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Rosamond Avenue, SHEFFIELD, S17 4LT

The truck carries a cargo of water and aggregate that can be spread at about 2-3 mph on a straight and level road covering cracks and pot holes leaving a surface that should be good for up to 8-10 years.

A load of tarmac has arrived by very smart Foden truck.

Supported by its neighbours this tree had slipped too far. It was felled later in the day.

After the match was over, looking towards Poynton Wood and Bradway

But some are to be allowed to survive. These two seem to have found a grassy corner where they can avoid the chop, although a vehicle recently backed into the one on the right to give it some rough pruning.

Sheffield City Council's 5 year scheme to resurface most roads and pavements calls for street trees to be assessed. These three cherries are growing too big for their location, their trunks now occupying more than half the width of the pavement. They're going to have to go. Replacements will be planted about 50-100 yards further along the road on a grassy corner. In 25 years the improvement may be appreciated.

After a foot of wet, heavy snow had fallen the previous day - and had mostly all melted by the day following.

The whole hillside below the canopy of trees carpeted in blue.

A blue carpet at present

Below Poynton Wood and Bradway Bank to the right, and Twentywell Lane to the left. In days gone by there was a signal box about here. This was taken from above a small tunnel covering the tightly curving single track linking to the Hope Valley line towards Manchester. It was previously a double track. Freight trains use this line to and from the Lafarge Cement works at Hope. The double track is the mainline used by East Midlands Trains between Sheffield and London St Pancras. It is also used by Crosscountry Trains running from as far south as Penzance and Reading up to Edinburgh and Glasgow. Northern Trains pass here between Nottingham and Leeds. East Midlands Trains also operate from Liverpool to Norwich. A trainspotters heaven in days gone by. At the time this picture was taken contractors were ruthlessly removing almost all vegetation from the hillsides due to fears of trees falling on the line! It revealed much that had been hidden for generations - this was only the start.