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Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:20 pm**

so i thought id share these i was out shooting on wednesday morning as i was up early before the sun and i ended up at teh base of mamtor on the old manchester to sheffield road before it slipped down the valley and you now have to use the winnats pass rd,

mamtor, half of it collapse a long time ago making the lower slopes unstable

the old road in some places the asphalt is 1 metre thick!!

a 2 metre step in the road

the view from it though

lafarges cement works chimney can just been seen poking through the mist, used to be blue circle cement

chimney and peveral castle which gives castelton its name

this was a bit earlier the same morning

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:56 pm**

Giles,

Lovely 'photos. Thanks. I remember the old road from the early '60s. (When did it close?) There were lots of sections where repairs had been made. I suppose that accounts for the thickness of the surface. Do people still call Mam Tor the "Shivering Mountain"?
I once got stuck in a Morris 1000 in deep snow on the little road that goes over to Edale. It was fun digging out. I doubt I'd think that these days.

Edgar

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2012 1:25 pm**

Stunning pictures and landscape

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2012 1:41 pm**

Yep still the shivering mountain, if you look on my website in the landscapes section you'll see one of that rd

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2012 2:46 pm**

Nice picture of a split screen Minor too. Shame the woman couldn't be moved out of the way!

Very good 'photos. I haven't been in that area since the late '70s so, for me, these are great memory boosters.

Edgar

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2012 4:03 pm**

thats my mate india and thats her car she drives day to day, hang on....

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Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2012 4:59 pm**

Just goes to show nature will have she way .They reckon 50,000 years after we are extinct there will be no signs of us ever existing. :O

Great photos, Giles, really coming along.

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2012 6:03 pm**

giles, you should have a shop selling your photos. fantastic talent wasted if you dont and probably easier way of making a living.

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:39 pm**

Giles,
That's much better. Even India looks good behind the wheel, and on what looks like a track.
Minors were pretty good off-road. I took my Dad's all over Lake District tracks (for example the Old Coach Road from St John's in the Vale) in 1962 until he discovered a great dent in the sump following a trip to Devoke Water. That led me to getting an old Land Rover 80" which is what I was using in Derbyshire in the bad winter of '62/3 (I think it was).

Are those side lights original? I think our '57 Minor 1000 used trafficators.

Thanks

Edgar

Posted: **Sat Dec 15, 2012 10:19 am**

henpecked wrote:They reckon 50,000 years after we are extinct there will be no signs of us ever existing.

It's also predicted that if there was to be a nuclear war or a cometary impact, only cockroaches and Keith Richards would survive!

Stunning photies, Gi. I wish I was still fit enough to get up to that part of the Peak. The best I can manage these days is the Cat and Fiddle and then back through Rainow on the bike.

I can't compete with Gi's artistry, but I think this is the best non-paving photie I've taken this week. Bear in mind that I can't go out in the frost because of the angina and the risk of slipping, so this was taken from my study window....

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