IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Wilby Street, CLECKHEATON, BD19 5EX
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Wilby Street, BD19 5EX by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (435 Images Found)
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Former Railway Bridge, Westgate, Cleckheaton
Now part of the Spen Valley Greenway Cycle Route 66. On 22nd June 1928, seven coal wagons ran through buffers and fell off the bridge landing on a butcher's shop.
Image: © Stephen Armstrong
Taken: 27 Oct 2009
0.01 miles
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The junction of Tofts Road and Westgate (A643), Cleckheaton
Westgate Bridge carries the Spen Valley Greenway over Westgate. A close-up of the memorial to the left of the bridge can be seen in Image
Image: © habiloid
Taken: 16 Jul 2022
0.01 miles
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Footpath from Westgate to Hightown Road
This starts at the end of Wilby Street. It has been tarmacked since I photographed it previously (Image).
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 18 Apr 2013
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"A Roar Like Thunder" memoria, Westgate Bridge, Cleckheaton
This memorial, commemorating a 1928 railway accident, was created in 2001 by Spen Civic Society. A sign explaining it can be seen in Image and it can be seen in context in Image
Image: © habiloid
Taken: 16 Jul 2022
0.02 miles
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Viaduct crossing Westgate
This old railway viaduct now carries a cycle route: The Spen Valley Greenway.
Image: © habiloid
Taken: 15 Jun 2019
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Wall Plaque, Westgate, Cleckheaton
On the wall next to the disused railway bridge. See Image
Image: © Stephen Armstrong
Taken: 27 Oct 2009
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"A Roar Like Thunder" memorial sign, Westgate Bridge, Cleckheaton
The sign reads:
"On the evening of 22 June 1928 seven coal wagons plunged off this railway bridge and into Westgate.
A coal train was being shunted into sidings to make way for the London express. A coupling broke and the wagons ran away making a sound like a 'fearful roll of thunder'.
They crashed through the buffers and landed on the butcher's shop that stood here, flattening it. Miraculously no one was injured, but the cloud of coal dust turned several people 'black as ink'.
Spen Valley Civic Society cleaned this bridge and tidied this corner, funded by Biffaward and Kirklees M.C.
2001"
The memorial can be seen in Image
Image: © habiloid
Taken: 16 Jul 2022
0.02 miles
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Westgate (A643) seen from the Spen Valley Greenway bridge, Cleckheaton
Image: © habiloid
Taken: 8 May 2022
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Artwork and seat at the railway bridge, Westgate, Cleckheaton
The plaque reads:
A Roar like Thunder
On the evening of 22 June 1928 seven coal wagons plunged off this railway bridge into Westgate.
A coal train was being shunted into sidings to make way for the London Express. A coupling broke and the wagons ran away making a sound like a 'fearful roll of thunder'.
They crashed through the buffers and landed on the butcher's shop that stood here, flattening it. Miraculously no-one was injured, but the cloud of coal dust turned several people 'black as ink'.
Spen Valley Civic Society cleaned this bridge and tidied this corner, funded by Biffaward and Kirklees M.C.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 11 Jan 2006
0.02 miles
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Factory to the east of the Greenway, Cleckheaton
A small industrial area sandwiched between the town centre and the suburbs. In the background the larger buildings are Barclays Bank, the Town Hall and the church.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 11 Jan 2006
0.02 miles