3 More Vintage 35mm Slides from the 1980's

 I am currently digitising, re-editing and restoring my collection of 35mm slides for sharing on Clickasnap and the pictures below are 3 that I recently uploaded. I have included the original picture below each to show the difference between that and the re-edited version displayed on Clickasnap. I am not sure of the locations of any of the pictures shown below, the only information i have is they were taken in the 1980's.

The re-edited version shows a village somewhere in South Asia, the picture can also be seen on Clickasnap.

The next picture shows a winter scene on the edge of a woodland. 

The final picture shows a weir in a woodland setting, it could possibly be Ogden Water, Near Halifax but I'm not too sure.

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Castleton Moor Railway Station

Castleton Moor Railway Station is a stop on the Esk Valley Line connecting Middlesborough with Whitby in North Yorkshire. Opened on the 1st April 1861 as Castleton Railway Station the station was built with 2 platforms as this stretch of the line was constructed with a passing loop, the station also featured a signal box, goods warehouse and yard. These were all lost in the early 1980's. The station was renamed Castleton Moor in March 1965.

The station has limited facilities which include a basic shelter, information boards and a ticket machine. It is unmanned and the former station buildings appear to now be a private residence. In the last full year of stats 4732 people used Castleton Moor at an average of 91 per week. The station is served by 11 trains per day, 5 towards Whitby and 6 in the direction of Middlesborough.

These pictures were taken on the 27th August 2022 using a Nikon d3300 SLR camera. They can also be seen full size, resolution and un-watermarked on Clickasnap.

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Baitings Reservoir Now Very Low 24 September 2022

Baitings Dam is a reservoir built to supply Wakefield with fresh water, completed in 1956 it is the higher of the 2 dams that block the flow of the River Ryburn here, the lower being Ryburn Dam. Construction cost around £1.4 million and took 8 years to complete, it involved flooding a small hamlet known as Baitings and sub merging the old packhorse bridge that provided a road link between Lancashire and Yorkshire, the bridge still stands and is revealed every time the water level is low. The bridge was replaced by a concrete structure called Back O'th Heights Bridge which gives a good indication of how high the dame is when full by the time marks just underneath the road level. When full the dam can hold over 113,000,000 cubic feet of water, or approx. 703,858,407 gallons.

Baitings is fed by runs offs from the local moorland and is the start of the River Ryburn that flows down the valley eventually reaching the River Calder at Sowerby Bridge approx 6 miles down the valley. It also flows in to the Ryburn Dam a little lower down the valley and built in 1933, also to supply water to Wakefield.

The dam must be somewhere near a historically low level now, the bridge completely uncovered and recently a sluice gate has appeared. I am assuming this was to regulate the flow in to the Ryburn Dam prior to Baitings being built. There was a footpath bridge between this sluice gate and the dam head but the water hasn't got low enough yet to reveal wether this is still there. Maybe a couple more weeks of low rainfall and it might appear if still there.

These pictures were taken on the 24th September 2022 using a Nikon d330 SLR camera, they can be seen below and on Clickasnap full size, resolution and un-watermarked.

The packhorse bridge appearing from beneath the water has gone from a once in decade or so event to every couple of years.

Whilst it's likely that levels have been low enough before for the original dam and sluice gate to appear, this was the first time I had seen them.

The original packhorse bridge, often submerged seen through the legs of it's modern replacement.

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Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Lealholm.

 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic church serving the rural community of Lealholm, North Yorkshire. The foundation stone was laid by Bishop Shine in September 1931 after the local Catholic community raised sufficient funding to build a modest church for worship. The Church opened in 1932.

These 3 pictures were taken on the 27th August 2022 using a Nikon d3300 SLR camera. They can be seen below or on Clickasnap where they are full size, resolution and un-watermarked.

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Lealholm Post Office and Service Station

Taken whilst exploring a section of the Esk Valley Railway, I'd just been to look at Lealholm Railway Station and walking back to the village centre I passed the post office and service station which to serve the village of Lealholm (Population approx. 380) and nearby rural villages and communities. I liked how what looked like a house had become probably a central part of the community.

The picture was taken using a Nikon d3300 SLR camera on the 27 August 2022, the artwork was completed on the 29 August 2022. Both can be seen and purchased on Clickasnap. I am currently working on a 2nd artwork to be completed shortly.

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Watermill at Ixworth

 The watermill at Ixworth is an original digital artwork created by me based on an early 20th century black and white postcard. It shows a typical English rural scene of of a water powered flour mill with horses awaiting loads outside and a mill pond before the bridge.

The mill is thought to ave been built in the early 18th century and still stands today although no longer used as a flour mill. The building is 3 storeys and timber framed.

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Walsden To Todmorden along the Rochdale Canal. 14 November 2013

 The Rochdale Canal is a waterway in Northern England connecting Sowerby Bridge with Manchester. Built to move trade it opened in 1804, closed in 1952 falling largely in to disrepair and being blocked in a couple of locations before being restored and reopened fully in 2002.

The pictures below were taken on a walk of approx 1.5 miles from Walsden to Todmorden in November 2013, they were taken using a Samsung Galaxy Tablet. They can also be seen full size, resolution and un-watermarked on Clickasnap via the links below each.

Gauxholme Viaduct

Pinnel Lock

Smithyholm Lock

Walsden from the canal, St Peter's Church seen in the distance.

This stone chair was near Gauxholme Locks, no idea if it is still there.

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Frosty Sunrise

 A single picture this time taken on my phone. I was driving through the village of Wing near Leighton Buzzard, Buckinghamshire and whilst sat waiting in the traffic I was taken with the sun rising over the frost covered field I was alongside. I grabbed the phone and the picture below was the result which is one of my favourites,

It was taken on the 6th February 2020 using my iPhone.

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Cross Hills to Colne, An Early Morning Drive Through a Rural Setting.

2 Dashcam videos I have recently uploaded to YouTube featuring a trip along the A6028 from the Level Crossing at Cross Hills, West Yorkshire to the outskirts of Colne, Lancashire. Video 1 is a short real time video which shows the journey through Cross Hills village. Video 2 is a timelapse x4 video of the full journey from the level crossing to Colne passing through Glusburn, Cowling and Laneshawbridge. The dawn was just breaking behind the wagon so whilst the video starts in near darkness the early morning light is breaking through by it's end.

They were filmed on my dashcam on Friday 29th November 2019.

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Baitings and Ryburn Reservoirs

Baitings and Ryburn Reservoir is a set of pictures taken around the 2 dams in July 2018 with a Nikon d3300 camera.

Ryburn Reservoir

Built in 1933 and surrounded by ancient woodland and rural fields, Ryburn Reservoir was built to supply the people of Wakefield with fresh water. Found to the south of the A58 on the outskirts of the village of Ripponden there are many walks around the dam and you can climb up the valley to the higher Baitings Reservoir.

Baitings Reservoir

Built to supply Wakefield, Baitings Reservoir opened in 1956 and is further up the valley from Ryburn. Fed by a number of small streams it's main supply is the River Ryburn with the dam sitting at the head of the Ryburn Valley. During times of low water levels the original bridge crossing can be seen, and although it was covered on this visit I managed to picture it on a later visit which I will upload another day.

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The pictures above are Baitings Reservoir.

The previous 6 pictures were taken. at Ryburn Reservoir.

Baitings Reservoir in the distance from Ryburn Reservoir.

The previous 3 pictures are Ryburn Reservoir.

Ryburn Reservoir.

Baitings Reservoir.

Baitings Reservoir.

Baitings Reservoir.

Back o'the Heights Road Bridge.

The previous 4 pictures are taken around Baitings Reservoir.

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