Shadows over the College

Trees cast shadows over the Stockport Road, Hyde Campus of Tameside College.

Hyde College on Stockport Road, Gee Cross opened around 1960. It later became part of Tameside College and was closed in the early 2000s. Having been in mothballs for many years the site is now being sold in order to help fund a super college in Ashton-under-Lyne and despite being on Green Belt land a planning application has been made for an estate of 40 houses to be built on the site.

See another photograph of the site on Hyde Xtra.

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Shadow Shot Sunday;
Blue Monday;
signs, signs

Spice is nice

The side of the herbs and spices kiosk is splattered with signs advertising all sorts of stuff. I'm not sure what some of the things actually are but the stall has being going for over 21 years so it is obviously doing a lot of people some good.

A contribution to signs, signs.

Shadow Shot Sunday: A560 Gateway shadows

Entering Hyde along the A560 from Stockport are some huge raised metal signs which were erected at boundaries all around the Greater Manchester area at the time of the millennium. When the sun is strong in the evening their shadows are cast across the road.

A contribution to Shadow Shot Sunday.

Trans Pennine Trail near Foxholes

The route of the former Godley Junction to Apethorn railway is now used for the Trans Pennine Trail and National Cycle Route #62. In the foreground is a Rowe type Sustrans milepost. See the front of the milepost in my post of 27th November 2014.

See how the sign looked before it was painted in my post of 26th June 2014

See how the oak tree looked before it lost one of its lower branches in my post of 24th March 2013.

A contribution to Blue Monday.

Car Park Charges on Chapel Street

This is a composite photograph featuring two seperate signs.

On Chapel Street, either side of Oldham Street, are two car parks.

One is owned and run by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. The charges that apply between 8 am and midnight Mon-Sat including bank holidays are:up to 30 minutes - 50p (8am - 6pm)
up to 3 hours - £1 (8am - 6pm)
All Day - £2 (8am - midnight)
Evenings - £1 (6pm - midnight)
No charge on Sundays
Blue-badge holders are allowed an extra hour free on top of the paid-for time.
The other is owned by private company Simple Intelligent Parking and their tarrifs which apply 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including bank holidays are:1hr 70p
2hrs £1.40
3hrs £2.10
4hrs £2.70
12hrs £3.20
24hrs £4.00
Check out photographs of the car parks on Hyde Xtra.

A contribution to signs, signs.

Signs on the Trans Pennine Trail

The Trans Pennine Trail and National Cycle Route #62 runs here along what was the trackbed of the Godley Junction to Apethorn railway. At one time an iron footbridge crossed here - see Hyde Cheshire - but it has been demolished and now a footpath leads from Walkers Fold over the trail and up to Donald Avenue.

The sign in the centre directs horse riders to use the gravel bridleway on the foreground left, leaving the tarmacked path for the use of cyclists and walkers.

On the corner is a Sustrans milepost of the Cockerel design which I featured in October 2014.

See the path from Walker Fold on Hyde DP Xtra.

A contribution to signs, signs.

Sign of the Cotton Bale

The sign for the Cotton Bale, a J D Wetherspoons' pub on the corner of John Street and Market Street which can be seen in full on Hyde DP Xtra.

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Signs at the entrance to ABC Wax

Yesterday I posted a photo of Godley Brook looking upstream from the entrance to the former dyeworks at Hoviley.

Today's post is of the signs at the entrance to ABC Wax.

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 which began in 2014.

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 signs, signs.

Sleet on the Street

Outside Wendy's Hair and the British Red Cross charity shop by the bus stop on Market Street a short sharp shower of sleet has made the pavement very slippery.

A contribution to Our World Tuesday.

Fuel prices at Morrisons

In January 2007 The price of fuel at Morrisons on Mottram Road was 85.9 pence per litre for Unleaded petrol. City Diesel was 89.9 ppl and Auto gas 35.9 ppl.

By December 2007 it was 100.9 pence per litre for Unleaded petrol. City Diesel is 105.9 ppl and Auto gas 45.9 ppl.

Since then it has risen to around a third as much again but now it has fallen and the price is currently 103.9 pence per litre for Unleaded petrol. City Diesel is 109.9 ppl and Auto gas 56.9 ppl.

A contribution to signs, signs.

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.

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Signs in Clarendon Mall

A collection of shop signs in Clarendon Square Shopping Centre. The one at the front is for Lloyds Bank.

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Greenalls Est. 1762

As a follow-up to the earlier post featuring the Shepherds Call, here is a close-up of the brewery sign on the front of the pub.

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Sign of a 21st century Christmas

Like other supermarkets, Morrisons will be open on both Boxing Day and New Year's Day.

Under current UK law the only days that supermarkets are not allowed to open are Easter Sunday and Christmas Day.

Most of the smaller shops and market stalls we use will be closed until the 5th January.

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.

A contribution to signs, signs.

Sign hanging off at Hyde Library

I showed you this sign for Hyde Library in January 2014. It is now hanging off and has been for some weeks.

In September I posted about the protest to "Save our Library". The council dismissed this protest as being politically motivated and claimed that library services were not being lost merely moved to another building (the Town Hall) ignoring the fact that the protest was not just about losing the service but about losing an historic building.

Tameside council have already closed Denton Library.

Denton Library is to relocate to Denton Town Hall as part of a wider programme to reduce the number and costs of Council-owned buildings. Tameside Council's priority is to save services over buildings in its challenge to meet £142m Government funding cuts to its budget. Denton library is moving as part of this strategy and will in fact be going back to its original roots as the service started life in a room in the town hall in 1888.

Now they plan to do the same in Hyde!

Hyde Library was originally Hyde Technical School and Free Library. It opened in 1897 replacing the former Mechanics Institute. See the original plan for the building on Old Hyde.

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.

A contribution to signs, signs and Good Fences.

Signs approaching Broomstairs Bridge

A few yards further along Manchester Road from the view posted on Tuesday are these road signs.

Broomstair bridge over the river Tame was originally the boundary between Hyde, Cheshire and Denton, Lancashire. Now both towns are part of Tameside Metropolitan Borough.

Beyond the boundary sign are two warning road signs. One refers to horses which is not surprising as there is a stables on the left hand side and a bridleway on the opposite side of the road.

The other sign warns of cattle!

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Broomstair Metal Co.

Signs at 328 Hyde Road, Denton just beyond the Cheshire/Lancashire border at Broomstairs Bridge.

Broomstair Metal Co. was set up in 1980 and dissolved in 1993.

[Update: The business actually began in the 1950s. When the founder died the company went to the eldest son who is now retiring. The grandson built the large building in the yard at the side of the river and has now moved to bigger purpose built premises.]

Todaysure Products who have subsequently occupied the premises appear to have relocated to Dunkirk Lane and the premises are back on the market.

Note how the area-code for Manchester phone numbers has changed from 061 to 0161 and how the newer signage includes the post code for the address.

A contribution to signs, signs.

Painted milepost at Foxholes

Since I showed you the new Sustrans milepost at Foxholes in June it has been painted this vivid blue colour.

1000 Millennium cast iron mileposts were funded by the Royal Bank of Scotland to mark the creation of the National Cycle Network, and are to be found along the cycle routes through the UK. There are four different types of posts, "Fossil Tree" by John Mills, "The Cockerel" by Iain McColl, Rowe Type by Andrew Rowe, and "Tracks" by David Dudgeon. The four artists are from each country of the UK though all posts can be found in all four countries. This one on National Cycle Network Route #62 and the Trans Pennine Trail is by Andrew Rowe.

A contribution to signs, signs.

More reflections in the rain

A contribution to Weekend Reflections.

Sign for Hoviley

The street sign for Hoviley.

Hoviley is at the bottom of Commercial Street and used to go past the dye works to Hoviley Brow which led straight into town.

You can see the sign on the left hand side of the photograph I published recently on Hyde DP Xtra.

A contribution to signs, signs.