In the last two weeks of January 2021 my wife and I followed the length of the Micklehurst Loop from Stalybridge to Diggle. We had been looking for new local walks to undertake in the spirit of lockdown. The route proved to be a gem. Each day that we walked we travelled along part of the Loop line and then crossed to the neighbouring Huddersfield Narrow Canal for the return journey. Everything was enhanced by the presence of a number of cafes providing take-away drinks, cakes and some more substantial food. Each day we walked around 5 miles, there and back.
This is the first of a number of posts covering the Loop line. ................
Well Rev. Farnsworth, I too have discovered things about my Anglican Heritage viilage on my walks "since it all began".
For example, when the Middaugh family first started to develop their massive tract of land, and persuaded the CB&Q to add a station stop, during the 1880's, I don't know how they came up with the streets. I must ask how can Ann Street start at one intersection, yet suddenly become Eastern Ave, then just as inexplicably become Ann Street again. Hafta wonder how if a neighboring municipality's Emergency Services (we have a mutual aid agreement with three such surrounding) answered a call, they'd ever find the emergency.
Things you learn after residing here for 42 years.
Posted by Roger Farnworth (Member # 197595) on :
Sounds interesting!
We can so easily overlook what is on our doorstep.
I've only been here for 18 years so, I guess I have a lot of catching up to do!
Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
Well, Rev. Farnsworth, it appears if the Anglican Church decides its time for a Priest to become a Vicar, he gets "reloed".
Same with a lot of organizations over here; be they Divine or "otherwise".
You see my municipality; ring it up with Mr. Google's maps and should be evident where I come from.
Also note that there is a "Chicago Grid" around here, but the Middaugh's wanted Clarendon Hills opted out.
Posted by Roger Farnworth (Member # 197595) on :
This is a short addendum to my first article about the Micklehurst Loop, promoted by a few emails from an online acquaintance, Tony Jervis. ....
A second addendum to my first post about the Micklehurst Loop.
Just a few days after I completed addendum 1A about the first length of The Micklehurst Loop and particularly about Staley and Millbrook Station and Goods Yard, I heard from James Ward who recollected some photographs taken by his father of the demolition of the Spring Grove Viaduct.
He also pointed out a series of photographs on the 'Timepix' website. These are predominantly photographs of the Greater Manchester Revision Point Collection undertaken by/on-behalf-of the Ordnance Survey in the early 1950s and are held by Manchester Libraries. The introduction to the 'Timepix' website makes it clear that all of their watermarked images are free to download and share.
Another addendum to my post on the first length of the Micklehurst Loop which includes, among other things, the two CEGB locomotives which served the coal facilities at the Staley and Millbrook Goods Yard
This is the second length of the Micklehurst Loop. It covers the length between Staley and Millbrook Goods Yard and Micklehurst Passenger Station building. ....
Since publishing the first three articles about the Micklehurst Loop. I have had a trickle feed of comments, particularly about the Staley and Millbrook Goods Yard. This short addendum to the first article seeks to bring those items together in one place. It is the fourth addendum to that first post.
An addendum to the post about the third length of the Micklehurst Loop which covers a 1963 image contributed by Keith Norgrove and some further information about Mossley Gas Works and its sidings. .....
While on holiday in September 2021, I was reading older copies of the magazine BackTrack from the turn of the millennium, from, at that time, Atlantic Publishers. (More recent editions are published by Pendragon Publishing.)
Volume 14 No. 3, March 2000 included an article by Jeffrey Wells [1] about the Micklehurst Loop (p142ff)
Since then I have, over the past 18 months, kept my eye open for interesting shots of the line. This is a selection of these that I have permission to share .... A big thank you to copyright holders/photographers. Their details appear with each image.