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...and Landscape Curiosities

HUDDERSFIELD, West Riding

The Castle                                                          SE 130 148

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The Castle was a tea room in Beaumont Park but very little remains of it today.

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Beaumont Park Gothic Gateway                 SE 129 146

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The entrance to Beaumont Park was from a railway station nearby but with over 200 steps to climb people found it easier to walk from Huddersfield rather than use the train.

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Greenhead Park Tree Sculptures                  SE 134 169

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Colin Wilbourn created tree sculptures in 1994 from elms that had died from Dutch elm disease. 

Colin Wilbourn made other tree sculptures at:

Durham, DURHAM, The Upper Room (gone)
Suffolk, LONG MELFORD, The Tower Of Babel 
West Riding, KNARESBOROUGH, Henshaws
North Riding,EAST AYTON,The Magicians Coat (gone)

Jubilee Tower                                                          SE 151 139

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Castle Hill at Almondbury is the site of an Iron Age hill fort.

Victoria Jubilee Tower was designed by Isaac Jones of Herne Hill, London, and built by the firm Ben Graham and Sons of Folly Hill, Crosland Moor, at a cost of £3,298. It was opened in 1899 by the Earl of Scarborough. The alternative suggestion to commemorate the Queen's jubilee was a Free Public Library.

It is 106 feet high, which makes the top 1,000 feet above sea level.

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Lindley Clock Tower                                        SE 118 180

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Lindley Clock Tower was designed by the Arts and Crafts architect, Edgar Wood, and is one of his most important works. The sculptured figures and the octagonal pagoda roof are by T. Stirling Lee. The inscription above the door reads:

    This tower was erected by James Neil
    Sykes Esq JP of Field Head, Lindley for
    The benefit of his native village in 1902.


Edgar Wood was married to a Sykes.


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Copyright Ray Blyth 2018