Penistone Street Views
A few Views
Cyber-travellers might like to compare their streets with those of my home town. Penistone houses are always made of red brick or Yorkshire stone and none are wooden these days. There are no transformers attached to houses and no external letter boxes, except for Royal Mail collection points (pillar and wall mounted boxes). Most telephone cables and all utility supplies are placed under pavements. Roads and street lights are council maintained. There are patches of rented social housing here and there but I estimate that most houses are owner-occupied.
House numbers are odd on one side and even on the other side of the street, starting nearest the town centre. Some houses have names but will also have a number and a postcode unique to each group of about six houses. 'Neighbourhood Watch' signs might have faded but Penistone people miss nothing and will usually know at least a few of their neighbours. This is the UK's centre for twitching curtains. Here are some streets for you to look at:
Road Names
Here are examples of how roads in the area are named:
- Notable names:
- Features:
- Place Names:
- Historical:
- Poets:
- The Lake District:
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- 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., Cock Pit Ln., Chapel Lane.
- Shelley Cl., Tennyson Cl., Keats Grove, Wordsworth Ave.
- Windermere Rd., Grasmere Cl.
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Given the rampant house building programme for Penistone, I can offer inspiration for new road names, based on such as Vicars (Turnbull), Schools (Andrews, Punt, Simms), Benefactors (Carnegie), Industrialists (Brown, Gittus, Winterbottom, Wood), local features; (Arches, Windmills, Iron Bridge, Hartcliff View). How about local websites (Briggs, Mitchell, Lavender, Hughes) - just joking.
Download the Birds
Here's what my back garden sounds like when cars are not whizzing past, with about 25 Seconds of audio file, 426kB wma format. It was recorded on the first warm day of spring, 25th March 2006.
Cyber-travellers might like to compare their streets with those of my home town. Penistone houses are always made of red brick or Yorkshire stone and none are wooden these days. There are no transformers attached to houses and no external letter boxes, except for Royal Mail collection points (pillar and wall mounted boxes). Most telephone cables and all utility supplies are placed under pavements. Roads and street lights are council maintained. There are patches of rented social housing here and there but I estimate that most houses are owner-occupied.