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Wentworth Road and Talbot Road
The first shot was in 2004, from Sheffield Road and sets the location. The former railway bridge now carries the Transpennine Trail and overlooks the Wentworth Arms 'real Ale' pub. The shop is right on the corner of Wentworth Road and was called Pat's until it closed down the 1990s, it has since been turned into a normal house. My old dad told me more than a decade ago that he had never known it as anything other than a shop. He was eighty when he said it.
The next two pictures are both ends of Wentworth Road. Left one is near the Scout hut (not shown). The white windmills of Royd Moor are just visible in the full-sized shot. Wentworth Road was colloquially known as 'Boston Tip' or just 'The Tip' and was originally surfaced with rugged and glass-like slag spoils from the old Cammel-Laird steelworks until it was properly surfaced in the 1970s. Not easy to ride a bike on.
Red bricked houses in the middle pictures are in 'poet's corner'. First Shelley Close then, on the right, a rainbow view down Tennyson Close towards the viaduct. These are strictly open-plan yet, bizarrely, animal grazing is allowed (it's in the deeds).
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