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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,drain unblocking,emergency drains work,drainage vehicle,utility vehicle,water company,Grappenhall,Cheshire,utility maintenance,street works,North West England,truck,drainage maintenance,sewer blockage,wastewater utility,public sewer network,emergency response vehicle,British utility company,water infrastructure,drainage services,local authority style street scene,neighbourhood maintenance,domestic drainage issue,sewer repair,utility contractor work,public service vehicle,environmental services,essential services,infrastructure maintenance,UK water industry,Cheshire suburb,roadside works,domestic properties,emergency crew vehicle,essential repairs,public utilities,sewer jetting truck,blocked sewer response
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E5HA3P - Editorial image of a United Utilities drainage vehicle carrying out emergency sewer unblocking work on a residential street in Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England. Parked outside red brick suburban housing on a bright day, the specialist truck is equipped for wastewater and drainage operations, with hose reels, warning beacons, service compartments and sewer-clearing machinery visible on the side of the vehicle. Branding on the equipment includes United Utilities and the company's Think Before You Flush message, linking the scene to wider public information campaigns about blocked drains, sewer misuse, fats, oils, grease and unflushable items that can cause costly disruption in the wastewater network. The photograph is highly relevant for editorial use covering emergency utility response, blocked sewers, drainage maintenance, water company operations, public infrastructure, essential local services and the day to day reality of keeping neighbourhood pipework functioning. It also illustrates wider themes in the UK water industry, including the hidden but vital operational work carried out in ordinary residential streets to prevent flooding, protect homes, restore service and manage the underground sewer network. The suburban setting adds useful context for stories about domestic drainage problems, service call-outs, local environmental health, public service delivery and the interaction between household behaviour and infrastructure performance. As a documentary stock image, it works well for articles on utility fleets, wastewater services, Cheshire street scenes, local repairs, infrastructure resilience and emergency attendance by service providers in northern England. The image captures an everyday but commercially valuable moment in modern public utility operations, combining specialist engineering equipment, recognisable water company branding and a real residential backdrop to show how sewer blockages are tackled at street level before they become larger
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Warrington,snowy,village,Church Lane Grappenhall,Grappenhall,Cheshire,British pub,English pub,parish church,British culture,English village life,traditional England,pub and church,village community,social history,religious heritage,community hub,local identity,countryside village,British heritage,historic England,winter scene,snow scene,seasonal weather,calm,peaceful,nostalgic,travel England,UK tourism,heritage travel,lifestyle editorial,calendar image,Robinsons Brewery pub,tied house,village pub,historic pub,church tower
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3DGE75H - The Parr Arms public house stands alongside St Wilfrid's Church on Church Lane in the village of Grappenhall near Warrington, Cheshire, photographed during a cold winter period in January with light snow visible on the ground and outdoor seating areas. The white-painted pub, a Robinsons Brewery tied house, is shown in the foreground, while the red sandstone tower of St Wilfrid's Church rises behind it, creating a distinctive and recognisable village scene. Clear blue skies and low winter sunlight emphasise the textures of the church stonework and the contrasting surfaces of the pub exterior.
The pairing of pub and parish church reflects a long-established pattern within English village life, where places of worship and social gathering sit side by side at the heart of the community. In winter conditions, particularly with snow and frost present, these buildings take on a heightened sense of tradition, continuity and calm. The absence of people adds to the quiet atmosphere, reinforcing themes of stillness, reflection and seasonal change.
St Wilfrid's Church, an Anglican parish church with medieval origins, represents the religious heritage of the village, while the Parr Arms embodies British pub culture and hospitality. Together, they illustrate the social and cultural fabric of rural England, where faith, leisure and community life intersect. The image lends itself to a wide range of editorial uses, including travel features, heritage publications, lifestyle articles, calendars and broader storytelling focused on traditional England, village identity and winter landscapes.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Warrington,snowy,village,Grappenhall,Cheshire,Anglican church,snow,January,British heritage,royal history,monarchy,Queen Elizabeth II legacy,national remembrance,public memorial,commemoration,British culture,English village life,traditional England,community identity,local history,civic pride,winter scene,seasonal weather,snow scene,climate and weather,church and state,religion and monarchy,social history,church notice board,church information sign,village church,red signboard,winter frost,cold weather,blue sky,snow covered wall,memorial plaques
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3DGE75M - The sign for St Wilfrid's Parish Church in the village of Grappenhall near Warrington, Cheshire, is shown during a cold winter period in January with snow settled on the surrounding wall and ground. The red church notice board, displaying service information and parish details, stands prominently against clear blue skies, while frost and snow emphasise the seasonal conditions. In the foreground, memorial plaques commemorate the Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and the Platinum Jubilee in 2022 of Queen Elizabeth II, linking the church and village directly to national moments of royal celebration and remembrance.
St Wilfrid's Church is an Anglican parish church with deep historical roots in the village, and the presence of jubilee memorials reflects the long-standing connection between the Church of England, the British monarchy and local communities. The image captures a moment where religion, monarchy and village identity intersect, with the winter setting adding a sense of stillness, reflection and continuity. The absence of people allows the focus to rest on the symbols of heritage and commemoration rather than daily activity.
Beyond its local significance, the photograph lends itself to wider editorial use in stories about British royal history, public remembrance, community memorials and the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II. It also works as a visual representation of traditional English village life, seasonal change and the role of parish churches as custodians of local and national history. The winter snow and clear light enhance its suitability for heritage publications, educational material, calendars and broader cultural features exploring identity, memory and continuity in Britain.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Warrington,snowy,village,Church Lane Grappenhall,Grappenhall,Cheshire,abandoned building,vacant property,empty building,winter,snow,January,under offer,housing shortage,empty homes,unused buildings,property market,real estate,housing development,regeneration project,brownfield development,derelict building,neglected property,disused building,boarded windows,fenced property,historic residence,clergy house,Church of England,village property,residential development,regeneration,redevelopment site,sandstone building,Victorian building,WA4 2AQ,WA4
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3DGE75T - The Old Vicarage on Church Lane in the village of Grappenhall near Warrington, Cheshire, is shown during a cold winter period in January with light snow settled on the ground and surrounding vegetation. The former vicarage, a historic residential building associated with the nearby parish church, has stood vacant and unused for over a decade and is seen enclosed by fencing, with boarded or empty windows and visible signs of long-term neglect. Clear blue skies and low winter sunlight highlight the texture of the stonework and the stark condition of the property, while frost and snow reinforce the sense of abandonment.
The image reflects wider themes of empty homes, unused buildings and the challenges of maintaining historic properties within rural English villages. Once an integral part of local religious and community life, the former vicarage now represents a period of decline and inactivity, contrasting with the surrounding settled village environment. The absence of people and the quiet winter setting add to the feeling of pause and uncertainty, emphasising the passage of time and the impact of prolonged vacancy.
Now under offer for development, the building also symbolises renewal and change, sitting at the intersection of heritage, housing demand and regeneration. The photograph lends itself to editorial use in stories about the British housing market, regeneration of historic buildings, adaptive reuse, planning and development, and the broader issue of empty homes within the UK. Seasonal winter conditions and the rural Cheshire setting further widen its suitability for use in discussions of climate, countryside change and traditional village life undergoing transition.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,WA4,Grappenhall,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4 2PL,English,vehicles,it,is,an,offence,illegal,sign,clamping,urban,Do Not Attempt to move,sticker,vehicle,licensing,agency,DVLC,on,driver and vehicle licencing,broken,the,law,unlawful,penalty,parked,abandoned,cartaxenforcement,cartaxenforcement.co.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2X5K8BE -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,open space,area,WA4,Grappenhall,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4 2PT,Euclid Ave,Wicksteed,adolescent,green,and,adult,Mersey Forest,free,to,use,staying,playground,play,ground,Chest Press,&,Pull Down,Combo,Double Leg Press,Product code 6210-058,Wickstead,Digby Street,Kettering,Northamptonshire,NN16 8Y,summer
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,dog control signs,dog,pick up after your dog,good,manners,early,evening,open,responsible dog ownership,countryside access,public footpath rules,rural signage UK,dog fouling sign,leash requirement,farm gate,wooden gate,countryside path,rural England,landowner notice,dog walkers,outdoor recreation,animal control sign,agricultural landscape,village outskirts,evening light,golden hour countryside,access rights,safety notice,leads,on,leashes,countryside,farm,farmland,access,WA4 4SH,Grappenhall
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R5PNYX - This image shows countryside warning signs attached to a wooden farm gate, advising visitors to pick up after their dogs and to keep all dogs on leads. Such signs are commonly used across rural England to balance public access with farming, wildlife protection, and land management.
Dog control notices are particularly important near livestock, crops, and wildlife habitats, helping to reduce disturbance and maintain good relationships between landowners and walkers. The rural setting, with fencing, trees, and traditional brick houses in the background, places the scene firmly within the English countryside.
The warm evening light adds atmosphere while reinforcing themes of responsible access, rural etiquette, and countryside conservation. The image is suitable for editorial and commercial use covering dog ownership, countryside access, rural life, land management, public rights of way, and environmental responsibility.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,British,English,government land,development land,access restriction,Grappenhall,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4,UK government agency,housing development,land management,property boundary,rural edge,countryside sign,foliage and trees,evening light,golden hour,safety signage,civil notice,documentary photography,editorial image,UK landscape,0300-1234-500,UKhousing,SocialHousing,social housing,housing,development,building,site,sites
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R55JGY - This image shows a Homes England land notice photographed in Grappenhall, near Warrington in Cheshire. The sign clearly states Private Land. No public access or right of way and includes official contact details, identifying the land as being under the management of the UK government's housing and regeneration agency.
The sign is mounted at the edge of a vegetated area, with dense foliage behind it and the sun low in the sky, casting warm golden light across the scene. The sunset backdrop softens the otherwise formal and restrictive message, creating a visual contrast between natural landscape and regulatory control of land access.
Homes England is responsible for managing public land assets and supporting housing delivery and regeneration across England. Signs like this are commonly used to establish ownership boundaries, restrict unauthorised access, and manage liability on land that may be earmarked for future development or strategic use.
Photographed in evening light during golden hour, the image combines themes of land ownership, access rights, public versus private space, and the role of government agencies in land management. It is well suited to editorial use covering housing policy, planning and development, rural and suburban land use, property law, public access debates, and UK governance.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,British,blue,advert,WA4,Kumon,Kumon Maths,Kumon English,Kumon sign,private tuition,maths tuition,English tuition,Grappenhall,education sign,Cheshire,Warrington,supplementary education,tutoring service,childrens education,primary education support,secondary education support,exam preparation,academic skills,numeracy,literacy,private education UK,educational branding,wall mounted sign,brick wall background,documentary photography,editorial image,UK education,child,children,on a wall
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R55JHF - This image shows exterior signage for the Kumon Maths and English programme at the Warrington South Study Centre in Grappenhall, Cheshire. The sign is mounted on a red brick wall and clearly displays the Kumon brand, subjects offered, and local contact telephone number.
Kumon is an international supplementary education provider offering structured maths and English study programmes designed to support children's independent learning outside the mainstream school curriculum. In the UK, Kumon centres are commonly located in residential or community settings and cater to pupils from early primary age through to secondary school level.
The signage reflects the recognisable Kumon visual identity, using simple typography and contrasting colours to emphasise clarity and approachability. The presence of both maths and English subjects highlights the programme's focus on core academic skills such as numeracy, literacy, and confidence in learning.
Photographed in daylight, the image is well suited to editorial use covering private education, tutoring services, children's learning, education branding, community study centres, and the role of supplementary education in the UK schooling system.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,GB,Great Britain,village,25,years,Real Ale,ale,ales,WA4,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4 2SG,Grappenhall,GYCA,the,Bellhouse,pub,at,barrel,helper,helpers,inside,interior,numbered,beer,beers,25th Grappenhall Beer Festival,twentyfive,twenty,five,fifth,Gold,keg,kegs
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,infrastructure,wires,cables,cabling,cherry-picker,access,platform,&,and,home,lines,works,in,a,street,urban,added,by,for,OpenReach,Cheshire,UK,Grappenhall,Warrington,England,WA4 2PI,van,vehicle,pole,telephone,telegraph,tower wagon,mobile,crane
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R0MKDX -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R0MKE3 -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,your speed 37,slow down sign,30 mph zone,traffic calming,road safety sign,your,speed,camera,37,England,too fast,Bellhouse Lane,Grappenhall,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4,residential road,community safety,driver feedback sign,LED speed board,urban traffic control,speeding car,motion blur vehicle,road safety technology,speed awareness,local authority signage,neighbourhood safety,UK road signs,documentary photography,editorial image,vehicle,community,safety,police,patrol,anti-social
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R5PNFB - This image shows an electronic roadside speed indicator sign on Bellhouse Lane in Grappenhall, near Warrington in Cheshire. The sign displays the message Your Speed 37 followed by Slow Down, indicating that a passing vehicle is exceeding the 30 mph speed limit in this residential area.
Speed indicator devices of this type are widely used across the United Kingdom as part of traffic calming and road safety initiatives. Unlike enforcement cameras, they provide immediate visual feedback to drivers, highlighting excessive speed and encouraging behavioural change without issuing penalties. When drivers exceed the limit, warning messages such as Slow Down are triggered to reinforce compliance.
The photograph captures a car passing the sign with visible motion blur, emphasising the contrast between the digital warning and real-world driving behaviour. Installed on a tree-lined suburban road, the sign reflects local authority efforts to improve safety for residents, pedestrians, and other road users.
Photographed in daylight, the image is well suited to editorial use covering road safety, speed management, transport policy, residential traffic issues, community safety schemes, and the use of technology to influence driver behaviour on UK roads.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,UK,sign,Grappenhall,cheap,profit,profits,loss,share,house,flat,flates,houses,free,selling,sales,England,WA4,bought,buys,PurpleBricks,Purple Bricks,on-line,for sale sign,signs,sell your,property,for free,free sales,shortage,home,homes,of,traditional,UKhousing
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4,high,traffic,level,levels,speeding,speeds,rural,30mph,exit,on,the,heavy,Knutsford Road,Grappenhall,polluted,safety,road,near,turnoff,to,jam,jams,carefoot,truck,waggon,busy,increase,plan,reduction,particulates,Nitrous Oxide,A50,hotpix.org.uk
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,pink,red,orange,sky,skies,colourful,Grappenhall,Wrights Green,Appleton,Thorn,south,WA4,bare,Stanny Lunt Bridge,Bridgewater Canal,WA4 3EL,canal,Bridgewater,sunsets,village,beauty,spot,spots,barge,No16,No,16,mooring,moorings,tow,path,dramatic,drama
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NCX175 - Stanny Lunt Bridge No 16 is a minor waterways place on the Bridgewater Canal (Main Line) between Lymm Bridge No 23 (Lymm, footbridge is next to road bridge) (3 miles and 3½ furlongs to the east) and Preston Brook - Waters Meeting (Junction of the Bridgewater Canal (Main Line) with the Bridgewater Canal (Preston Brook Branch)) (6 miles and 2¾ furlongs to the southwest).
The nearest place in the direction of Lymm Bridge No 23 is Grappenhall Bridge No 17
3¼ furlongs away.
The nearest place in the direction of Preston Brook - Waters Meeting is Lumb Brook Underbridge (Stockton Heath)
7½ furlongs away.
There may be access to the towpath here.
Mooring here is unrated.
There is a bridge here which takes a minor road over the canal.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KDKG3Y - Warrington South MP Andy Carter on Fir Grove asylum plan - more at https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/23107891.warrington-south-mp-andy-carter-fir-grove-asylum-plan/
OPENING an asylum centre at a Warrington hotel without consulting residents was 'simply not acceptable'.
Warrington South MP Andy Carter raised his concerns in the House of Commons on Monday afternoon during an urgent debate on the migrant crisis.
He was among a large number of MPs grilling immigration minister Robert Jenrick on the fall out of the problems at the Manston Migrant Centre in Kent.
Thousands of migrants have been placed in temporary accomodation since then to relieve the pressure Parliament was told.
Mr Carter said on Thursday he was notified by the Home Office that the Fir Grove hotel in his Warrington South constituency would 'become an asylum centre the following day' and said no talks were held with the council.
He added: It's in the middle of a residential area, less than 200 yards from a primary school.
I'm sure (Mr Jenrick) would agree with me that it's simply not acceptable for the Home Office to steamroll ahead on a decision like this without the necessary consultation with local residents.
After Conservative former minister Paul Maynard raised concerns about the use of a hotel in his Blackpool North and Cleveleys constituency, Mr Jenrick said: I appreciate that Blackpool is one of those areas that has borne a disproportionate burden from this issue for a long time.
So if there is a way we can ensure that individuals are dispersed from Blackpool more swiftly than other parts of the country, then I'd be happy to look into that.
Mr Jenrick added 'deterrence' has to be part of the UK's approach, suggesting good-quality hotels could act as a 'pull factor' for people thinking of crossing the Channel.
The population at the Manston Migrant Processing Centre is back below 1,600 with 'over 2,300 people being placed in onward accommodation', Mr Jenrick said.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KDKG4J - Angry MP aims to raise Fir Grove Hotel asylum seekers decision in parliament - more at https://www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/2022/11/05/angry-mp-aims-to-raise-fir-grove-hotel-asylum-seekers-decision-in-parliament/
An angry Warrington South MP Andy Carter says he is going to raise the Home Office decision to allow asylum seekers at the Fir Grove Hotel at Grappenhall in parliament in the coming week.
Mr Carter yesterday held a number of meetings to understand the legal options available to Warrington Borough Council, which also opposes the decision.
He said: I held a number of meetings yesterday to understand the legal options available to the Council in terms of challenging decisions taken by the owners of the hotel and to gain more information from the Home Office and their plans for this site.
In discussions with Home Office officials, I have been advised that the cohort planned for accommodation this site will be families with children. Prior to arriving in Warrington the refugees will have been processed at centres elsewhere. The hotel has 54 rooms and a maximum occupancy of 79 guests in total.
The advice received from Kings Counsel was that an immediate legal challenge to this decision to use this site for Asylum Seekers would be unlikely to succeed, not least due the incredibly short timescales before the asylum seekers arrive in Warrington and the location of the owners of the site. Other local authorities are however pursuing legal routes related to planning legislation and a change of use requirements, which I am monitoring.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KDKG4R - Angry MP aims to raise Fir Grove Hotel asylum seekers decision in parliament - more at https://www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/2022/11/05/angry-mp-aims-to-raise-fir-grove-hotel-asylum-seekers-decision-in-parliament/
An angry Warrington South MP Andy Carter says he is going to raise the Home Office decision to allow asylum seekers at the Fir Grove Hotel at Grappenhall in parliament in the coming week.
Mr Carter yesterday held a number of meetings to understand the legal options available to Warrington Borough Council, which also opposes the decision.
He said: I held a number of meetings yesterday to understand the legal options available to the Council in terms of challenging decisions taken by the owners of the hotel and to gain more information from the Home Office and their plans for this site.
In discussions with Home Office officials, I have been advised that the cohort planned for accommodation this site will be families with children. Prior to arriving in Warrington the refugees will have been processed at centres elsewhere. The hotel has 54 rooms and a maximum occupancy of 79 guests in total.
The advice received from Kings Counsel was that an immediate legal challenge to this decision to use this site for Asylum Seekers would be unlikely to succeed, not least due the incredibly short timescales before the asylum seekers arrive in Warrington and the location of the owners of the site. Other local authorities are however pursuing legal routes related to planning legislation and a change of use requirements, which I am monitoring.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KDKG3K - Angry MP aims to raise Fir Grove Hotel asylum seekers decision in parliament - more at https://www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/2022/11/05/angry-mp-aims-to-raise-fir-grove-hotel-asylum-seekers-decision-in-parliament/
An angry Warrington South MP Andy Carter says he is going to raise the Home Office decision to allow asylum seekers at the Fir Grove Hotel at Grappenhall in parliament in the coming week.
Mr Carter yesterday held a number of meetings to understand the legal options available to Warrington Borough Council, which also opposes the decision.
He said: I held a number of meetings yesterday to understand the legal options available to the Council in terms of challenging decisions taken by the owners of the hotel and to gain more information from the Home Office and their plans for this site.
In discussions with Home Office officials, I have been advised that the cohort planned for accommodation this site will be families with children. Prior to arriving in Warrington the refugees will have been processed at centres elsewhere. The hotel has 54 rooms and a maximum occupancy of 79 guests in total.
The advice received from Kings Counsel was that an immediate legal challenge to this decision to use this site for Asylum Seekers would be unlikely to succeed, not least due the incredibly short timescales before the asylum seekers arrive in Warrington and the location of the owners of the site. Other local authorities are however pursuing legal routes related to planning legislation and a change of use requirements, which I am monitoring.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K8RDNG - Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, is a basidiomycete of the genus Amanita. It is also a muscimol mushroom. Native throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Amanita muscaria has been unintentionally introduced to many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, generally as a symbiont with pine and birch plantations, and is now a true cosmopolitan species. It associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees.
Arguably the most iconic toadstool species, the fly agaric is a large white-gilled, white-spotted, usually red mushroom, and is one of the most recognizable and widely encountered in popular culture, including in video gamese.g., the extensive use of a recognizable Amanita muscaria in the Mario franchise and its Super Mushroom power-upand televisione.g., the houses in The Smurfs franchise.
Despite its easily distinguishable features, Amanita muscaria is a fungus with several known variations, or subspecies. These subspecies are slightly different, some having yellow or white caps, but they are all usually called fly agarics, and they are most of the time recognizable by their notable white spots. Recent DNA fungi research, however, has shown that some of these variations are not the same species at all, such as the peach-colored fly agaric (Amanita persicina) for example, but the common name 'fly agaric' clings on.
Although poisonous, death due to poisoning from A. muscaria ingestion is quite rare. Parboiling twice with water draining weakens its toxicity and breaks down the mushroom's psychoactive substances
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KDKG4Y - Warrington South MP Andy Carter on Fir Grove asylum plan - more at https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/23107891.warrington-south-mp-andy-carter-fir-grove-asylum-plan/
OPENING an asylum centre at a Warrington hotel without consulting residents was 'simply not acceptable'.
Warrington South MP Andy Carter raised his concerns in the House of Commons on Monday afternoon during an urgent debate on the migrant crisis.
He was among a large number of MPs grilling immigration minister Robert Jenrick on the fall out of the problems at the Manston Migrant Centre in Kent.
Thousands of migrants have been placed in temporary accomodation since then to relieve the pressure Parliament was told.
Mr Carter said on Thursday he was notified by the Home Office that the Fir Grove hotel in his Warrington South constituency would 'become an asylum centre the following day' and said no talks were held with the council.
He added: It's in the middle of a residential area, less than 200 yards from a primary school.
I'm sure (Mr Jenrick) would agree with me that it's simply not acceptable for the Home Office to steamroll ahead on a decision like this without the necessary consultation with local residents.
After Conservative former minister Paul Maynard raised concerns about the use of a hotel in his Blackpool North and Cleveleys constituency, Mr Jenrick said: I appreciate that Blackpool is one of those areas that has borne a disproportionate burden from this issue for a long time.
So if there is a way we can ensure that individuals are dispersed from Blackpool more swiftly than other parts of the country, then I'd be happy to look into that.
Mr Jenrick added 'deterrence' has to be part of the UK's approach, suggesting good-quality hotels could act as a 'pull factor' for people thinking of crossing the Channel.
The population at the Manston Migrant Processing Centre is back below 1,600 with 'over 2,300 people being placed in onward accommodation', Mr Jenrick said.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K01H1W - At Thrive Childcare, Education and childhood is our passion. We are excited and pleased to introduce you to the wonderful, passionate and committed team who are working at Thrive Childcare and Education. Please take a moment to read our story. We invite you and your family for a lovely journey with Thrive.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD3PH - Cheshire Cat a new local bus service 2
BY DAVID SKENTELBERY ON 19TH JANUARY 2018 7:00 AMNEWS, VILLAGE LIFE
A PUBLIC roadshow will be held at Stockton Heath's Sandy Lane Community Centre on Wednesday, February 28 to highlight widespread improvements to bus services in South Warrington.
Bus company Network Warrington is to introduce the Cheshire Cat a newly branded network that will service the area south of the Ship Canal, starting later this year.
The changes will see buses in the south network simplified, improved and will also see the introduction of a new, cutting-edge bus fleet.
Cheshire Cat branded buses will include the latest transport essentials, including WiFi, skylights, extra leg room, comfy seats and USB charging points.
Network Warrington managing director Ben Wakerley said: I'm pleased that we're making big improvements to the south network that will hopefully have our customers purring. These are truly buses to be seen on!
This latest round of improvements follow our Dallam discount, hospital frequency increase, Pops network and £1.70 to Westy' initiatives, and I can't wait to unveil this further improvement.
We will be introducing 13 new vehicles onto the Cheshire Cat network to ensure that our fleet remains modern, fit for purpose and achieves improvements for the environment.
Cllr Ian Marks, Lymm North & Thelwall, was pleased about the prospect of network improvements, adding: I'm looking forward to seeing the positive changes delivered by Network Warrington and the proposed routing, giving better connections.
The improvements will be announced in full at the roadshow which will also give residents the chance to comment on the service changes before they are officially confirmed.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JHKXYF - Nature's most accomplished fisherman, the grey heron is known for its motionless stance at the water's edge.
In fact, this graceful pose is most frequently seen replicated by imitation herons, procured to guard the contents of ornamental fishponds. However, heron enthusiasts can spot the real thing waiting patiently for prey on waterways up and down the country.
Grey herons are prevalent throughout Europe, Africa and also in Asia. They typically breed in woodland areas that are close to the water and can be spotted around lakes, estuaries, ponds, rivers and even coastal marshes. Herons are adaptable birds and will feed in any water, be it fresh, salt, clear or muddy, so long as it will yield a catch.
Herons can stand for several minutes with their necks tensed, waiting for an unsuspecting fish to swim into reach. Alternatively, they will stalk the shallows searching for food. Then, quick as a flash, they will dart down and spear the prey with their long dagger-like bill.
The grey heron is the only member of the heron family to be commonly found in Britain. You will be lucky to catch a glimpse of the bittern, which is very scarce, or the egret, which is a rare visitor. Thankfully, the grey heron population is doing well in the UK and is more abundant now than ever before, despite the ever-present danger of starvation over the cold winter months.
Appearance: Large and long-legged with an S-shaped neck. The back and wings are coloured grey, and the neck and under-parts are white. Herons have white heads, black wispy crests and a long, pointed yellow bill
Size: 84-102cm in length, 155-175cm wingspan
Weight: 1,500-2,000g
Lifespan: Maximum 25 years
Diet: Primarily fish and amphibians. However, herons can also feed on small rodents, reptiles and birds
Family: Ardeidae
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JHKXYJ - Herons are long-legged, long-necked, freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae, with 64 recognised species, some of which are referred to as egrets or bitterns rather than herons. Members of the genera Botaurus and Ixobrychus are referred to as bitterns, and, together with the zigzag heron, or zigzag bittern, in the monotypic genus Zebrilus, form a monophyletic group within the Ardeidae. Egrets do not form a biologically distinct group from herons, and tend to be named differently because they are mainly white or have decorative plumes in breeding plumage. Herons, by evolutionary adaptation, have long beaks.
The classification of the individual heron/egret species is fraught with difficulty, and no clear consensus exists about the correct placement of many species into either of the two major genera, Ardea and Egretta. Similarly, the relationships of the genera in the family are not completely resolved. However, one species formerly considered to constitute a separate monotypic family, the Cochlearidae or the boat-billed heron, is now regarded as a member of the Ardeidae.
Although herons resemble birds in some other families, such as the storks, ibises, spoonbills, and cranes, they differ from these in flying with their necks retracted, not outstretched. They are also one of the bird groups that have powder down. Some members of this group nest colonially in trees
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JCMKCK - Grappenhall Cricket Club, one of the premier Cheshire cricket clubs in the North-West. played its first game in 1881 on a ground in Bellhouse Lane. The club moved to its current home of Broad Lane in 1892 with a new clubhouse. There have been several new clubhouses built on the existing site with the most recent developments coming in the late 1980's with significant improvements to the facilities in 2011.
In the early days the club played a number of friendly matches. Grappers then played regular fixtures up to the 2nd World War. In 1939, before war broke out, Grappers were founder members of the North Cheshire League but the league was stopped at the start of the war and was never resumed. From the 1960's onwards GCC were members of the Manchester Association which was the prelude to the clubs most successful period.
The 70's & 80's the golden years
In 1981, after a couple of good seasons following promotion to the top division in the late 70's, the 1st XI won the top flight for the first time. One of Grappenhall's best teams, it included some famous Grappers names such as Duncan Martindale, Rick Houghton, Chris Ashton, Neil Titchard, Jim Green, Nick Sharp and a young Neil Fairbrother, only a few years before he headed off for big things with Lancashire and England.
In 1982, the 1st XI went one better, this time winning the league and cup double with the HC Cup Final being one of a number of appearances the club mate at Old Trafford in the 80's. The double was repeated in 1987 with another appearance at Old Trafford, this time with the team including another future Lancashire star and future Grappers captain in Steve Titchard. In the same season, the 2nd XI also tasted success by winning the Worthington Cup. There were a number of other cup successes for the club during this period for the different senior and junior teams, with many a memorable game taking place and the tales still being regaled today.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JCMKCT - Grappenhall Cricket Club, one of the premier Cheshire cricket clubs in the North-West. played its first game in 1881 on a ground in Bellhouse Lane. The club moved to its current home of Broad Lane in 1892 with a new clubhouse. There have been several new clubhouses built on the existing site with the most recent developments coming in the late 1980's with significant improvements to the facilities in 2011.
In the early days the club played a number of friendly matches. Grappers then played regular fixtures up to the 2nd World War. In 1939, before war broke out, Grappers were founder members of the North Cheshire League but the league was stopped at the start of the war and was never resumed. From the 1960's onwards GCC were members of the Manchester Association which was the prelude to the clubs most successful period.
The 70's & 80's the golden years
In 1981, after a couple of good seasons following promotion to the top division in the late 70's, the 1st XI won the top flight for the first time. One of Grappenhall's best teams, it included some famous Grappers names such as Duncan Martindale, Rick Houghton, Chris Ashton, Neil Titchard, Jim Green, Nick Sharp and a young Neil Fairbrother, only a few years before he headed off for big things with Lancashire and England.
In 1982, the 1st XI went one better, this time winning the league and cup double with the HC Cup Final being one of a number of appearances the club mate at Old Trafford in the 80's. The double was repeated in 1987 with another appearance at Old Trafford, this time with the team including another future Lancashire star and future Grappers captain in Steve Titchard. In the same season, the 2nd XI also tasted success by winning the Worthington Cup. There were a number of other cup successes for the club during this period for the different senior and junior teams, with many a memorable game taking place and the tales still being regaled today.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JCMKDW - Grappenhall Cricket Club, one of the premier Cheshire cricket clubs in the North-West. played its first game in 1881 on a ground in Bellhouse Lane. The club moved to its current home of Broad Lane in 1892 with a new clubhouse. There have been several new clubhouses built on the existing site with the most recent developments coming in the late 1980's with significant improvements to the facilities in 2011.
In the early days the club played a number of friendly matches. Grappers then played regular fixtures up to the 2nd World War. In 1939, before war broke out, Grappers were founder members of the North Cheshire League but the league was stopped at the start of the war and was never resumed. From the 1960's onwards GCC were members of the Manchester Association which was the prelude to the clubs most successful period.
The 70's & 80's the golden years
In 1981, after a couple of good seasons following promotion to the top division in the late 70's, the 1st XI won the top flight for the first time. One of Grappenhall's best teams, it included some famous Grappers names such as Duncan Martindale, Rick Houghton, Chris Ashton, Neil Titchard, Jim Green, Nick Sharp and a young Neil Fairbrother, only a few years before he headed off for big things with Lancashire and England.
In 1982, the 1st XI went one better, this time winning the league and cup double with the HC Cup Final being one of a number of appearances the club mate at Old Trafford in the 80's. The double was repeated in 1987 with another appearance at Old Trafford, this time with the team including another future Lancashire star and future Grappers captain in Steve Titchard. In the same season, the 2nd XI also tasted success by winning the Worthington Cup. There were a number of other cup successes for the club during this period for the different senior and junior teams, with many a memorable game taking place and the tales still being regaled today.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2J92PEH - On his removal to Grappenhall in 1855, Thomas Leah an Independent Methodist Lay Preacher and a few fellow believers felt led to begin a new Church. Leah who had been converted to the Christian faith at a Camp Meeting at Cherry Lane, Lymm, in 1828, started the Church in a room above a bake house on Knutsford Road. The bake house stood behind what is today a modern detached house which is the third property from the junction of Knutsford and Chester Roads.
For 26 years the small fellowship went from strength to strength. By 1880 it became clear that the room above the bake house was no longer large enough. The Church Leaders decided to buy a plot of land on Chester Road and to erect a new Church for the expanding congregation. After some local opposition the Church was opened in 1881. The building today is part of a private residence between Euclid Avenue and Clarence Road.
Despite the Independent Methodists in Grappenhall having a new church building the congregation began a period of decline. The situation was reported to the Warrington Circuit of Independent Methodist Churches who appointed Robert Henshall and Arthur Jolley to endeavour to revive and resuscitate the Christian Cause at Grappenhall
Church Leaders decided to look for a new plot of land on which to build a larger building. Land in the Cross Lane area of Grappenhall was sought. After much negotiation land was bought on the corner of Knutsford Road and Knutsford Old Road. The new Church building opened in 1913 was located just outside the Parish of Grappenhall in what was then known as 'Latchford Without' and today is part of Stockton Heath Parish.
Further reading:
Grappenhall Independent Methodist Church -
A Short History. Alfred Pridden. Published 1973
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3T3CD - Viola Beach were an English indie rock group, formed in Warrington, Cheshire, in 2013. The band's final line-up consisted of Kris Leonard (guitar and vocals), River Reeves (guitar), Tomas Lowe (bass guitar), and Jack Dakin (drums). All four, along with their manager Craig Tarry, were killed when their car fell from a bridge in Södertälje, Sweden, on 13 February 2016. Founding members Frankie Coulson and Jonny Gibson are the last surviving members of the band as of 2023.
In the week following the crash, their single Boys That Sing entered the UK Singles Chart at number 80 and their previous single Swings & Waterslides entered at number 11, following a public campaign to boost sales. In the same week, Swings & Waterslides also entered at number three on the sales-only chart (which excludes streaming data) and Boys That Sing entered at number 27 on the same chart. On 29 July 2016, the self-titled album was posthumously released. It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart on 5 August 2016
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C6RE85 - Stockton Heath is an on-call fire station. This means that it is staffed by on-call firefighters. They have other main jobs as well as being firefighters.
You can find out more about on-call firefighters - On-call/part-time firefighters
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C59GG9 - A plan to build thousands of homes on green belt land in Warrington has been approved by councillors at a meeting.
Warrington Borough Council's Local Plan will see 18,900 homes built by 2037, including 7,064 on green belt land.
The Labour-run council's leader Russ Bowden said building in rural areas was an absolute last resort.
Campaigner Helen Gurnani, who protested outside the meeting, said there was a need to preserve the land for public health and environmental reasons.
The authority was forced to draw up a new plan in 2017 after its last one was overturned by a legal challenge, and the new proposals saw the target for green belt land cut back.
The proposals were approved by the council, despite opposition from Liberal Democrats and Conservatives.
Six Labour councillors, who represent areas near Peel Hall - where 1,200 homes are proposed despite a government inspector's ruling last year that the site was unsuitable for housing - abstained from voting.
The wider plan will also see a number of large builds on both green belt and brownfield land, including 5,000 homes in a new garden suburb near the M6 Lymm interchange at Appleton, 1,600 on land near the River Mersey and 1,100 around Lymm, Culcheth, Burtonwood and other villages.
Liberal Democrat Ryan Bate said the plan would make lives poorer and destroy our environment, while Ms Gurnani said she understood the need for social housing on brownfield land, but we need to preserve our green spaces for environmental and public health reasons.
The council said a consultation would now be held on the plan before it is reviewed by a government inspector.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AF3N2E - Warrington South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Faisal Rashid, a Labour Party politician.
The seat is one of seven won (held or gained) by a Labour candidate in 2017 from a total of 11 in Cheshire. Rashid's 2017 win was one of 30 net gains of the Labour Party.
The seat has been relative to others a marginal seat since 2001 as well as a swing seat as its winner's majority has not exceeded 7.5% of the vote since the 16.3% majority won in that year. The seat has changed hands twice since that year.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE369 - Warrington South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Faisal Rashid, a Labour Party politician.
The seat is one of seven won (held or gained) by a Labour candidate in 2017 from a total of 11 in Cheshire. Rashid's 2017 win was one of 30 net gains of the Labour Party.
The seat has been relative to others a marginal seat since 2001 as well as a swing seat as its winner's majority has not exceeded 7.5% of the vote since the 16.3% majority won in that year. The seat has changed hands twice since that year.
19831997: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton and Stretton, Booths Hill, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Heatley, Latchford, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Statham, Stockton Heath, and Walton and Westy, and the Borough of Halton wards of Daresbury and Norton.
19972010: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton, Stretton and Hatton, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Howley and Whitecross, Latchford, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Stockton Heath, and Walton and Westy.
2010present: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton, Bewsey and Whitecross, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Hatton, Stretton and Walton, Latchford East, Latchford West, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Stockton Heath, and Whittle Hall.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE41Y - Warrington South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Faisal Rashid, a Labour Party politician.
The seat is one of seven won (held or gained) by a Labour candidate in 2017 from a total of 11 in Cheshire. Rashid's 2017 win was one of 30 net gains of the Labour Party.
The seat has been relative to others a marginal seat since 2001 as well as a swing seat as its winner's majority has not exceeded 7.5% of the vote since the 16.3% majority won in that year. The seat has changed hands twice since that year.
19831997: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton and Stretton, Booths Hill, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Heatley, Latchford, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Statham, Stockton Heath, and Walton and Westy, and the Borough of Halton wards of Daresbury and Norton.
19972010: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton, Stretton and Hatton, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Howley and Whitecross, Latchford, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Stockton Heath, and Walton and Westy.
2010present: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton, Bewsey and Whitecross, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Hatton, Stretton and Walton, Latchford East, Latchford West, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Stockton Heath, and Whittle Hall.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ABJGE2 - The existing building was built in 1893, and is listed as being of architectural and historical importance to the village. There has been an inn or hotel on the same site for much longer and the village of Grappenhall itself is recorded as far back as the Domesday Book of 1086. The image of a grinning cat carved into the tower on St. Wilfrids Church is believed to be the inspiration for Lewis Carolls Cheshire cat in Alices Adventures in Wonderland. One of the many unique features of The Rams Head Inn is the original village well, situated near the bar. The well actually pre-dates the existing building at about 150 years old, but is now fitted with walkover glass and illuminated from the inside. A large outside eating and drinking patio is located behind the pub next to the large car park. Boasting five hand pumps with three permanent ales and two guests at busy times from the Priory Inns range. Quiz night Sunday.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ABJGE4 - Community Speed Management
Road Safe
A community-based pledge' that seeks to inform residents about inappropriate driving behaviour and invites them to sign up to a pledge not to exceed speed limits.
Speed Indicator Device (SID) deployment
An informal speed management device operated by volunteers and initiated by an identified community group.
Community Speed Watch
An informal speed management process involving the use of speed guns at the roadside. Volunteers are trained and supported by either the Police, PCSOs or Safety Wardens. Vehicle details of those exceeding the relevant speed limit are recorded with drivers receiving warning letters.
The following options will not normally be carried out unless steps two and three have been carried out by community groups. Options four and five are subject to agreement with Cheshire Police.
Mobile Enforcement
The deployment of mobile speed enforcement cameras
speeding drivers will face prosecution.
Driver Engagement Day
Co-ordinated by the Fire and Rescue Service with Cheshire Police and council staff. Stopped drivers are given an option to participate in education or receive a Fixed Penalty Notice.
Local Highway Scheme
Evidence gathered through this process or evidence of high collision or injury rates may result in development of a local highway scheme to address any issues identified.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ABJGE7 - Community Speed Management
Road Safe
A community-based pledge' that seeks to inform residents about inappropriate driving behaviour and invites them to sign up to a pledge not to exceed speed limits.
Speed Indicator Device (SID) deployment
An informal speed management device operated by volunteers and initiated by an identified community group.
Community Speed Watch
An informal speed management process involving the use of speed guns at the roadside. Volunteers are trained and supported by either the Police, PCSOs or Safety Wardens. Vehicle details of those exceeding the relevant speed limit are recorded with drivers receiving warning letters.
The following options will not normally be carried out unless steps two and three have been carried out by community groups. Options four and five are subject to agreement with Cheshire Police.
Mobile Enforcement
The deployment of mobile speed enforcement cameras
speeding drivers will face prosecution.
Driver Engagement Day
Co-ordinated by the Fire and Rescue Service with Cheshire Police and council staff. Stopped drivers are given an option to participate in education or receive a Fixed Penalty Notice.
Local Highway Scheme
Evidence gathered through this process or evidence of high collision or injury rates may result in development of a local highway scheme to address any issues identified.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A9D89J - The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England. It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester. It was opened in 1761 from Worsley to Manchester, and later extended from Manchester to Runcorn, and then from Worsley to Leigh.
The canal is connected to the Manchester Ship Canal via a lock at Cornbrook
to the Rochdale Canal in Manchester
to the Trent and Mersey Canal at Preston Brook, southeast of Runcorn
and to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Leigh. It once connected with the River Mersey at Runcorn but has since been cut off by a slip road to the Silver Jubilee Bridge.
Following the construction of the Sankey Brook Navigation, Bridgewater has been argued to be the first true canal of the Industrial Revolution in England, and it required the construction of an aqueduct to cross the River Irwell, one of the first of its kind. Its success helped inspire a period of intense canal building in Britain, known as Canal Mania. It later faced intense competition from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Macclesfield Canal. Navigable throughout its history, it is one of the few canals in Britain not to have been nationalised, and remains privately owned. Pleasure craft now use the canal which forms part of the Cheshire Ring network of canals.
In September 1761, with his assistant Hugh Oldham, Brindley surveyed an extension from Longford Bridge to Hempstones, near Halton, Cheshire. He assisted in obtaining Parliamentary approval for the Bridgewater Canal Extension Act of 1762 which allowed the construction of an extension to the canal, from Manchester, to the River Mersey at Runcorn. Despite objections from the Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company, Royal assent was given on 24 March 1762. A junction, Waters Meeting, was created in Trafford Park, at which the new extension branched south through Stretford, Sale, Altrincham, Lymm and finally to Runcorn.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy T3RF2R -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,North West England,Warrington,Cheshire,waterway,WA4,in a,Grappenhall Hays,Walled Garden,dangerous,Grappenhall,Hays,red,Witherwin Avenue,Grappenhall Heys,WA4 3DS,In deep water,Britain,British,English,lake,lakes,warning sign,careful,caution,drown,drowning,threat,unsafe,H2O,square,weed
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RK9X6M -
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3991698969 - 'Do enjoy the canal, but here's all the rules we would like you to be aware of.....
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4642894818 - 'Walking distance from me.
If you are on Twitter, do add a follow there and I will follow back in return mobile.twitter.com/HotpixUK
Have a look at my archived photography, from ten years back at www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3153950175 - 'A big shout out to my local Christmas Tree farm in Grappenhall. I hope you had a busy December.
If you are on Twitter, do add a follow there and I will follow back in return mobile.twitter.com/HotpixUK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4560689842 - 'If you are on Twitter, do add a follow there and I will follow back in return mobile.twitter.com/HotpixUK
Have a look at my archived photography, from ten years back at www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/
Checkout the rest of this 365 set at www.flickr.com/photos/167831053@N02/albums/72157703214420874
All images (c) Tony Smith - @HotpixUK - No images to be used without express permission',
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GT8H -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Hotpix,Tony Smith,HousingITguy,365,Project365,2nd 365,HotpixUK365,Tone Smith,Grappenhall,Grappenhall Heys,Walled Garden,Cheshire,Warrington,UK,England
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3193233060 - 'If you are on Twitter, do add a follow there and I will follow back in return mobile.twitter.com/HotpixUK
Have a look at my archived photography, from ten years back at www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/
All images (c) Tony Smith - @HotpixUK - No images to be used without express permission',
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Hotpix,Tony Smith,HousingITguy,365,Project365,2nd 365,HotpixUK365,Tone Smith,scouts,scouting,Warrington,Grappenhall,Cheshire,England,UK,Baden-Powell
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4489041374 - 'If you are on Twitter, do add a follow there and I will follow back in return mobile.twitter.com/HotpixUK
Have a look at my archived photography, from ten years back at www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/
All images (c) Tony Smith - @HotpixUK - No images to be used without express permission',
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PG69GR - It is illegal for a private company to wheel-clamp a car on private land in Scotland.
In exceptional cases, the police, the local authority or the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - DVLA - can clamp or get cars towed away on private land.
The police, the local authority or the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - DVLA can clamp and tow away cars or other vehicles parked illegally on roads or public land. The DVLA may act when it has the lawful authority to do so when a car is untaxed unless it is on your own property.
For example, the police or the local authority can remove a car that is contravening a parking restriction, is blocking the road or has broken down.
Fines Enforcement Officers can organise for a car to be seized if you have not paid a number of fines.
Another organisation that can clamp or tow cars is the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA). VOSA enforcement officers can do this when a car is a danger to road users. This often applies to commercial vehicles such as lorries where they are not roadworthy, they are overloaded, the driver has been driving for too many hours or has not paid a financial fine that VOSA has issued to them.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PG69H0 - It is illegal for a private company to wheel-clamp a car on private land in Scotland.
In exceptional cases, the police, the local authority or the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - DVLA - can clamp or get cars towed away on private land.
The police, the local authority or the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - DVLA can clamp and tow away cars or other vehicles parked illegally on roads or public land. The DVLA may act when it has the lawful authority to do so when a car is untaxed unless it is on your own property.
For example, the police or the local authority can remove a car that is contravening a parking restriction, is blocking the road or has broken down.
Fines Enforcement Officers can organise for a car to be seized if you have not paid a number of fines.
Another organisation that can clamp or tow cars is the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA). VOSA enforcement officers can do this when a car is a danger to road users. This often applies to commercial vehicles such as lorries where they are not roadworthy, they are overloaded, the driver has been driving for too many hours or has not paid a financial fine that VOSA has issued to them.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PEHFHM - Flags at Half-mast
Half-mast means the flag is flown two-thirds of the way up the flagpole, with at least the height of the flag between the top of the flag and the top of the flagpole. Flags cannot be flown at half-mast on poles that are more than 45° from the vertical, but a mourning cravat can be used instead (see below).
When a flag is to be flown at half-mast, it should first be raised all the way to the top of the mast, allowed to remain there for a second and then be lowered to the half-mast position. When it is being lowered from half-mast, it should again be raised to the top of the mast for a second before being fully lowered.
When a British national flag is at half-mast, other flags on the same stand of poles should also be at half-mast or should not be flown at all. Flags of foreign nations should not be flown, unless their country is also observing mourning.
The Royal Standard never flies at half-mast. It represents the Monarchy, which is continuous, and it would therefore be inappropriate for it to fly at half-mast.
Flags should be flown at half-mast on the following occasions:
From the announcement of the death until the funeral of the Sovereign, except on Proclamation Day when flags are flown at full-mast following the proclamation.
From the announcement of the death until the funeral of a member of the Royal Family styled Royal Highness', subject to special commands from the Sovereign in each case.
On the day of the announcement of the death and on the day of the funeral of other members of the Royal Family, subject to special commands from the Sovereign in each case.
The funerals of foreign Rulers, subject to special commands from the Sovereign in each case.
The funerals of Prime Ministers and ex-Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, subject to special commands from the Sovereign in each case.
The funerals of First Ministers and ex-First Ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, subject to special commands f
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2D9H19X - The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining three separate harvesting operationsreaping, threshing, and winnowinginto a single process. Among the crops harvested with a combine are wheat, oats, rye, barley, corn (maize), sorghum, soybeans, flax (linseed), sunflowers and canola. The separated straw, left lying on the field, comprises the stems and any remaining leaves of the crop with limited nutrients left in it: the straw is then either chopped, spread on the field and ploughed back in or baled for bedding and limited-feed for livestock.
Combine harvesters are one of the most economically important labour saving inventions, significantly reducing the fraction of the population engaged in agriculture
John Deere is the brand name of Deere & Company, an American corporation that manufactures agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery, diesel engines, drivetrains (axles, transmissions, gearboxes) used in heavy equipment, and lawn care equipment
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3193112294 - 'Its harvest time near me
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PC2FCA - Grappenhall Cricket Club played its first game in 1881 on a ground in Bellhouse Lane. The club moved to its current home of Broad Lane in 1892 with a new clubhouse. There have been several new clubhouses built on the existing site with the most recent developments coming in the late 1980's with significant improvements to the facilities in 2011.
In the early days the club played a number of friendly matches. Grappers then played regular fixtures up to the 2nd World War. In 1939, before war broke out, Grappers were founder members of the North Cheshire League but the league was stopped at the start of the war and was never resumed.
From the 1960's onwards GCC were members of the Manchester Association which was the prelude to the clubs most successful period.
The 70's & 80's the golden years
In 1981, after a couple of good seasons following promotion to the top division in the late 70's, the 1st XI won the top flight for the first time. One of Grappenhall's best teams, it included some famous Grappers names such as Duncan Martindale, Rick Houghton, Chris Ashton, Neil Titchard, Jim Green, Nick Sharp and a young Neil Fairbrother, only a few years before he headed off for big things with Lancashire and England.
In 1982, the 1st XI went one better, this time winning the league and cup double with the HC Cup Final being one of a number of appearances the club mate at Old Trafford in the 80's.
The double was repeated in 1987 with another appearance at Old Trafford, this time with the team including another future Lancashire star and future Grappers captain in Steve Titchard. In the same season, the 2nd XI also tasted success by winning the Worthington Cup.
There were a number of other cup successes for the club during this period for the different senior and junior teams, with many a memorable game taking place and the tales still being regaled today.
In 1992, the club were in their last season in Manchester Association before a move to the CCCL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PC2FGR - Grappenhall Cricket Club played its first game in 1881 on a ground in Bellhouse Lane. The club moved to its current home of Broad Lane in 1892 with a new clubhouse. There have been several new clubhouses built on the existing site with the most recent developments coming in the late 1980's with significant improvements to the facilities in 2011.
In the early days the club played a number of friendly matches. Grappers then played regular fixtures up to the 2nd World War. In 1939, before war broke out, Grappers were founder members of the North Cheshire League but the league was stopped at the start of the war and was never resumed.
From the 1960's onwards GCC were members of the Manchester Association which was the prelude to the clubs most successful period.
The 70's & 80's the golden years
In 1981, after a couple of good seasons following promotion to the top division in the late 70's, the 1st XI won the top flight for the first time. One of Grappenhall's best teams, it included some famous Grappers names such as Duncan Martindale, Rick Houghton, Chris Ashton, Neil Titchard, Jim Green, Nick Sharp and a young Neil Fairbrother, only a few years before he headed off for big things with Lancashire and England.
In 1982, the 1st XI went one better, this time winning the league and cup double with the HC Cup Final being one of a number of appearances the club mate at Old Trafford in the 80's.
The double was repeated in 1987 with another appearance at Old Trafford, this time with the team including another future Lancashire star and future Grappers captain in Steve Titchard. In the same season, the 2nd XI also tasted success by winning the Worthington Cup.
There were a number of other cup successes for the club during this period for the different senior and junior teams, with many a memorable game taking place and the tales still being regaled today.
In 1992, the club were in their last season in Manchester Association before a move to the CCCL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PC2FHK - Grappenhall Cricket Club played its first game in 1881 on a ground in Bellhouse Lane. The club moved to its current home of Broad Lane in 1892 with a new clubhouse. There have been several new clubhouses built on the existing site with the most recent developments coming in the late 1980's with significant improvements to the facilities in 2011.
In the early days the club played a number of friendly matches. Grappers then played regular fixtures up to the 2nd World War. In 1939, before war broke out, Grappers were founder members of the North Cheshire League but the league was stopped at the start of the war and was never resumed.
From the 1960's onwards GCC were members of the Manchester Association which was the prelude to the clubs most successful period.
The 70's & 80's the golden years
In 1981, after a couple of good seasons following promotion to the top division in the late 70's, the 1st XI won the top flight for the first time. One of Grappenhall's best teams, it included some famous Grappers names such as Duncan Martindale, Rick Houghton, Chris Ashton, Neil Titchard, Jim Green, Nick Sharp and a young Neil Fairbrother, only a few years before he headed off for big things with Lancashire and England.
In 1982, the 1st XI went one better, this time winning the league and cup double with the HC Cup Final being one of a number of appearances the club mate at Old Trafford in the 80's.
The double was repeated in 1987 with another appearance at Old Trafford, this time with the team including another future Lancashire star and future Grappers captain in Steve Titchard. In the same season, the 2nd XI also tasted success by winning the Worthington Cup.
There were a number of other cup successes for the club during this period for the different senior and junior teams, with many a memorable game taking place and the tales still being regaled today.
In 1992, the club were in their last season in Manchester Association before a move to the CCCL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PC2FJ5 - Grappenhall Cricket Club played its first game in 1881 on a ground in Bellhouse Lane. The club moved to its current home of Broad Lane in 1892 with a new clubhouse. There have been several new clubhouses built on the existing site with the most recent developments coming in the late 1980's with significant improvements to the facilities in 2011.
In the early days the club played a number of friendly matches. Grappers then played regular fixtures up to the 2nd World War. In 1939, before war broke out, Grappers were founder members of the North Cheshire League but the league was stopped at the start of the war and was never resumed.
From the 1960's onwards GCC were members of the Manchester Association which was the prelude to the clubs most successful period.
The 70's & 80's the golden years
In 1981, after a couple of good seasons following promotion to the top division in the late 70's, the 1st XI won the top flight for the first time. One of Grappenhall's best teams, it included some famous Grappers names such as Duncan Martindale, Rick Houghton, Chris Ashton, Neil Titchard, Jim Green, Nick Sharp and a young Neil Fairbrother, only a few years before he headed off for big things with Lancashire and England.
In 1982, the 1st XI went one better, this time winning the league and cup double with the HC Cup Final being one of a number of appearances the club mate at Old Trafford in the 80's.
The double was repeated in 1987 with another appearance at Old Trafford, this time with the team including another future Lancashire star and future Grappers captain in Steve Titchard. In the same season, the 2nd XI also tasted success by winning the Worthington Cup.
There were a number of other cup successes for the club during this period for the different senior and junior teams, with many a memorable game taking place and the tales still being regaled today.
In 1992, the club were in their last season in Manchester Association before a move to the CCCL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PC2FJN - Grappenhall Cricket Club played its first game in 1881 on a ground in Bellhouse Lane. The club moved to its current home of Broad Lane in 1892 with a new clubhouse. There have been several new clubhouses built on the existing site with the most recent developments coming in the late 1980's with significant improvements to the facilities in 2011.
In the early days the club played a number of friendly matches. Grappers then played regular fixtures up to the 2nd World War. In 1939, before war broke out, Grappers were founder members of the North Cheshire League but the league was stopped at the start of the war and was never resumed.
From the 1960's onwards GCC were members of the Manchester Association which was the prelude to the clubs most successful period.
The 70's & 80's the golden years
In 1981, after a couple of good seasons following promotion to the top division in the late 70's, the 1st XI won the top flight for the first time. One of Grappenhall's best teams, it included some famous Grappers names such as Duncan Martindale, Rick Houghton, Chris Ashton, Neil Titchard, Jim Green, Nick Sharp and a young Neil Fairbrother, only a few years before he headed off for big things with Lancashire and England.
In 1982, the 1st XI went one better, this time winning the league and cup double with the HC Cup Final being one of a number of appearances the club mate at Old Trafford in the 80's.
The double was repeated in 1987 with another appearance at Old Trafford, this time with the team including another future Lancashire star and future Grappers captain in Steve Titchard. In the same season, the 2nd XI also tasted success by winning the Worthington Cup.
There were a number of other cup successes for the club during this period for the different senior and junior teams, with many a memorable game taking place and the tales still being regaled today.
In 1992, the club were in their last season in Manchester Association before a move to the CCCL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PC2FN9 - Grappenhall Cricket Club played its first game in 1881 on a ground in Bellhouse Lane. The club moved to its current home of Broad Lane in 1892 with a new clubhouse. There have been several new clubhouses built on the existing site with the most recent developments coming in the late 1980's with significant improvements to the facilities in 2011.
In the early days the club played a number of friendly matches. Grappers then played regular fixtures up to the 2nd World War. In 1939, before war broke out, Grappers were founder members of the North Cheshire League but the league was stopped at the start of the war and was never resumed.
From the 1960's onwards GCC were members of the Manchester Association which was the prelude to the clubs most successful period.
The 70's & 80's the golden years
In 1981, after a couple of good seasons following promotion to the top division in the late 70's, the 1st XI won the top flight for the first time. One of Grappenhall's best teams, it included some famous Grappers names such as Duncan Martindale, Rick Houghton, Chris Ashton, Neil Titchard, Jim Green, Nick Sharp and a young Neil Fairbrother, only a few years before he headed off for big things with Lancashire and England.
In 1982, the 1st XI went one better, this time winning the league and cup double with the HC Cup Final being one of a number of appearances the club mate at Old Trafford in the 80's.
The double was repeated in 1987 with another appearance at Old Trafford, this time with the team including another future Lancashire star and future Grappers captain in Steve Titchard. In the same season, the 2nd XI also tasted success by winning the Worthington Cup.
There were a number of other cup successes for the club during this period for the different senior and junior teams, with many a memorable game taking place and the tales still being regaled today.
In 1992, the club were in their last season in Manchester Association before a move to the CCCL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PCTA4G - Robinsons Brewery is a family-run, regional brewery, founded in 1849 at the Unicorn Inn in Stockport, England. The company owns more than 300 public houses, mostly in North West England.
William Robinson purchased the Unicorn Inn from Samuel Hole on 29 September 1838. His eldest son George brewed the first Robinsons Ale there in 1849.
In 1859, Frederic Robinson took over from George and bought a warehouse to the rear of the inn to expand brewing capacity. As a result, Robinsons ale became available at pubs around the Stockport area. To control the quality of ale sold, Frederic began to purchase public houses. From 1878 until his death in 1890, Frederic established twelve pubs which exclusively served his ale. This was the beginning of what was to become an estate of over 300 pubs across the North West of England and North Wales.
The Unicorn Brewery still rests on the foundations of the public house on Lower Hillgate in Stockport.
The brewery continues to be run by the fifth and sixth generations of the Robinson family. The company took over Hartley's Brewery in Ulverston in 1982, closing it and transferring the brewing of Hartley's beers to Stockport in 1991. Robinsons have acquired a number of other breweries over the years, including John Heginbotham, Stalybridge (1915)
T. Schofield & Son, Ashton under Lyne (1926)
Kays Atlas Brewery, Ardwick (1929) and Bell & Co, Stockport (1949).
The brewery owns many historic pubs, including the New Hall Inn in Bowness on Windermere.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWF5 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY039M - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY03K7 - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY040B - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY049A - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY04PG - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY056G - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY05D6 - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY05T9 - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY074E - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY085J - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY08C7 - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY08RX - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GY098A - St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth
The church is Norman in origin, built probably in the earlier part of the 12th century and completed about 1120. This was a small and simple church, consisting of a nave, chancel and, possibly, an apse. The foundations of this church were discovered during the 187374 restoration.
A chantry chapel was added by the Boydell family in 1334 in a position where the south aisle now stands. From 1529 the church was largely rebuilt in local sandstone. The old church was demolished and a new nave, chancel, north aisle and a west tower were built. In 1539 the south aisle was added, which incorporated the Boydell chapel. The south porch was added in 1641 and at this time the west wall was strengthened. In 1833 the roof of the nave was raised to form a clerestory and in the 1850s the south aisle was further extended, and a vestry was built. There was a more substantial restoration in 187374 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, which included the provision of new floors and roofs, at a cost of about £4,000
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJBM8B -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GJBM92 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy GGWH4J -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED8PR7 - On tapping or scanning their smartphone over the QR code or NFC tag to the right of the poster, a unique url will open in their phone's browser. If the campaign is mobile-platform enabled, this will lead straight to the advertiser's website or content
if not, they will be taken to a standard Clear Channel landing page. On a scroller or digital panel (where multiple advertisers are involved), on scanning or tapping, the consumer will be presented with a list of advertisers whose campaigns are mobile platform enabled for them to select from.
Near field communication (NFC) is a set of ideas and technologies that enable smartphones and other devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, typically a distance of 10 cm (3.9 in) or less. Each full NFC device can work in 3 modes: NFC target (acting like a credential), NFC initiator (as a reader) and NFC peer to peer. Most of the first business models like advertisement tags or other industrial applications have not been successful, always overtaken by another technology (3D barcodes, UHF tags, ...)
The main advantage of NFC is that NFC devices are often cloud connected. Connected credentials can be provisioned over the air unlike a standard card (Hotel or visitor applications). All connected NFC enabled smartphones can be provisioned with dedicated apps, which gives any application hundreds of millions of potential dedicated readers in opposition of the traditional dedicated infrastructure of ticket, access control or payment readers. All NFC peers can connect a third party NFC device with a server for any action or reconfiguration.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EBFWEX -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DRH8CM -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DD4PWY -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DB0J30 - A duck and her brood of ducklings, spring on the Bridgewater canal, near Grappenhall, Warrington Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9B6C -
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Keywords: Rugby,Warrington,Wolves,Wolves Mascot,Wolfie,Grappenhall,walking days,walking,days,day,community,library,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,GB,Great Britain,furry,puppet,sport,sports,wires,GoTonySmith,Warringtonians,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,icon,iconic,Rugby mascot,mascots,Brookson,ASDA,sponsor
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9B6Y -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D91FEA - Too many bins and times to recycle domestic waste
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D91FET - Too many bins and times to recycle domestic waste
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D91FG7 - The Green Room Flower Shop Knutsford Rd Road, Grappenhall, Warrington Cheshire England UK - another business closed due to recession
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYH5 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8559566106 - 'St Etienne - 'Spring' - Play this track here.
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A great track from the London Conversations album. this time of year always reminds me of it with all the snowdrops in the hedgerows. Very uplifting that Easter and warmer, longer days just around the corner.
Saint Etienne are an English electronic music band from London, formed in 1990. The band consists of Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. They are named of course after the French football team AS Saint-\u00c9tienne
Saint Etienne were associated with the 'indie dance' genre in the early 1990s. Their typical approach was to combine sonic elements of the dance-pop that emerged in the wake of the so-called Second Summer of Love (e.g. samples and digitally synthesized sounds) with an emphasis on songwriting involving romantic and introspective themes more commonly associated with traditional British pop and rock music.
Early work demonstrated the influence of '60s soul, '70s dub and rock as well as '80s dance music, giving them a broad palette of sounds and a reputation for eclecticism. Years later, The Times wrote that they 'deftly fused the grooviness of Swinging Sixties London with a post-acid house backbeat'. Their first two albums, Foxbase Alpha and So Tough feature sounds chiefly associated with house music, such as standard TR-909 drum patterns and Italo house piano riffs mixed with original sounds, notable by the use of found dialogue, sampled from 1960s British realist cinema. Some of these earlier recordings included skits by (Brass Eye) satirist Chris Morris.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8089409008 - 'An agaric is a type of fungal fruiting body characterized by the presence of a pileus (cap) that is clearly differentiated from the stipe (stalk), with lamellae (gills) on the underside of the pileus. 'Agaric' can also refer to a basidiomycete species characterized by an agaric-type fruiting body. An archaic usage of the word agaric meant 'tree-fungus' (after Latin agaricum)
however, that meaning was superseded by the Linnaean interpretation in 1753 when Linnaeus used the generic name Agaricus for gilled mushrooms.
Most species of agarics are classified in the Agaricales, however, this type of fruiting body is thought to have evolved several times independently, hence the Russulales, Boletales, Hymenochaetales, and several other groups of basidiomycetes also contain agaric species. Older systems of classification place all agarics in the Agaricales, and some (mostly older) sources still use 'agarics' as a common name for the Agaricales.
Contemporary sources now tend to use the term euagarics when referring only to members of the Agaricales. 'Agaric' is also sometimes used as a common name for members of the genus Agaricus, as well as for members of other genera, for example, Amanita muscaria is sometimes called 'fly agaric'.
Amanita muscaria poisoning occurs in either young children or people ingesting it to have a hallucinogenic experience. Occasionally, immature button forms have been mistaken for puffballs. Additionally, the white spots can be washed away during heavy rain and it then may seem as the edible A. caesarea.
Amanita muscaria contains a number of biologically active agents, at least one of which, muscimol, is known to be psychoactive. Ibotenic acid, a neurotoxin, serves as a prodrug to muscimol, with approximately 10-20% converting to muscimol upon ingestion. A toxic dose in adults is approximately 6 mg muscimol or 30 to 60 mg ibotenic acid
this is typically about the amount found in one cap of Amanita muscaria. However, the amount and ratio of chemical compounds per mushroom varies widely from region to region and season to season, which further confuses the issue. Spring and summer mushrooms have been reported to contain up to 10 times as much ibotenic acid and muscimol compared to autumn fruitings.
A fatal dose has been calculated at an amount of 15 caps. Deaths from this fungus A. muscaria has been reported in historical journal articles and newspaper reports
however, with modern medical treatment a fatal outcome because of the poison of this mushroom would be extremely rare. Many older books list it as 'deadly' but this is a mistake that gives the impression it is far more toxic than it actually is. The North American Mycological Association has stated there are absolutely no reliably documented fatalities in the past century. The vast majority (90% or more) of mushroom poisoning deaths are from having eaten either the greenish to yellowish death cap (A. phalloides) or perhaps even one of the several white Amanita species which are known as destroying angels.
The active constituents of this species are water soluble, and boiling and then discarding the cooking water will at least partly detoxify A. muscaria. However, drying may increase potency as the process facilitates the conversion of ibotenic acid to the more potent muscimol. According to some sources, once detoxified, the mushroom becomes edible.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7208117684 - 'A historic day today as the previously closed library (borough cuts April 2011) has now been officially re-named and re-opened by The Friends of Grappenhall Library. A registered charity, volunteers now run the facility which has been renamed 'Grappenhall Community Library'.
5000+ donated books fill the shelves once again and over 150 opening sessions already completed, over 1000 books have been issued. Over 34% to younger readers and under 16's.
Read more at friendsofgrappenhalllibrary.wordpress.com/ or pop in when open (Mon/Tues 1pm-5pm &
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7351498024 - 'View this whole set here. If you do Twitter add me here.
14 is the 3rd discrete semiprime ( 2 . 7 ) and the 3rd member of the (2.q) discrete semiprime family. The number following 14\u201415 is itself a discrete semiprime and this is the first such pair of discrete semiprimes. The next example is the pair commencing 21.
The aliquot sum \u03c3(n) of 14 is 10, also a discrete semiprime and this is again the first example of a discrete semiprime having an aliquot sum in the same form. 14 has an aliquot sequence of 6 members ( 14,10,8,7,1,0) 14 is the third composite number in the 7-aliquot tree.
Fourteen is itself the Aliquot sum of two numbers
the discrete semiprime 22, and the square number 196.
It is the base of the tetradecimal notation.
In base fifteen and higher bases (such as hexadecimal), fourteen is represented as E.
14 is the atomic number of silicon, its also the number of Stations of the Cross and number of Infalliables (Masoomeen) in Shia Ithna-Asheri Islam.
Its the minimum age limit to drive a 50cc motorbike in Italy.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7148349357 - 'Dave Vanian (born David Lett, 12 October 1956, Hemel Hempstead, England) is a rock musician, famous for being the lead singer of the punk rock band The Damned. The band formed in 1976 in London and Vanian is the only ever-present member of the group. They were the first of the British punk bands to release a single, an album, have a record hit the UK charts, and tour the United States.
Lett changed his name to Dave Vanian (pronounced as in 'Transylvanian') when he became a musician, having previously worked as a gravedigger.
He was one of the early influencers of gothic fashion by wearing dark and otherworldly clothing both on-stage and off. In November 1976, the British music magazine, NME, commented that Vanian 'resembles a runaway from The Addams Family'.
This was a cracking gig at The Parr Hall in Warrington 5th May 2012.
Support was from Utopian Love Revival.
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Seventeen is the 7th prime number. The next prime is nineteen, with which it forms a twin prime. 17 is the sum of the first four primes. 17 is the sixth Mersenne prime exponent, yielding 131071. 17 is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n \u2212 1.
17 is the third Fermat prime, as it is of the form 24 + 1, and it is also a Proth prime. Since 17 is a Fermat prime, regular heptadecagons can be constructed with compass and unmarked ruler. This was proven by Carl Friedrich Gauss. Another consequence of 17 being a Fermat prime is that it is not a Higgs prime for squares or cubes
in fact, it is the smallest prime not to be a Higgs prime for squares, and the smallest not to be a Higgs prime for cubes.
17 is the only positive Genocchi number that is prime, the only negative one being \u22123. It is also the third Stern prime.
As 17 is the least prime factor of the first twelve terms of the Euclid\u2013Mullin sequence, it is the thirteenth term.
Seventeen is the aliquot sum of two numbers, the odd discrete semiprimes 39 and 55 is the base of the 17-aliquot tree.
In the United Kingdom, 17 is the minimum driving age for a car or van. An amazing Potterfactiod, In the Harry Potter universe, 17 is the coming of age for wizards. It is equivalent to the usual coming of age at 18. 17 is the number of Sickles in one Galleon in the British wizards' currency. Take that one to the pub quiz.
Ladytron (named after a Roxy Music track) captured that teenage seventeen feeling well.
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Candleland is the first solo album by Ian McCulloch, released 17 September 1989. This album marked McCulloch's departure from Echo &
the Bunnymen in 1989. The album features a guest appearance by the Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser on the title song, 'Candleland'. The album reached number 18 on the UK Albums Chart and number 179 on the Billboard 200.
The blossom this spring is truly breathtaking. Heaps of dazzling white blackthorn flowers look like piles of snow dropped on to hedgerows, and stunning white or pink cherry blossoms have turned parks and gardens into a magical wonderland.
Conditions for the blossom have been near perfect, with plenty of warm sunshine and hardly a wisp of wind, drop of rain or touch of frost to ruin the blooms. And even the winter weather played a part, with the bitter cold in late January and early February boosting the growth of many trees and shrubs, and which will help the crops of fruits and berries later in the year.
The magnificent symphony of spring is well under way, each plant opening its leaves and flowers in a remarkable choreography. A green mist is now enveloping hedges and woods as the early tree and shrub leaves \u2013 such as hawthorns, elders, hornbeams and weeping willows \u2013 burst open.
Woodland floors are also turning green as carpets of plant leaves pop up, decorated with splashes of bright woodland flowers glistening in the spring sunshine, such as wood anemone, lesser celandine and dog violets. Even the first bluebells are peeking through in some southern parts of England.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6843272141 - 'Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple haze' - Play this track here.
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'Purple Haze' is a song written in 1966 and recorded in 1967 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and released as a single (Hendrix's second) in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It appeared on their 1967 album Are You Experienced. 'Purple Haze' has become one of the 'archetypical psychedelic drug songs of the sixties'.
Reportedly, the song came into being after the band's producer Chas Chandler heard him playing the riff backstage and suggested that he write lyrics to go with it. There is some dispute about the lyrics: supposedly written in the dressing room of the Upper Cut Club on Boxing Day, 1966, it is also believed that he wrote the lyrics in Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill.
Chandler claims that the lyrics were never cut in any way (though he admits that this was done on general principle with Hendrix's lyrics), while Hendrix stated that the original song contained much more text. Hendrix himself denied the drug relation of the song claiming it to be merely another love song.
He said that the line 'What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me' is the key line to the lyrics.
The woods around Grappenhall are becoming a bit purple hazy, as spring pokes its crocus flowers through the frozen ground. The snow drops are out too, grab 'em while they are here, when they gone, they gone!
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![iPod Shuffle2 - Funghi [Grappenhall Heys Puffball mushrooms, England, UK] 6325077829 puffball,puff,ball,mushroom,fungi,funghi,wood,autum,Grappenhall Heys,walled,garden,Grappenhall,Heys,Cheshire,Warrington,UK,England,Autumn,October,fall,tony,smith,tonysmith,hotpix,tonysmithhotpix,nature,natural,fungus,division,Basidiomycota,Hymenogastrales,Lycoperdon,perlatum,or,pyriforme](https://live.staticflickr.com/6033/6325077829_5c8778988e_o.jpg/)
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6325077829 - 'Punishment Of Luxury - Funghi - Play this track here.
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'Secrets' was the first Punilux track I came across. I still have the 7' vinyl in my loft as well as the excellent 'Puppet Life'. They took their name from an 1891 painting by Giovanni Segantini in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Punishment of Luxury, also known as Punilux, are a four-man post-punk band from Newcastle, England, who were active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They released an excellent album 'Laughing Academy' on UA (United Artists), and another on Red Rhino Records. They reformed in the late 1980s and again in 2007.
From a background working in left-wing English fringe theatre groups, Punishment Of Luxury were a four-man post-punk band formed in December 1976 in Newcastle. The band consisted initially of Brian Bond (born Brian Rapkin - vocals), Neville Luxury (born Neville Atkinson - guitar, vocals), Red Helmet (guitar, vocals), Jimi Giro (bass guitar, vocals), and 'Liquid' Les Denham (drums).
They released a single, 'Puppet Life' on the Small Wonder label in July 1978. In 1979 they signed to United Artists and released the singles 'Engine Of Excess' and 'Secrets', and the album Laughing Academy. 1980 saw the release of the single 'Laughing Academy'. An extensive European tour followed and United Artists sent the band into the studio to record another album, a concept album to be called Gigantic Days. However while the recording was still going on, United Artists were taken over by EMI, who dropped the band.
Neville, Bond, and Giro recruited guitarists Steve Sekrit (born Steven Robson) and Tim Magenta to a new lineup, now going by the name Punilux. They released a further album on the Red Rhino label, 7 in 1983, with Magenta replaced by Rab Aitch, before Neville Luxury went solo, releasing the mini-album Feels Like Dancing Wartime in 1984. The album Gigantic Days was finally released, on CD, in 1998 by Overground Records.
The albums are tricky to track down, but worth the effort.
The distinguishing feature of all puffballs is that they do not have an open cap with spore-bearing gills. Instead, spores are produced internally, in a spheroidal fruiting body called a gasterothecium (gasteroid ('stomach-like') basidiocarp). As the spores mature, they form a mass called a gleba in the centre of the fruiting body that is often of a distinctive color and texture.
The basidiocarp remains closed until after the spores have been released from the basidia. Eventually, it develops an aperture, or dries, becomes brittle, and splits, and the spores escape. The spores of puffballs are statismospores rather than ballistospores, meaning they are not actively shot off the basidium.
The fungi are called 'puffballs' because clouds of brown dust-like spores are emitted when the mature fruiting body bursts, or in response to impacts such as those of falling raindrops. Puffballs and similar forms are thought to have evolved repeatedly (that is, in numerous independent events) from hymenomycetes by gasteromycetation, through secotioid stages.
Thus, 'Gasteromycetes' and 'Gasteromycetidae' are now considered to be descriptive, morphological terms (more properly gasteroid or gasteromycetes, to avoid taxonomic implications) but not valid cladistic terms.
These two were spotted in an autumnal wood, near plenty of decaying leaves and branches.
While most puffballs are not poisonous, some often look similar to young agarics, especially the deadly Amanitas, such as the Death Cap mushroom. It is for this reason that all puffballs gathered in mushroom hunting should be cut in half lengthwise. Young puffballs in the edible stage, before maturation of the gleba, have undifferentiated white flesh within
whereas the gills of immature Amanita mushrooms can be seen if they are closely examined.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8124430083 - 'Its about this time of year that The Daily mail and others run articles about the dangers of conkers and other things, usually on slack news days.
'Traditional school games such as conkers and leapfrog are dying out because over-protective teachers have irrational fears about health and safety, a survey suggests.
Researchers found that conkers have been banned from nearly one sixth of playgrounds for fear that they could cause injury or trigger a nut allergy, even though they are not nuts.
British bulldog contests have been banned from more than a quarter of playgrounds and even innocuous games such as leapfrog and marbles are going the same way.
Of 653 heads, teachers and support staff questioned, 29 per cent said British bulldog has been banned in their school, 14 per cent said pupils are forbidden from playing conkers and 9 per cent said leapfrog had been banned.
Some 5 per cent said children were prevented from playing marbles and the same percentage said chasing games, such as tag, had been stopped.
The trend has been blamed on the rise in bureaucracy and red tape in schools and an increase in the number of parents who sue. Education experts have accused \u2018over-zealous\u2019 teachers of ruining childhoods.
Tim Gill, former director of the Children\u2019s Play Council at the National Children\u2019s Bureau, said schools have \u2018forgotten how to give children a good childhood\u2019.
He added: \u2018Bumps and scrapes and dealing with life\u2019s trials are part and parcel of growing into a confident and resilient person.
\u2018You can only learn through experience.\u2019 '
This is one of the oldest chestnuts (geddit?) around, a truly classic myth. A well-meaning head teacher decided children should wear safety goggles to play conkers. Subsequently some schools appear to have banned conkers on 'health &
safety' grounds or made children wear goggles, or even padded gloves!
Realistically the risk from playing conkers is incredibly low and just not worth bothering about. If kids deliberately hit each other over the head with conkers, that's a discipline issue, not health and safety.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5534213809 - 'Shadow Of The season - 'Screaming Trees' - Play this track here.
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White snowdrops always for me indicate the shadow of winter, morphing into spring.
Screaming Trees are the best grunge band you have never heard of. The band was formed in Ellensburg, Washington USA (located about 100 miles from Seattle) in 1985 by vocalist Mark Lanegan, guitarist Gary Lee Conner &
bass player Van Conner. Their peers included Soundgarden.
In 1990 the band had signed a major-label contract with Epic Records and in 1991, the band released their fifth album, Uncle Anesthesia. The album was produced by Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell and included the single 'Bed of Roses', which gained considerable airtime on alternative rock radio stations and peaked at no 23 on the modern rock tracks. The single was the first Screaming Trees release to chart.
Although Uncle Anesthesia sold better than their previous efforts, the band remained a cult act. In 2000 after a concert to celebrate the opening of Seattle's Experience Music Project, the band announced their official breakup.
Lanegan released a solo album in May 2001 entitled Field Songs. Also in that year, he became a member of the hard rock group Queens of the Stone Age with Josh Homme. Lanegan recorded two albums as one of the group's three vocalists before leaving the QOTSA in late 2005.
Uncle Anesthesia (1991) or Sweet Oblivion (1992) are probably the best introductions to the group.
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From the Greek, g\u00e1la 'milk', \u00e1nthos 'flower', Galanthus or Snowdrops is a small genus of about 20 species of bulbous herbaceous plants in the Amaryllis family. Most flower in winter, before the vernal equinox (21 March in the Northern Hemisphere), but certain species flower in early spring and late autumn.
Snowdrops are sometimes confused with their relatives, snowflakes, which are Leucojum and Acis species. Galanthus nivalis is the best-known and most widespread representative of the genus Galanthus. It is native to a large area of Europe, stretching from the Pyrenees in the west, through France and Germany to Poland in the north, Italy, Northern Greece, Ukraine, and European Turkey. It has been introduced and is widely naturalised elsewhere.
Although it is often thought of as a British native wild flower, or to have been brought to the British Isles by the Romans, it was probably introduced around the early sixteenth century and is currently not a protected species in the UK. In most countries it is now illegal to collect bulbs from the wild.
All species of Galanthus are perennial, herbaceous plants which grow from bulbs. Each bulb generally produces just two or three linear leaves and an erect, leafless scape (flowering stalk), which bears at the top a pair of bract-like spathe valves joined by a papery membrane. From between them emerges a solitary, pendulous, bell-shaped white flower, held on a slender pedicel.
The flower has no petals: it consists of six tepals, the outer three being larger and more convex than the inner series. The six anthers open by pores or short slits. The ovary is three-celled, ripening into a three-celled capsule. Each whitish seed has a small, fleshy tail (elaiosome) containing substances attractive to ants which distribute the seeds. The leaves die back a few weeks after the flowers have faded.
So such a short appearance, but the true precursor to spring (thank goodness!).
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4623798888 - 'Whats more British than a beer festival? I was at my local one today, walking distance from 'Chez nous'. This is the view of the calm before the storm!
Second from the left is my old neighbour from a while back Sally Holland. Some of the fantastic beers on hand are listed below:
Brewery,Beer/Cider, ABV
Abbeydale, Restoration, 4.2 *
Acorn, Northdown, Blonde 4.0
Ashover, Rainbows End, 4.5
Black Hole, Cosmic, 4.2 *
Blue Monkey, Evolution, 4.3
Blythe, Palmers Poison, 4.5 *
Bridge House, Barnstorm, 4.2 *
Burton Bridge, Walkers Way, 4.5
Cheddar Ales, Gorge Best, 4.0
Croglin, Loki Original, 3.9
Downtown, Honey Blonde, 4.3
Dunham Massey, Duerrs Honey Beer, 4.1 *
Durham, Inspiration, 3.6
Empire, Famous 5, 3.8
Enville, White, 4.2
Fallons, Lancastrian Gold, 4.0
Havant, Herd, 4.2
Hop Back, Summer Lightning, 5.0
Hornbeam, Lemon Blossom, 3.7
Ironbridge, Boundary Gold, 4.5
Jarrow, Willie Would Have, 4.5
Kelham Island, Pale Rider, 5.2
Keystone, Solar Brew, 3.8
Mallinsons, Up &
Over, 3.8
Marble, Ginger, 4.5 *
Meantime, LPA, 4.5
Oakham, White Dwarf, 4.3
Phoenix, Wobbly Bob, 6.0 ****
Shardlow, Narrow Boat, 4.3
Thornbridge, Jaipur IPA, 5.9
White Horse, Village Idiot, 4.1
Windlestone, New Gold 3.9
Windsor &
Eton, Guardsman, 4.2
Winster Valley, Best Bitter 3.7
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4608926442 - 'Don't cry, don't do anything
No lies, back in the government
No tears, party time is here again
President Gas is up for president
Line up, put your kisses down
Say 'yeah' say 'yes' again
Stand up, there's a head count
President Gas on everything but roller skates
It's sick the price of medicine
Stand up, we'll put you on your feet again
Open up your eyes just to check that you're asleep again
President Gas is President Gas again
He comes in from the left sometimes
He comes in from the right
It's so heavily advertised that he wants you and I
It's a real cowboy set, electric company
Every day is happy days
It's hell without the sin, but
This old track from the The Psychedelic Furs, President Gas usually comes to mind when I am doing my civic duty every three to four years.
The Furs were an act spawned from the British punk rock scene. Originally RKO,' then 'Radio' and for a while 'The Europeans'. Built around singer Richard Butler and his brother Tim Butler on bass guitar. The classic first album was a Steve Lillywhite production.
The band recorded their 1983 album, Forever Now, with producer Todd Rundgren in Woodstock, New York. In 1986 when movie director/writer John Hughes borrowed their song title 'Pretty in Pink' for his movie of the same name. A newly-recorded version of the song became the Psychedlic Furs' biggest hit to that time. 'Heartbreak Beat' from the 1987 album 'Midnight To Midnight', was to be the Furs' biggest top 40 entry in the US.
The band split in the early 1990s, with the Butler brothers going on to found Love Spit Love. In 2000, 'Beautiful Chaos: Greatest Hits Live' was released to plug the gap of the missing live album. In my opinion, the BBC in concert bootlegs of 1982 &
1984 are better encapsulations of the band live. I saw them at the Royal Court in Liverpool that latter year.
A UK reunion tour was pencilled in last year including a manchester academy date, but this was unfortunately cancelled. earlier dates in the USA went ahead and a recording of 17/09/2009 in San Francisco that can be found on the web sounds like a band on top form.
Fingers crossed I may manage to see them again soon!
(2010 week 17)
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4576383706 - 'The suggestion is that after the May 2010 election, Britain will have lots of spare cash for all those things we aspire to spend on, such as new cancer drugs and such. With all the main parties hiding the details on what will be cut to tackle the current deficit, it is unlikely whoever gets in, there will be much left over for essential stuff like this. Most people realise it is charities, university research labs and big pharma who actuallly find these drugs, not central government. Maybe in the big Tory idea of 'everyone doing it for themselves', we should all be looking for these drugs ourselves? I read one satirical piece that suggested in this mode if we could not find a satisfactory hospital consultant the inferrence was that we should get a mirror and our own scalpal &
have a go.
It will be interesting to see what the reality is when the votes are counted and the job of dealing with that deficit starts. That could be like the colour shift in this image, a different kind of drug, a bad acid trip!
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Keywords: nature,natural,history,natur,bird,duck,ducklings,spring,baby,bab nature,babies,small,canal,Bridgewater,MSCC,Grappenhall,Warrington,England,Cheshire,UK,wild,life,wildlife,tonysmith,hotpix,tony,smith
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4581219298 - 'From the towpath of the Bridgewater canal in Grappenhall, I spotted this duck with her new chicks. They were all bunched under her to keep warm and there looked to be about ten of them. I haven't seen any out on the water yet. Fingers crossed they'll all make it.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4552559482 - 'Ahh, a week of warm english weather, blossoms, daffy's, spring has definitely landed. Where church lane and Broad lane meet is a lovely spot for catching the last rays of sun before heading into the village for a quick pint before tea. I would have liked to have been able to say I could smell a BBQ but it would be a wee fib! Also a blue sky untarnished with smoke trails from planes. All air traffic thankfully grounded by the Iceland volcano.
Grappenhall on the edge of south Warrington is mentioned in the Domesday Book under the name Gropenhale. It roughly translates to 'The Groping Place' as my cousin (who has a degree in such matters but also an uncharacteristically un-catholic sense of humour) once explained to me. At the time of the Domesday Grappenhall was stated to be worth five shillings. Lets hope that was just the tax revenue.
St Wilfrid's Church has a carving of a cat on the west face of the tower. This is believed to be Lewis Carroll's inspiration for the grinning Cheshire Cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I have resisted photographing the cat, although may relent if I can find a suitably creative way of doing it.
Parts of the Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes were filmed in the centre of Grappenhall. The 'large room' in Grappenhall village, was converted into a Police station for the filming of the 'Wisteria Lodge' episode of The Return of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett. The 'Rams Head' pub was converted to the 'The Bull Hotel' in the same episode (see www.flickr.com/photos/nathanchantrell/4010783429/in/photo... ).
Grappenhall has a thriving Cricket Club and is part of the CCC. Cheshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Cheshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy. The club is based at Cheadle and plays matches around the county at Boughton Hall in Chester, Nantwich, New Brighton, Grappenhall and Alderley Edge.
Oh, and by-the-way, I have reached 300 in my 365 without missing a day so far - yay! (big thanks to Jill, who helped me decide to start, way back in June - Hanx!)
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,UK,signs,political,parties,to win,winning,Lib Dems,Liberals,jo swinson,claim,claims,local,councilor,council,election,poll,polling,party,Westminster,underdog,underdogs,Selective use of polling data,marginal,seat,competitive,competition,bar charts,good chance,of winning,collation,marginal seats,Warrington,Grappenhall,Cheshire
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A9GHTR - Attempting to mislead voters by using polling data to claim electoral advantage over rivals could have long-term implications for trust in politicians, a fact-checking charity has warned.
Leaflets sent to the Guardian from readers around the country show the Liberal Democrats in particular appear to be using bar charts to press home a message that they have a good chance of winning, even in seats where the likes of the Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg or Labour stalwarts are seen as difficult to dislodge.
In some leaflets the party omitted spectacular results for the Brexit party in bar charts showing the European election results, while in others it projected local election results to forecast wins in the general election.
The chief executive of the independent fact-checking charity Full Fact, Will Moy, said dubious use of data would damage the future trust of voters.
Honesty in politics matters, whether it's in a speech or in a leaflet. It's misleading to present a mix of data from different polls and constituency boundaries as an accurate predictor of local results this December, he said. Parliamentary candidates are asking voters for their trust over the next five years. The words of our future MPs shouldn't be undermined by misleading use of graphs or polls.
From Totnes to Wimbledon, Oxford and Warwick, the Liberal Democrats have used phone surveys and local, district and European elections data to try to convince voters of their ability to win.
The muddling of data for electoral advantage was a perennial problem and practised by all parties, including the Tories who recently claimed Labour party plans would cost £1.2tn, said the psephologist John Curtice.
In 75 constituencies where the Lib Dems came third last time, the European election projections would put them in second place. The Lib Dems always suffer from the potential perception we can't possibly win' and that's why they are using the European elections.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2A9GHTT - Attempting to mislead voters by using polling data to claim electoral advantage over rivals could have long-term implications for trust in politicians, a fact-checking charity has warned.
Leaflets sent to the Guardian from readers around the country show the Liberal Democrats in particular appear to be using bar charts to press home a message that they have a good chance of winning, even in seats where the likes of the Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg or Labour stalwarts are seen as difficult to dislodge.
In some leaflets the party omitted spectacular results for the Brexit party in bar charts showing the European election results, while in others it projected local election results to forecast wins in the general election.
The chief executive of the independent fact-checking charity Full Fact, Will Moy, said dubious use of data would damage the future trust of voters.
Honesty in politics matters, whether it's in a speech or in a leaflet. It's misleading to present a mix of data from different polls and constituency boundaries as an accurate predictor of local results this December, he said. Parliamentary candidates are asking voters for their trust over the next five years. The words of our future MPs shouldn't be undermined by misleading use of graphs or polls.
From Totnes to Wimbledon, Oxford and Warwick, the Liberal Democrats have used phone surveys and local, district and European elections data to try to convince voters of their ability to win.
The muddling of data for electoral advantage was a perennial problem and practised by all parties, including the Tories who recently claimed Labour party plans would cost £1.2tn, said the psephologist John Curtice.
In 75 constituencies where the Lib Dems came third last time, the European election projections would put them in second place. The Lib Dems always suffer from the potential perception we can't possibly win' and that's why they are using the European elections.
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Keywords: lingerie,swim,wear,swimwear,under,underwear,designer,grappenhall,warrington,cheshire,england,UK,britain,lindaann,linda,ann,la,bonita,shop,store,nice,friendly,lady,woman,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,interesting,people,person,persons,persona,interesante,12-24,sigma,wide angle lens,wide,sex,sexy,angle,wideangle,lens,12-24mm,10-20mm,muchacha,femenina,de,mujer,se\u00f1ora,female,girl,\u5973\u6027\u30e1\u30b9\u306e\u5973\u6027\u306e\u5973\u306e\u5b50,\u592b\u4eba\u5973\u6027\u5987\u5973\u5973\u5b69,fille,f\u00e9minine,femme,dame,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4448619969 - 'The lovely Linda Ann in her designer lingerie and underwear emporium at 99 Knutsford Road, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire.
You have no doubt passed it many times on the A50. Its worth a visit (just take a left when you see the 'Styling Your Curves' sign next to the road as you reach the Choy Hing Village.
Certainly more a shop for the ladies, I wouldn't know my underwired from my padded basque or the difference between a body, babydoll or a Bustier. Luckily Linda has a website for 'La Bonita' (which in spanish means 'The Pretty One' - www.labonitaonline.com 01925 212937) so if you are looking at something for the weekend, you can order it there on your plastic.
Being a bloke the correct choice of a well fitted bra has not really been one of my problems. As several women have told me over the years, finding a good shop that understands this is generally worth its weight in gold. Linda has some useful hints and tips on her website and I am sure if you take yourself in to see her, you will be in good hands. She can no doubt guide you through the minefield of types
backless, balconette, bungalow, convertible, coupe, cupless, demi cup, front-fastening, full coverage, halter, longline, minimizing, padded, plunge, push-up, racerback, sports/athletic, strapless, strapless-backless, t-shirt, underwired, wireless, sports bra, and invisible.
The quantity of underwiring in some bra's is now becoming an issue with enhanced metal detector checks at airports. Triumph International have launched a 'Frequent Flyer Bra'. This oneuses metal free clasps and resin underwires instead of steel that are guaranteed to not set off metal detectors.
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Keywords: tulip,pink,macro,tubes,bellows,closeup,tripod,stamen,overy,overies,grappenhall,florest,2lips,welsh,cheshire,uk,england,petals,flowers,winter,spring,tonysmith,hotpix,tony,smith,plant,bloom,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,nature,natural,world,flower,flores,blome,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,art,arty,sex,sexy
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4433438874 - 'One of my favourite perenials from the family Liliaceae. A gift from Iran and Turkey where the Ottamans first started cultivation for sale. In Turkish the tulip is called Lale
The Tulip is native to the old world, southern europe right across to China and central asia. A helpful and knowledgable chap in my local florests in Knutsford road told me that the most varied ones grow in the Hindu Kush and on the steppes of Kazakhstan (fictional home of Sacha Baron Cohen's character Borat). He also told me that most tulips are derived from 'Tulipa gesneriana'. In retrospect I wonder if my other florist near the MSCC cateliver bridge '2lips' (geddit? www.2lipsflorists.co.uk/ ), would have been as informative.
Plants are perennials from bulbs and typically have two to six leaves. The cup shaped flowers typically have three petals and three sepals, which are most often termed 'tepals' because they are nearly indestinguishable.
The flowers have six stamens (yellow here) and the overies are three lobed. How nature likes threes eh?
Europians were taken by the spring flowers. Around 1634 to 1637, the early enthusiasm for the new tulips triggered a speculative frenzy now known as the 'tulip mania'. The tulip bulbs were then considered a form of currency. Not so far away from our own times when the 'dot com' boom and sub-prime lending, confirms we have actually not come that far from those heady days of dutch speculators over 450 years ago.
My advice, 'Buy Tulips' :-)
Macro tubes have been used here with a 28-300mm lens to give a life size macro image.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4417346121 - 'It was the Warrington District Camera Club AGM tonight in Grappenhall. This included the usual treasurers report (finances=healthy), ratification of the coming programme (program=ratified) and presentation of certificates etc for competition success over the previous year.
Here Simon Molyneux is shown on the left receiving his 'certificate of merit' from WDCC competition secretary Ian Sprott.
The camera club meet in 'The Studio' , first floor GYCA club, Bellhouse lane, Grappenhall, Warrington WA4 2PL.
Visitors cam drop in with their new cameras or DSLR's on one of their fortnightly monday meetings. A list of coming nights can be seen here: www.flickr.com/groups/wdcc/discuss/72157623437736995/
Here is an image from a camera club portrait night: www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3874777337/
Some of Ians images can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/siprott/
Some of Simons here www.flickr.com/photos/39889537@N05/
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Keywords: manchester,ship,canal,co,company,MSCC,grappenhall,stockton,heath,cantilever,bridge,warrington,cheshire,england,uk,britain,water,over,head,overhead,still,summer,mirror,image,reflection,glass,Chehire,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4392889987 - 'One of the cantilevered bridges over the Manchester ship canal at sunset.
The Warburton Toll Bridge crosses the Manchester Ship Canal on the B5159 road, connecting Warrington with Trafford. There was an old stone bridge across the now dried up bed of the diverted River Mersey from 1863, there was an original toll for this.
The toll contributes towards the maintenance of the high level bridge style metal bridge and approach road. There is a limit of 3 tons on the bridge. The last time I crossed it was 12p. I believe a 25p ticket can be taken and used all day, a bit like the Thelwall ferry www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4337673883/ . There is also an annual pass from the MSCC.
If you cross, tolls are charged from 7am till 10pm Monday to Friday, from 8am Saturday and 9am on a Sunday. At 10pm until the following morning there is no charge to cross. Apparently its one of the few remaining pre-motorway toll bridges in the UK and the only one in Greater Manchester. So a little bit of history.
A ship in the canal going through a swing bridge www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4297752647/
MSCC locks at Latchford at night www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4312557732/
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Keywords: grappenhall,librray,books,cheshire,warrington,england,UK,WBC,borough,council,servive,local,authority,hire,loan,albert,road,victoria,avenue,WA4,irene,royle,royal,matthew,smith,dvd,hotpix,hotpixuk,tonysmith,tony,panorama,panoramic,pano,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,interesting,people,person,persons,persona,interesante,12-24,sigma,wide angle lens,wide,building,buildings,built,architecture,imagen,panor\u00e1mica,image,panoramique,panoramisches,Bild,stitched,join,joiner,joined,images,widescreen,\u043f\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0430,\u30d1\u30ce\u30e9\u30de,\u5168\u666f,\ud55c\uad6d\uc5b4,FOGL
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4377223616 - 'One of probaly the smallest libraries in Warrington, Cheshire. It is on the intersection of Victoria Avenue and Albert Road.
Very local and essential. All the librarians are friendly and interested and it is an essential part of the village. In this image above the shelves are painting sfrom Grappenhall Art Group.
The technology has not quite arrived here yet and occassionally, the pinacle of Matthews visit can be to stamp his own books. A privilage indeed. makes me feel almost eager to pay my council tax. All credit to the ladies in the library.
See my notes about this library a year on and local libray cuts and closures below in the comments.
Something historical just at the top of Albert Road www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3890901736/
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF21W0 - Grappenhall Library in Cheshire as it was run by Warrington Borough Council in April 2010. A small boy being helped by a librarian.
The library has now been closed (April 2011), then changed to a community run library by volunteers.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4297752647 - 'Here the Latchford road swing bridge on the Manchester Ship Canal has been swung and the ship passing through is being viewed from the Grappenhall side (Knutsford Road A50).
A number of cars and pedestrians were piling up, hence the two lads on the front of the boat waving.
The happy falcon is a frequent visitor to Carrington and is a LPG Tanker. For anyone interested it is IMO no 9227261 Flag IOM. It was Built 2002 and is 3366gt.
As can be seen its got a great red coloured hull and the boat can be easily seen from some distance away.
(Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire UK).
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4297793929 - 'The old rusting viaduct which goes across the Manchester Ship Canal at Thelwall New Road.
Left (as too expensive to maintain) when the old Warrington rail link to Altrincham was turned into a cycle path.
This shot was taken at dusk just when there was some light left in the sky.
(2010 week 3)
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Keywords: NHS,van,ashton,wigan,lancs,lancashire,north,west,england,britain,red,blue,wnow,ice,winter,cold,vehicle,grappenhall,weaste,lane,ln,cheshire,warrington,UK,january,2010,big,freeze,britains,Yikker,HDR,high dynamic range,rot-rosso-rouge-rood,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,highway,road,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4294320497 - 'NHS Ashton, Leigh, Wigan Van parked (or abandoned) in Weaste Lane, Grappenhall, just off the iced up A50 (Knutsford Road). leading up to the M6 motorway junction 20.
The trust are responsible for hospitals, clinics and doctor surgeries across this Lancashire region.
A more classic vehicle rather than an advertising bill board one here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4009572514/
(2010 week 2)
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4802115693 - 'Grappenhall is the village where I live in Warrington, Cheshire. It is situated along the Bridgewater Canal, and forms one of the principal settlements of Grappenhall and Thelwall civil parish. According to the 2001 UK census, the population of the entire civil parish was 9,377.
Grappenhall is mentioned in the Domesday Book under the name Gropenhale, which states it to be worth five shillings. I have heard someone refer to Gropenhale as meaning 'Ye Groping Place' in olde english, but this could be pure speculation.
St Wilfrid's Church, the tower of which can be seen here, has a carving of a cat on the west face of the tower. This is believed to be Lewis Carroll's inspiration for the grinning Cheshire Cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The church itself was first constructed in 1120, though was rebuilt 400 years later. The church was also, at a time, in the possession of the Boidelle (Boydell) family.
Along with the church, the centre of the village contains two pubs (The recently refurbished Rams Head and the Parr Arms now a Robinsons house). Grappenhall Hall residential School and St. Wilfrids Primary School can be found behind where this shot was taken.
Snow is relatively rare here as the village sits on the Cheshire plain, not too far from the sea. In the many years I have lived here I must have only ever see snow stick for more than a day, three times. In january 2010 like most of the UK, the snow persisted for many weeks. It might be just my imagination, but spring blossom seemed much brighter and stronger this year, maybe because of this.
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Keywords: cold,snow,fall,shower,on,nice,picturesque,historic,cobbled,area,Parr,Arms,Rams,Head,St,Saint,Wilfrids,Wilfreds,history,stone,church,yard,churchyard,gate,lamps,entrance,lamp,on,top,above,WA4,2ED,WA42ED,Grappenhall,Village,Warrington Cheshire,England,UK,Gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HD36 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4276835821 - 'The morning of the start of the big freeze in Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, UK, 5th January 2010 (06/01/2010).
The attempted escape from suburbia to the M6 25 minutes later can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4274897544/
(2010 week 1)
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC 07092182899',
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Keywords: Grappenhall,village,rams,head,ramshead,pub,public,house,cobble,cobbled,dusk,snow,winter,warrington,england,cheshire,great,britain,GB,decoration,tony,smith,tonysmith,hotpix,hotpixuk,tdk,tdktony,purple,sky,purple sky,\u96ea,sneeuw,neige,Schnee,\u0441\u043d\u0435\u0436\u043e\u043a,nieve,HDR,high dynamic range,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,building,buildings,built,architecture,favourite,pubs,houses,noche,nuit
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4201081728 - 'A view in summer www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3519535917/
Some traditional pub games here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3813283684/
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Keywords: red,sky,morning,grappenhall,village,england,UK,semidetached,house,houses,semi,detached,street,car,blue,purple,lindi,avenue,lindiavenue,7,7lindi,7lindiavenue,365days,HDR,high dynamic range,tonysmith,tony,smith,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,noche,nuit,hotpix!,hotpix.rocketmail.com,hotpixuk.rocketmail.com,contact.tony.smith.gmail.com,tony.smith.gmail.com,tonys@miscs.com,tony.smith@mis-ams.com
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4125482227 - 'A great red sky this morning. A bit of a grab shot at about 800asa. as they say, when its gone its gone!
More views of Grappenhall www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4059561024/in/pool-grappen...
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Keywords: Thelwall,Grappenhall,bell,lane,village,Cheshire,UK,England,Warrington,Dusk,night,shot,tripod,ambiant,low,light,car,trials,trails,old,post,office,red,box,telephone,british,blue,sky,real,ale,food,Greenall,Greenalls,house,alehouse,olde,traditional,CAMRA,timber,frame,framed,Lymm,pickering,pickering's,historic,365days,photo,photos,photography,photographer,HDR,high dynamic range,tonysmith,tony,smith,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,building,buildings,built,architecture,favourite,pub,pubs,public,houses,noche,nuit
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4107135884 - 'In the year 920 (or was it 923) King Edward the Elder founded a cyty here and called it Thelwall. Written on the Pickering Arms is that inscription.
Still reassuringly serving nice food and ale at the bottom of Bell lane. Or it was today anyway.
Thelwall is plagued with many stories of ghosts www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4103283717/ , as many of the old buildings remain in the area. Many stories of ghost's are found in the older area of Thelwall. Many of the sightings are usually from the Local Pub: 'the Little Manor'. However there has been stories of witches at the old white house with the well on the outskirts of Thelwall.
The church of England All Saints Church is just further north of the pub www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3691489296/
A fortified city was established at Thelwall in 923 during the reign of King Edward the Elder, which is mentioned in two very early sources, including the Anglo Saxon Chronicle:
Kynge Edwarde made a cite at Thelewall in [th]e northe parte of [th]e Marches, nye the water of Mersee, where he put a certeyne knyghtes.
A.D. 923. This year went King Edward with an army, late in the harvest, to Thelwall
and ordered the borough to be repaired, and inhabited, and manned. And he ordered another army also from the population of Mercia, the while he sat there to go to Manchester in Northumbria, to repair and to man it. This year died Archbishop Plegmund
and King Reynold won York.
Earthwork remains of a embankment, possibly part of these fortifications, has been found on the grounds of Chaigeley School. These remains are an English Heritage National Monument.
Another local watering hole at dusk here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3519535917/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4103275419 - 'The first autumn frost greeted me this morning.
Now where did I put that scraper........
Dont forget how good summer was www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3735036134/
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Keywords: Parr arms,Traditional British Cheshire Country Pub,Grappenhall,South,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,near,canal,gotonysmith,benches,outside,Church,lane,pubs,in,summer,place,for,a,cat,on,St,Wilfrids,Church,WBC,borough,of,warrington,gotonysmith,borough of warrington,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEY9H8 - The Parr arms, Traditional British Cheshire Country Pub, Grappenhall South Warrington Cheshire England UK
Grappenhall is a suburban village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is situated along the Bridgewater Canal, and forms one of the principal settlements of Grappenhall and Thelwall civil parish. According to the 2001 UK census, the population of the entire civil parish was 9,377.
Grappenhall is mentioned in the Domesday Book with the name Gropenhale and a with a valuation of five shillings
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Keywords: Stockton,Heath,Clyde,Bank,Grappenhall,Rd,road,Village,Villages,England,Cheshire,UK,Leaves,autumn,brown,green,victorian,house,houses,estate,agent,agents,red,brick,Grappenhall Village,Warrington,A50,A56,365days,HDR,high dynamic range,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4051719322 - 'Autumn in Stockton Heath
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Keywords: Strawberry,fruit,patch,veggie,vegatable,vegetable,Grappenhall,Heys,walled,secret,garden,cheshire,village,warrington,UK,GB,great,britain,united,kingdom,plants,october,autumn,Grappenhall Village,England,A50,A56,365days,wonder,seeds,red,rouge,rot,tasty,food,this photo rocks,rot-rosso-rouge-rood,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4050861051 - 'A strawberry plant fruiting still hanging on in the Grappenhall Heys (Warrington Cheshire UK ) walled garden veggie patch. I am sure frost is coming soon unfortunately, your number will soon be up.
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Keywords: fungi,Grappenhall,Cheshire,UK,England,Hays,Heys,Mushrooms,hotpix,hotpixuk,tony,smith,tdk,tdktony,woodland,forest,autumn,fungus,mushroom,plant,life,floor,wood,decaying,matter,woods,warm,light,sunset,glow,Grappenhall Village,village,Warrington,A50,A56,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,HDR,high dynamic range,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4023484541 - 'Fungi growing near some decaying trees and wood at Grappenhall Heys. I just stumbled across these mushrooms before it closed and the light was very warn and nice.
Not sure they were nice to eat (or this www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3708723795/in/set-72157621... )
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Warrington Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Latchford,locks,Manchester,Liverpool,ship,canal,crane,Smith,Keighley,from,1957,10ton,load,10,tons,birds,sky,Grappenhall Village,Grappenhall,Cheshire,England,UK,village,Warrington,A50,A56,365days,HDR,high dynamic range,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,merseyside,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4023454839 - 'Crane on the south side (Grappenhall / Thelwall) of canal at Latchford lock.
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Barley,ears,wood,365days,Grappenhall,Warrington,field,autumn,september,sep,2009,seeds,UK,GB,england,agriculture,HDR,high dynamic range,gallery-photo,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,stillife,stilllife,still,life,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3998898461 - 'Some ears of weather worn autumn barley from the field up the road from where I live in Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire UK.
Agricultural seeds or grains for the future.
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Keywords: Autumn,harvest,festival,Grappenhall,UK,Village,church,cheshire,St,saint,Wilfrids,Grappenhall, St Wilfrid,wilfrid,St Wilfrid,St Wilfrids,Medieval,dark,age,ages,Grappenhall Village,England,Warrington,A50,A56,365days,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3999471794 - 'Food, fruit, vegetables, gifts at the font at St Wilfrids Grappanhall, Warrington Cheshire UK
Stained Glass from st Wilfrids can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/sets/72157622952669496/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: room,dusk,start,it,all,blue,green,365days,urban,suburban,town,village,england,dawn,tripod,semi,detached,houses,house,street,grappenhall,warrington,cheshire,UK,GB,tonysmith,tony,smith,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,noche,nuit,hotpix!,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3998650601 - 'This is the room, the start of it all
No portraits so fine, only sheets on the wall
I've seen the nights,
filled with bloodsports in vain
And the body is obtained
Where will it end?
Another green light www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4021459973/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Grappenhall,St,Woldrids,Wilfreds,Saint,Grave,Yard,graveyard,red,sky,church,lane,Warrington,Cheshire,UK,Hotpix,TDKTony,TDK,Tony,Lamp,old,Grappenhall, St Wilfrid,wilfrid,St Wilfrid,St Wilfrids,Medieval,dark,age,ages,Grappenhall Village,England,village,A50,A56,gave,gravestone,stone,RIP,dead,men,women,cemetary,cemetery,365days,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,muchacha,femenina,de,la,mujer,se\u00f1ora,lady,female,woman,girl,\u5973\u6027\u30e1\u30b9\u306e\u5973\u6027\u306e\u5973\u306e\u5b50,\u592b\u4eba\u5973\u6027\u5987\u5973\u5973\u5b69,fille,f\u00e9minine,femme,dame
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3960538350 - 'Shot taken from St Wilfrids church graveyard with the colourful backdrop of tonights deep red sunset.
Bringing in the hay - www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3839976273/
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Keywords: web,spider,spiders,spiders web,england,grappenhall,Warrington,UK,Cheshire,Hotpix,Hotpixuk,insect,insects,macro,Araneae,Grappenhall Village,village,A50,A56,365days,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3892878298 - 'Spider (Araneae) in its web awaiting lunch, spotted in Grappenhall, Cheshire UK.
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Old,painted,decaying,Grappenhall,tram,box,Warrington,WBC,Cheshire,England,metal,tramway,tram,way,historic,gotonysmith,Tramway box from Grappenhall,South,warrington,Cheshire.,A,bit,worse,for,wear,with,paint,peeling.,This,is,at,the,junction,of,Hunts,lane,Higher Knutsford Road,Newlands,Road,and,may,have,been,the,old,terminus,from,town.,Warringtonians,It,is,now,gray,and,rusty,with,many,coats,of,peeling,paint.,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMX6B - Tramway box from Grappenhall, South warrington Cheshire. A bit worse for wear with paint peeling. This is at the junction of Hunts lane, Higher Knutsford Road, Newlands Road and may have been the old terminus from town.
It is now gray and rusty with many coats of peeling paint.
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Keywords: bridgewater,canal,lifting,gear,grappenhall,cheshire,Grappenhall Village,England,UK,village,Warrington,A50,A56,365days,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,old,stuff,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3890901736 - 'Lifting gear close to Stanny Lunt Bridge No 16 from Chester road A56 over Bridgewater Canal into Church lane.
This gear has some associated wooden planks that allow the canal to be blocked off for maintenance.
Checkout Clive at teh Ex-servicemans club www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3835313268/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: dog,dart,doganddart,grappenhall,warrington,A50,knutsford,road,cheshire,virtual,pub,pubs,bar,bars,bradshaw,lane,Grappenhall Village,England,UK,village,A56,365days,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,sex,sexy,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3871489224 - 'The Dog and Dart, now only a virtual pub kept alive by WBC bus time tables at the junction of Bradshaw lane and the A50 Knutsford Road.
It ceased to serve Greenhalls Grunhalle lager in April 2002 to have ramps and disabled toilets to be fitted. See more here
However it did not survive the renovations and is now the site of Bartholomew Court, a McCarthy and Stone housing scheme 44 sheltered apartments for people aged 60-plus.
it was actually the second pub to bear the name 'Dog and Dart' in Grappenhall - and the first was around 200 years old when it was demolished.
Parish councillor Mike Biggin said the people of Grappenhall and Thelwall were overwhelmingly opposed to demolition of the pub. It had a football and a children's rugby team.
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Grappenhall,Village,sun,sunset,set,warrington,Cheshire,UK,Canon,D50,D500,D450,D400,SLR,DSLR,Grappenhall Village,England,A50,A56,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,HDR,high dynamic range,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3843046553 - 'I have passed this a few times, but it seemed so warm tonight. I thought it would be good to capture before the dark nights draw in.
Another sunset in Grappenhall www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3915944895/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: grass,field,hay,bale,bales,autumn,monochrome,black,white,grappenhall,warrington,uk,cheshire,Grappenhall Village,England,village,A50,A56,365days,viullages,english,farm,farming,farms,sepia,B/W,mono,HDR,high dynamic range,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3839976273 - 'Hay bales spotted on the way home. Polariser and sepia toned.
Another sepia scene here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4182533330/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Hay Bales,Cheshire Countryside,Grappenhall,Warrington,Cheshire,WA4,2PL,WA42PL,rolls,dramatic,sky,gotonysmith,drama,balers,machine,machines,field,straw,british,GB,fodder,lush,pasture,harvest,byproduct,stacks,pits,rumination,animal,animals,making,haymaking,fodder,rick,barrack,Haylage,doing hay,or,barrack shed or barn balers silage,a bale wrapper silo endophytic fungus,gotonysmith,gotonysmith,Warringtonian,making hay,haymaking,doing hay,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CET10X - Hay Bales, prepared for the winter Cheshire Countryside, Grappenhall, Warrington Cheshire, England UK WA4 2PL
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Keywords: Grappers,CC,Grappenhall,Cricket,Team,draw,PoyntonCC,Poynton,1stXI,Grappenhall Village,Cheshire,England,UK,village,Warrington,A50,A56,365days,sport,sporting,action,play,players,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3834521347 - 'He bowls, he bats, its a six.
Summer cricket in an english village green. Grappenhall, Warrington Cheshire, England, UK.
Have a look at some of my other Grappenhall images on Flickr -
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Keep in touch, add me as a contact www.flickr.com/relationship.gne?id=33062170@N08
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC 07092182899',
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Keywords: Grappers,pano,Grappenhall,Cheshire,league,South,Warrington,Panorama,England,UK,Summer,county,willow,on,stumps,bowler,at,crease,gotonysmith,clubcricket,junior,20,20/20,20-20,sport,british,summer,gotonysmith,Warringtonians,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,pano,Grappenhall,Cricket,Club,GCCC,Cheshire,league,South,Warrington,England,UK,lane,St,Wilfrids,Thelwall,Cheshire,County,Cricket,Club,is,one,of,the,county,clubs,which,make,up,the,Minor,Counties,in,the,English,domestic,cricket,structure,representing,the,historic,county,of,Cheshire,and,playing,in,the,Minor,Counties,Championship,and,the,MCCA,Knockout,Trophy.,The,club,is,based,at,Cheadle,and,plays,matches,around,the,county,at,Boughton,Hall,in,Chester,Nantwich,New Brighton,Grappenhall,and,Alderley,Edge.,The,Minor,Counties,play,three-day,matches,at,a,level,below,that,of,the,first-class,game.,At,present,Cheshire,competes,in,the,Western,Division,of,the,Minor,Counties,Championship.,Tony,Smith,drinkers,team,players,batters,batsmen,bowlers
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMX7J - Shown here is a long and thin panorama of a cricket match at Grappenhall Cricket Club.
Cheshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Cheshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy.
The club is based at Cheadle and plays matches around the county at Boughton Hall in Chester, Nantwich, New Brighton, Grappenhall and Alderley Edge.
The Minor Counties play three-day matches at a level below that of the first-class game. At present, Cheshire competes in the Western Division of the Minor Counties Championship.
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Keywords: Pond,Dunham,Massey,Sepia,toned,Warrington,Camera,District,Club,society,DSLR,SLR,Nikon,Sony,Canon,digital,cameras,Jessops,wildings,Grappenhall,GYCA,Bellhouse,Village,Cheshire,Studio,walkabout,NT,Night,Grappenhall Village,England,UK,A50,A56,365days,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,photographic,photography,group,bellhouse Club,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3835314286 - 'A very grey walk around Dunham with the WDCC
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: man,playing,chess,bw,monochrome,black,white,bogo,indian,bogoindian,opening,Warrington,grappenhall,club,chess club,GYCA,bellhouse,lane,cheshire,village,UK,richard,kempton,ace,firework,fire,works,photographer,photography,Grappenhall Village,England,A50,A56,mono,this photo rocks,tonysmith,tony,smith,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,HOT PIX
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3827213793 - 'Richard Kempton playing the chess match of his life.
Suffering here from a very vicious set move opening.
Grappenhall Chess Club, GYCA ( Grappenhall Youth and Community Centre ), Bellhouse lane, Warrington, England UK.
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Keywords: Warrington,Community,Circus,Rob,Knife,knives,juggling,juggler,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,cheshire,england,UK,GB,britain,acts,grappenhall,this photo rocks,cool,person,people,portrait,image,tonysmith,tony,smith,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,HOT PIX,@hotpixuk
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3827401797 - '(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3828202662 - 'Before recent renovations, sepia tinted and hand coloured.
I am not sure what the pub was named after. A 'Rams Head' in canal terms is the wooden rudder post on a butty usually decorated with rope work and sometimes with a horse's tail. Maybe this is the source as the Bridgewater canal is only a short stones throw away.
A similar shot more recently taken in winter www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4201081728/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3734236815 - 'Path near bridge lane, above Grappenhall on the way to Appleton &
Stretton
A cob of maize similar to those in this field www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4104058442/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3713709813 - 'A visitor at Warrington Disabled Awareness Day (DAD) in Walton Gardens. 2009 is the 18th year and a testiment to Dave Thompson, well deserved MBE DL.
Warrington District Camera Club ( www.thewdcc.org.uk ) were there as ever taking pictures and this is one of the many I took.
These are my 2008-2015 images, view my most recent images at HotpixUK-2019 - www.flickr.com/people/167831053@N02/ including my second 365 one a day project
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC / Warrington District Camera Club',
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Keywords: Vintage style van at Karl Welsh flower shop,Knutsford Road,Grappenhall,Warrington,UK,WA4,flowershop,red,interflora,Lymm,gotonysmith,outside,old,fashioned,oldfashioned,KarlWelsh,florist,florists,automobile,auto red dark sky A50 rd,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,ornate,interesting,history,historic,flower,store,shop,retail,outlet,local,Karl Welsh,Floral Design,Interflora
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0NP7 - Vintage style van at Karl Welsh flower shop, Knutsford Road, Grappenhall, Warrington UK WA4
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0NB1 - Panorama at Bell lane, Thelwall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK including the old Thelwall Post Office and the Pickering Arms. Commonly believed to be the Smallest city in England.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMX5W - The last resting place and in Memory of james Tomlinson departed this life September 12th 1831. St Wilfrids Church Graveyard, Grappenhall Village, South Warrington , Cheshire England UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3874263992 - 'Hoya R72 Deep red IR filter used.
More Lymm shots here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3873477373/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC. Used as part of the Warrington District Camera Club photographic treasure hunt around Lymm.
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WDCC \u2013 Discover the hidden Lymm \u2013 Monday 25th June 2007
NB: In the event of very wet weather, the meeting will be held in the GYCA bar, with an opportunity to see images shot on the trail below. The route is interesting at different times of day, so if you cannot make it on the night, don\u2019t worry! Bring your images taken on the members work night 9th July with any of your other favourite pictures.
Try to find an unusual angle on what you see &
try to be surprised by the everyday!
The route can be joined at the usual meeting point of the GYCA / Bellhouse club in Grappenhall or if more convenient at 7.30pm in Lymm.
7pm Depart GYCA car park (in shared or own cars).
From the GYCA turn left into bellhouse Lane, then left to the traffic lights at the junction of A50/A56. Turn right towards Lymm.
1.After approx \u00bc mile take a left into Stanton Road. At the bottom turn right into Thelwall New Road, stopping at All Saints church yard on the right. If you have a digital camera and a deep red or hoya R72 filter, a good place for some infra-red photography.
2.From the church continue along road to Lymm. Note the Old post office, Pickering Arms and lettering on side about \u2018The city called Thelwall\u2019. Continue until the junction with the A56 and take a left into Stockport Road, then immediate left towards Statham.
3.Note the M6 road bridges that pass overhead. Continue passing the hotel on the left with climbing plants on the front. Another good spot for an infra-red shot. Continue along road and turn right after about \u00bd mile into Star lane. Continue to the top and turn left towards Lymm on A56/Stockport Road.
7.30pm Arrive at Lymm Dam. Park either in the Church Inn, next to Church or along the road beside Lymm Dam.
4.From the road, take the path to the right of the Dam to get a view of the dam framed with trees from the bank. Walk along the railings below the road and find the gameboy and the penguins with guns. Notice the bulrushes and grasses at the front of the dam. Don\u2019t forget to put on a longer lens for the ducks.
5.Walk up the road/hill to St Mary\u2019s church. Note the cross on the entrance. A polarising filter would come in handy for the tower or its stone carvings. Note the stone angels and squirrels up on the sides of the building.
6.In the graveyard find at least one cross and one carved flower in the gravestones. Some interesting door handles and locks can be seen in the graveyard &
around the buildings.
7.Cross the road and walk down towards Grappenhall on the A56/Stockport Road until you find the steps down to the Dingle. If you reach Brookfield Rd you have gone too far! Note the graffiti on the buildings behind the padlocked gates at the sides of the main pathway. Several trees have been felled beside the path. Spot the new fern growth and the purple foxgloves.
8.At the bottom of the dingle is the lower mill pool. Note the cottages reflecting in the water (as they should be illuminated by the evening light) and wild flowers adjacent to water.
9.Turn left into Eagle Brow and then right past the Lymm Chippy. Spot one of the flags on view. Continue under the canal bridge and join the canal bank on the left. If you haven\u2019t already done so, you will probably spot some ducks. Keep left along the canal towards the road bridge. Notice Bridgewater cottage on the left &
its many plants &
flowers. Miss the erotic topiary at your peril!
10.Turn left before the canal bridge along by the old canal cottages. Note the year the cottages were built above the lintel.
11.From the cottages, turn right over canal bridge towards the historic Lymm Cross &
the main street of shops (called The Cross). There are a number of notable details on the cross including the sundial with its slogan \u2018Save Time\u2019. The village cross in Lymm known as 'The Cross' is the only Grade I listed structure in the Borough of Warrington and is thought to date back to Saxon times.
12.Turn back towards the canal, (without re-crossing the canal bridge) on the opposite side to Bridgewater cottage for a good view of the cottage and canal boats. Try misting up your lens, or adding a filter for a more surreal shot of the canal &
boats. Don\u2019t forget the reflections, often more interesting than some of the boats!
13.Walk back up through the dingle to back to car for a drink back at the GYCA after 9.30pm. Forty shots taken following this walk will be available in the bar to view.
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