A collection of images taken around 2 o’clock 7 days a week 365 days a year

Town & Country

Whilst up on th moors this afternoon I looked down into my hometown and eyed this shot at 2 oclock

High Rid Reservoir

Today’s journey took me, my daughter lisa and a friend tony along the edges of High rid reservoir just across the road from where I live. I say across the road but it’s about 1.7 miles away if you are to walk there. The overall distance covered there and back to the flat ( including [...]

Roundabout

Today I was all excited  to take a trip up the moors and walk down through the woods in a place called Tigers Clough. The day started brilliantly until I decided to take a look at my sisters computer that was running slow. I did the general clean up and deletion of unnecessary files and [...]

Loco

Today the 2 oclock shot is of the sculpture on the roundabout @ Tesco middlebrook,Horwich of the famous Aspinall Radial Tank loco, number 1008, built in 1888, the first locomotive engine to be built at the Horwich Loco Works. It was designed by John Audley Frederick Aspinall, and apart from the wheel and tyres (which [...]

WinterHill

Todays journey took me from A2B with this shot being taken from point A. The weather was absolutely chuckin’ it down ( raining to you southerners ) by the time I arrived at point B so the pic was taken on my return walk back looking NNE toward the mast from the cattle grid.
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Spirit Of Sport

The Spirit of Sport is a tribute to Bolton’s sporting community. The stainless steel structure is approximately 30 metres tall ( almost a third taller than Angel Of The North ) and is covered with etched images of around 900 sportsmen and women, coaches, backroom staff and volunteers from the local area. It is intended [...]

Recycle Bins

The new 240 litre beige bin is part of the Council’s response to feedback from people and will give even greater capacity for recycling paper and card. Bolton recycled 29.26 per cent of its household waste last year and is on target, with householders’ help, to beat that this year.
Didn’t get out at 14:00 today [...]

China Shop

Out and about today in my local town when this caught my eye. The China Shop, Winter hey lane,Horwich. It reminded me of when I was a kid and my Grandma used to take us to Farnworth for the weekly shop and we would always call in to the local hardware store for brasso or [...]