Manchester

Manchester, Fairfield Street

Fairfield Street.

Manchester, EcoCab

http://www.ecocabmedia.com/

Well I never!

Manchester, City Hall

Manchester City Hall, Princess Street.

Manchester, Ashton Old Road

Two useless icons, sat on Ashton Old Road.

Manchester, Spanish Festival

Spanish Festival on Albert Square

Littleborough, Red Lion

Some bloke enjoying a beer in the Red Lion

Littleborough, Red Lion

The Red Lion.
If 1950’s music is your thing, then this is the pub for you.
Real ale and a pool table.
I don’t like real ale. Fizzy lager for me!

Saddleworth, Uppermill

Monument in the park in Uppermill.

Buxton Raceway, stock cars

www.buxtonraceway.com


Another formula running at the stock car meeting was Unlimited Bangers. These are the larger road cars. This Taxi’s diesel engine had been replaced with a V6 Ford. Didn’t help it much as it only lasted a few laps before being reduced to what we see here. Incidentally, the driver was fine, he’s the guy in the orange overalls. Paul (Stormin) Normal 999.

Buxton Raceway, stock cars

www.buxtonraceway.com

I occasionally go watching Stock Car racing. This is one of the cars at Buxton Raceway. It’s a V8 Hot Stox. But it’s no ordinary stock car. This one is road legal. Taxed, MoT’ed, windscreen, lights, mirrors - non of which you’d normally see on a stock car. Built by Rob Maw 409. It’s never been in a real stock car race.

Ashton-under-Lyne, boss

Watch out, the boss is about.

Ashton-under-Lyne, bike

Ah! Well, they didn’t get me!

Ashton-under-Lyne, Britain In Bloom

Ashton is going for the ‘Britain In Bloom’ thingy again this year, and here we have two specially decorated Daleks.

Ashton-under-Lyne, relax

...and I’m sure there’s a good caption for this one too.

Ashton-under-Lyne, colours

Well they match the bus.
I’m sure there’s a good caption here, but I can’t think of one?

Paris

Paris. No, wait ... it’s still Ashton.
The red post box gives it away.

Ashton-under-Lyne, storm cloud

Biblical…

Ashton-under-Lyne, Penny Meadow

The view up Penny Meadow with the storm clouds gathering.

Ashton-under-Lyne, Old Fire Station

Angry clouds, rolling above The Old Fire Station and the snooker hall

Ashton-under-Lyne, The Ash Tree

It’s going to rain, isn’t it.

Clouds gather over the Ash Tree.

Greenfield, marina

The structure here is a movable bridge. It can be winched up and down using a windlass that the narrow boats use to open locks.

This is the entrance to the marina behind The Kingfisher.

Greenfield, Knoll Spinning

Knoll Spinning Mill, or more formally called New Wellington Mill.
Closed in 2001 and now derelict, it’s apparently been sold to Tesco, I guess for a new super market.
It is with a heavy heart that I see Knoll mill in this state, awaiting it’s ultimate demise, as I used to work here long ago.

Greenfield, marina

Behind the Kingfisher, they’ve built a marina for narrow boats. And here we can see the electrical and water tower for the narrow boats to hook into.

Greenfield, The Kingfisher

New pub in Greenfield, The Kingfisher.

It’s sat just at the edge of the Huddersfield Narrow canal on one side and the now derelict Knoll spinning mill on the other.

Greenfield, 180 bus

And that’s how the 180 takes the very steep Shaw Hall Bank Road turning.

Saddleworth, Greenfield

View from Chew Valley Road, Greenfield.

They really know how to stack up those houses on Shaw Hall Bank Road.

These houses are just infront of the Greenfield Railway station.

Mossley, Stockport Road

Out on the bike in this sunny weather. TV repair shop on the corner of Lees Road and Stockport Road in Mossley.