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In Calderdale, West Yorksire. The home team batting in their SW Halifax Cricket League fixture vs. Sowerby St, Peters CC.
(This photo appears in 'Remarkable Village Cricket Grounds' published by Pavilion Books in October 2018).
Passing Brearley near Mytholmroyd, 70801 on the Lindsey to Preston Docks, is no substitute for a pair of 56's....especially on a dull summers morning!
I love how this broken bottle resembles a lightbulb with the seed inside and the bright sunlight behind seems to make it shine. Also check out the lush bokeh from the 27mm f2.8!
The Drax empties power through Mytholmroyd at high speed today behind GBRf Class 66 No. 66741 'Swanage Railway.'
A pair of Class 111 DMUs leave Mytholmroyd with 2E17 13:55 Manchester Victoria to Leeds, while a Class 104 DMU is about to pass them while heading in the opposite direction with 1M38 13:40 Leeds to Blackpool North. 6/12/86. The latter wouldn't be stopping at Mytholmroyd as the Leeds to Blackpool services only called at some intermediate stations.
Running into Mytholmroyd amid the lovely Calder Valley scenery is ex-Scotrail No. 158870 with a train for Leeds. Alas most of the views are now concealed behind relentless undergrowth.
For the first eight years of his life Ted Hughes lived at No 1 Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd, here at the opposite end of Aspinall Street Ted's unlcle Albert and his family lived in this house. Tragically Albert was to take his own life, a terrible thing for any family. Ted Hughe's poem "Sacrifice" is about his uncle. When Ted was a boy they played "billets"together in nearby Banksfields. Billets is a game where a wood-cutting a few inches long, (the billet) is balaced on the end of a stave, its then tossed into the air and whacked as far as possible the distance determining the winner. A real family tragedy.
SACRIFICE (Part)
An armchair Samson. Baffled and shorn,
His dreams bulged into forearms
That performed their puppet-play of muscles
To make a nephew stare. He and I
Lammed our holly billets across Bankfields-
a five inch propeller climbing the skylines
For two, theree seconds - to the drop. And the paced-out length
Of his leash! the limit of human strength!
Ted Hughes 1930-1998.
Racing through light rain at Mytholmroyd is No. 66744 with Drax empties on 23 December 2019. The weather was nice and sunny when I left home and blowing a hoolie with rain by the time I reached the railway 15 minutes later.
The 64 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Comany Tappet frame in Mytholmroyd West signal box. Sunday 7th October 1984
Mytholmroyd Station was located by the Up Main line at the Yorkshire end of Mytholmroyd railway station, and was a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company standard design fitted with a 64 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet frame that opened in 1904 replacing an 1875-built signal box. The signal box was renamed Mytholmroyd West in 1919 after an additional signal box opened named Mytholmroyd East 829 yards away. The signal box closed on 12th May 1985 along with Sowerby Bridge West signal box when the absolute block section was extended to between Milner Royd Junction and Hebden Bridge signal boxes although rising traffic levels in the 2000s necessitated the commissioning of intermediate block signals. The signal box remained in situ for a while but by mid-September 1987 the lever frame had been removed and the signal box was being demolished