Today in pictures - Page 283

maxthecollie · 06-07-2013, 12:10

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Just 4 for starters today. We walked up Sandy Lane and back down past Higher Brox Farm and followed the stream down until the College Field. The rest of my quota will be published later today. We are going to Horton in Ribblesdale to watch a friend of ours going up up and away in a Balloon.

1) & 2) Hay making is under way.
3) Conkers already?
4) A Baby thrush.

mobertol · 06-07-2013, 12:35

Lovely bird pics again "Max" -especially like the smiling duck! Dave for me it has to be number 4 with the moths -lovely colours and shapes!

davemac · 06-07-2013, 19:20

Today in Pictures, up one side and down the other.

1. Setting off up Woodnook Vale.
2. The sun shining through a dog rose.
3. Dappled shade, still going up Woodnook Vale.
4. A look back before a sideways path.
5. My hay fever is on maximum setting at the moment.
6. Not going that way we are going down Priestly Clough.
7. Our paths crossed a line of horses with novices mounted up.
8. You wont recognise this, it used to be Black Rock when I was a lad playing up here.
9. Possibly Cow Parsley against the light.
10. This used to be the Black Path, nothing like the images in my childhood memory.

maxthecollie · 06-07-2013, 20:50

No 10 Dave is that the black path up to Bullough Park?

gpick24 · 06-07-2013, 20:54

I was up that way a couple of weeks ago, there was a path I took that brought you out near the horse riding farm, steepest path I`ve ever walked.

davemac · 06-07-2013, 21:35

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Originally Posted by maxthecollie

No 10 Dave is that the black path up to Bullough Park?

it skirts one corner of Bullough park, it will come out at Millerfold Avenue if you go all the way up.

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Originally Posted by gpick24

I was up that way a couple of weeks ago, there was a path I took that brought you out near the horse riding farm, steepest path I`ve ever walked.

Thats the path I went up and the horses were coming down, about 8 in total.

maxthecollie · 06-07-2013, 21:37

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Originally Posted by davemac

it skirts one corner of Bullough park, it will come out at Millerfold Avenue if you go all the way up.

Thats the path I went up and the horses were coming down, about 8 in total.

I'm on the wrong one there.I thought it was the one from Perth Street up to Bullough Park past the old air raid shelters on the right

davemac · 06-07-2013, 21:43

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Originally Posted by maxthecollie

I'm on the wrong one there.I thought it was the one from Perth Street up to Bullough Park past the old air raid shelters on the right

I know the one you mean, and no, it starts on the "factory bottom" and "flat iron" very close to High Street and goes off to the left. I used to play in those shelters as a child, I used to squeeze through the window slits, I go cold when I think of it now.

maxthecollie · 06-07-2013, 21:45

[QUOTE=davemac;1065666]I know the one you mean, and no, it starts on the "factory bottom" and "flat iron" very close to High Street and goes off to the left. I used to play in those shelters as a child, I used to squeeze through the window slits, I go cold when I think of it now.[/QUOTE
Yeh the good old air raid shelters. Take of the flagstone of the top and go in and explore.
I know where your track is now Dave.I used to play in the building housing a water tank on the right hand side just as you get on the track

gpick24 · 06-07-2013, 21:50

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Originally Posted by davemac

Thats the path I went up and the horses were coming down, about 8 in total.

Do you mean pic 7, cos i don`t think that is the path I took it was a lot narrower than than that and was so steep it was a relief to have fathead pulling on his lead.

davemac · 07-07-2013, 06:35

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Originally Posted by gpick24

Do you mean pic 7, cos i don`t think that is the path I took it was a lot narrower than than that and was so steep it was a relief to have fathead pulling on his lead.

That was the top of the path just short of the top path that has the riding school on the left. I was looking back at the horses, but the path went off to the left as you look at the picture, and at the bottom was a wooden footpath signpost pointing up the path.

davemac · 07-07-2013, 06:39

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Originally Posted by davemac

I know the one you mean, and no, it starts on the "factory bottom" and "flat iron" very close to High Street and goes off to the left. I used to play in those shelters as a child, I used to squeeze through the window slits, I go cold when I think of it now.[/QUOTE
Yeh the good old air raid shelters. Take of the flagstone of the top and go in and explore.
I know where your track is now Dave.I used to play in the building housing a water tank on the right hand side just as you get on the track

With Highams demolished, the black path used to be tarmaced, and black rock had a rock face you could climb up and walk around the top, also the lodges have been filled in. It's not the same place anymore.

maxthecollie · 07-07-2013, 06:50

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Originally Posted by maxthecollie

With Highams demolished, the black path used to be tarmaced, and black rock had a rock face you could climb up and walk around the top, also the lodges have been filled in. It's not the same place anymore.

I think I need to take Max up there to explore again

davemac · 07-07-2013, 10:31

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Originally Posted by davemac

I think I need to take Max up there to explore again

Its a nice walk especially if you follow the path across to Woodnook Vale, follow black path up to the riding school, take the footpath off to the left (a bit steep) turn right at the bottom, and you come out at Woodnook Vale, left then takes you down to Nuttall Street, turning right takes you to Baxenden, and Shoe Mill.

mobertol · 07-07-2013, 11:05

I have been thinking Dave that you could make an illustrated guide to walks around Hyndburn! It could become your life-work -Accy's answer to Wainright