Today in pictures

[Gremlin]

It could be either Sue, it's two years since I took the photos,
The Lancaster is usually accompanied by both.
It's hard to really tell from my photo.

I tried to book two nights at the Premier Inn right next to the place where the air show is for the Friday and Saturday.
They were booked up weeks ago and nearly doubled the price of a room to £140 a night during the show.
It looks like I shall have to brave the horrific traffic jams which we saw from the hotel last time.

[Gremlin]

Well it had got to one PM and I was still sitting around thinking what to do.
"Get off your backside lad" I said to myself "and have a ride round and take some photos".
That's what I did, up to Crown Point and over the hill until I found a suitable place to park.

No 1. Looking back to the turbines above Hapton Inn,
N0 2. Burnley from a distance (safest way)
No 3. Wild and rugged moorland.
N0 4. The road down through Dearplay.
No 5. A lonely farmhouse.
No 6. Radio masts on Hambledon Hill.
No 7. Windfarm above Edenfield.
No 8. Windfarm above Oswaldtwistle.

I may have those two the wrong way around.

I then got fed up of sitting with the car window open taken photos so I spent some time browsing Accy Web in the car.

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by susie123

Richard said that the wing shape of the Spitfire and Hurricane looked very similar.

Being a bit of an enthusiast for Aircraft, I'd say that the fighter on the left of picture 5 would be the "Hurri" with the fighter to the right being the "Spitty". tailplane, canopy, wings tend to be a better help to identification.

Taken last year (also from the Southport show) RAF Woodvale hosting the warbirds "Lanc", "Mustang" & "Spitty", the last one is a replica of the Spitty sponsored by Lytham St.Annes, raised as a memorial late 2011, early 2012.

[Gremlin]

I will be helping out at the Accrington Blind Society today so no time for taking photos.
DaveinGermany, I have posted some photos I took a couple of years ago, seeing as like me, you are interested in planes.
I took them at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, two minutes off the A64 York bypass,

No 7 The driver and mate's seat in a Dakota.
No.8 Imagine sitting up there for eight hours during a night time tour of Berlin.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

I hope I can meet you and whoever comes with you.
You are welcome to call for a brew.

I will be travelling alone and staying with family in Accrington till the Wed. evening -then up to the Lakes with friends. Would be nice to meet up - I never turn down the offer of a brew! Will be in touch when I know what my aunt and uncle have planned...

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

will you be in the railway on Saturday?

Will have to see Jen -what time are you usually there -have heard it's frequented by certain undesireables though...

[shillelagh]

theyre there normally from about 11.30am onwards ... ive been dragged there even earlier .. but I will make the effort to get down there for about 12 ....

[davemac]

Today in Pictures, a good day for cloudscapes.

1. Feeding on a teasel.
2. Stormy over Pendle.
3. Looks like they are getting ready to change the crossing.
4. Another cloudy shot.
5. In the direction of Whalley.
6. Its a Burdock.
7. Pendle Hill again.
8. These have been difficult to photograph this year, the Speckled Wood Butterfly.

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

seeing as like me, you are interested in planes.
I took them at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, two minutes off the A64 York bypass,

Been there, seen it, done it! Gremlin It was a few years back mind & in the hanger with the Halifax there were a couple of old boys who'd flown in Halifax's. Spent an interesting & informative hour chatting with them, absolutely marvellous old boys.

Also visited (again quite some time back) "The national museum of flight", East fortune airfield, East Lothian in the land of the Jockeens. an ideal destination for the aviation enthusiast.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by davemac

Today in Pictures, a good day for cloudscapes.

1. Feeding on a teasel.
2. Stormy over Pendle.
3. Looks like they are getting ready to change the crossing.
4. Another cloudy shot.
5. In the direction of Whalley.
6. Its a Burdock.
7. Pendle Hill again.
8. These have been difficult to photograph this year, the Speckled Wood Butterfly.

Some great skies there, Dave. Very dramatic!

[shillelagh]

mine from today ...

the sunflowers are still coming out .. even got a red one that's unfurled its petals today .. the birds were all lining up on the fence for their turn on the bird feeder ..

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Some great skies there, Dave. Very dramatic!

I did think I might get a soaking, but it stayed fine, the sun shone in between the cloudy bits.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Will have to see Jen -what time are you usually there -have heard it's frequented by certain undesireables though...

Yes we will be there

[davemac]

Today in Pictures, a taxi job to the Pals Centre kept me local, so a full circle around Platts Lodge was all I could manage.

1. Rear view of a factory located on the "factory Bottoms" Nuttall Street).
2. Peacock Butterfly.
3. The smaller overflow pond.
4. Caterpillar of the Cinnabar Moth on Ragwort.
5.Woodnook Water as it passes the lodge.
6. One of the old pillars that carried the railway through to Woodnook Vale.
7. A not often walked bit of the lodge.
8. There are not many tall chimneys left, and two of them are within the vicinity of the lodge.
9. Almost full circle.
10. The sluice gates(if thats the right word) that once used to divert Woodnook Water into Platts lodge, not been used in donkeys years.

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by davemac

Today in Pictures, a taxi job to the Pals Centre kept me local, so a full circle around Platts Lodge was all I could manage.
10. The sluice gates(if thats the right word) that once used to divert Woodnook Water into Platts lodge, not been used in donkeys years.

Why does every body call it Platts Lodge, that lodge was there long before Platts were even heard of, it was used by all the mills on the factory bottom. Bulloughs was connected to it at on time for fire fighting purposes. Woodnook water bypassed the lodge via that big steel pipe a lot of people have been on about up Priestly Clough, it was installed because the effluent from the mills up Baxenden were contaminating the boilers of the mills on Victoria Street, (Factory Bottom). Those red painted steel piles were for the Railway to Bury built circa 1850.