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Love those horses... and years ago I used to get a lift to work in a Roadster - took me right back!

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Spotted him before reading what you'd written, Sue. While the flowers are sweet and quite fetching - the Panama has the edge, more enigmatic ;) :D

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They have Morris dancers in our little Canada Day parade - always a highlight for me! Sadly, our 'strapping lads' are getting a little long in the tooth. Not like the young things in #3 and 4 :)

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Today in Pictures, a wet walk thought the woodlands C-L-M.

1. There must have been a bit more rain overnight than I though, this is usually just a trickle.
2. Left untouched, a promising sign.
3. So is this.
4. Why the long face ?
5. Not many people out as its raining.
6. looking back down the path.
7. Time to turn around.
8. Almost back to the car.
9.& 10. This is what is causing the traffic jams at peak times and putting fences across my walks.

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Did you notice that the horses are exactly in step with each other?

The Triumph Roadster I drove had glass on half the boot lid.
If you lifted the lid there were two seats there and the boot lid acted as a windscreen.
We used to be a bonny sight driving around Walsden in our Teddy boy suits with our current lady friends sat in the boot trying to keep their beehive hairdos in place.
It was always a pleasure to help them climb out of the boot.
Bring back the mini skirt.

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heres mine from yesterday ...

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Today in Pictures, a walk I have not done for some time, and it's right on my doorstep.

1. On at the wharf.
2. United Utilities laying blue pipes.
3. Just barging past.
4. Fosters Swing Bridge.
5. Manchester's water as it passes over the canal.
6. Fosters from the other side.
7. Pendle Hill in the distance.
8. A picture I have taken before at various times of the year.

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Some lovely delicate shots there -I love sweet peas! :thankya:

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I'd rather have Mushy or Marrowfat! :D

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Windy Boy then?

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Managed a few pics tonight before phone died, all from Jacksons Farm field.

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I like to be announced with a fanfare! :D

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:jimbo::jimbo::jimbo::jimbo::jimbo::jimbo::jimbo::jimbo:

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Here`s a few things you don`t see on a car park every day.

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1st photo. Bit over the top keeping the dogs out with that thing.

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You might be right, but if it works, perhaps MargaretR should get one to get rid of the cats.

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Today in Pictures, I like a man with a bit of altitude.

1. The direction we are heading.
2. A pond, visited my the cows on the range.
3. This is the size of a double decker bus, well it was to me close up.
4. Signs of the workings around the area.
5. Flags, never hoisted of the hill.
6. I think this is the bed of the machinery that ran the hoists off the hill.(not sure if hoists is the right description)
7. Thats a funny place for a holiday.
8. When you are stood on the top and look around, the workings and spoil piles are endless to the naked eye.
9. From here it looks like we are level with the top of Pendle Hill.
10. At this end the top of the rocks form a flagged area, of sorts.

Then it was time to leave behind Hapton Scouts and Hapton Quarry.

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This week we spent a few days in our camper van at Ravenglass on the Cumbrian coast. Great weather, very peaceful, good pub where we ate every day. What more to ask?

1. Rowan berries in the car park
2. Street furniture old and new
3. It's Sunday and everyone comes out to play
4. Once there were roses...
5. Launch area for boats
6. Looking out to sea
7. A corner of one of the many lovely gardens
8. Looking down the original village street
9. Most of the cottages back on to the sea so have their gardens on the street
10. The bridge for the coastal railway from Carlisle to Barrow

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Great shots!

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Thanks, a piece of the history of the town started here.

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That's the problem here as well... beards are getting greyer and joints stiffer. The team that my other half was with in the Midlands before we came up here six years ago had a young lad who used to hide if he saw any of his mates in the vicinity. He went on to do a folk music degree and is now a very talented musician.

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Today in Pictures a rotation around the reservoir, looking inward at the water of Jackhouse Reservoir.

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Today I went to the Crofters Hotel at Garstang The Long Haul Club were showing a lot of vintage lorries our Club members have restored, a nice turn out and having nothing better to do I came home via the Trough of Bowland.
Now you all know what a lazy so and so I am so I didn't do a Dave Mac and walk about through the mud and wet grass but stayed in my car listening to Radio Lancashire with the camera pointing out of the window or through the nearly clean windscreen.
I do admit that I got out at Dunsop Bridge to walk a few yards to the river.

Number 4 is Heysham Power station taken from the climb up to the trough.
Last one is a bit of off roading.

You must admit we live near a very beautiful part of the country.
Tomorrow I will post Dunsop Bridge and Waddington Fell.

Don't worry I won't bore you with the Lorry Photos unless you are a member of the Long haul Club, they will be on that site of which I am the Administrator.

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yesterday in Pictures

can anyone guess where we went? (if you're on my fb friends no need to cheat ;))

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I think it would involve crossing a Border at Gretna.

I have been on the battlements of the Castle with my late wife and they fired a ten gun salute on her birthday, she wasn't fooled when I told her I had set it up specially for her.
She knew it was also Prince Phil the Greek's birthday as well.

Hope I am not wrong after all that tosh.

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you are quite right, it's the Duke's area ;), such a gorgeous City

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heres mine ... theres plenty of bees around the sunflowers ... :p and the last of the lilies

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It looks like Edinburgh...a lovely place to visit, if a bit hard on the tootsies.
Brought back some memories for me there Shaz.

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I noticed your fine show of sunflowers when we passed on the bus yesterday Jen.
Lovely sunny pics.

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thanks Margaret .. Ive tried my best .. .when they all come out hopefully they'll be looking good ..

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it certainly is Marg, if you ever go again i recommend taking a tour bus, we did the same tour 3 times yesterday (pay once and hop on and off) i would have gone around a forth time but for Reece telling me to grow up ;)

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Jen, those pics are gorgeous, the brightest flowers i've seen this year, great work

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I went a few years ago with Ma...it was a train trip......It nearly killed me getting Ma up to Princes Street from Waverly station......I needed two paramedics and oxygen by the time I got to the top....going down was easier and a lot more fun. I think they heard Ma's screams in the cairngorms.:D
The cobbles aren't kind either when you are pushing a wheel chair. I nearly unseated Ma a couple of times...she was not impressed!

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by the way if anyone wants any sunflower seed heads .. for next year ... I will have plenty of spares ...

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can you eat them as well Jen?
Though if you ate them you wouldn't have such a colourful show in your garden.......unless....Nah don't go there!

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:eek:

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Yes, I know Shaz...but that's why the sewage farm has the best tomato plants :D

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Nice walk - is that purple loosestrife in 7? It's become a bit of a problem in my neck of the woods.

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Beautiful countryside - thanks for sharing :)

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swiped from a google search ... Fruits & Veggies More Matters : how do you make sunflower seeds or do you eat off the flower : Health Benefits of Fruits & Vegetables

the seeds aren't ripe till the flowers have died off ... :p

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I thought it might be Edinburgh - I was there in 1985 on the back of a motorbike. Not the best climate for that mode of transport, but a fascinating city!

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you sure about that Margaret ... have you seen micks pics of his tomatoes .. and ive got tomatoes growing in the back garden .. as well as a pumpkin ....:D

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Kudos to you for your wonderful sunflowers! :). I planted a whole packet of seeds, only to get one lonely little plant. Too late in the season, I think. It'll be a race to see if it can bloom before the inevitable frost. But I live in hope LOL!

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For once the weather was great, so hubby and I went on a long awaited picnic to a local conservation area.
1. Nice quiet spot, once the kiddies who were fishing in the pond disappeared.
2. Leftovers of the goodies. Should have taken a 'before' shot, but it was fancy cheeses from a local specialty shop, home made cucumber salad, rye bread toasted and buttered, grapes and a nice chilled bottle of wine.
3, 4. I took a stroll around the pond. Hubby decided against it - too many mozzies and a threat of West Nile Virus in the area. I was braver - for a bit!
5. Mozzies were fierce - but I was well armed with 'Deep Woods Off'. Looking back towards hubby and the picnic table.
6. There is a tiddler in there somewhere...
7. Milkweed (I had to look it up). :daisy:

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thanks turtle .. I started some of them off on my bedroom windowsill and planted some straight in the border ... the ones that were started off on the windowsill are the ones that are flowering .. the ones straight in the border well theyre still growing ...:p

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I'll give it another go next year - yours are an inspiration :)

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A favourite trip of ours is on a Friday night, from here through the Trough to the Hark to Bounty at Slaidburn where a fish supper for 6.90 awaits. Last time we had fresh grilled plaice with chips and salad, could have had sea bass or one or two other things. Then there are the puddings - and good beer as well...

BTW that's a great pic of the power station.

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Some nice shots, number 3 is my favourite -would never have known you hadn't done a 5 mile hike! Look forward to seeing the photos of Dunsop Bridge and the Trough -old haunts. Used to go there for picnics with my grandparents as a little girl and Dunsop Bridge was a Sunday treat sometimes -mass at the church followed by tea in the Village hall!:hothothot

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I can assure you Dianne that I didn't leave the car to take photo number three, I pointed the lens through the rails of the bridge in photo number one.
The rest were taken from the car after backing off road onto little bits of places where it widened a bit. The car is a 4X4 and higher than a normal car so I was able to get that bit further off road.

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Some nice green lumpy bits there.

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The countryside looks a pleasure to be in, but the insects and viruses do appear to be a bit fierce

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Just me being super careful. They found an alpaca had died from the virus locally. (I know, what are alpacas doing in Canada?!! LOL). It's only a certain species of mosquito that's a carrier, and they say they prefer breeding in standing water in urban areas. My immune system is good, but wasn't taking any chances. Besides, I get awful itchy welts from any mozzie bite. And I was definitely being 'sampled'!

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I don't think we appreciate in this country how nature can be a bit dangerous, one of the most dangerous things here is if the wind changes direction and you are pulling a face it will stick like that, thats what happened to me at an early age.

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the wind just blew over my sweetpeas!!!:eek:

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I have now got down to Dunsop Bridge and managed to park just across the river by the grassy area, that way I won't sap my strength walking far. Don't forget I had been stood around and wandering amongst the old lorries for a couple of hours earlier in the day.

No 1. The Bridge at Dunsop from the road.
No 2. Underneath the bridge.
No 3. Puddleducks cafe.
No 4. The phone box is reputed to be at the centre of Great Britain.
No 5. The duck got into a bit of a flap when I pointed the camera at it.
No 6. Drive up to a big house at the edge of the village.
No 7. A bit of water going over a ledge.
No 8. looking down onto the river from the cafe side of the bridge.
No 9. looking at the river from the other side.
No 10. A nice display of flowers by a villagers front door.

All taken on foot after at least a hundred yards walk, make no wonder I was due for a few pints when I got home.

I have just a few more taken coming down Waddington Fell but they are through the windscreen again.

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I like No.2 especially! The flowers are begonias I think.

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After leaving Dunsop Bridge I came over Waddington Fell and took a few more photos through the windscreen.

No.1 Nearly at the summit of Waddington Fell.
No.2 View from the top.
No.3 Clitheroe with the Radio masts on Hambledon hill in the distance.
No.4 Clitheroe cement works with Pendle Hill behind.
N0.5 Looking down over Clitheroe.
No.6 Ditto
No.7 Ossy wind turbines are just visible in the distance from Waddington Fell.
No.8 Back down to reallity.

and just a couple taken at Garstang, the main reason for my trip out.
No.9 Tony Brierley's Leyland Buffalo. Local lad and a mate of mine.
No.10 That dog stared out of the cab window for three hours and never moved.

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Some heavy skies on those photos, especially nice on the first one of Dunsop Bridge... better weather predicted for you on Sky from tomorrow
. I will be arriving in Accy on Friday afternoon and plan to fill my suitcase with Italian sunshine which will be tempered by Lanky breezes hopefully -can't wait to get away from the constant heat we've been having here! :hothothot:hothothot:hothothot

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I hope I can meet you and whoever comes with you.
You are welcome to call for a brew.

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will you be in the railway on Saturday? :p

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The shots of aeroplanes going over our house were taken by my other half at the weekend. We don't know if they were part of an event in Morecambe or were on their way to/from somewhere else.

The other two photos are of the pickle in Richard's ham & cheese ploughman's at the pub in Ravenglass the week before, and of a diesel locomotive on the turntable at the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. They also have steam engines for the trip up the valley to Boot but we didn't go on any of them this time. Last time we were in Ravenglass was for a Morris event and it was the day after the 2010 shootings. The people of Boot were glad that the Morris dancers had not cancelled as it helped to keep things normal at the time.

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I think the planes would be part of the Blackpool air show, it was on Sunday and Monday.
The Lancaster bomber came over Accrington, probably on the way back to it's base in Lincolnshire.
I wouldn't mind a trip to the railway at Ravensglass, I have only ever passed on the main line which runs up the coast to Carlisle.
It's good to know you are getting out and about again Susie, keep it up.

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The Aircraft are the "Battle of Britain memorial flight" Lancaster bomber, Hurricane & Spitfire, an inspiring sight & sound.

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Spot on there Dav I G.
I saw them a couple of years ago at the Southport Air show when we stayed at the British Legion Hotel, fantastic sight and sound, especially the last plane to arrive, the star of the show, The Vulcan.
I must have had a senior moment and left my long lens at home so the photos I managed to get were very poor.
We watched the show from the upstairs lounge of the hotel on the second day and the sight of the Red Arrows heading straight at us before they swooped upwards was something to remember. I had a hand held Ham radio receiver with me and it was great fun listening to the squeaky voices of the pilots in their pressure suits on the air show frequencies.
The Southport air show is being held later this year, 14 and 15th September. I am planning to go and this time I will make sure I take the long lens.

No 1. Spitfire and Lancaster
No 2. Lancaster cropped from a bigger picture.
No 3. Vulcan.

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Thanks for the input Russell and Dave. We thought they might be something to do with Blackpool. Richard said that the wing shape of the Spitfire and Hurricane looked very similar.

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It could be either Sue, it's two years since I took the photos,
The Lancaster is usually accompanied by both.
It's hard to really tell from my photo.

I tried to book two nights at the Premier Inn right next to the place where the air show is for the Friday and Saturday.
They were booked up weeks ago and nearly doubled the price of a room to £140 a night during the show.
It looks like I shall have to brave the horrific traffic jams which we saw from the hotel last time.

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Well it had got to one PM and I was still sitting around thinking what to do.
"Get off your backside lad" I said to myself "and have a ride round and take some photos".
That's what I did, up to Crown Point and over the hill until I found a suitable place to park.

No 1. Looking back to the turbines above Hapton Inn,
N0 2. Burnley from a distance (safest way)
No 3. Wild and rugged moorland.
N0 4. The road down through Dearplay.
No 5. A lonely farmhouse.
No 6. Radio masts on Hambledon Hill.
No 7. Windfarm above Edenfield.
No 8. Windfarm above Oswaldtwistle.

I may have those two the wrong way around.

I then got fed up of sitting with the car window open taken photos so I spent some time browsing Accy Web in the car.

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Being a bit of an enthusiast for Aircraft, I'd say that the fighter on the left of picture 5 would be the "Hurri" with the fighter to the right being the "Spitty". tailplane, canopy, wings tend to be a better help to identification.

Taken last year (also from the Southport show) RAF Woodvale hosting the warbirds "Lanc", "Mustang" & "Spitty", the last one is a replica of the Spitty sponsored by Lytham St.Annes, raised as a memorial late 2011, early 2012. :)

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I will be helping out at the Accrington Blind Society today so no time for taking photos.
DaveinGermany, I have posted some photos I took a couple of years ago, seeing as like me, you are interested in planes.
I took them at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, two minutes off the A64 York bypass,

No 7 The driver and mate's seat in a Dakota.
No.8 Imagine sitting up there for eight hours during a night time tour of Berlin.

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I will be travelling alone and staying with family in Accrington till the Wed. evening -then up to the Lakes with friends. Would be nice to meet up - I never turn down the offer of a brew! Will be in touch when I know what my aunt and uncle have planned...

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Will have to see Jen -what time are you usually there -have heard it's frequented by certain undesireables though...;):D

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theyre there normally from about 11.30am onwards ... ive been dragged there even earlier .. but I will make the effort to get down there for about 12 ....

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Today in Pictures, a good day for cloudscapes.

1. Feeding on a teasel.
2. Stormy over Pendle.
3. Looks like they are getting ready to change the crossing.
4. Another cloudy shot.
5. In the direction of Whalley.
6. Its a Burdock.
7. Pendle Hill again.
8. These have been difficult to photograph this year, the Speckled Wood Butterfly.

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Been there, seen it, done it! Gremlin :) It was a few years back mind & in the hanger with the Halifax there were a couple of old boys who'd flown in Halifax's. Spent an interesting & informative hour chatting with them, absolutely marvellous old boys.

Also visited (again quite some time back) "The national museum of flight", East fortune airfield, East Lothian in the land of the Jockeens. an ideal destination for the aviation enthusiast.

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Some great skies there, Dave. Very dramatic!

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mine from today ... :D

the sunflowers are still coming out .. even got a red one that's unfurled its petals today .. the birds were all lining up on the fence for their turn on the bird feeder ..

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I did think I might get a soaking, but it stayed fine, the sun shone in between the cloudy bits.

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Yes we will be there :D

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Today in Pictures, a taxi job to the Pals Centre kept me local, so a full circle around Platts Lodge was all I could manage.

1. Rear view of a factory located on the "factory Bottoms" Nuttall Street).
2. Peacock Butterfly.
3. The smaller overflow pond.
4. Caterpillar of the Cinnabar Moth on Ragwort.
5.Woodnook Water as it passes the lodge.
6. One of the old pillars that carried the railway through to Woodnook Vale.
7. A not often walked bit of the lodge.
8. There are not many tall chimneys left, and two of them are within the vicinity of the lodge.
9. Almost full circle.
10. The sluice gates(if thats the right word) that once used to divert Woodnook Water into Platts lodge, not been used in donkeys years.

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Why does every body call it Platts Lodge, that lodge was there long before Platts were even heard of, it was used by all the mills on the factory bottom. Bulloughs was connected to it at on time for fire fighting purposes. Woodnook water bypassed the lodge via that big steel pipe a lot of people have been on about up Priestly Clough, it was installed because the effluent from the mills up Baxenden were contaminating the boilers of the mills on Victoria Street, (Factory Bottom). Those red painted steel piles were for the Railway to Bury built circa 1850.

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Its the name that is officially used on maps etc, there is even an information post in the corner giving information about the area describing the lodge and its use, and it is described as Platts Lodge. I don't know of any other name that is given to this body of water. Woodnook water passes this point in a man made channel it even has cobbles as its base, and a channel has been made from Woodnook water to the lodge with the sluice gate as a control for water levels.

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The wing plan form is quite different. The easy way to distinguish them is the humpback on the Hurricane.

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Today in Pictures. A day when it was difficult to keep your powder dry, thought I would check out the mosaics that Cashman mentioned some time ago as I hadn't seen them.

1. Hameldon Hill in the distance.
2. A walk around the rose garden first, the weather has not helped the roses.
3.4.5.6. The mosaics, a lot of detail when you study them. I don't know who, or why but a good effort.
7.Hameldon Hill again.
8. Last look at the "Haworth" time to head home as it is about to precipitate.

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[QUOTE=davemac;1071821]Today in Pictures. A day when it was difficult to keep your powder dry, thought I would check out the mosaics that Cashman mentioned some time ago as I hadn't seen them.
roses.
3.4.5.6. The mosaics, a lot of detail when you study them. I don't know who, or why but a good effort.
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Those mosaics were done by by local, schools for the display at the Haworth Art Gallery, that William Turner & I did for July 1st 2006, the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, in which so many of our local Heroes fought and died that day, not just Accrington Pals, but dozens of local men in other regiments also fell on that day.

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[QUOTE=Retlaw;1071823][QUOTE=davemac;1071821]Today in Pictures. A day when it was difficult to keep your powder dry, thought I would check out the mosaics that Cashman mentioned some time ago as I hadn't seen them.
roses.
3.4.5.6. The mosaics, a lot of detail when you study them. I don't know who, or why but a good effort.
the quality of the mosaics is very good if it is done by local children, and I hope they don't get vandalised.

Now that you mention it I do vaguely remember it called Bulloughs Lodge, although it was at that time not easily walked around. The new path through gives access to everyone, and I suppose the relaunching of the lodge gave rise to the new name, the same happened with Scaitcliffe House, I remember visiting there when it was full of weaving looms.

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When it was Bulloughs Lodge, we lived on the factory bottom opposite Higham's loading bay. My uncle was boilerman at Giron Frere's the velvet factory and you could get to the lodge through their gates.

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I had a ride up to Stoodley near Mankinholes nr Todmorden today.
All the photos are from where I lived as a child.

No. 1 The little lane we had to walk up from the Springside bus stop, over half a mile, it is still just about passable with a car today but I came in from the other side.

NO.2 Coming down to Stoodley from Mankinholes side, really the best way in anything but a 4X4 car.
No. 3 Part of my playground.
No. 4 Stoodley pike.
No. 5 There is a well in that building, I used to play cowboys and indians around it with the farmers son,the only other child up there.
No.6 Inside the walls of the well.
No.7 The better way out of Stoodley, where I took the big Pike photo from.
No.8 Views across to Cross Stone Church from the path to my old house.
No.9 Views slightly right of No. 8, that's about two miles away.
No. 10 Our back windows, there is only one more house after it and then it's a wall and a drop down to the old road we had to walk up.

It was really good wandering about the old place. There are still descendants of one family who lived there. There are only about five families in the area and I met one chap there and after talking for a while it turned out he worked for my brother and had heard him mention me. Small world.

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A nice walk around the canal, through Tottleworth then back past Rishton waterfalls.
1. That`s as close as I`m getting.
2. Sneaky girl.
3. It was forecast rain today, not looking like it though.
4. A family of swans
5. Synchronised doggie diving.
6 & 7. Playtime in the woods.
8, 9 & 10. Down by the waterfalls.

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What a lovely place. I'm happy for you to be able to visit such magical childhood haunts!

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Great doggie action shots! Nice bee close up too.

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Thankyou turtle, No.2 is my favourite pic I`ve took of them yet. Sums her up perfectly.
I thought No.1 was a wasp, so didn`t want to get too close, is it really a bee?

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Not sure, but I think it's a bee. Just took a closer look myself and her leg has a yellow sack of pollen. Could be wrong, but I don't think wasps go after pollen, but mainly nectar and rotten fruit and such.

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Yer took a cracker of a pic of the dogs.;)

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Just spent an hour in the library searching thro old records & maps of the area around Victoria Street & Ormerod St, the first Mill was Scaitcliffe Mill at the bottom of Ormerod St, they built the lodge & the sluices and run offs for their mill, this was before the Railway was built to take the line to Bury, and long before any of the other mills were built on Victoria St. So its Scaitcliffe Mill Lodge, NOT Platts or Bulloughs.

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After leaving Stoodley I set of over the hill to Mankinholes.

No.1 The better road out of Stoodley.
No.2 Things are improving now, I got up a gear.
No.3 Round the bend and views of Mankinholes Chapel, I have an uncle buried there.
No.4 Another look the village and an old mill, there is a mill Lodge there called Lee Dam where they have a new years day swim.
No.5 Those horse troughs have been there since the days of pack horses, before the road the Todmorden was even thought of.
They were to enable all the horses to drink at once after the big slog up the hill.
No.6 One of the wealthy villagers had that lot erected. There's some brass in them hills.
No.7 A last look down the valley before I set of home.
No.8 The railway line leading up to Copy Pit from Todmorden.
No.9 Just for Davemac, some ferny things (I think).
No.10 Rocks and hillside just before Copy Pit rail bridge.

I had been playing around with PL and ND8 filters on the camera lens and am not sure if I have got them just right, the photos seem a bit false somehow.

Turtle. You say it is a magical place to grow up in.
My Uncle left there on the 1st march 1948, the day after my mother died.
He had just been demobbed and got married, went to live in Toronto where he taught engineering at a Military establishment, then moved to Kingston, near Eric. He bred Equestrian horses for years and has just celebrated his 92nd birthday. He still asks about Stoodley and I have sent him the latest batch of pictures. Each time he visits the family over here he always wants to go back to see the old house up Stoodley.

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Thanks for the correct info.

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Its the Bracken Fern, it is taking over the countryside.

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Thanks for sharing info about your uncle, Gremlin. Southern Ontario has some lovely countryside too, but there's something special about the scenery where we grew up. And if we grew up anywhere in northern England that's doubly so.

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I think you have found the true name, unfortunately it becomes Platts lodge when the majority of people call it that. It is one of those things that it is known by, for example vacuum cleaners are called Hoovers, Hoover is a brand, low fat spread is called margarine, we haven't been able to buy true margarine since the early 1980's. But your effort is appreciated.