Exit from the M67

Looking across at the junction 3 westbound exit from the M67 motorway.

There is a smattering of snow to be seen on the Pennine Hills.

A contribution to Skywatch Friday.

ABC Wednesday: G is for Godley Brook

Godley Brook looking upstream from the entrance to the former dyeworks at Hoviley.

On the left behind the demolition site is Godfrey Mill which has been converted into apartments.

On the right is the M67 motorway.

Compare with the same view in
September 2014;
March 2013;
July 2011;
September 2009;
March 2009;
May 2007.

See the view in the opposite direction on Hyde DP Xtra.

A full record of the demolition of the dyeworks with photos and videos can be found on the Demolition of ABCWAX blog created by site manager David Bradley.

A contribution to ABC Wednesday.

M67 Junction 3

Gantry signs on the M67 viewed from the café in Morrisons. In the background is the clearing up operation from the demolition of the former dyeworks. A full record of the demolition with photos and videos can be found on the Demolition of ABCWAX blog created by site manager David Bradley.

A contribution to signs, signs.

Continued demolition of ABC Wax

In October I showed you photos of the demolition work at the old ABC Wax dye works.

This is a more recent view from the café in Morrisons supermarket across the motorway.

Ashton Brothers built Newton Bank Printworks in Hyde in the early 1800s. In 1899 F.W.Ashton became part of the Calico Printers association (CPA). In 1908 the first wax prints (production Batiks using handblock) were produced. In 1959, CPA purchased the Swiss trading company A.Brunnschweiler, and in 1970 that became the company name replacing F.W.Ashton.

A.Brunnschweiler & Co was soon abbreviated to ABC which later became the brand name of its wax prints in West Africa. ABC was purchased by the Cha group in 1992. In 2005, production of the standard ABC product was transferred to another group factory in Ghana called Akosombo Textiles Ltd (ATL)

All production ceased at Newton bank printworks in December 2007 and all the necessary machinery was transferred to ATL in Ghana. The site was then decommissioned and cleaned up prior to demolition in 2014.

A full record of the demolition with photos and videos can be found on the Demolition of ABCWAX blog created by site manager David Bradley.

A contribution to Skywatch Friday.

Please visit Best of Hyde Daily Photo 2014 and vote for your favourites. Deadline for voting is 12 noon GMT on Monday 29th December 2014.

U is for Under the motorway

The Peak Forest Canal passing under the M67 motorway. The lights are covered in cobwebs.

Water World Wednesday;
ABC Wednesday;
Good Fences.

Nursery Road

Nursery Road leads to D&G Nursery - that's a place that sells garden plants not the sort that minds children.

Over the fence on the left is the M67 motorway.

On the right is a bridge over the Peak Forest Canal.

A contribution to
signs, signs;
Good Fences.

Across Broomstair Bridge

Looking north across Broomstair Bridge from the south pavement.

In the background is the bridge carrying the M67 over the river Tame.

See the view to the right on Hyde DP Xtra.

See the view to the left on yesterday's post.

See the view over the bridge behind on sithenah.

A contribution to Sunday Bridges at San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.

Over the bridge

A view across the footbridge on the western side of the bus station over the M67 motorway.

The chimney in the background belonged to the former Winterbotham's tripe dressing factory, now Hyde Industrial Supplies and survives as a support for mobile phone masts.

A contribution to Friday Fences as well as
The Weekend in Black and White and also
Sunday Bridges at San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.

ABC Wednesday: O is for Oops...

I was crossing the western footbridge to the bus station over the M67 motorway last week. I noticed a car parked on the hard shoulder just past the slip round and near the eastern footbridge.

I zoomed in and saw that the occupants were out of the car waiting by the barrier with a spare tyre and a car-jack. Presumably they were waiting for one of the breakdown services to come and change a flat tyre.

A contribution to ABC Wednesday.

Godley Brook by Hoviley

I first showed the weir on the Godley Brook from the entrance to the ABC Wax premises in May 2007 and then again in March 2009 when there was a supermarket trolley below the weir.

It looked a bit different in September 2009 and in July 2011.

On the right is the M67 motorway.

A contribution to Weekend Reflections.

M67 from Clark Way

Viewed from Clark Way looking west towards Manchester. The M67 was conceived as a motorway link from Manchester to Sheffield but the only parts that were built were the Hyde and Denton bypasses opened in the late 1970s. Prior to the motorway the view here would have been of George Street with terraced housing, several pubs and two churches.

A contribution to Sunday Bridges at San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.

The man on the spiral footbridge

Looking over the M67 motorway towards the spiral footbridge. There is a man to be seen halfway across.

How did it get on to it?

For the answer, visit Hyde DP Xtra.

Earlier photos of or from the footbridge:

• 060505 M67 Junction 3
• 070627 Footbridge over M67
• 080119 M67 Looking East
• 080205 Clark Way Bridge over M67
• 090330 End of March Quiz
• 090406 The Answer is a Spiral Ramp
• 090413 Ramp to Spiral Footbridge
• 090527 Inside the Spiral
• 090928 That Spiral Ramp Again
• 091006 Footbridge Underview
• 091023 Spiral Skywatch
• 091030 Along to the Spiral Ramp
• 091106 Not the Spiral Ramp but ...
• 100103 Another Look at the Spiral Ramp Footbridge
• 110717 Shadow Shot Sunday/Sunday Bridges: The Spiral Ramp

A contribution to Sunday Bridges at San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.

Blue Monday: Sliproad to the M67

Just around the corner from yesterday's shadow shot is the slip road to the M67 motorway.

As detailed on the Motorway Archive website, the "Hyde by-pass" was opened in 1978 and the "Denton relief-road" in 1981. It is in fact all that remains of a plan for a motorway over the Pennines from Manchester to Sheffield as detailed on the Pathetic Motorway website.

It is a five-mile long motorway that some say tore the heart out of Hyde and Denton. The loss of George Street seems be especially lamented but it's all before my time in Hyde.

Motorway signs in the UK are blue so today's post is a contribution to Blue Monday.

Trains and Boats and Planes

Following the demolition of Automasters and the building of the canal-side estate, Moorside Place, the view across the bend in the Peak Forest Canal has been opened up. No boats were passing as the surface of the canal was covered with ice. Behind the canal is the M67 motorway. Crossing the motorway is the railway bridge carrying the Manchester Piccadilly to Rose Hill (Marple) line. It is only an hourly service and no trains were crossing at the time. There were a couple of planes in the sky but they are probably too faint to be made out.

Please visit Sunday Bridges at San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.

ABC Wednesday: V is for Voting

The time has come to vote for the best of Hyde DP 2011.

View the twelve contenders at Best of Hyde 2011 and vote for your favourite three photographs.

Voting closes 12 noon GMT, Friday 30th December 2011.

For more V posts visit ABC Wednesday.

Behind Brook Street & Steeles Avenue

The gates at the bottom of Brook Street were open when I was walking down there a week or so ago, affording a view of the land at the back of Steeles Avenue.

It was probably a hive of industry like much of Hyde a century ago but now it seems to be a bit of a backwater.

The grassy bank on the left with a mobile phone relay mast above is hiding the M67 motorway.