A Visual Feast Celebrating The Beauty of Werneth Low

The new Facebook group is certainly doing well. over 200 members now. I asked for your pictures of Werneth Low and I was not disappointed.  Today we share the beauty of Werneth Low, it's had poets reaching for their pens and artists for their brushes and now photographers for their camera.  No wonder it does so.

ABOVE BY PAUL WILLIAMS

This is to the left of the footpath up towards the Low from the car park at Lower Higham.

ABOVE BY DARREN JONES

ABOVE BY DARREN JONES

Taken from Harrop Edge

ABOVE BY TOM WIGLEY

Mark say's he's walk around here for over 30 years and never tires of it

ABOVE BY MARK PRIVETT

Taken c 1990's

ABOVE BY GERALD ENGLAND

Taken 28th May 2006

ABOVE BY GERALD ENGLAND

Taken 28th August 1993

ABOVE BY GERALD ENGLAND

Taken 31st January 2009
ABOVE BY GERALD ENGLAND




Taken 28th May 2006
ABOVE BY GERALD ENGLAND

THE ABOVE 3 BY TOM WIGLEY

BY HARRY SCHOFIELD

THE ABOVE 16 FROM SUSAN JALEEL

Werneth Low 'Looking Over'

Can't work out where this one is taken from
Can You?

Thou beauty Spot, Dear Werneth Low

Werneth Low, Hyde.

Thou beauty spot, dear Werneth Low

Upon thy hill I love to roam

Where the refreshing breezes blow

Thou art my favourite haunt, I own

I've often heard the lark's sweet song

And the thrushes in the clough below

And the little ones twittering all day long

When wandering on dear Werneth Low.

Nine hundred feet above the sea

She stands decked in a mantle green

And from the height there could not be

A view more gracious to be seen

I've been there in the morning grey

And watch the sun rise o'er hill

To see him mount his heavenly way

It does my soul with rapture fill

I've often been at eventide

To watch the sun before it sets

And view the country far and wide

A scene I cannot soon forget

And then I bid the scene farewell

And once again I homeward go

On thee I could for ever dwell

Thou beauty spot, dear Werneth Low

Pictures by

Brian Thornley

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Owen Traynor

Although we've got a couple of pictures by Owen Traynor I didn't know anything about him till I started to put this post together. He has his own website, which you can access here and below is an extract from that site telling you about Owen.

"Born in Ashton-u-Lyne in 1934, Owen has always lived in Dukinfield. Took an interest in drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil and the fascination with depicting the things he saw around him has never waned. Educated at St Mark's School, Dukinfield and the County Grammer School, Hyde. Began painting seriously in oils at the age of thirteen when many of his subjects were taken from local scenes and he also experimented with more decorative and abstract themes.

After National Service in the army where he served in the Canal Zone, Egypt, he took a teacher training course at Bretton Hall College of Education, near Wakefield. This was a specialist college for art teachers. From 1958 he taught art at West Hill Sc hool, Stalybridge as head of Art Department and many of his pupils have retained their interest in the subject, quite a few becoming professional artists.

Due to an eye infection he had to abandon oil painting for a while and during this period a colleague gave him a set of watercolour paints to try. He took to this most difficult medium at once and the oil he was working on remained unfinished. He never tried oils again. He retired from teaching in 1985 to devote the rest of his time to painting and has been busy ever since. He held his first one-man exhibition in 1968 and his work has been in demand since then. He was the winner of the first Glossop Pro Loco Competition. In 1985 he won the Manchester Council/Manchester Evening News Painting Competition.

Has been awarded prizes by the Society of British Painters and the British Watercolour Society. Commissions have been completed for people throughout Britain and for Greater Manchester Police, Hyperlast, Barclays Bank and Manchester University to mention a few. Reproductions of his work have been published by Felix Rosensteil's Widow and Sons, London and Portfolio Fine Art, Manchester. His work was selected many times for the Laing Competition and he was presented with the Yorkshire Television Award for Painting."

These are the two pictures which we have have for several years:

Werneth Low 1952

Here's some more of the photographs that Keith Oldham gave me, this time of Werneth Low and Keith himself is in a couple of the photographs, albeit in a pram being pushed by his mother.

This is looking towards Windy Harbour and on the left you can see the bridge over the railway which now marks the start of the Hattersley estate, but of course in those days there were just fields. Below is yesterday's photograph of the scene.

This is lower down Werneth Low Road just before the junction with Joel Lane and the buildings in the picture are still there, although the white house on the left is hidden by the trees on yesterday's photo.

This one was a bit more difficult to pinpoint, but it appears to be on Higham Lane. You can see the War Memorial on the right, but it's a bit more difficult to spot on yesterday's photograph, so I've also cropped the picture and you can make out the War Memorial on that behind the cow parsley in the centre. The building on the extreme left of the picture is Higher Higham Farm, but again that's hidden behind the trees on yesterday's photograph. You can see on both photographs the change in the dry stone wall on the right from large stones to smaller stones.

The house in the centre of the 1952 photograph isn't there now, but it appears to have been on the triangular plot in the centre of the shot below from Google Earth. There seems to be a building shown there on the 1910 OS map. Yesterday's photograph was taken from just beyond the row of cottages shown at the bottom of the picture.

Werneth Low ( View Of )

Werneth Low
From 
George Lane Bredbury 
1900 to 1909



View east over the Peak Forest Canal, High Lane farm in the centre of the picture

UP-DATE

Do you have any pictures of Werneth Low, I intend doing a week of pictures on it's beauty... so please send them in by email.. If you let me know why you like the Low I will include your story's... I am dedicating this week long celebration to my favourite internet troll. (Anonymous) for the inspiration he gives me.

Time Lapse From The Low

Today's post comes courtesy of my good friend Darren Jones. He's been out and about with his video and this is the result. A beautiful sunset from the Low... I for one have not been able or not had the chance to get up there for a while, so to see these is a special treat. 

The Cenotaph 

Now I know from past comments that not everyone who drops by likes to see pictures of or from the Low, but we've not had any in a while and these video's are rare to come across.  

ENJOY THE BEAUTY

The day the mist came

I'm being a bit self indulgent today and showing some pictures I took a while back when Hyde was covered in mist, and all that could been seen was Werneth Low which looked like an island in the sea.

The pictures were taken from Harrop Edge,