Best of Hyde Daily 2014

It is that time of the year again.

Hyde Daily Photo is one of more than 400 websites worldwide that post a daily picture of their home town or city. On 1st January 2015 members of the City Daily Photobloggers community will be revealing their Photo of the Year.

I have selected twelve contenders for Best of Hyde 2014 and am asking readers to vote for their favourites.

These thumbnails are only a taster. To vote for your three favourites please visit Best of Hyde Daily 2014 and use the form on the page.

Deadline for voting is 12 noon GMT on Monday 29th December 2014.

Best of Hyde 2013

The time has come to vote for the Best of Hyde Daily 2013.

On 1st January 2014 members of the City Daily Photobloggers community will be revealing their Photo of the Year. I have selected twelve contenders for Best of Hyde 2013 and am asking readers to vote for their favourites. Please visit Best of Hyde Daily Photo 2013 and vote for your top three photographs.

Closing date for voting is 12 noon GMT on December 28th 2013.

Note: these thumbnails are just a taster - you must use the form on the page to cast your votes.

Best of Hyde 2011

The time has come to vote for the best of Hyde DP 2011.

View the twelve contenders at Best of Hyde 2011 and vote for your favourite three photographs.

Voting closes 12 noon GMT, Friday 30th December 2011.

The Edge of Hyde

Here is the Western edge of Werneth Low ["Low" is an Old English word meaning "hill"].

Poking into view is the steeple of Hyde Chapel.

You can tell from the trees which way the wind blows.

Today is theme day for members of City Daily Photoblogs and this month the theme is Edges. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants.

Next week Hyde DP will be five years old!

A View over Iceland

Another view from the multi-storey car park looking past John Grundy House and the entrance to Clarendon Mall.

On the skyline is the tower of St George's.

The Library on Union Street can be seen behind the Iceland frozen foods store.

Mottram Congregational Church

The church dates from 1791 but was altered in 1836 and 1852 when the stone wing was added.

It was built as a Methodist meeting house, changed to the New Connexion in 1803 and to a Congregational church around 1850.

It is said to be the oldest surviving Methodist chapel in the Manchester area which is still in use as a place of worship.

The church itself is now an independent Evangelical Church whilst the adjoining chapel serves as a Pregnancy Advice Centre and other local community services.

It is a Grade II listed building. See Old Hyde for the official description.

ABC WednesdayE is for Emerging Shoots

After visiting the Methodist Church on Crook Street for our tea and toast last Saturday, we noticed these emerging shoots.

I think they will develop into daffodils. In any case it seems to be a sign that Spring is on its way.

For more E posts visit ABC Wednesday.

St Barnabas, Hattersley

St Barnabas is the Anglican church serving Hattersley. It was built in 1965 and has served residents from when it was first opened in October 1966. Before that the residents had worshiped in homes from the very first weekend of moving into Hattersley. The church building was renewed following storm damage in January 2005. It is in an Interregnum since the retirement of the Vicar Rev Derek Akker due to ill health in January 2009.

ABC WednesdayZion Congregational Church

The first Zion school and chapel was opened in 1847. It consisted of two storeys with the chapel above the school and was enlarged in 1859.

It was replaced by a large building on Peel Street which opened in April 1899. One hundred years later it too was replaced by the modern new Zion Church which opened in 2000.

For more on its history see the posts at Hyde Cheshire.

Visit ABC Wednesday for more Z posts.

Inside Central Methodist Church

A Christmas Eve look inside the Central Methodist Church on Crook Street.

The Bell of St Thomas the Apostle

When I recently showed you the back of St Thomas you may not have noticed the bell, so here is a closer view.

Shadow Shot Sunday:Jamia Mosque

Yesterday I showed you reflections at the Jamia Mosque on Corporation Street.

Now I show you shadows on the side of the Mosque.

I've done this in sepia to bring out the depths of the shadows.

You can see the original photograph from which this was cropped on Geograph.

See more Shadow Shot Sunday posts at Hey Harriet.

Reflections at the Mosque

I showed you a reflection of the Jamia Mosque in a car parked on Corporation Street in March 2009.

This time not only is the mosque reflected in a car, the mosque itself reflects the houses across the street in its own windows.

See more weekend reflections at Newtown Area Photo.

Winterbottom View

The waste ground in the foreground of this shot used to be Winterbottom Grove on the Hattersley Estate. It is part of the area East of Stockport Road that was demolished in recent years.

We are here overlooking Mill Hill Green with Mottram church in the background.

St Thomas behind the trees

After recent views of the back of St Thomas the Apostle, I thought I'd show you the front view.

Alas it is not easy to see behind the trees.

St Thomas the Apostle stands on Lumn Road with its sides on Tinker's Passage and Leigh Street. It was built in 1868 at a cost of £3,000 and the church was consecrated on Wednesday, September 23rd 1868. The first vicar was the Rev. A. Read who was appointed by the crown on October 9th 1846, the same year that the ecclesiastical district of St. Thomas was founded.

With an increasingly elderly congregation there is a need to find others to share the building and to find additional uses for it if it is to remain a place for Anglo Catholic worship within the Church of England.

Check out the church website for more information.

A post-Autumn view of the front of the church can be seen on Hyde Cheshire whilst the original coloured version of my photograph above can be seen on Geograph.

Autumn Shadows behind St Thomas the Apostle

Last week I showed you the shadows on Tinkers Passage and yesterday I posted a view of the back of St Thomas the Apostle.

Today I am showing you the passage that leads behind the church from Leigh Street to Tinkers Passage.

For more shadow shots visit Hey Harriet.

Weekend Reflections: The back of St Thomas the Apostle

I first showed you the back of St Thomas Apostle church in February 2007 which is a bit of a dull day.

Now on a bright Autumn day and from a slightly different angle you can see the reflections in the rear window of the church.

For more weekend reflections visit Newtown Area Photo.

St George's from Church View again

A year ago St George's tower was covered with scaffolding.

This is how it looked about a month ago.

Hyde Holidays: Day Trip to Lytham

Whilst I am away on holiday, Rune from Visual Norway is minding the blog for me. I have scheduled some special posts for the period taking readers on day trips to the West.

Our last stop on the Fylde Coast is at Lytham. Though often linked with its Northern neighbour (Lytham St Annes often forming a joint administrative or political area) it has a separate identity. Its parish church is St Cuthbert's, built in 1834.


Fishermen go searching off nearby Church Scar for mussels in the Ribble estuary whilst flocks of dunlin fly through the air.



For more L posts visit ABC Wednesday.

ABC Wednesday: K is for Kirkley Street

Kirkley Street is a short side street off Dowson Road leading to K McKenzie's auto repair yard.

See how it looked on Christmas Day 2009.

For more K posts visit ABC Wednesday.