Park Ave and High Street
First two are Park Avenue. The small obelisk in the middle picture marks the position of a typical fire hydrant with a Large 'H' on a yellow background. The actual hydrant is hidden under a steel plate in the pavement. Most phone wires are underground too in the UK but you will sometimes see a wooden 'telegraph pole' like this one.
Top-right is a dull and wet August 2008 day and the picture was taken from the top of Ward Street, looking down the high street towards the church. It is surprising how much it drops down a small hill here. You notice it when riding a bike the other way. Bottom-left is looking from more or less from the same place but zoomed out more. The nearest house was the old doctor's surgery (Dr. Masser's). Bottom-middle is again from the top of Ward Street but looking in the other direction towards what had been Wiseman's grocers for more than a century. It has changed hands twice since then. In fact, they still sell wines and those lovely tubs of Yorkshire ice cream but they are mostly a sandwich shop now.
Last one is up the access road just visible on the right of the bottom-middle picture. The road goes up past the youth club (Surf-n-Snack-Shack) and it used to lead to Green Park House old people's home. Barnsley Council shut it down in 2008 to save money for other things and it was demolished. There are moves by Penistone Town Council to build a new one.
