Herb Riddle's photos with the keyword: Uppermill

Autumn is always a good time to be out and about with your camera, especially if like me you like to photograph trees and water in these colours. Enjoy full screen

I have not seen such a ‘Hotel’ boat on our canals before and so this was quite a surprise. Seen on my local stretch of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal at Uppermill, on its way towards the long ‘Standedge’ canal tunnel in the village of Diggle (just the next village up). These locks are quit narrow and it was in the next lock up that we once saw a canal boat ‘high & dry’ and being rescued by a big crane in 2014. See last photo or PiP Enjoy full screen.

A catastrophe on our Hudderfield Narrow Canal at Uppermill.. This narrow boat had not gone forward enough before letting out all the water in the lock and so the stern (back-end) was left sat on the narrow 'sill' as the front went down with the water level. A very near thing for the boat itself as water could have got into the front here. Some minutes after taking this a 'crane' arrived to lift the boat up/out . The date: Oct 5, 2014

Here at Uppermill railway viaduct again watching Isabella on its way towards Manchester for its next halt at Stalybridge before Ashton Basin. Nice full screen.

A shot taken at the Uppermill railway viaduct over the canal. A rather unusual site in seeing a moving canal boat. I shake my head at this as it was not even done by me, but my wife Eileen by my side as I stood with the telephoto -she using my Iphone. Why do I shake my head? It’s because at first glance this can hardly be differentiated from my own Nikon SLR photos that I took here. This was in fact a wider angle photo that I could not have taken as I did not have my wide lens with me. I always thought that when phone photos were as good (or nearly as good) as quality SLR+Raw –it will be time to retire my hobby. But….. Enjoy full screen.

The Parish church of St Chadds in Uppermill has always looked most attractive standing well outside the village high up the valley. The bells still toll regularly here and I see the building often as a very nice eating pub (The Church Inn) stands in the church square seen here to the right of the church itself. This Georgian building was built c1830 but a church has sat at this site since 1215 AD. Another chance to see the lines of our dry-stone walls too, so typical of this area. Enjoy the day in peace. Herb

Another local view over our neighbouring Saddleworth village of Uppermill. Pots and Pans is actually the name of the large rock (stone) that sits at the top of Aldermans Hill overlooking Uppermill and Greenfield. It gets its unusual name from a series of basins or large indentations on the top of it, worn into the millstone grit over millions of years by the Saddleworth weather. The obelisk situated nearby was erected in 1923 to honour the 259 people from the villages of Saddleworth who died during the first world war and was located here specifically to be visible from those villages. Each year on Remembrance Sunday the communities of Saddleworth climb the hill to take part in the remembrance service conducted at the war memorial to commemorate those who died during the two world wars and later conflicts. Enjoy full screen.

A day or so back we got up to a view point that we have never got to before. I knew it had to be around where we were, for I had seen many great railway photo taken from up here. Beneath this viaduct runs the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and I have often peered upwards wondering how to get to this highpoint. After waiting quite some time for a train in an even better position than this, I was just giving up after walking back up the hill through wet vegetation when my wife shouted "here comes a train". Indeed it was the Express from Newcastle to Liverpool Lime St after running through the Standedge Railway tunnel just a mile or so further up. This is a Class 802 bi-mode Diesel-Electric - No. 802209 on the 9M20 0947 service. Enjoy full screen

A Winter's view of this popular canal at the Saddleworth village of Uppermill looking west. In front of us is the aptly named Saddleworth Viaduct carying the Transpennine Railway line to Yorkshire. more info PiP shows view from opposite side