Weekend photo challenge 22nd/23rd January 2011

Tom – Thats a really nice picture.

My effort from the Peak Pootle, taken just above Ladybower, maybe not the most deserted, but surely most bikes/people in 😀

Cheers 🙂 Despite having had cameras for ages I’ve only really just discovered the joys of raw + split toning in camera raw 😛

I missed last week so how about a monument to a bridge.

Love that shot tinribz 8)

Here’s a contender for the smallest monument (and possibly the smallest bike too 😉 ) . . .

“DO NOT CLIMB ON THE MONUMENT” . . . I had to, to see what it was . . . Newport Castle btw, also pictured in the background but trust me definitely not worth a separate pic 😆

Chartist mural – not sure if it counts as a monument or not . . .

Few ideas for next week: Sofa pics . . . but outside 🙂 . Bikes in unlikely places, eg, phone box, etc. Reflection shots.

Reflection shots would be interesting 🙂

I got my worms mixed up, its a ‘bike and memorial’, not monument I’m afraid. Does it still count?

Damn annoyed I missed this thread, got a great little hidden memorial which I’m sure half (if not more) of the local population are unaware of.

OK, I have two from todays ride.
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And a better view of the plaque.
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And the next one which is about half a mile up the road.
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wot’s it say on yer top tube samurai?

this monument bagging nearly finished me off today!!

monuments from battle of towton moor site

and a bridge i wanted from last week…..but failed

oh, and a monument to someones pet

Frank’s tank – Purbecks

Thornton in Craven near Barnoldswick
Not very remote but all I could find
Rode to the caff at Airton on some pretty quiet roads and didn’t see much in the way of monuments

A private monument to a bloke who obviously loved the Dales – at the top of Gunnerside Gill.

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Click pic for detail of the sword – look out for it if you’re ever up there and add a rock to two.

Another contender for the smallest? Santa Maria, nr. Itziar, Basque Country.

My input for this week.

Inaugural ride on the new Roadrat. Loved it 😆

Local pit number 1 (where my Grandad and Dad worked)

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sorry the piccie is a bit crap, taken on my old Mobile phone. 😳

z1ppy – Member

Damn annoyed I missed this thread, got a great little hidden memorial which I’m sure half (if not more) of the local population are unaware of.

Off Kingsford lane?

Last minute entry, Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Tower on Darwen Moor

*squints*

A pretend monument.
Mercian Way marker on Sustrans Route 45 in the Wyre Forest.

Incidently, for anyone following the STW January Endomondo challenge, the current 3rd and 4th placed riders are in that photo.

singlespeedstu – Member
z1ppy – Member
Damn annoyed I missed this thread, got a great little hidden memorial which I’m sure half (if not more) of the local population are unaware of.
Off Kingsford lane?

Next to the bunker entrance yep, I’m sure there must be something in the area you don’t know about
😛

I was going to take a picture there too.
We were on a group ride though and didn’t pass it.

I’m sure there must be something in the area you don’t know about

If there is I’d like to know about it. 8)

mulletus – the insult was definitely self-directed! no offence intended 🙂

here’re my pics from the day. first, a tribute to some family or other in the pentland hills. it dates back to the 1700 and 1800s.

this is the castlelaw souterrain also in the pentlands – it’s an iron-age coldstore so i guess it’s kind of a monument to the past!

not so sure about this – this was outside dreghorn barracks. i’ve not really paid attention before, and i was too tired to do all the reading! but i think it’s rather impressive 🙂 the date on the front is 1666, but i suspect it’s far newer than that

I wonder what next weeks challenge will be ?

Wonder no more.
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/weekend-photo-challenge-29th30th-january-2011

Graham, shudda got the bridge too, two birds one stone
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RD, ‘I don’t have enough middle fingers’.

Ahem.

Call that a monument? That’s not a …. etc.

I give you: The monument to Coke of Holkham.

A short man who invented the innertube.

He liked his monuments so he had another one built (it’s actually an obelisk). Only it couldn’t better than the one dedicated to himself because he thought he was the best.

And of course, everything had to line up nicely. The Coke monument the other side of the hall.

The hall seen from the west side.

More:

My pic was so small! Trying again… White castle in Monmouth.

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Just a few from this mornings ride. Guess where?

RNLI Training centre
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Robert Baden Powell

Some extra info on todays jaunt:

Just hidden in the woods near the obelisk is ‘The Temple’, a small neo-classical shooting lodge with a domed roof and collumned portico at the entrance. Inside there is a large fireplace and two alcoves either side which have trompe l’oeil paintings of Italian contryside seen through windows. I had a job on the estate when I was a teenager and sometimes it was preparing the lodge for the Earl and his guests who would have dinner there while on a days shoot. This was all the building was ever intended for and is still only used for this now as far as I know.

A previous Earl had the trees in front of the lodge cleared to provide a view down the hill over the lake and then a narrow strip of trees cleared out of the pinewoods two miles away all so that he could have a distant glimpse of the sea while eating lunch.

In that narrow clearance a complete replica of a German V1 flying bomb and launch site was created for the film Operation Crossbow.

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I also intended getting a shot of another maritime memorial but it was too dark by the time I got back to town. Can I sneak it in tomorrow?

Sure, I was going to sneak a late one in tomorrow as well if I get a chance as I missed it on Saturday due to being busy elsewhere.

not a real monument ,Parsons folly on Bredon Hill

Rusty Trowel – My old home town of Poole. Have I won something nice? 😀

mulletus – the insult was definitely self-directed! no offence intended

No worries. Apologies for being so touchy. 😳

That didn’t work!

Wellington Monument at Aldershot – not very remote

I never noticed anything odd about the SMB war memorial in Mulletus Maximuses’ first photo all the times i stood in front of it holding a flag as a cub on remembrance day.

@Hicksy – no, a night out in Bournemouth!

Here’s the one it was too dark to capture last night:

I didn’t get a chance to get to this one on Saturday.
Monument to Richard Eve in a park Kidderminster.

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