IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Grains Bar, OLDHAM, OL1 4SX
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Grains Bar, OL1 4SX by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (47 Images Found)
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Grains Bar
Looking northeast from this five-way crossroads, along the A672 into Yorkshire.
Oldham Corporation electric trams formerly reached this point, probably the highest ever reached by a conventional passenger tramway in mainland Britain.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 4 Aug 2010
0.01 miles
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Old Boundary Marker by the A672, Grains Bar on Oldham Road
County Boundary Marker by the A672, at Grains Bar, 20 metres Northeast of crossroads, set in wall, West side of road. On the boundary of Crompton parish and Local Board of Health, Lancashire, now Shaw and Crompton parish, Oldham, and Friarmere, Saddleworth parish, West Riding, now Oldham.
Inscription reads CROMPTON LOCAL BOARD and FRIARMERE, both vertically and separated by a vertical line.
Surveyed
Milestone Society National ID: LA_CROFRI01cb
Image: © Milestone Society
Taken: 30 Jan 2012
0.02 miles
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Heading back into God's own country
Looking north east on Oldham Road (A672).
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 14 Mar 2015
0.02 miles
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Back in Yorkshire
A new boundary sign to recognise that this part of Oldham (Saddleworth) used to belong to Yorkshire. Looking along the A672 towards Denshaw from Grains Bar.
Image: © michael ely
Taken: 9 Aug 2011
0.03 miles
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Grains Bar: The 'Vamasaki' Indian restaurant
At the top of Buckstones Road. I could recall what the name of this building was when it was still a public house, but I am indebted to Peter Killeen, who informs me that it was the 'Bull's Head'.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 4 Aug 2010
0.03 miles
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The old Lancashire/Yorkshire boundary, Grains Bar
A new boundary sign affixed to the wall of a building on the A672 near the junction with Buckstones Road.
Image: © michael ely
Taken: 9 Aug 2011
0.03 miles
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Snow road sign at Grains Bar
Buckstones Road is a route from Shaw into Saddleworth and beyond. It climbs for almost two miles from Milnrow Road (A663) to Oldham Road (A672). At its highest point it is 347 metres (1,139 feet) above sea level.
This is a new sign situated at the junction of Buckstones Road and Oldham Road. The moorland hill in the background is Tame Scout.
Image: © michael ely
Taken: 26 Oct 2009
0.03 miles