Great day out with your MG? Post up a picture ?

[salty]

Well on one of my 12 bus journeys in search of my car keys / house keys / medications over the last three days - total disaster .
Anyway on one of the journeys, I just missed a fantastic, though risqué picture. There was an office window open just above the exit from Dundee bus station. I was sure someone had fallen out of favour with the boss and, as we say in Scotland, their “bum was oot the windae”
However the bus pulled out onto the road before I could line up the shot on my phone camera. However all was well - it was a shop manikin positioned to show off a fine posterior for daft old fools on busses no doubt

Good job you wasn't driving, god knows what would have happened.

 

[Archev]

Good job you wasn't driving, god knows what would have happened.

Yep I could have made a right bottom of the gear changes there - oh wait - I’ve not been allowed out in charge of a clutch & gearbox for quite a while now

 

[Ian Key]

@securespark Carsington is just up the road from me. I have ridden around it a few times in the past.
There are some good pubs around there including one of my favourites The Barley Mow at Kirk Ireton. Built as a farmhouse in 1640 and became a licensed pub in 1750. It used to serve beer straight out of the barrel which was on a shelf behind the bar including Theakston Old Peculier.

 

[Gomev]

@securespark Carsington is just up the road from me. I have ridden around it a few times in the past.
There are some good pubs around there including one of my favourites The Barley Mow at Kirk Ireton. Built as a farmhouse in 1640 and became a licensed pub in 1750. It used to serve beer straight out of the barrel which was on a shelf behind the bar including Theakston Old Peculier.

Oh don't remind me about Theakstons Old Peculiar...nuff said.

 

[securespark]

Err, yes, we've all enjoyed TOP...some more than others...hic...!

And Sam Smiths, the stuff brewed in slate squares.
Not to mention Fullers London Pride, Wadworths 6X, to name a few.

 

[securespark]

This morning I took a walk down to towards the village from the YHA. Past the church...

A detail from the pulpit.

The start of the Bayeux-inspired "tapestry" which depicts Ilam history between 1066 and 2005.

An old phone box with phone still intact!

Ilam Cross

 

[securespark]

Sheep on the hill.

Views on my return to the YHA.

 

[Archev]

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Sheep on the hill.
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Views on my return to the YHA.

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A red phone box without a heart starter granny charger? How peculiar

 

[securespark]

There's a serious point there.

There is plenty of room for a phone and an HSGC. More should have them.

 

[Archev]

There's a serious point there.

There is plenty of room for a phone and an HSGC. More should have them.

How about VtoTicker on ev’s?

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Gives a new meaning to SOH .

 

[securespark]

Today we went to Castleton. We used to go when the kids were young and walk the "Broken Road" and once, when it was raining heavily, they played near the Odin Mine and got thoroughly wet through. There was a gradient covered in grass that turned into a waterfall and a dip that went up nearly to the youngest's middle! Water babies, all three of them. They got soaked, but they were very happy...

For posteriorerity, we walked the road again. Normally we parked at the top, this time we started at the bottom.

But before I show you those pictures, here are some others.

Coming down the amazing Winnats Pass. The piccy doesn't do it justice.

A piccy just for Archev...!

The local church. I didn't go in, which I regret, I was looking for something to fill my stomach...

This is next to the pub where we had lunch.

And this is a shot from around the corner.

 

[securespark]

Stopping at the bottom of the old road, the A625, the first thing you see when going through the gate is a bit of a pond by the side of the frog and toad. In this case, we didn't see any toads.

A bit further up the road, Mrs S is trying to demonstrate the camber. Again, the camera doesn't do it justice. The right hand side of the road is way higher than the left.

An old milestone.

Something for the electrician in me!
A piece of cable, possibly for a signpost, left hanging. I assume they cut off the supply!

Here the road is narrow, and you can see where the rest has slipped slightly down the hill.

This bit is relatively unmolested by nature. You can still see traces of the white lines.
Bear in mind this road was shut to through traffic in 1979.

From one near perfect section to this one. This is where it really goes tits up! The tarmac you see at the top right of the picture was once attached to the road at the bottom of the shot. You can see how the tarmac surface has fallen away down the hillside and is undulating like a roller coaster.

 

[Archev]

Stopping at the bottom of the old road, the A625, the first thing you see when going through the gate is a bit of a pond by the side of the frog and toad. In this case, we didn't see any toads.

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A bit further up the road, Mrs S is trying to demonstrate the camber. Again, the camera doesn't do it justice. The right hand side of the road is way higher than the left.

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An old milestone.
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Something for the electrician in me!
A piece of cable, possibly for a signpost, left hanging. I assume they cut off the supply!

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Here the road is narrow, and you can see where the rest has slipped slightly down the hill.

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This bit is relatively unmolested by nature. You can still see traces of the white lines.
Bear in mind this road was shut to through traffic in 1979.
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From one near perfect section to this one. This is where it really goes tits up! The tarmac you see at the top right of the picture was once attached to the road at the bottom of the shot. You can see how the tarmac surface has fallen away down the hillside and is undulating like a roller coaster.

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Dramatic stuff there - pictures like that do one’s heart good.
I’d go there in / for a heartbeat.
A travelog with benefits

 

[MG Clive]

Today we went to Castleton. We used to go when the kids were young and walk the "Broken Road" and once, when it was raining heavily, they played near the Odin Mine and got thoroughly wet through. There was a gradient covered in grass that turned into a waterfall and a dip that went up nearly to the youngest's middle! Water babies, all three of them. They got soaked, but they were very happy...

A grand day out @securespark

 

[Ian Key]

You picked the right time to visit the area. In the school holidays and bank holidays Mam Tor gets swamped by tourists and effluencers taking selfies of the sunrise. They leave tons of rubbish and dog poo bags and destroy walls to build stone columns.

 

[Gomev]

Can't compete with those shots but we went for a stroll round Yeadon Tarn yesterday, just a short 1km ramble. Second photo including in the background the control tower for Leeds Bradford Airport, you will need to zoom in between the crane and the other tower. Yeadon is just about the highest point in Leeds and the airport runway is on a hill.

ETA - Situated 681 feet above sea level, it is known as England's highest airport and can accommodate large aircraft. I added a third picture not mine of the runway just for interest.

 

[securespark]

Where movement has wrenched the road apart.

A drain cover.

Coming back towards the bit with the crazy camber.

I don't know if anyone travelled on this road. I remember going on it around '76, I think. I was around 10, I reckon, so it must have been then. There was big damage to the road in '77 then they fixed it up again, but gave up in '79 and it closed to through traffic. Although the bottom part is still used for maintenance and to access a couple of farms.

Here is a screenshot from "Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology"
It was written in the year 2000. The road does not appear to move, but we took pictures of the boys when they were younger, standing in a deep fissure in the road and that is now gone, as has the edge of the road I took photos of at the same time.

If you look at older pictures of the closed road, there is a huge step, where the road has broken off across its width and dropped. That too is gone, or should I say changed, because in the intervening years the ground has shifted, altering the road surface.

Finally, a shot of the road in use in the year I last travelled on it in a car. I found this on sabre-roads.org.uk (thank you), one of my go-to sites for information about roads. The other is pathetic.org.uk, that covers all sorts of motorway projects that were abandoned or started and not finished. If you are a bit of a nerd like me, you might like these sites.

This picture was taken from high up on the hill.

 

[securespark]

It's interesting to see that, on the RHS, there is a new patch of road where it's been repaired. Bearing in mind this was taken in 1976 (long hot Summer, followed by loads of rain), the following year there was another landslide (remember the Geology report said that landslide movement increases greatly when rainfall exceeds a certain threshold) and only two years later, the authorities called it a day.

 

[securespark]

You picked the right time to visit the area. In the school holidays and bank holidays Mam Tor gets swamped by tourists and effluencers taking selfies of the sunrise. They leave tons of rubbish and dog poo bags and destroy walls to build stone columns.

It was a good time. There were lots of walkers, the car park was about half full, but places to eat were not busy. However, we drove past a place where some mindless idiot had dumped a load of rubbish out of their car. OK, it didn't look like there was a bin nearby, but that's no excuse.
I was always taught by both my Mum and my Gran that if you have any rubbish, you put it in your pocket until you find a bin and if you don't find a bin, take it home.

I will put a roll of bin bags in the boot now, in case I come across this again.

As for poo bags, don't get me started. Not our local park, Bramhall, but another one we sometimes go to, Etherow. There are signs there saying, "There is no such thing as a dog poo fairy. Please pick up your dog poo bags." Other places I have seen signs that say "Do not hang your dog poo bags in trees, they are not Christmas tree ornaments. To leave your bags is littering and you could be subject to a fine."

I honestly don't know what these people are thinking when they do stuff like this.