ABC Wednesday: D is for Dowson Road

This was originally Swain Street which ended shortly behind the photographer. It led to a quarry through which flowed the Gower Hey Brook.

In the 1930s the quarry was filled in, the brook culverted and a new road built to Gerrards bypassing Stockport Road through Gee Cross.

The new road was named after Henry Enfield Dowson (1837-1925) who became the minister of Hyde Chapel in 1867 and served for 51 years.

So Swain Street became subsumed by Dowson Road.

A contribution to ABC Wednesday.

Wet shrubs by the closed conveniences

Back at the beginning of April I featured the shrubs on Greenfield Street outside the old Town Hall toilets that have been closed for more than six years.

Now here they are some three months later on a day when the rain is persistently precipitating.

The street round the corner is Water Street.

A contribution to Our World Tuesday.

Penalty shoot-out

On Saturday you could have tested your penalty shoot-out skills at this inflatable set-up on Hyde Civic Square.

A contribution to Blue Monday.

Stockport Road Bridge

Stockport Road Bridge over the former Godley to Apethorn Railway line now reclaimed for the Trans Pennine Trail and National Cycle Route #62.

See how it looked in August 2006 and again in May 2010.

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

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

Weekend in Black & White: Brookfold Farm

This black pencil sketch of Brookfold Farm is based on a coloured photograph taken from Brookfold Lane Bridge. The original can be viewed on Geograph.

See how it looked in 2007 on Hyde Daily Photo Volume 1.

See two more views of the locality from Brookfold Lane on Hyde DP Xtra.

A contribution to The Weekend in Black and White.

Friday Fences Follow-up shot

Following up on my shot from last Friday here is how it looked a few days ago.

It turns out that the space is going to be used by another large flower-planter similar to the two on the other side of the Civic Square as the Market Ground is now called.

Instead of proper benches folk will be able to sit on the reflective mock-marble edges.

A contribution to Friday Fences and Weekend Reflections.

New Streetlamps

A good look at the top of the new streetlamps in Hyde with the Town Hall behind.

See the ground-level view on Hyde DP Xtra.

A contribution to the Streetlamp theme at the City Daily Photoblog portal.