Blakey's Thruscross Reservoir Video

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Sat 16 Jun, 2012 12:14 pm

Johnwould sooner have been in the pubs Here is an earlier shot of your picture - 1963 I think.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sat 16 Jun, 2012 6:34 pm

book wrote: I must have missed this one. I have walked round them all, I thought I had but not this one so I'll give it a go. My favourite wald for the views is Scar House I can recommend it book - it's my favourite of all the Washburn Valley Reservoir walks and is certainly the most challenging and quite tough going in places too. Unlike the Swinsty or Fewston Reservoir walks it's one for proper walking boots as parts of it can be very wet underfoot. Pics of our walks there last year can be found here: http://snipurl.com/23yop41 and here http://snipurl.com/23yoscmAnd the Yorkshire Water walk guide is here: http://recreation.yorkshirewater.com/?P ... 0&ID=342We usually take "route B", the reservoir edge / woods path which can be tricky in places but is much more fun in our book and then at point 8 climb straight up to Roundells Allotment and cross the magnificent open moors there, rather than going through the conifer plantation.

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Sat 16 Jun, 2012 6:46 pm

Is that any better? I realised the photo was still the original size I took it at - probably 1 megapixel or something, so I resized it to 800 x 600 for the benefit of the website. Thanks for pointing that out Jogon. By the way where did you get the photo of the dam been constructed? I've never seen a photo of this, years ago I watched a documentary about the construction of the Hoover dam but when I tried to find images of the Thruscross dam been built I drew a total blank.Oh and Book, if you do go for a walk around Thruscross, make sure you give yourself plenty of time to do it in, its a deceptively long walk and the footpath around the reservoir does deviate away from the edge of the water and there are several different routes, as mentioned - some follow the edge of the water more and go through dark conifer plantations and follow steep contours, while the alternative routes head out over open moorland. I got stuck as I didnt want to have to be blundering about in the pitch dark conifers so I went for the open moorland routes and got totally disorientated. Pretty shameful really as I've spent years walking in the Dales and this was the first time I really found myself lost.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Sat 16 Jun, 2012 10:46 pm

Bit better, still screen gone big.Not keen on walking round 'the pond', I find it sterile (1960's pine) long and boring.Walking up the outflow valley from Blubberhouses, then up over Rocking Moor to Ravenstone Plantations rings the bell.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Fri 10 Aug, 2012 7:37 pm

johnleedsSorry, you asked where the Thruscross newbuild images were from.I spent some hours trawling through old YP articles but not much.Then heard of North Yorks Council Unnetie imagabank"...The Unnetie Project is a searchable online archive of 10,000 digital images showing life in the rural and urban communities of North Yorkshire in the 19th and 20th centuries. Images have been included from the collections of several photographers including Bertram Unné and Louisa Kruckenberg. These collections are held by North Yorkshire County Council Libraries, Archives and Arts and the Dales Countryside Museum..."Go to http://www2.northyorks.gov.uk/unnetie/search.cfmsearch west endthen separatelythruscrossLoads of stuff.

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Wed 22 Aug, 2012 11:16 am

Fantastic resource that Jogon, thanks for the link, that willl fill in a few hours / weeks / years...

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Wed 22 Aug, 2012 3:49 pm

Good isn't it.I spent a lot of time looking at many sources elsewhere and did no better.Here's the interior of West End Chapel.Where Blakey nearly ended up !

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 22 Aug, 2012 10:54 pm

Jogon wrote: Here's the interior of West End Chapel.Where Blakey nearly ended up ! Indeed Jogon, and just to add to that day's bad luck I bet I'd have been refused admission if I had sunk that low !!

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Thu 23 Aug, 2012 8:25 pm

I've also found on the North Yorks Council Unnetie imagebank website a few pictures from areas around Leeds - Horsforth / Adel / Otley etc, perhaps this is because the photos are classed as part of the North Riding before the Yorkshire Ridings were abolished in 1974?I found a photograph of a sheep at Moorgrange in Horsforth, but I dont know if this means the site of the Moorgrange estate or if there is another part of Horsforth called Moorgrange / Moorgrange Farm?

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Wed 24 Oct, 2012 10:24 am

Morning BlakeyHere's an image to chill you.