The image above is a screen shot of an eBay sale for a book about the long gone Aberford Railway. Sadly, and that’s why I say “caveat emptor” in my title to this post, it is not what it seems. Here is a description from the sale:
Archive for the ‘Parlington Lane’ Category
Caveat Emptor
Friday, January 25th, 2013Pictures Representing Mood
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
Here is a very dark view of the tunnel on Parlington Lane, built between circa 1812-14. This artistic view at the east end, represents my dark mood when I heard of yet more scandal at the BBC. [Click on the picture for a larger version]
Pond on Parlington Lane
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
The small fish pond off Parlington Lane, hidden behind the estate wall can be a very ominous place when the light is low on a winter’s morning, or evening. The view above gives that impression!
Lost Circular Polaroid Filter
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011If you enjoy the walk along Parlington Lane, from the junction with the old Great North Road in Aberford, west under the Light Arch, along and behind, the Dark Arch, or if you are unafraid of spooks, through the mud inside the arch; then past the Gamekeeper’s Cottage and along past the two Staithes Cottages, and down the hill to Throstle Nest. You will generally be looking at the landscape and features as points of interest. If however your gaze catches the glint of glass in the grass! It may be a circular polaroid photographic filter [67mm ᴓ]dropped inadvertently by a friend of mine during a walk this last weekend. If you are lucky to make such a find, he will be eternally grateful should you return it to him! Just let me know and I will do the rest.
October Sunshine, Yorkshire
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
Sunday was a day of work, as I had much to do, however after hours of toiling away I decided to take a break in the late afternoon sunshine, getting the benefits of a fine autumn day and stroll along Parlington Lane, Aberford, Yorkshire, armed with my E30 Olympus Camera with a 12-60mm Zuiko lens. The lens is terrific, good range, ideal for general purpose usage and very very fast auto focus that rarely lets you down. The header picture says it all for me, lots of light coming into the woodland at a low angle, giving some really expressive imagery. After the initial picture some time has been spent in Aperture and Photoshop making the photograph more expressive and surreal.
A Walk on the Old Railway Line
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
A recent stroll along the old Fly-line armed with my camera, gave me time to reflect on the beauty of nature, and no matter how many times I choose the old railway route and Parlington Lane I am always enchanted by the landscape, particularly this view as you come out of the Light Arch heading towards Aberford. The contrast between the long shadows cast from the old stone bridge and the trees following the curve of Parlington Lane, always makes an interesting view.
The Manning Wardle Ghost Train
Saturday, September 4th, 2010
I know I stated that the previous post was my last entry, given I have now left Parlington, well I had a weird dream last night where I was standing above the railway line on the south side of the Dark Arch and I watched the ghostly train go by! Yes very far fetched but I awoke this morning thinking it had really happened! I decided to add this brief post along with an earlier view I created using Sketchup, hope you like the ghost train, the MW Empress (Manning Wardle Locomotive Engineers, Hunslet, Leeds)!
Lost Gadget
Thursday, November 6th, 2008The picture shown here was discovered today [6th November], that is a device with an SD Memory card in it with the picture on the card. It was found poking out of the mud on Parlington Lane, at the rear of the Dark Arch, so if you know who these people are, I may be able to restore to them the device they lost, and yes despite lying in the mud it still works! Sadly my reason for wading through the mud to find Matilda [see earlier post] brought no results.
The Lake
Friday, February 29th, 2008For those who walk the picturesque route along Parlington Lane, you may have noticed that the lake which lies just beyond the Gamekeeper’s cottage, to the south east, has been emptied, to allow work to remove the build-up of sediment.
To ensure I had a record of the event I slipped along to take a few photos, which are available here. Whilst there I took some time to look at a pipe inlet which runs towards the Gamekeeper’s cottage, this was until work started, covered by a steel filter, which is shown in the collection of images associated with this post. I believe it was used for gas purification in the small gas works which stood adjacent to the cottage, the gas production was for Parlington Hall and probably ceased before or around the time the Hall was abandoned following the death of Col. F.C. Trench-Gascoigne in 1905.
Aberford Railway
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Detail taken from an old postcard around early twentieth century, Aberford. On the left can be seen the railway wagons at the Aberford Coal Staithes, and to the right are Sammy Hicks Chapel and houses in Chapel Lane, all long since demolished.
Click on the picture for a full sized view.
