Sheffield, from the air - June 2015

Wrapping up my what now is my final flight I took a spin over Sheffield with my intrepid pilot, Pugwash.

I've fallen in love with Sheffield over the last year with it's wonderful street art and the many derelict industrial sites ripe for urban exploration - so time for some aerial photography.

Now I'm not a football fan, but I do like a stadium, first off Hillsborough famous to many for all the wrong reasons.



Obviously we had to snap Bramall Lane



Then the now derelict William Stones Cannon Brewery, which I had pottered round a few months before.



and on round the city









Owlerton Greyhound Stadium



I bloody love Sheffield


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Eaton Hall, Cheshire

Every so often in the plane you see something special, to be honest I find it a privilege to cadge a lift at the best of times - but every so often you get to see something that is behind closed doors to riff raff like me.

There is so many places and up and down the UK you just can't fly for national security, your own safety from the commercial jets and MOD boys with their toys - but a lot of the country is open for exploration and is just open game.

We hadn't gone looking for this place, it was simply on a route and as we flew past we slammed the brakes on for a look.

Eaton Hall, this place is enormous and is owned by The Duke of Westminster, a rather wealthy chap, listed as the richest British citizen with his pockets bulging to the tune of £7.35 billion, this guy owns large parts of Mayfair and we are not taking board games here.

So lets have a quick nosy, one thing I didn't get a shot of was the railway line that runs round the gardens.

So starting with a poor picture, bit of reflection on this one, but I've always wanted my own obilisk and my own herd of deer.







 

 



Nice pool, bit of a long walk back to the house (top right).

 







Bit big for me, with it being 10,872 acres (so it says on Wiki) the lawns must be a bugger to cut.

Until next time....

Bolton (birds eye view) Part 2

Part two of my ongoing series of pictures of Bolton from above, this set not taken from the plane but taken from the top of Bolton Parish Church tower.


First off a picture of Bolton Town Hall that does differ from the norm.





The top of Crompton Place and Yates Wine Lodge.




- A few tilt-shifts of Bolton Town Centre.

Shifnal Street, Bolton.




St. Peters Way, Bolton.




Prestons of Bolton (clock tower on right of picture).




Picture House Apartments and Bolton County Grammar Apartments.




Bow Street, Bolton.




B&Q, Bolton.




Smith Knight Fay, Bolton.




More to follow, but you might want to take a look at part 1 taken from the plane.