A diversionary tale.
While driving the Leek to Buxton road we found ourselves stopped with the road closed and the Air Ambulance in attendance at an accident, I decided to cut across country to find another route home.
Here we pass Chrome Hill, This hill is a fossilized "reef knoll" which were once part of a coral reef in a shallow tropical sea during the Carboniferous period.
It was starting to go dark my car headlights are on with the temperature showing minus 2c, we were surprised when looking at our photos later and enlarged to see two or three walkers up on top of the hill.
With the wind chill factor It felt freezing outside.
The Phone Box now looks to be having a New Beginning, previously I have seen it painted grey, supposedly to blend in with the landscape, I like it better in red.
Web info
The “grey telephone box” at Glutton Bridge is a classic K6 kiosk on the lane between Earl Sterndale and Longnor, beside the bridge over the River Dove. For many years it was painted grey rather than the standard red, which led locals to nickname it “the Grey Box”, a name picked up in village newsletters and by photographers. It has since been repainted red, but survives as a much‑photographed rural landmark paired with a pole‑mounted post box.
A diversionary tale.
While driving the Leek to Buxton road we found ourselves stopped with the road closed and the Air Ambulance in attendance at an accident, I decided to cut across country to find another route home.
Here we pass Chrome Hill, This hill is a fossilized "reef knoll" which were once part of a coral reef in a shallow tropical sea during the Carboniferous period.
It was starting to go dark my car headlights are on with the temperature showing minus 2c, we were surprised when looking at our photos later and enlarged to see two or three walkers up on top of the hill.
With the wind chill factor It felt freezing outside.
The Phone Box now looks to be having a New Beginning, previously I have seen it painted grey, supposedly to blend in with the landscape, I like it better in red.
Web info
The “grey telephone box” at Glutton Bridge is a classic K6 kiosk on the lane between Earl Sterndale and Longnor, beside the bridge over the River Dove. For many years it was painted grey rather than the standard red, which led locals to nickname it “the Grey Box”, a name picked up in village newsletters and by photographers. It has since been repainted red, but survives as a much‑photographed rural landmark paired with a pole‑mounted post box.