MAGNUM

The beagles met at Hade Edge, on Saturday, which is only a bit of a valley away from a spot called Hades, so you can draw your own conclusions.   

Actually Hade Edge is on an elevated ridge high above Holmfirth that leaves the village of Holme looking very sheltered in the lee of the Pennines, because Hade Edge gets it from all directions.  Hade Edge has an excellent pub where we met called The Bay Horse  and I seem to remember it could be bit of a wild place in the 1950's when the Woodhead railway tunnel was being constructed at Dunford Bridge.  There is also a high-class award winning butcher there (Brindon), and maybe other thriving businesses. but it is just a bit bleak up there for my liking

Wind and rain from the start, the rain eventually petered out with the odd burst of sun as the very stiff wind hurried the clouds along with a few ragged gaps now and then.

This is Holme Valley Beagles country we are in with the combined pack under the field management of the Colne Valley Beagles, so given our new association the two packs operate as one.  So for many it was a new experience to be in this country which is a rough moorland area called Magnum where we went with the hounds, a keepered grouse shoot where cratering and spoil heaps of scattered old stone quarry workings make the going even rougher in places.   But is is a beautiful spot with lovely views.

Getting ready

Remembrance Day poppy fitting - Huntsman makes sure a Whip is properly attired

Waiting to be off - the moor is over there somewhere.

Precautionary relief maybe.

Time to go.  The rain may not show but it was certainly there and it was gloomy too.

He was glad when he got to the top of there.

What with loose stones, and slippery wet moss sometimes one had to let one's -

 anthropoid genes take over!

Hope his binoculars were waterproof.  I couldn't cope without some headgear especially  in the wind and rain and also to see better when the low sun comes out.

Apprentice Whip maybe?

Hounds take a line on a rabbit

Which goes to ground as rabbits do

 Yes, it went in there

Generally speaking I can't tell one hound from another but the one on the right who seems to be a dead keen chap has quite a deep jaw and I wonder if he is an HVB hound as I have never noticed him before.   

 One of the Masters offering advice.

 

I'll post a link here to give this gentleman a bit of advertising  - Shooting man

You can see from the way he stands that he really needs a shotgun under his arm but he'll have to make do with a fell stick like everyone else.

Bit of sun has come out and so have the packs of sandwiches

There seemed to be a profound reluctance to give up the high ground.

 Down in the bottom, a pole spans the goit.

Being a grouse moor; that we are lucky to be able to be on as it is not public; vermin have to be controlled, so this is a vermin trap.  Run through here and snap!

Just by way of conclusion, I was up above the side of the reservoir, that one can see down the valley in some photos above.  I took our dogs a couple of years ago, where it is accessible to the public.  It is more deeply quarried there    It was a different world in the snow as we had little of it at home.  But the image below shows the cratering of some of the landscape.

The reservoir is down to the left out of sight in the picture below and over to the top right of the picture is the area where most of the above photos were taken.  So it is taken looking back towards where we were.

As for the one below, It doesn't matter how much I alter the image this system on here will not post it with the snow more white.  It darkens it every time

We didn't stop too long as it was quite arctic with very deep snow in the quarried craters, that had blown off some areas of the top, and I didn't want to lose a dog in one.

GLASS SLIDES AGAIN

As I am not beagling for a while and as the weather is indifferent I thought I would pick out and copy the rest of the possibly interesting images from the glass slides of my grandfather.  In his day, he used to give local lantern shows with them.  Years ago I sold his 'magic lantern' in a car boot sale.  It was a big polished wood thing with a large brass lens holder.  It wasn't entirely complete and I had hung onto it for years. 

He worked at Normanton which had a big railway goods yard where I think he had some official capacity.  I was under the impression he was like a station master.  Working for the railway entitled him to free travel and he made full use of it.  He also had a doctor friend with similar interests who had a car so they had trips together to follow their interest in old church architecture and other inanimate stuff so finding period images that relate today are few and far between.

Unfortunately I only have a collection of slides of around the year 1930 on the whole.  As he had been doing it for many years a large weight of them must have been dumped at some point.   Incidentally his father, Henry Lodge was a handloom fancy weaver and he and his wife Hannah lived in a small terraced house in Skelmanthorpe with the handloom.  Skelmanthorpe, or Shat as it was called locally, was known for rug making in particular, and when I was young one could hear the odd handloom clacking away.  There is a good little museum in a cottage with a handloom and kitted out in the fashion of a previous generation.  Link here  Museum

The Huddersfield 'Tech' in its day was a center of excellence in textile technology.   There was a room full of handlooms there used for design work.  When it elevated to a University I understand they just scrapped all the handlooms. 

My grandather must have had a photo of Skelmanthorpe in a frame that he photographed

  Just enlarging the pic

A bit vague maybe but locals will recognise it.  That is the main street in Skelmanthorpe and you can understand why houses needed boot scrapers illustrated in my blog about Skipton.

The only photo I could find of the goods yard at Normanton was of this unique railway engine passing through  in 1930

LNER Locomotive No 1000

I found this explanation on the web -  

The experimental Gresley W1 No. 10000 "Hush-Hush" was the only 4-6-4 tender locomotive to run in Britain*. It included a number of experimental features including a marine type water-tube boiler working at 450psi. Although this original design is usually dismissed as a failure due to the revolutionary water-tube boiler, No. 10000 did successfully work a number of high profile trains. It never carried a name, although it was often referred to as the "Hush-Hush" due to the initial secrecy of the project.

The locals will recognise this, the A6024 Holme Moss road below, where the Tour de France will toil its way over the hill.  It is a road where they used to clear the snow as far as the TV station on the summit from this eastern side, but now I don't know if they even bother to do that.  Roads over the Pennines seem to get 'Road Closed' signs put on them around here when it snows and they let nature take its course now the M62 exists.  Today with a ride over Holme Moss on YouTube - A6024 

 

 That was a very slow ride if you watched it.  In the old days a sheepdog used to live in a kennel or barrel at the bottom of the hill to keep the sheep from straying down the road.  There were sheep in the video at the top causing the bikes to slow.  Now there are no sheep on these moors as they are being rejuvenated quite successfully.  They were much more colourful this year.

 Another that relates to it is this -

 This is Bucker Brow at Settle.

The connection is the telegraph poles.  One does not see telegraph poles  like this nowadays with all those horizontals.  It is interesting to Google these places - Bucker Brow

It is good to see a real policeman.

When I was lad I had a pair of old roller skates stolen out of the wash house.  The police caught the culprit.  Another time a cherished rug was stolen from a washing line in the yard.  The police caught the culprit.  This time it was a wagon driver with no connection to us who took it and it was found in his living room.  Nowadays one would not even consider reporting trivia like this knowing there is just no hope nor any real interest.

Newmiller Dam near Wakefield is a scenic spot.  I suspect that is the doctor friend's car.

As for the rest, no particular order but sometimes alphabetically depending on how I titled them on my PC.

The Anglers Arms at  Kilnsey.  Anglers Arms

 A closer look - yes I think it is the same car too.

 Arrochar, Lock Long.

I think this paddle steamer is Lord of the Isles built in 1891.  Unfortunately the landing staging obscures so much - Lord of the Isles

The one below is the paddle steamer Jupiter on the Clyde in 1929 - Jupiter

This is titled Bellanoch, Crinan Canal.  I suppose these cottages have gone by now or got different roofing

Some nameless croft or blackhouse.  Maybe it has been 'done-up' and is now some bijou holiday let.

Sticking to Scotland, this image below is entitled - Tolbooth, Edinburgh.

I got this info from the web - "The Tolbooth was built in 1591, it was here that the tolls or public dues were collected.

It also served as the council house, courtroom and prison for the Canongate. Although most of the prisoners were transferred to a newly built jail on Calton Hill.

The large clock face is dated 1820 and replaced an earlier clock from the 17th Century.

The Latin inscription on the front of the building reads:

The place of the seal of the Burgh.
For one's country and one's successors, 1591."

 Stirling Castle gateway

 The Esplanade, Edinburgh - some things never change.

Poosie Nansies Inn, Mauchline, Ayreshire  Bit about it here - Poosie Nancy
 

Blythe village in Nottinghamshire.  It looks like a car trip one as I think I can see it.  Just beyond the cars is the Angel Inn - If you want to know more - Blythe

Also Blythe

Boroughbridge, Yorkshire- St James's Square fountain.  Looks like a coach driver in the white smack

Bramham, Yorkshire.  I have just found the modern equivalent of this picture on here - Bramham Village

Bridgewater, Somerset - Looking towards St Mary's Church

 Dunster, Somerset, 1929

Old house, Dunster

East Quantoxhead, Somerset

East Quantoxhead, Somerset 1929

Porlock, Somerset 1929

Brixham, Devon 1931

 Dartmouth, Devon  Obviously a couple of training ships for the Royal Naval College but I can't find their identity

Oddicombe beach Devon

Plymouth Hoe, Devon 1932

River Dart, Totnes, Devon

PS Kingswear Castle built 1924 - Kingswear Castle

PS Totnes Castle built 1923 - Totnes Castle and sunk in 1967 - Sunk

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Teigmouth Pier, Devon.  It looks a bit different today.  The little overhanging cabins have gone for a start.

Torquay

Weymouth, Dorset 1932

Broad Street, Ludlow. Shropshire.  Never been, but looking at the web is seems a nice place.

Bridge Street, Chester - looks the same now but the people have moved on.

The Fauconberg Arms pub in Coxwold, North Yorkshire.  All I know is that it dates back to the 17C

Bridlington Harbour

Scarborough, Yorks, Some nautical event. The lighthouse does not have a top on it here.  Lighthouse

High Street, Shrewsbury

The Original Cake Shop, Shrewsbury

Irelands Mansions, Shrewsbury -

Irelands Mansion was built between 1580 - 1590. It is a three storey building with bays and gables projecting outwards which adds to the buildings charm and piecemeal construction. It was constructed as a speculative attempt to rent out each component part for shops on the ground floor, offices above and accommodation in the garrets - a very Dickensian affair!
By 1700 the building was known to locals as 'Ireland's Folly'.

Lincoln I wonder what the small cart is

 

'Pure Ices'

I don't know where this is

Notice the drinking fountain by the lamp post.  Years ago, a friend had a heavy bronze bell shaped object on his mantlepiece and I discovered it was a cup from one of these and you can see it hanging down on the chain.  It also reminds me there used to be drinking fountains around where one pushed a shiny brass knob and a low spring of water came up from a small nozzle set in a bowl so you could lean over and slurp it up.  The last of the type in the picture that I saw was in Cawthorne near here, but that has probably gone for scrap by now. 

St Botolph's Church, Thrumpington Street, Cambridge.  Bit of history here - St Botolph's

Something different - a man with a kestrel on his back.

Clapper bridge at Malham 1929.  It look much the same there now  - Malham pics

Micklegate Bar, York.  I wonder when the last policeman stood point duty and looked like this.  York

Hudderfield used to have a magnificent policeman who was well known, but whose name escapes me, who was frequently on point duty at the top of Kirkgate before traffic lights.  Non of the limp wristed gesturing but fierce smart assertive semaphoring with efficient respected control of that junction in the centre of town.  You will detect that nostalgia creeps in here and there on these posts!

I add the hyperlinks because I know there are as many visitors from abroad as from the UK, so they may enjoy something more current and informative to look up.

This is the entrance to Gough's cave in 1930 in the Cheddar Gorge of the Mendip Hills,, Somerset - Electrically illuminated!

Interesting attire -  Gough's Cave and Wilkipedia

Blagrave's House Barnard Castle, Co Durham. 

Blagraves House, now a restaurant, is the oldest house in the town. It takes its name from the family who lived there in the 17th century and there is a crested ceiling on the first floor with a panel dated 1672 and the initial WIB,  No doubt in a much better state or repair now

While on the subject of eating -

Yorke Arms,  Ramsgill in Nidderdale.  North Yorks   It looks the sort of place where you can enjoy an expensive Sunday lunch. Hasn't changed much as far as I can see from images on the web but doubtless costs more.

Settle market place  in the Yorkshire Dales - Settle

'Smeaton' it says on the slide which is in Yorkshire so this must be the River Went.  Not sure which of the Smeatons this is as it depends on the side of the river it is located  So it is either Kirk Smeaton or Little Smeaton

A closer look - bit like some of the buildings in the Colne Valley

Wheldrake is a village near York and that is its main street.  Not really changed since 1929 - Wheldrake  - except for a lot more telegraph poles and wires and I daresay the finger post pointing to Elvington is long gone.  Speaking of telephones, we didn't get one at home until around the 1950s as my father need one for work but everyone else seemed to be banned from it, I know I was.  Never liked using the phone since.

Warmfield, near Wakefield, Yorkshire.  Presume this old cottage has long gone

And finally -

Staithes, Yorkshire

That's it!

All are around 1930 unless otherwise stated but a year either side is neither here nor there.