Penistone Street Views

A few Views
Rainbow over Tennyson CloseCyber-travellers might like to compare their streets with those of my home town. Notice that the houses are either of red brick or Yorkshire stone. None are made of wood. Most telephone cables and all utility supplies are under the pavements. There are no transformers attached to houses and no external letter boxes, except for the Royal Mail collection points.

House numbers are odd one side and even on the other side of the street, starting nearest the town centre. Some houses have names but also will have a number and a postcode unique to groups of about six houses. Neighbourhood watch signs have mostly faded but Penistone people continue to miss nothing! Here is the UK's centre for twitching curtains.

Road Names
Here are how a few roads in the area are named:
  • Notable names:
  • Features:
  • Place Names:
  • Historical:
  • Poets:
  • The Lake District:
  • Dransfield Ave., Lyttleton Cres., Clarel St., Gledhill Ave., Unwin St., Victoria St.
  • Don St., Bluebell Ave., Church View Rd., Rockside Rd., The Willows, Sycamore Walk
  • Ingbirchworth Rd., Scholes Ave., Manchester Rd., Huddersfield Rd., Cubley Rise
  • Racecommon Ave., The Green, Pengeston Rd., Chapel Lane.
  • Shelley Cl., Tennyson Cl., Keats Grove, Wordsworth Ave.
  • Windermere Rd., Grasmere Cl.

Given the rampant house building programme for Penistone, I can offer inspiration for new road names. Such as Vicars (Turnbull), Schools (Andrews, Punt, Simms), Benefactors (Carnegie), Industrialists (Brown, Gittus, Winterbottom, Wood). Local features; (Arches, Windmills, Iron Bridge, Hartcliff View). Local websites (Briggs, Mitchell, Lavender, Hughes) - just joking.

Birds
Here's what my back garden sounds like when cars are not whizzing past. Download about 25 Seconds of WMA audio file, 426kB. Recorded on the first warm day of spring, 25th March 2006.

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