Around BolsterstoneHere is Bolsterstone village, featuring post box and telephone box.
Bolsterstone's church, though originally built in the early 15th Century, was rebuilt twice: once in the late 18th Century in Classical style and again—albeit in Neogothic style—in the 19th Century. Also notable, outside the church, is evidence of 18th Century rough justice: the village stocks and whipping post, preserved behind an iron railing. I daresay this was common practice throughout the country at that time, but there do seem to be a surprising number of remaining examples hereabout (Ecclesfield, to the south of my home village en route to Sheffield, has a set of stocks in the churchyard, too). The nearby town of Stocksbridge, interestingly, doesn't derive its name from such a correctional facility—rather, it comes from the name of a local landowner who constructed access over the river Porter to his fulling mill. However, a long-defunct local manufacturer of soft drinks and mixers, taking their name from the vicinity, used to feature the imagery of a set of stocks and a bridge on their labelling. Not in Yorkshire but more locally to where I live now in Hertfordshire, there is a stocks and whipping post at Aldbury.
Here's an almost accidental photograph from Bolsterstone, looking west, towards Broomhead Moor. The phone slipped as I touched the shutter but, after reframing and cropping, it was clearly a better photograph than the one I'd intended to take!
A view to the south east from Bolsterstone. The body of water is Moore Hall Reservoir with Wharncliffe Woods behind. The Don Valley beyond that, in the direction of photographer's view, leads to the city of Sheffield, about eight-to-ten miles away.
And this is a view south from Bolsterstone over Ewden Valley. The reservoirs are hidden in the dale.
This last image is a view to the south west from High Bradfield churchyard, south of Bolsterstone. Part of Roaming South Yorkshire. Return to Words and PicturesCopyright © 2018-2024 by Ric Mac. All Rights Reserved. |