Helions Bumpstead
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Helions Bumpstead
Image: © Tiger Taken: 21 Mar 2010
Looking towards St Andrew's Church from the crossroads in the village centre, nearly fifty years on from Ben Brooksbank's photo of the same view http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1744122 The changes are few and relatively subtle. An array of signs has appeared on the opposite corner: a traditional-style fingerpost, a decorative village sign http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1763961 a plaque celebrating a Best-kept Village award and a plan of public footpaths in the parish. On the right a bus shelter and litter bin have appeared and the cars parked in the lay-by are no longer British marques! The telephone cables have been laid underground but the power lines are still overhead. The elaborate contraption on top of the church tower has gone. And of course the pre-Worboys "bend" sign in Church Hill has given way to the modern standard. For a similar view eleven years later see Glyn Baker's Image
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Image Location
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52.048202
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0.406209