Jake of Winter Hill Adventures

This blog is about my adventures, exploring Interesting places around the United Kingdom and in other countries. I live close to Winter Hill in Lancashire, hence the title and a lot of our adventures are local to here. We don't just go running, we find places that are interesting, such as old mines, brickworks and other local historic sites. I hope you enjoy the blog and please feel free to make comments and I will try my best to reply :-) Dont Just run or Walk explore !

Saturday, 20 November 2010

Hidden places near Goosnargh,Preston ,Cold war Bunker , Chingle Hall the most haunted house in England ,Whittingham Hospital (disused largest mental hospital in the country),Orchard (rare fruit tree's) ,

guard house to the Bunker for Preston

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=391359

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/l/langley_lane/

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/property/s/125/125309_nuclear_bunkers_worth_a_bomb.html

bunker main entrance

h ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGxMwVVtAcA

Video this shows you Goosenargh filter station for this site !

radio station/Mast

Note from Dad Vodafone use this !

http://www.garstangmethodists.org.uk/churches/Trinity.html

a church in Goosnargh

painted window (look carefully)

http://www.ghost-story.co.uk/stories/chinglehall.html

http://ghosts-uk.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=865

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chingle_Hall

http://www.hauntedplaces.co.uk/chinglehall.htm

the haunted house (Chingle Hall) you can see the moat !

Note from Dad - the most haunted house in England ?

??? next to Chingle hall

http://ghosts-uk.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=865

Chingle Hall -the haunted house ?

Whittingham asylum was home to nearly 3,533 patients (and 600 staff) making it the largest populated in Great Britain and second largest in Europe

it had its own church, farms, railway, telephone exchange, post office, reservoirs, gas works, brewery, orchestra,
brass band, ballroom and butchers.

Above is the Cameron House section

http://www.whittinghamhospital.co.uk/

http://www.opacity.us/site145_whittingham_hospital.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnine/3540498938/

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=45544

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2tci2_inside-the-asylum_creation

http://chewy.cc/whittingham/

Plan of Hospital

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/tags.php?tag=goosnargh
This is the St lukes section -Male patients

the old station

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittingham_Hospital_Railway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimsargh_railway_station

http://www.time-capsules.co.uk/picture/number815.asp

railway bridge -look carefully

this is the orchard which is very special

http://www.garstangcourier.co.uk/news/entertainment/fruits_in_season_at_whittingham_1_1852020

WHITTINGHAM ORCHARD

Whittingham Hospital was built in the last quarter of the 19th century. Its orchard which we help to maintain still contains over 200 trees with 18 varieties of apples and 3 of pears. We have replaced some of the lost trees with trees of similar varieties. The hospital was self-sufficient in fruit from the orchard from October to May. The following are the varieties to be found in it:

APPLES

Alfriston
Annie Elizabeth
Bramley's Seedling
Crimson Bramley
Early Victoria
Edward VII
Ellison's Orange
Golden Spire
Grenadier

Howgate Wonder
Keswick Codlin
Lane's Prince Albert
Laxton's Superb
Lord Derby
Monarch
Newton Wonder
Scotch Bridget
Warners King

PEARS

Early Portugal
Louise Bonne
Pitmaston Duchess

This is taken from

http://www.ldcv.org/latestnews.htm

hospital fire station

site of the old brewery

main entrance to the hospital

hospital church

feeding the ducks

lots of ducks

Note from Dad no work has been done !

remains of a headstone found in the lane !

Our route

http://www.sanoodi.com/routes/goosnargh-whittingham-hospital-disused-303428/

Link about the new hospital

http://www.lancashirecare.nhs.uk/about-us/Properties/Guild-Lodge.php

Links about Goosnargh and Whittingham

http://www.whittinghams.me.uk/Places-Whittingham-Lancashire.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goosnargh

http://www.whittinghams.me.uk/Places-Whittingham-Lancashire.htm

http://www.whitfestival.co.uk/

Where I was baptised

http://www.stfrancisgoosnargh.org.uk/

Red Moss Hill explore near Reebok Stadium ,Horwich (1st explore)

the entrance to red moss

barrier for stopping the trucks

pipe -lots of these

a big slope -before we run down this

strange pipe???

top of the hill

path back to home you can see the mast look carefully !

Reebok stadium -police station in front

one of the many paths on red moss hill

picking the ice from the frozen puddle

(Methane burner in the background -Dad)

Route we took

http://www.sanoodi.com/routes/red-moss-303372/

Reebok Stadium links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebok_Stadium

http://www.bwfc.co.uk/page/StadiumInformationIndex/0,,1004,00.html

Red Moss Links
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/109497
http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1006538.pdf
http://www.horwich.gov.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=32
http://www.blackrod.org.uk/page9.html
http://www.motorwayarchive.ihtservices.co.uk/m61horpre.htm

Methane burning site
http://www.methane-stripping.com/case_studies.html

links to Horwich and Horwich Parkway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horwich_Parkway_railway_station
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horwich

Links to Horwich Police station
http://www.gmp.police.uk/live/nhoodv3.nsf/index-community.html?ReadForm&Division=Bolton&Area=Bolton%20West&Community=Horwich%20West

Sunday, 14 November 2010

Remembrance Sunday Memorial Walk - Lead Mines Clough , Anglezarke,Chorley,Lancashire

Wet approach to the memorial walk

Note from dad -this was about a family memorial walk and the main activity was remembering Jakes and Evie's Great, Great Granddad and Great Granddad. Jake wanted to share this - some of the Blog has been written by Jake and the rest by dad.
Jake had been to this memorial before, we all thought this was a suitable location to commemorate and remember.
http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/2010/10/anglezarke-lead-mine-clough-first.html

Jake had tidied up the crosses and poppies spontaneously without being asked before

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDpPhty6vADvq0MZZwn1xGO4evj0gVeZEjw2BCUURWztrhU4OLylJgP1IZrIULu7sWLkq4oBejuLk8eNJbaWDjjE7rX7sa8xiOvpCqNQwMRckn_zn1aMFqMQbGgsOVDxIing2bAz7UCXI/s1600/IMG01647.jpg

"I am tidying this up by putting some of the crosses back (above lead mines clough)"

me and Evie -Evie being a Zebra! in pink

Looking at a Mine Audit with dad -(behind the tree!)

Bolton Mountain rescue - 4 land rovers

http://www.boltonmrt.org.uk/go.php?page=main

At the Bomber memorial- Winter hill is in the background , the mast is mostly covered in cloud.

Putting Great Granddad's and Great Great Granddad's Crosses on the memorial

making sure the crosses are together without disturbing others, picking up the poppies on the ground.

Note from Dad:
Edward McQue (Great Grandfather) and John Thomas McQue (Great .Great Grandfather) crosses together

Edward McQue officer Engineer Merchant Navy (Great Granddad)
Killed in action 21-11 -1940 SSCree , 4791 tons iron ore , all 41 hands were lost
He had successfully completed 3 voyages when his ship SSCree was sunk by a U Boat- U123 off the coast of Ireland
the ship was carrying Iron from South Africa to Liverpool

information about U123
http://www.uboat.net/boats/u123.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-123_(1940)

Great Granddad does not have a grave having gone down with the ship,
He is remembered at the Merchant Navy memorial at Tower Hill London
http://www.merchantnavymemorial.com/thm.htm
http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=90002&mode=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Hill_Memorial
http://merchantships.tripod.com/merchantseamentribute.html

John Thomas McQue 5th regiment Labour Corps
killed in action 14-12-1917 in the trenches battle of Passchendale ,Belgium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Passchendaele

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_passchendaele.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passchendaele

Great,Great Granddad is buried at Dozingham war cemetery , Belguim
http://freespace.virgin.net/denys.gaskell/cem5.html

http://battlefields1418.50megs.com/dozinghem.htm

http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/

http://www.britishwargraves.co.uk/