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12082 stands in the shuntneck at Cobra Sidings, Wakefield Kirkgate.
Built at Derby Works and delivered on 30th November 1950 to 68A Carlisle Kingmoor she was withdrawn from 6G Llandudno Junction on 3rd October 1971. She was bought for Industrial use, eventually re-registered as 01553, in TOPS Class 01/5, and owned by the Harry Needle Railroad Company. She then went to the Mid-Hants as a replacement for 12049 that was scrapped after suffering damage during an engine shed fire on 26 July 2010, renumbered to 12049 in October 2010.
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YN54VKC, latterly with Connexionsbuses as YRW194, still in their colours and branding, now with Yorkshire Buses and operating the 212 Wakefield-Dewsbury service recently given up by Arriva. YN54VKC was new to Yorkshire Traction so is back here in its old stamping ground. It was one of Traction's final new purchases before the Stagecoach takeover.
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Our first weekend in Wakefield.
What a brilliant weekend we had too!
Saturday night was the main event. First time for Gemma, and my second time seeing An Evening Without Kate Bush starring the amazing Sarah-Louise Young. I was lucky enough to see this in Hull back in June too and it was fabulous!
We had a brilliant time. First we went for something to eat at the Calder and Hops again.
Then on to the wonderful venue that is the Theatre Royal, Wakefield. A beautiful venue indeed.
Gemma loved the show as did I. And we got to meet Sarah-Louise Young after the show too and got a picture with her.
We're going to go and see the show again next year for sure, it was so good!
At the end of the evening we popped into a bar for a drink but it was totally dead so we ended up going back to the hotel.
With the wonderful Sarah-Louise Young after the show.
The spire of Wakefield Cathedral, at a height of approximately 247 feet, is the tallest church in Yorkshire and dominates the city skyline. The church has its origins in a pre-Conquest church, but the story of the present building starts circa 1150 when parts of the surviving nave north arcade were first built.
This was followed in approximately 1220 by the southern arcade, which is made up of alternating round and octagonal columns. Following the probable collapse of a central tower around 1320, both arcades were heightened, giving their present form, and new multi-shaft columns added. The church was re-consecrated by Archbishop William de Melton in 1329.
Between 1409 and 1420, the western tower and spire were added to the church and, after 1440, the present nave clerestory was constructed. The eastern half of the mediaeval church also dates from the second half of the 15th century. The five bay quire contains 25 stalls with misericords and carved animals paid for by Sir Thomas Savil in 1482 in celebration of his marriage to Margaret Bosworth. The cathedral also contains a complete set of 15th century ceilings throughout the Nave, aisles and east end. These have a fine collection of carved bosses depicting a wide range of religious and secular themes.
The cathedral font dates from the 17th century and was installed in 1661 to replace the mediaeval font destroyed in the Commonwealth.
The cathedral we see today is the work of three men who were associated with Wakefield during the 19th century. The first was Sir George Gilbert Scott, who worked on the cathedral between 1857 and 1874. His involvement included re-casing the tower in 1859 and rebuilding the spire in 1860. This was followed by major external repairs, reordering of the quire and, finally, the nave that was completed in 1874. His son, John Oldrid Scott, added the organ chamber and vestries and completed part of the present reredos, which is considered one of the finest Victorian examples in England.
Following the raising of the parish church to Cathedral status in 1888, John Loughborough Pearson was engaged to design a new east end to the cathedral. These plans came to fruition between 1903-05, when his son, Frank, completed the work.
Thanks and credit to the Cathedral website for this information.
141115 arriving at Wakefield Kirkgate with 2G27 1334 Leeds to Sheffield via Barnsley 3rd November 1990.
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Class 47/4 No 47407 departs from Wakefield Westgate with 1A71 the 1603hrs Leeds to London Kings Cross additional, as Class 91 No 91007 arrives with the 1410hrs London Kings Cross to Leeds.
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91001 SWALLOW arriving at Wakefield Westgate with 1A71 1603 Leeds to Kings Cross additional on May Day Bank Holiday Monday 7th May 1990.
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Tates of Barnsley got enmeshed in the Island Fortitude web which ended badly. I believe Tates managed to buy itself back out of Island Fortitude ownership, but it was too late and the company folded. A remnant continues in the form of Globe Holidays, a Tates associated company which managed to retain its licences, and ex Manchester Airport Pointer Dart SN55HSU arrives in Wakefield on (I think) service 96/97 from Barnsley. Globe Holidays appears to have kept the Eddie Brown Tours name also - Eddie Brown was another company which got involved with Island Fortitude and came to an ignominious end.
The Church of Saint John the Baptist in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Wakefield and the Diocese of Wakefield. The church is Grade II* listed and has been since 30 March 1971. St John's is the smaller of the Anglican churches in Wakefield City Centre, the larger being Wakefield Cathedral.
The church was constructed between 1791 and 1795 to a design by Charles Watson of Doncaster and York. It was altered in 1885 and then extended in 1905 to designs by J. T. Micklethwaite. The church was not built in isolation but as the centrepiece of a new development to the North of Wakefield City Centre and matches much of the other Georgian architecture in the vicinity and is the sole large development in Wakefield of this era. The tower was rebuilt in 1885 also to a design by J. T. Micklethwaite and other internal alterations were made at this time.
The church is situated in St John's Square in open grounds. The grounds are tree-lines and overlooked by the Georgian terraces built at the same time. There is no formal cemetery but a small number of graves and memorials in the grounds. The nave backs closely onto Wentworth Street. To the north-east corner there is a war memorial in the grounds to the workers at Wrenthorpe Colliery who lost their lives in the First World War.
The tower was is not the original one but was a replacement built in 1885 to a design by London architect, J. T. Micklethwaite. The tower is a west tower with five stages, a chancel with south chapel and over the north vestry an organ loft. There is a west doorway in the tower with Tuscan pilasters. The uppermost stage is octagonal with round belfry openings and a clock face. It is topped with a polygonal dome with a weathervane to its apex. Inside there is a round stairwell with two cantilevered stone staircases.
The church of St John the Baptist, St John's Square, Wakefield, is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons:
The church is an elegant and imposing classical design which, despite being the work of more than one period, maintains a unity of style and retains its Georgian character and detail.
Its plan, with west porches and a wide tall nave accommodating a gallery, is typical of the Georgian period.
The church is the centrepiece of the well-preserved Georgian town planning scheme encompassing St John's Square and St John's North, forming a notable episode in Wakefield's urban development.
It is a prominent work by leading Georgian Yorkshire architects.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_the_Baptist%27s_Church,_Wak...
Regal / ABC / Cannon Theatre, Wakefield. Opened as the Regal in December 1935, designed by W R Glen, and featuring 1,594 seats, a large stage, and concealed lighting. It was renamed ABC in 1962, and in November 1976 the auditorium was tripled, ending stage use. The ABC became the Cannon in 1986, and was closed in 1997 when a large multiplex cinema opened in the city. A covenant restricting its usage to film hampered any conversion proposals, and in 2022 it is due to be demolished. Reports indicated this began with internal stripping-out in March 2022.
cinematreasures.org/theaters/3787
City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England - Cannon Cinema, Kirkgate / Sun Lane
February 2022
Managed to nip out from work to fetch the milk... 60011 provides rare power for 6L05 1358 Wakefield Europort to Felixstowe through Bentley on 28th August 2012. The 60 was removed at Doncaster Up Decoy in favour of the usual shed.
St Andrews
Parish church of 1846 by G.G. Scott, reordered in the 1970s by R. Shepley.
MATERIALS: Coursed, rock-faced sandstone with freestone dressings, replacement thin slates to nave and chancel roofs, original thick graded slates to lean-to aisles.
PLAN: Aisled nave, lower chancel with north vestry and C20 north-east extensions
EXTERIOR: Early-English style parish church with steep nave roof behind coped gables, and lean-to aisles, consistent use of hood moulds with head and foliage stops. There is evidence of a former gabled porch against the south aisle, but the main entrance is now in the west front. The nave west front has openings recessed under a tall pointed arch. Its doorway has nook shafts and above it are 2 pointed windows, and another pointed window is in the gable below the gabled bellcote with single bell. The 5-bay nave has no clerestorey. Plain two-light aisle windows are without tracery. The 3-bay chancel has pointed windows, triple stepped east window and a south doorway under a shouldered lintel. The vestry is under a gabled roof, the organ chamber under a lean-to roof.
INTERIOR: Nave arcades have round piers and double-chamfered arches. The tower arch is similar, on semi-circular responds, and the chancel is richer, with an inner order on corbels. The nave roof is of crossed arched braces on corbels, and the chancel has a keeled wagon roof. Walls are plastered. The chancel is separated from the main body of the church by a glazed screen across the chancel arch and the west end of the nave is also separated from the church by a partition, inspired by the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and has an inserted first floor.
PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: Many of the C19 fixtures have been removed, including the seating. In the chancel is an altar table and communion rail, both with open arcading and probably of 1846. Stained glass in the east window is mid C19. Other fittings of the 1970s, including a font with shallow silver bowl on a timber frame, are in the Mackintosh style.
HISTORY: Parish church of 1846 built by George Gilbert Scott (1811-78). Scott was the most successful church architect of his day, although he was also awarded important secular commissions such as the Albert Memorial and Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras, both in London. St Andrew represents an early work where his preference for the architecture of the late C13 is apparent, and where he has applied his ideas to a church of relatively modest scale. The interior was significantly altered in the 1970s to the designs of Richard Shepley.
SOURCES: Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, West Riding (1967), 530. Lambeth Palace Library, Incorporated Church Building Society Archives.
90036 is seen at the southern end of the 99 Arches having just crossed the River Calder. A mile later it would bring this Kings X to Leeds service into Wakefield Westgate.
Wakefield Town Hall is a municipal building in Wood Street in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It remains a venue for weddings and civil partnerships but is no longer the headquarters of Wakefield Council which is now based at County Hall. The town hall is a Grade I listed building.
The building was commissioned to replace the old town hall in Crown Court which had been completed in 1800. After deciding that the old town hall was of insufficient status to complete with Leeds Town Hall and Bradford City Hall, civic leaders chose to procure a new town hall: the site they selected was a vacant area between the mechanics institute and the old crown court.
The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the mayor, Alderman William Henry Gill, in October 1877 It was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt in the Gothic style, built by William Holdsworth of Bradford and was officially opened by the new mayor, Alderman William Hartley Lee, in October 1880. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto Wood Street; the central section, which slightly projected forward, featured a doorway with an entablature and pediment and a balcony above; there were ornate oriel windows on the first floor and pedimented bay windows on the second floor and a steeply pitched roof above. A 59 metres (194 ft) high, six-stage clock tower was erected at the north corner of the building. Internally, the principal rooms were the council chamber, the mayor's parlour and the courtroom.
The construction also involved the creation of a tunnel which linked the courtroom and the police cells in the basement of the town hall to the police station in Tammy Hall Street.
Following the Second World War, a plaque was installed in the council chamber in June 1946 to commemorate the council's decision to award the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry the right to parade through the streets of the city with "drums beating, bands playing, colours flying and bayonets fixed". Princess Elizabeth, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, visited the town hall and waved to the crowds from the balcony on 27 July 1949.
The building was the headquarters of the County Borough of Wakefield until 1974 when it became the local seat of government for the enlarged Wakefield Metropolitan District. However, in December 1987, Wakefield Council decided to acquire and refurbish County Hall, which was empty and deteriorating, and make County Hall its headquarters. Following an extensive refurbishment of various parts of the town hall in 2016, the council chamber was re-opened as the "Kingswood Suite", for use by the local Register Office as a venue for weddings and civil partnerships. The old courtroom was also made available for use as a reception room.
Regal / ABC / Cannon Theatre, Wakefield. Opened as the Regal in December 1935, designed by W R Glen, and featuring 1,594 seats, a large stage, and concealed lighting. It was renamed ABC in 1962, and in November 1976 the auditorium was tripled, ending stage use. The ABC became the Cannon in 1986, and was closed in 1997 when a large multiplex cinema opened in the city. A covenant restricting its usage to film hampered any conversion proposals, and in 2022 it is due to be demolished.
City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England - Cannon Cinema, Kirkgate / Sun Lane
February 2022
Ben Wilkinson, in a 1968. Practice for Historic races at Wakefield Park, New South Wales, Australia.
The ABC Cinema, Wakefield is a derelict cinema in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. It is in Kirkgate on the corner of Sun Lane. It is an Art Deco building that was designed for Associated British Cinemas by in-house architect William R. Glen and opened as the Regal Cinema on 9 December 1935.
Not as large as some later ABC houses the Regal accommodated 1,594 but had a full stage 26 feet (7.9 m) deep behind the 43 feet (13 m) wide proscenium. The interior was rather plainer than many of Glen's cinemas with concealed lighting under the balcony and at the rear of the ceiling and pendant fittings casting light upwards towards the front of the cinema.
It was renamed ABC in 1962. In 1976 it was divided into three screens with Screen 1 seating 532 in the balcony using the original screen and projection suite and Screen 2 (236 seats) and Screen 3 (170 seats) in the rear stalls area. In this form it reopened on 11 November 1976. In 1986 ABC's cinemas were sold to The Cannon Group. In December 1996 Cineworld opened a multiplex in Wakefield and in 1997 the ABC closed.
In 2007 Blockbuster Entertainment sought planning permission to convert the building into 119 one- and two-bedroom flats, eight shops and a rooftop garden. In 2009 the City of Wakefield granted planning permission, but the project did not go ahead. In December 2013 a property company, PS & S Ltd, applied for planning permission to demolish the building and replace it with a modern apartment block.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_Cinema,_Wakefield
The property was purchased by Wakefield Council in December 2020 as part of a regeneration project for Kirkgate.