have been built.
The church was built between 1822 and 1825 to a design by Thomas
Rickman. A fascinating design feature are the cast iron
hammerbeams high up in the roof area. The bells are also of
interest as they were installed as a WW1 memorial. A marble
plaque gives the names of the St George’s men who died in WW1.
The bells consist of an Ellacombe Chime which means they can be
operated by a single operator and the bells are static and hit
by hammers. I was even allowed to ring the bells, a first for
me. |
St George's Church interior |
St George's interior |
St George's Church |
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Cast iron hammer beams |
Ellacome chime bell controls |
Revd Henry Thomas Ellacombe was the great authority on
bells, and wrote many books and papers, including Practical
Remarks on Belfries and Ringers. He invented a device, now known
as an Ellacombe apparatus, with chiming hammers, to enable one
person to chime all the bells in a tower. |
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War Memorial fitted in connection with the Ellacombe Bells |
Advert to Allen's Butchers |
The real Allen's Butchers |
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Sun 09 Sep 2018
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An enjoyable evening walk along Town Lane. This view is from one
of gates near Lucas Lane junction |
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Sat 08 Sep 2018
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As the weather was mostly rubbish today I thought I’d have a
short wander through the pine woods above Brinscall. The reason
was to check out a couple of underground features I’ve seen on
previous walks. One was an underground chamber that appears to
have been a cold store in the days before electricity and
refrigeration. Or it could have been for water storage. Further
investigations revealed another underground chamber I hadn’t
noticed before. Serendipity! |
Collapsed chamber, probably an old
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First of a two part chamber |
Second part of the chamber |
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Fri 07 Sep 2018
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Drove to White Coppice for 08:30 and waited to meet Lesley (Skyblue)
Whittacker and Christine Eastham. The objective was to walk up
to the old mine adit up the gorge. It was raining most of the
time. Interesting exploration of the mine which isn’t very long. |
Heading to the mine in the rain.
One of Lesleys photos |
Lesley photographing Christine |
Lesley posing in the old lead mine |
Lesley leaving the mine |
Christine |
Lesley in front of the byre in Brinscall woods |
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Wed 05 Sep 2018
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It was a great day for a bike ride around Belmont, Rivington and
Wheelton. In Belmont I stopped to admire the view of St Peter’s
Church which was built in 1849. In the background can be seen
the Winter Hill transmitting mast which is 309 m (1,015 ft) tall
and came in to service in 1966. It replaced and earlier 1956
mast. |
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Tue 04 Sep 2018
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I spent part of today climbing up Hallsfell Ridge, Blencathra in
Cumbria to investigate a disturbing report that the Ordnance
Survey Trig point on the summit had been stolen or vandalised.
It is one of the rare ground level concrete rings with a brass
bolt set in the rock. It was thick mist when I got there and
found it quite upsetting to find the rumours were true. I was
last here just over 2 weeks ago on Wed 15 Aug 2018 and
everything was in place. The theft has been reported on social
media and magazines and the Ordnance Survey contacted. They say
they have no replacement concrete rings and are unable to carry
out any repair works. The actual metal marker is still in place
and the ring only acted as a location marker. There are only 13
of this type in the whole of the UK, 7 being in Cumbria (now 6). |
Trig point on Blencathra |
As it was on 15 Aug 2018 |
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Mon 03 Sep 2018
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Evening at Chorley Photographic Society for the start of the new
season. It was also the awards night. The Frank Sellers bowl
award used to have the previous award winners around the base
but I noticed the names prior to 2008 weren’t there anymore. My
name used to be there. |
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Sat 01 Sep 2018
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The Brindle Village Show was established in 1976 and this
afternoon I paid a visit to enjoy the many displays of Arts,
Crafts, Flowers, Baking, Fruits and many more. Congratulations
to Whittle’s own Cllr Eric Bell who won the Onions section. Eric
is obviously the onion specialist as he won that section at the
Whittle-le-Woods Village Show last week. |
Pat, Eric Bell & Wendy McDonnald |
The tent is for the children's displays |
One of Eric's winning onion displays |
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Pond Sat 01 Sep 2018 |
Sun 01 July 2018 |
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Cycling home after the Brindle show I photographed the pond at
High Cop Farm to comaprer it with 2 months ago during the
drought |
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This evening Dean came over on his bike for 18:30 then we cycled
up to Steve Limmer’s cabin on Hill Top Lane later cooked some
chicken on stove fired by logs from trees from back of my
garden. |
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Next door are moving away today. |
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