Stunning pictures of the North

[farmerbarleymow]

Ladybower Reservoir, Peak District.

Calm:

Nice bridge carrying the Snake Pass:

The plughole of DOOM!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Howden Reservoir, up valley from Ladybower. Famous for its bouncing bomb history, but I think it is a stunning dam - they should be built to look like castles.

And the damn overspilling.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A calm Dovestones Reservoir just outside of Greenfield, Saddleworth.

And at night.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Chew Reservoir, which is up on the tops past Dovestones. Quite a hard walk as it is relentlessly uphill, but when you get there it is lovely. Total peace and quiet, with just the wild moorland birds and the wind. An amazing place.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The trans-Pennine bit of the M62. I love walking across this bit when on the Pennine Way - the motorway is almost lost in the vastness of the landscape.

And this is the bridge carrying the PW across the motorway.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The Plough above Dovestones Reservoir.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A train passing in the parallel Standedge Rail Tunnel.

The Standedge Canal Tunnel.

And some odd graffiti from inside what I guess is the rail tunnel.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I know the Humber Bridge has been posted already, but I liked these two shots of it as well.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Some pictures of Healey Dell just outside of Rochdale. The old railway bridge now used as a footpath is popular for the wrong reasons sadly.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The Goyt Valley, in Stockport area (this is a bit out of town obviously!).

 

[farmerbarleymow]

More Goyt Valley pictures - it is a beautiful place to walk, and so easy to get to from Manchester.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Peveril of the Peak, a ruined old castle just outside of, appropriately enough, Castleton. Been some interesting murders round these parts in the past - if you are interested in that sort of thing.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Blackstone Edge, Pennines. The views are fantastic up here, and on a clear day you can see the Liverpool cathedrals.

Big pub on the moorland edge.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

View of Greater Manchester from Werneth Low at night. The red tower you can see on the horizon on one of them is the Winter Hill transmitter. Oh, and there's a nice big pub on the top so you can keep out the cold while taking photos.

And this is Werneth Low rising from dense fog like a whale, from this site http://hydonian.blogspot.co.uk/2010_05_01_archive.html. This picture was taken from Harrop Edge.

 

[Shirl]

Some great photos there farmerbarleymow . You don't half stay up late though

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Some great photos there farmerbarleymow . You don't half stay up late though

I had a mammoth sleep on Saturday, but since getting up mid-afternoon on Saturday, I've only had a few hours sleep since (and no, no dodgy substances were involved!), and I'm feeling that weird slightly trippy sensation now as a result. But still not tired.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Some great photos there farmerbarleymow . You don't half stay up late though

I caught up on my sleep last night - a good 13 hours of unconsciousness. Slept like a baby, and felt fantastic when I woke up this morning.

 

[killer b]

 

[farmerbarleymow]

With perfect timing killer b, the Guardian has published an article about the bus station which has been granted Grade II listed status.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/23/preston-brutalist-bus-station-reprieve

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/24/preston-bus-station-grade-ii-listing

 

[killer b]

Yer, thats why I posted it.

There's a thread...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Yer, thats why I posted it.

There's a thread...

Ah - didn't see that!

 

[neonwilderness]

The Get Cater car park in Gateshead, now long gone to make space for Tesco to expand. It was always a bit of a contentious subject, I quite like it but plenty of people didn't.

 

[Frances Lengel]

The Get Cater car park in Gateshead, now long gone to make space for Tesco to expand. It was always a bit of a contentious subject, I quite like it but plenty of people didn't.

I like it - It was designed by the same archictect as the Duston Rocket wasn't it? Owen Luder, yes it was
Big daddy rocket.

I don't think there's a single one of his buildings still up. A shame IMO.

 

[neonwilderness]

I like it - It was designed by the same archictect as the Duston Rocket wasn't it? Owen Luder, yes it was

I don't think there's a single one of his buildings still up. A shame IMO.

Yep, I think he did something down Portsmouth way which has gone too.

I work not far from the Rocket. Apparently there was a spiral car park underneath it which never opened, but I've not seen any signs of that.

 

[Frances Lengel]

I don't know about the car park either but it's a crying shame the Rocket went - Just as tower blocks are being rehabilitated as well. It was a more iconic block that Balfron and Trellick combined IMO.

 

[neonwilderness]

I don't know about the car park either but it's a crying shame the Rocket went - Just as tower blocks are being rehabilitated as well. It was a more iconic block that Balfron and Trellick combined IMO.

By all accounts it was a bit of a dump and there were loads of problems inside. Not sure whether that was just poor maintenance or (as the council claim) due to the way it was built. They are building new flats on the site though, so hopefully some good will come of it.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I always liked the rocket too - one of the most unusual buildings you'd likely see anywhere in England. Shame it is gone, especially given its immortality in that crisps advert.



Never liked the car park though - just took against it the first time I saw for no rational reason.

 

[neonwilderness]

For me it was the bits under both of them that needed sorting out, they were both fairly awful.

 

[neonwilderness]

Anyway, back onto the stunning.

Castlerigg

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Where's Castlerigg? Doesn't ring any bells.