The "Waterboard" Building.

The Waterboard building stands at the top of Lumn Road behind the Playgroup "Rainbow Corner". You can also see it from Mansfield Road. I don't know anything about it ,when it was built and for what purpose etc so if anyone out there has any information I would be very happy to hear it.

It has remained unchanged throughout my lifetime and has always been a secretive building....maybe this is because it was inaccessible.

The building as seen from Mansfield Road.


Seen from a birdseye view.
Lumn Road is to the left and Rainbow Corner playgroup is the white building in the bottom lefthand corner.




I took these January after seeing Gerald England post on it and thought it was an old pumping station but wasn't sure, so I decided to go and have a look what I could find. The gate off Lumn Road was open so I was able to get inside and take these two pictures...of the building.
           

I also took a shot of a notice by the side of the door you can see on the left-hand side of the building in the first photo. It's not very clear, but the notice reads:

               NORTH WEST WATER

  CHEMICAL AND FUEL DELIVERIES

ONLY ACCEPTED WHEN SUPERVISED

           BY A DESIGNATED N.W.W.

                        EMPLOYEE

Dave

North House Albert Road

Dave took these pictures a week of two back of this house at the far end of Albert Road, it bares the name of  'North House'. 

As can be seen here it is another gem of a house and comes complete with an old fashion stable/coach house block. The entrance faces Edna Street. These out buildings are very similar to the ones posted below by Nancy. It even looks like the woodwork is the same colour. I can't see a Dove Cote on this one, but the small arches are of interest, I think these would have housed glass but were bricked up at some time. All of us who have been involved in these posting realise buildings such as these are now a bit of a rarity in Hyde, and maybe now is the time to do them the honour of saving their charm and beauty in photographs and displaying them here for others to admire..... before they to are sold off as building plots. If you know of anything like this let us know... or get your camera out and write about the house, that way they can be seen by generations to come. 

Old building on Chapel Street .

Walking down Chapel Street this morning I saw a building which I've never noticed before. Looks like it could have been a stables with a hayloft or maybe even a Smithy!It might be more modern than I think but if it was built at the same time as the houses to which it is joined then it would have been around 1890-1900

I'm happy to see this lovely old quaint building is still standing when a lot of old property around it is being demolished to make way for new housing!

Note the cobbles are still intact,too!

If anyone has any information about this building please get in touch and let us know.

View of Dove Cote