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CASTLEGATE GETS GREY TO GREEN TRANSFORMATION
The scheme links Castlegate to the under-visited ‘hidden jewel’ of Victoria Quays and has transformed the almost redundant former inner ring road from a barrier to a green corridor with sustainable drainage, floral meadows, segregated cycle lanes and public art.
Castlegate (the Street) has been closed to vehicles to create a large riverside terrace with potential to accommodate outdoor seating for existing and future cafes and bars including the former public toilet due to open as the Two Rivers Bar and the Tap and Barrel, now under new management by the Peddlers Market team. The street will also hold the newly established Sheffield Pollen Market, the first fresh flower market in Sheffield, which will take place every third Sunday of the month.
Fifty-seven new trees have been planted as part of the scheme, along with a multitude of low maintenance perennial meadow plants and bulbs which will provide a year long succession of colour and natural habitat for insects, birds and mammals.
The scheme includes four distinctive, specially designed ‘totems’ containing ‘bug hotels’ which provide places for bees and other insects to thrive, along with nature and heritage insights.
The James Whale Memorial near Castlegate Way in Dudley. It is not too far from Showcase Cinemas.
James Whale directed classic horror movies in the 1930s such as Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein and The Invisible Man.
The sculptor was Charles Hadcock and it dates to 2002.
Pub at the top end of Union Street, the Covid outside seating here looks like chairs from a 1970s primary school but again better than nothing
Taken with a modified Bencini Koroll 24 camera. As the name suggests, this model manages to squeeze 24 exposures out of a roll of 120 film, by using a mask to make the image size 3cm x 4cm. The edges of the film are wasted, but by using the "12 frame" backing paper markings twice, 24 exposures are made.
I removed the mask, so the full width of the film is exposed, and also installed two strips of black plastic in the light path to narrow the image produced on the negatives to around 10mm. By advancing the film by one quarter turn, the images overlap slightly at the beginning of the film, but by the end, when the take up spool is getting fatter, there is a small gap between each image. Expired Fuji Provia 400X film, cross-processed in the Tetenal C41 kit.
A church has stood on the site of St Mary's Church in Castlegate since pre-conquest times, and although most of the present church is 12th-13th century there is a dedication stone in the building which dates to around 1020.
St Mary's church was one of the city's most important churches and is said to have been an early minster. The building was saved for future generations by the York Civic Trust, in 1972, after fourteen years of dereliction. Its spire is the tallest in the city.
It is now the home of The York Story, a heritage centre which displays the history of the city in models and reconstructions and audio-visual displays.
Corner of Castle Street / King Street, Aberdeen. The building with imposing corner entrance of four giant order composite columns, and statue of Ceres above.
Grantham, Castlegate. Unable to travel far I have been documenting my current home town during the 2020 Coronavirus lockdown. The streets are eerily quiet, these are normally busy routes, near the centre and schools, but now largely devoid of people and traffic.
Grantham, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, UK - Castlegate
April 2020
Plaque to Bob Cooney commemorating his work for the people of Aberdeen.
Bob Cooney
by Neil Cooney, November 2015.
He was a babe in arms when his mother was widowed at 37 with 7 children, none of whom was of an age to earn. He was brought up in poverty. He learned his Socialism from the speakers in the Castlegate in the centre of Aberdeen. He became a soapbox orator himself whilst still in his teens. If there was a job to do, Bob was always the first to volunteer. He took an active part in the General Strike and in the Hunger Marches and he led the battle in Aberdeen against Mosley’s Fascists.
At the age of 28 he went to Spain to fight Franco’s Fascists. He became Commissar to the XVth International Brigade, and as such, he led his men in battle and gained a reputation for courage under fire. Bob was also a great motivator.
After Spain he became Gunner Cooney in the battle against Hitler. He saw a lot of action and a lot of heartbreak in war-torn Germany.
After the War, he once again took up the cudgels in the battle for affordable housing. He led a successful squatters movement that took over an old military camp and an old POW camp in Aberdeen. He also unionised the building trade in Aberdeen and that led to him being blacklisted.
So he moved to Birmingham and worked there for over 20 years. There he became very involved in the Folk Music revival. Bob had a great repertoire of Scottish ballads and Wobbly songs. He also wrote a few of his own. He sang with gusto. Bob also wrote some very sensitive poetry. Aberdeen Folk Club printed his Poems and Songs.
He was proud to be a Rebel: he wrote the following lines
“For Freedom is a hardy plant, the more you tramp it down
The sweeter it will flower again in countryside and town
Its seeds are scattered on the wind and multiply their kind
That’s why no matter where you go
Bold Rebels there you’ll find.”
CASTLEGATE GETS GREY TO GREEN TRANSFORMATION
The scheme links Castlegate to the under-visited ‘hidden jewel’ of Victoria Quays and has transformed the almost redundant former inner ring road from a barrier to a green corridor with sustainable drainage, floral meadows, segregated cycle lanes and public art.
Castlegate (the Street) has been closed to vehicles to create a large riverside terrace with potential to accommodate outdoor seating for existing and future cafes and bars including the former public toilet due to open as the Two Rivers Bar and the Tap and Barrel, now under new management by the Peddlers Market team. The street will also hold the newly established Sheffield Pollen Market, the first fresh flower market in Sheffield, which will take place every third Sunday of the month.
Fifty-seven new trees have been planted as part of the scheme, along with a multitude of low maintenance perennial meadow plants and bulbs which will provide a year long succession of colour and natural habitat for insects, birds and mammals.
The scheme includes four distinctive, specially designed ‘totems’ containing ‘bug hotels’ which provide places for bees and other insects to thrive, along with nature and heritage insights.
23-25 Haymarket, Sheffield.
Detail.
Early c19 houses with c20 timbering, leaded-lights & bellcote.
Unlisted.
CASTLEGATE GETS GREY TO GREEN TRANSFORMATION
The scheme links Castlegate to the under-visited ‘hidden jewel’ of Victoria Quays and has transformed the almost redundant former inner ring road from a barrier to a green corridor with sustainable drainage, floral meadows, segregated cycle lanes and public art.
Castlegate (the Street) has been closed to vehicles to create a large riverside terrace with potential to accommodate outdoor seating for existing and future cafes and bars including the former public toilet due to open as the Two Rivers Bar and the Tap and Barrel, now under new management by the Peddlers Market team. The street will also hold the newly established Sheffield Pollen Market, the first fresh flower market in Sheffield, which will take place every third Sunday of the month.
Fifty-seven new trees have been planted as part of the scheme, along with a multitude of low maintenance perennial meadow plants and bulbs which will provide a year long succession of colour and natural habitat for insects, birds and mammals.
The scheme includes four distinctive, specially designed ‘totems’ containing ‘bug hotels’ which provide places for bees and other insects to thrive, along with nature and heritage insights.
Three buses laying over between duties at the Castlegate in 1965. The buses are 47 (DRG 447), 1949 AEC Regent III / Weymann H33/27R (re-seated from H30/26R in 1963), 168 (DRS 368), 1951 Daimler CVG6 / Alexander (1960) H37/29R (new in 1951 with a Northern Coachbuilders H30/26R body), and 233 (KRG 233), 1957 Daimler CVG6 / Metro-Cammell H35/29R (re-seated from H34/28R in 1964).
Castlegate was subsequently closed to traffic and re-modelled to create an unwelcoming and badly paved pedestrian area some years ago, the location used to reveal an interesting selection of buses laying over.
New proposals (in 2023) to further re-model this area, including reopening a public transport link via Justice Street to the Beach Boulevard, sound interesting, but I guess that we'll not see such interesting buses laying over there again.
1949 DRG 447 (47) 1968 aem cpy
Aberdeen AEC Regent V/Metro-Cammell No 255 (KRS 255), new in 1958, at the Castlegate in 1965. Note the black painted wings - a feature introduced on the fourth cream roof repaint - but not continued after about twenty buses were so treated. In 1965 the Co-op dividend was 2 shillings and 4 four pence in the £1 (20 shillings). Co-op advert, which were all sign-written, were modified, (almost annually) to show the revised (usually reduced) dividend.
This type of decoration is known as a bucrane. It was inspired by the ancient roman custom of decorating altars with the skulls of sacrificed animals festooned with garlands and flowers.
By eminent architect John Carr, 1762-63. House by John Carr for Peter Johnson, Recorder of York; 1929 Masonic Temple extension by Ward and Leckenby. House front of orange-brown brick in Flemish bond on moulded stone plinth, with arches of orange gauged brick; painted stone portico and dressings. Doric cornice of timber returns on all sides of house beneath shallow hipped roof of slate with brick stacks. Railings of wrought-iron. Basement and 3 storeys; 5-bay front. On ground floor, stone steps lead to pedimented Doric porch. First floor windows are recessed beneath round-arched arcade on moulded impost band. Second floor windows are squat 6-pane sashes with moulded sills on brackets.
CASTLEGATE GETS GREY TO GREEN TRANSFORMATION
The scheme links Castlegate to the under-visited ‘hidden jewel’ of Victoria Quays and has transformed the almost redundant former inner ring road from a barrier to a green corridor with sustainable drainage, floral meadows, segregated cycle lanes and public art.
Castlegate (the Street) has been closed to vehicles to create a large riverside terrace with potential to accommodate outdoor seating for existing and future cafes and bars including the former public toilet due to open as the Two Rivers Bar and the Tap and Barrel, now under new management by the Peddlers Market team. The street will also hold the newly established Sheffield Pollen Market, the first fresh flower market in Sheffield, which will take place every third Sunday of the month.
Fifty-seven new trees have been planted as part of the scheme, along with a multitude of low maintenance perennial meadow plants and bulbs which will provide a year long succession of colour and natural habitat for insects, birds and mammals.
The scheme includes four distinctive, specially designed ‘totems’ containing ‘bug hotels’ which provide places for bees and other insects to thrive, along with nature and heritage insights.
St Mary Castlegate is one of the largest of York's many medieval churches and is situated in the south of the old city centre. It ceased to be used for worship several decades ago and for a while was used as the city's heritage centre. Now the interior has been opened up again and used as exhibition space for contemporary art.
The building is mostly of 14th & 15th century construction and is marked by a tapering spire rising from a slender octagonal tower (a feature of a few York city churches). The interior is devoid of its old furnishings, all removed prior to its conversion to secular use, but some fragments of medieval glass survive, reset into a window at the east end of the south aisle.
I am not sure what the current opening times of the church are, but it is safe to assume it will be open as long as there is work exhibited inside. This is an imaginative and sensitive re-use of a redundant parish church and allows visitors to enjoy both the exhibits and the entirety of the building's interior, much more than its previous incarnation did.
Gordon Highlanders Statue, Castlegate, Aberdeen which was unveiled by HRH Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay (Prince of Wales), 15th October 2011
After popping to Tesco Extra in Dudley, I headed off to check out the sculpture close to the Showcase Cinema.
Another look at the Premier Inn sculpture.
Located on the Castlegate Business Park, Castlegate Way.
HISTORY
Stoney Middleton, a village between Eyam and Calver in Derbyshire was built in the 10th century on a highway from Chesterfield to the north East recognised in the Domesday book (originally named Middletune), it was born out of a Roman settlement . The village became a hotspot for quarrying in later centuries along with other trades including besom, corn and shoe making and also became the home of women's institute chairman Judge Lord Denman who was famed for his work in abolition of slavery. A church had already existed for centuries, having built by the wife of Padley, a soldier in the Battle of Agincourt. This was replaced by a larger relatively modern one in 1759. The mid 18th-19th century also saw a primary school and an octagonal toll house added to Stoney's expanding features.
The village of Stoney Middleton has expanded over recent decades and has now a population of approximately 600. A pub, bakery and butcher's still occupy the village centre, along with a hairdressers while the former tollbooth is now a chippie - there had also been a wooden-built grocers store called Maid Marian's, although this has since closed. The also octagonal church built in 1759 is still open and now known as St Martins. A stream passing through the rear of the village centre is believed to be part of the original Roman baths - its original stonework can be best viewed if approached by the car park outside the church. Shopping facilites, as mentioned are somewhat meagre in Stoney although these can be found at Calver, half a mile south - possibly the only place to have two Spar stores straight opposite each other. As with a lot of villages, Stoney Middleton also sees an annual July well dressing. One of the wells can be seen on the left of the main road, approaching from Calver