Chain Cottage

 

Date stone on Chain Cottage, near Marsden, on Meltham Road, once known as the "Chain Road" (there was a chain instead of a toll bar). Blind Jack Metcalfe built the  First Turnpike, the Chain Road in the 1760s....
 See: http://www.crossingthepennines.co.uk/routedetails.html

Olive Branch

Out on the Turnpike trail again....found a great website and walk. The route went along packhorse trails and up from the canalside near Marsden to the Olive Branch restaurant on Manchester Road- this is the date stone from the original inn. " A trade route between Liverpool and Hull passed this way; the inn’s name comes from a settlement with America made by Lord Lewisham, who owned the Dartmouth Estate which covers much of the area. After being Prime Minister during the Napoleonic wars, he was Home Secretary at the time of the Peterloo Massacre in 1819."
See: http://www.crossingthepennines.co.uk/routedetails.html

Up In Smoke

There goes Rolf.....going

 

...going...

...gone!

Stick at it!

 

 

Dedicated to Ralph Ray, Rambler, 86, who made me a fantastic knobbly walking stick. Thanks Ralph!

Didgeridoo

 

This Year's Guy.......

 

 

...with an extra leg

Diddle Iddle Iddle Um

 

Diddle Iddle Iddle Um, there we go.....slosh on a little dab or two of colour...

 

Can you tell who it is yet?

Can You Tell What It Is Yet?

 

 The head taking shape........

 

 

Sadly, the cork teeth were too hard to attach

 

A couple of champagne corks for the eyes though......any ideas who it is?