IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Brookside Avenue, STOCKPORT, SK12 1PW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Brookside Avenue, SK12 1PW 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
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Notes
- Clicking on the map will re-center to the selected point.
- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (20 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Distance
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Golden Postbox, Yewtree Lane
Royal Mail celebrated every gold medal won by a British athlete during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by repainting one of their iconic red pillar boxes gold for each gold medal winning Olympian or Paralympian. Sarah Storey won four gold medals, so four postboxes were painted gold in her honour. This one celebrates Sarah’s gold medal winning performance for the track cycling Women's Individual C4-5 500m time trial event. It is at the corner of Ash Road and Yewtree Lane, near to Poynton High School where Sarah was a pupil.
In total, Team GB won 29 Gold Medals for the Olympic Games and 34 Gold Medals for the Paralympic Games; for team medals, a post box was painted gold for all team members (see http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Olympic-Gold-Post-Boxes for list and more examples).
This was the first occasion in modern times that Royal Mail had changed the colour of their post boxes from the traditional red which has been the standard colour for UK boxes from 1874, with very few exceptions. The original plan was for the boxes to be returned to their traditional red colour but in November, it was announced that they would remain gold and that a plaque would be fixed to each one (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20183986 BBC News).
http://www.goldpostboxes.com/ Royal Mail Gold Postbox Finder
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 18 Sep 2012
0.11 miles
4
St Paul's RC Church
St Paul's, housed in a former cinema, can be found on the junction of Clumber and Bulkeley Roads.
Poynton's first cinema in Bulkeley Road was built in 1922 and had to have its own generator to provide light for the projector, powered by a Ruston gas engine as there was no public supply till the 1930s. This cinema closed just before the Second World War, and the church was formed in 1941.
Image: © Mike Kirby
Taken: 29 Aug 2009
0.17 miles
5
Poynton Fire Station
The fire station on School Lane.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 12 Nov 2011
0.17 miles
7
Vernon Coat-of-Arms
Displayed above the entrance to Poynton Community Centre, see Image
'VERNON SEMPER VIRET' translates to 'Vernon always thrives'
Image: © Mike Kirby
Taken: 29 Aug 2009
0.18 miles
8
Poynton Community Centre entrance (3), Park Lane
Formerly a school, see Image, the building is now Poynton Community Centre. http://www.poyntoncommunitycentre.org.uk/
Image: © Mike Kirby
Taken: 29 Aug 2009
0.18 miles
9
Date stone, former school, Park Lane
The inscription on the datestone reads :-
Poynton & Worth
This School was erected
by the Right Hon.
George John Warren
Lord Vernon
1838
Image: © Mike Kirby
Taken: 29 Aug 2009
0.18 miles
10
Poynton Community Centre, Park Lane
Formerly a school, see Image, the building is now Poynton Community Centre. http://www.poyntoncommunitycentre.org.uk/
Image: © Mike Kirby
Taken: 29 Aug 2009
0.18 miles