Just had another look and the structure on top of the metal pole is six-sided and appears to be of timber construction.
Somebody put us out of our misery!
Sometime in the eighties I noticed a tall railway signal in the front garden in a row of semi detached houses on the A533 at Little Leigh on the way to I.C.I. Winnington. Then one day as I was passing there was an old steam engine tractor which was stripped down and parked there for a couple of years. The last time that I used that road in the nineties there was a full size steam engine parked there. Does anybody else remember it.
Retired Old ■■■■:
I suppose everyone knows the answer to this one except me so can one of you knowledgable people tell me what the “shed on a pole” is for? It’s on the left-hand side of the A41 Northbound at Christleton, just outside Chester. I’ve looked at the thing at odd times for the last forty-or-so years but, apart from thinking it has something to do with the nearby canal, I still don’t know what it is. Help!
I think it’s a breather for the sewer pipe that is/was buried beneath the ground there(or so it says on a site I found.)
Going west on the A303 beyond Wincanton (I think) on the single lane section there’s a bakers on the LH side that has/had a loaf of bread on a table outside, as it always seemed to be the same loaf I wondered wether it was real but preserved or a well crafted piece of wood or fiberglass. First time I saw it, long time back, I was on a day driving assesment and the trainer bloke told me that any unsold loaves were put out in the afternoon (it was about 4pm) for passing drivers to help themselves, and the sad thing was I believed him, well till I had been by several times and the penny dropped. 
Hi, Hub Reduction.
Thanks for the reply- it seems as good an explanation as any at the moment, although I don’t know why there aren’t more around the country. Is there something special about Chester’s sewers?
Retired Old ■■■■:
Hi, Hub Reduction.
Thanks for the reply- it seems as good an explanation as any at the moment, although I don’t know why there aren’t more around the country. Is there something special about Chester’s sewers?
Sorry I really have no idea. I read it in a piece about canals, on the internet. Canalscape. Book 1 Chapter 2 First Canal Holiday. Couldn’t find anything else about it.
Driving south on the A36 near Frome market many years ago an old half cab double deck bus came under the railway bridge towards me with a Giraffe looking out from one of the front upper deck windows.Perhaps it was on route from Longleat just down the road.
Phil.
Retired Old ■■■■:
I suppose everyone knows the answer to this one except me so can one of you knowledgable people tell me what the “shed on a pole” is for? It’s on the left-hand side of the A41 Northbound at Christleton, just outside Chester. I’ve looked at the thing at odd times for the last forty-or-so years but, apart from thinking it has something to do with the nearby canal, I still don’t know what it is. Help!
A Chester pigeon loft ROF,very rare!!!
David 
PMSL. Nice one, David!
I was cutting through from Aylesbury to High Wickham one day in the winter of 92 and saw a guy in his garden with an electric lawn mower trying to mow the snow of his grass.
Jeff…
Stanfield:
The Winking Man spooky or what?
The Winking Manis situated in the Peak District National Park on the Edge of Staffordshire Derbyshire Borders. On the A53 Between Leek and Buxton.
Hiya…that’s a good photo of the rock John…when you travel leek to Buxtyon. when you see the mans head as you travel theirs a rock formation
a way back that passes past the mans head that makes a winking impression. very clever nature
John H
S/B through the roadworks on the A23 there’s a huge tree that’s been split in two down the middle by lightning.
Best view I could get of it
That must have been noisy when it went of. I had a bolt of lightening go of about 1/2 a k form me once, I had ringing in my ears for days after.
Jeff…
Jelliot:
That must have been noisy when it went of. I had a bolt of lightening go of about 1/2 a k form me once, I had ringing in my ears for days after.Jeff…
I bet - it’s a huge tree 200+ years old sheared straight through the middle.
at the top of the slip road at junction 17 of the M6 there used to be a very eccentric gentlemen that lived in a run down old property that used to help motorist that had broken down
the flying foden:
at the top of the slip road at junction 17 of the M6 there used to be a very eccentric gentlemen that lived in a run down old property that used to help motorist that had broken down
Hiya jeff…help people to get to work LATE more like. that old fool(I had forgot about)lived at the side of the old garage before they built the new one and the bypass. when I worked at Jennings ERF
I’d come flying round the corner over the motorway bridge only to find drivers moving cans wheels and tyre’s that h’d stacked up all across the road.that would be in the mid 60’s before their was so much traffic
and no might traffic, the chap would just pile crap from the garage in the road. the coppers never took any notice as he never listened to them.
John
Sounds like he was related to me.
Driving through Whitworth Rochdale today spotted this.An entrant in the local scarecrow competition,I only spotted 2 more. but thats whitworth for you,it was only a few years back that the council put up christmas lights of which there was one snowman on a lampost and nothing else.(tight Bs) 
3300John:
the flying foden:
at the top of the slip road at junction 17 of the M6 there used to be a very eccentric gentlemen that lived in a run down old property that used to help motorist that had broken downHiya jeff…help people to get to work LATE more like. that old fool(I had forgot about)lived at the side of the old garage before they built the new one and the bypass. when I worked at Jennings ERF
I’d come flying round the corner over the motorway bridge only to find drivers moving cans wheels and tyre’s that h’d stacked up all across the road.that would be in the mid 60’s before their was so much traffic
and no might traffic, the chap would just pile crap from the garage in the road. the coppers never took any notice as he never listened to them.
John
thats the bloke john. bless him
the flying foden:
3300John:
the flying foden:
at the top of the slip road at junction 17 of the M6 there used to be a very eccentric gentlemen that lived in a run down old property that used to help motorist that had broken downHiya jeff…help people to get to work LATE more like. that old fool(I had forgot about)lived at the side of the old garage before they built the new one and the bypass. when I worked at Jennings ERF
I’d come flying round the corner over the motorway bridge only to find drivers moving cans wheels and tyre’s that h’d stacked up all across the road.that would be in the mid 60’s before their was so much traffic
and no might traffic, the chap would just pile crap from the garage in the road. the coppers never took any notice as he never listened to them.
Johnthats the bloke john. bless him