Belle Vue Stadium, Wakefield Artwork

Belle Vue is a sports stadium in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. It first opened in 1895 and is currently home to Wakefield Trinity RLFC and, since 2023, Wakefield AFC. The picture shows the East (main) Stand and the Benidorm Stand, so named due to It's resemblance to the hotels found in the Spanish resort.

The main stand has been demolished since I took the original picture and is currently in the process of being rebuilt. The club, having struggled for many years to move grounds, has finally proceeded with a scheme to redevelop Belle Vue.

The artwork can be seen un-watermarked and full size on Clickasnap, it can also be purchased on various items from my Zazzle Store.

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Vintage Morris 1000

The Morris Minor 1000 was a British car in production from 1956 until 1971. During this period, over 850,000 were built. The car pictured is a 1967 model and was parked up outside St. John the Evangelist Church, Bierley Lane, Bradford.

The pictures were taken on the 10th December 2022 with a Nikon d3300.

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My Calderdale Unframed Zazzle store features a number of products with images of Calderdale central to the theme.

My Colins Picture This Zazzle store features images on products with various themes and places.

I hope in time to feature all the pictures I have displayed on here over the years.

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Asquith Bottom Mill, Sowerby Bridge April 2017

I previously pictured some of Asquith Bottom Mill in 2013 and posted these pictures earlier, the pictures below were taken in April 2017 with a Nikon d3300.

Asquith Bottom Mills is a mixed-use industrial estate at Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, built up around a former (depending on the era) carpet, wire, and woollen mill. The mill was originally built by William Edlestons, and I still remember the red neon sign with their name across the roof during the 1980s (sadly now gone). I believe they closed during the late 1980's and early 1990's.

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The front of the mill used to feature a bowling green where the cars were parked across the River Ryburn. The top of the building used to feature a WM Edlestons sign lit up in red.

The doorways used to provide access so goods could be moved up and down, but the hoist support is still sticking out of the building.

This picture was taken from the Norland hillside towards the back of the building. I don't imagine other than for safety checks that fire escape has been used in many years.

 

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Travel Style Posters.

I recently set up a store on Zazzle and attempted to create my first set of vintage-style travel posters. The following are the results of that. I'll have more attempts at them over time, but these are my first six.

Four of the pictures were created based on pictures I have taken and can also be seen on Clickasnap; the two New York pictures were created from images used under Creative Commons commercial licence.

I created them using Photoshop. I took the original image, cropped it, resized it, and then used the cutout filter in the filter gallery to give the image an illustration-style look. I completed the image by adding the text.

This picture looks out towards the Isle of Arran from Ardrossan Beach, Ayrshire. I took the original picture in 2013. Clicking the image will open a link to the unwatermarked image on Clickasnap.

Beaumaris Castle, this picture was originally taken in the 1970's. Clicking the image will open a link in another window to the Clickasnap version of the picture.

Not sure where in Lanzarote I took this only it was in July 2013. Clicking the picture will open a link in another window to the version on Clickasnap.

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Wharf Street, Sowerby Bridge, the original picture was taken on January 1, 2020, early morning, and unusually for the main street through Sowerby Bridge, it was very quiet, with the road usually being nose to tail with traffic. Clicking the image will open a link in another window to the version on Clickasnap.

 

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Washer Lane Aqueduct, Halifax

Built between 1856 and 1873 when John Edward Wainhouse owned the Washer Lane Dyeworks, the aqueduct still stands now unused, but as an interesting feature at the entrance to Washer Lane Industrial Estate, the dyeworks closed in 1896. Unable to gain access to the top of the aqueduct and with only limited information available, I assume the structure no longer carries water across the access road.

The aqueduct crosses the industrial estate's top entrance road, running down from Upper Washer Lane.

I took these pictures on June 21, 2012, with a Nikon D3300.

The initials of John Edward Wainhouse can be seen on the centre stone of the aqueduct. Wainhouse owned the dye works from 1856 when he inherited them until he sold it to Henry Mossman in 1873. Because of the initialls i think the aqueduct must date from this 17 year period.

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Memorial and Rain, Brearley

The following pictures were taken whilst walking the route 66 cycleway through Brearley, West Yorkshire. I'd set off to walk a loop from my home in Sowerby Bridge, down the valley from Sowerby through Boulderclough, and in to Mytholmroyd before returning along route 66 and the Rochdale Canal towpath.

Along the route, as you pass through Brearley, you pass the murder stone just north of the railway bridge. The stone is a memorial to William Deighton, a tax inspector who was killed in Halifax while investigating "King" David Hartley and his coiner gang. I have previously posted more on the memorial.

The path is part of the Route 66 cycleway (bridleway), with the railway bridge seen at the top of the picture and the green metal wall.

Underneath the skeletal artwork reads the following:A full and true account of a barborous, bloody, and inhuman murder. There is further artwork below this writing.

Carrying on my walk past the former chapel, now apartments, and through the centre of Brearley, the rain came, and trying to avoid soaking, I sheltered underneath Wheatley Royd Farm Bridge. This didn't work out as planned after nearly 30 minutes of waiting for my weather app to update to tell me it was going to be at least another hour, so I carried on with the walk and the soaking. The following two pictures were taken underneath the shelter of the bridge.

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Christ Church, Sowerby Bridge

 Christ Church is an Anglican place of worship in the town of Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire. Built in 1821 by John Oates to replace Brigg Chapel which had stood alongside the River Calder since 1526, the church was the result of over 20 years of fundraising to build the new place of worship for the growing town. Despite completion in 1821 Christ Church was not consecrated until 1824. It has been remodelled, extended and refurbished a number of times, lastly in 1895 after a fire gutted the chancel, roof and organ. 

A number of items inside the church have been taken from nearby churches and chapels after they were closed. The graveyard was closed in 1857 by order of the Secretary to Queen Victoria, due to fears of disease, despite this burials are said to have continued until 1960 with John Eddie Bottomley (1879-1960) the last known burial at Christ Church.

I took these pictures on the 18th March 2018 with a Nikon d3300.

The junction pictured used to be part of the Rochdale Canal, the church tower overlooking lock number 3. This was infilled sometime in the late 1940's. early 1950's and Tuel Lane built over it. The canal was reopened in 1996 when a tunnel was built underneath the junction and lock 3 and 4 were replaced by the deepest canal lock in the United Kingdom a short distance further west than the original lock 3.

The steps in front of the church are a recent edition, the road being recently widened here. The clock was added in 1839.

This picture would not have been possible for a number of years, the view would have been blocked by York House, a block of maisonette's that suffered from a poor reputation. They were demolished around the turn of the millennium, the area now overgrown and abandoned.

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St Michael's Church, Mytholmroyd

 Mytholmroyd Parish Church, better known as St Michael's Church was consecrated on the 8th September 1848. Built as part of the Million Pound Church act, a scheme officially known as the 1820 Church Building Act, that was intended to start a program of building churches in growing areas. The act was created after research had shown that few new churches had been built since the era of Queen Anne who had died in 1714. The act saw the government contribute over £1.1 million and public subscription raise an additional £1.9 million. Churches built to minimum budgets and became known as Commissioners Churches, Million Pound Churches or Waterloo Churches, a large amount of the money raised being taken from the war indemnity after the Napoleonic Wars.

St Michael's was extended in 1888, with a 2 storey Sunday School following soon after, this was reduced to 1 storeyand converted to the church hall in the 1970's. The church was badly flooded in the 2015 Boxing Day Floods, levels reaching a height of over 4 feet and forcing a closure that lasted for almost 2 years. This was the first significant flooding at St Michaels since the 1940's and has led to more flood prevention work taking place along the banks of the River Calder.

I took theses pictures with a Samsung Galaxy Tablet on the 26th October 2013, I have replaced the sky as the original picture showed a washed out lifeless one.

The River Calder flowing past St Michael's, a little over 2 years later the river burst its banks and rose to approx 4ft above the floor of the church. The buildings to the left were so severely damaged they were demolished shortly after and now it is an open space between Burnley Road and the River.

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Co-Operative Bridge, Sowerby Bridge

 The Co-Operative Bridge crossers the Rochdale Canal connecting the Industrial Road and Hollins Mill areas of Sowerby Bridge. I'm not sure of the bridges age but it appears on maps from the 1870's, despite crossing the canal there is no way to access the towpath from the bridge or steps either side of the waterway.

I took these pictures on the 29th December 2013 with a Samsung Galaxy Tablet.

Looking across the bridge towards the Industrial Road area.

The Rochdale Canal towards Sowerby Bridge.

The bridge pictured from the Industrial Road end.

The steps down from the bridge to Hollins Mill Lane.

The Rochdale Canal towards Luddendenfoot from the bridge. The Puzzle Hall Inn can be seen to the left of the canal.

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Old Bridge at Hebden December 2015

 These pictures were the result of not felling I wanted to intrude on peoples grief, I was in Hebden Bridge just 4 days after the town had been devastated by the 2015 Boxing Day floods, I'd caught the train up out of curiosity of what damage the town had endured and having seen it I didn't want to picture what was peoples private property being thrown out due to water damage. I took a few pictures of the old packhorse bridge and then set off for home walking along the Rochdale Canal.

Hebden Old Bridge also known as the Old Packhorse Bridge is a Grade II listed, 3 arch stone bridge that crossers Hebden Water in the market town of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. The bridge was built circa 1510 to replace an earlier timber crossing a little further upstream. It is 7ft 6 in wide with passing places in the parapet. It was replaced as the main crossing point over Hebden Water by the new turnpike a few hundred metres to the south when opened in the 1770's.

The pictures below were taken with a Polaroid is2132 camera on the 30th December 2015.

The bridge was once the main crossing point over Hebden Water, it's not hard to see it would not have been suitable for the Georgian Era when it was replaced in 1772, never mind the modern traffic levels seen now. The bridge is only accessible to pedestrians and push bikes.

This picture was taken from the 1772 replacement bridge to the south.

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The Old Maltings, Ovenden Wood, Halifax

 Built in 1898 The Maltings was part of the Webster's Brewery Fountain Head complex until the brewery was closed in 1996. Webster's Brewery had occupied the area of Ovenden Wood known as Fountain Head from the mid 1800's and the site was developed in to housing after closure, the Maltings at this time became a college. The building was granted Grade II listed status on the 18th April 1990 and along with nearby Long Can is all that remains of the brewery.

The pictures below were taken on the 16th February 2014 with a Polaroid is2132 camera. I was nearby taking pictures of the Halifax High Level Railway which ran past the Maltings building, Wheatley Viaduct starting nearby. I believe their may have been a railway siding here for a time.

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