IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Oak Avenue, MANCHESTER, M45 7FN
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Oak Avenue, M45 7FN 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.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
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 (56 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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1
Telephone box, Beech Avenue
Telephone boxes are not what they used to be, so to find one is interesting, even if its primary purpose appears to be an advertising hoarding. My assistant Madog's hat seems to have slipped slightly.
Image: © Jonathan Wilkins
Taken: 25 Dec 2016
0.04 miles
2
Pine Avenue
Part of an estate built in the 1930s and still presenting a homely, residential aspect.
Image: © Jonathan Wilkins
Taken: 26 Oct 2012
0.04 miles
3
Top o'th Fields 2
Top o'th Fields is a development of 30 warden-controlled, single-bedroom flats that was built in 1972. It is run by Six Town Housing, which is the property management 'arm's-length' company for all of Bury Councils' housing. Top o'th Fields is also the name of the road which runs across the frontage.
Image: © Jonathan Wilkins
Taken: 25 Dec 2013
0.05 miles
4
Top o'th Fields 1
A popular walking route between the 'Trees' estate and Fountain place shopping precinct runs along the boundary of the golf course. On the now traditional mid-day walk, the image was taken at 12:04h.
Image: © Jonathan Wilkins
Taken: 25 Dec 2013
0.06 miles
5
Queueing traffic on the A56
The traffic is waiting on Bury New Road at the traffic lights for Barn Street, which introduces northbound traffic from Bury Old Road.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 9 Sep 2010
0.09 miles
7
Besses o' th' Barn Church
Besses United Reformed Church is designated as a Grade II building by Historic England (List Entry Number: 1309378 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1309378 ). It is situated between Bury New Road and Bury Old Road in the Besses o' th' Barn area of Whitefield
Originally known as Besses Congregational Church, the church was built between 1863 and 1865, to serve the Congregational denomination of nonconformist Christians. At that time, the population of Besses o' th' Barn was approximately 8000. The building is a bicentenary memorial erected to commemorate the secession from the established Church of England in 1662. It was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Alfred Waterhouse.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 15 Jun 2020
0.11 miles
8
Conway Avenue
Looking along Conway Avenue, Whitefield and looking at the rear elevation of flats on Barn Street which make quite a contrast with these highly characteristic houses.
Image: © Jonathan Wilkins
Taken: 22 Oct 2016
0.11 miles
9
Golf course with birch trees
The fairways of the Whitefield Golf Club are separated by belts of trees, mostly Silver Birch. Low, afternoon light accentuates the contours of the ground and casts light onto the sides of the trees.
Image: © Jonathan Wilkins
Taken: 25 Dec 2013
0.11 miles
10
Where Bury New Road and Bury Old Road meet
These roads, the A56 and A665, have come separately from Manchester and now meet on the southern edge of Whitefield.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 9 Sep 2010
0.11 miles