 Fall Ings Lock on the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Wakefield. This is where the Calder and Hebble Navigation meets the Aire and Calder Navigation.
The large building in the distance is Chantry Waters, a block of private apartments, adjacent to the Calder and Hebble Navigation by Doncaster Road.
More views of the Flood Lock.
© John S. Sargent 2009. |
 The City of wakefield viewed from Sandal Castle. The tallest building in view is rhe Clock Tower of the Town Hall. A section of the Ninety-nine Arches (the red brick railway viaduct) is also visible.
© John S. Sargent 2010.
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 Wakefield Flood Lock on the Calder & Hebble Navigation. The building in the distance is the same building featured in the Fall Ings Lock picture.
Wakefield's waterfront is being redeveloped and the area is much improved. "Waterfront Wakefield" as the development is called contains business, leisure and residential properties. The current economic downturn may have slowed things down a little, but it is already clear that the waterfront development is transforming this area of the city.
© John S. Sargent 2009. |
 The Ninety-Nine Arches Railway Viaduct at Wakefield. A Virgin Cross Country train travelling near Wakefield Westgate station.
© John S. Sargent 2002.
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 Wakefield Kirkgate Pedestrian Precinct. The Ridings Shopping Centre is off to the left and the cathedral is in the background. More about the Cathedral here.
© John S. Sargent 3rd September 2009.
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 Not a happy station in life - Wakefield Kirkgate
On a visit to the city on the 22nd October 2009, the Prime Minister (Mr. Gordon Brown) pledged his support to the campaign led by the Wakefield Express to provide staff at the station - currently, a dark and lonely place at night. (Wakefield Express 23rd October 2009)
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 Wakefield Bus Station.
© John S. Sargent 3rd September 2009.
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Wakefield, The Springs with the Cathedral in the background.
More about the Cathedral here.
© John S. Sargent 24th February 2002. |
 Wakefield Waterfront - viewed from the Thornes bank of the River Calder.
© John S. Sargent 9th September 2009.
More pictures of the Waterfront. |
 Wakefield, The Chantry on the Bridge
Viewed from the south bank of the River Calder.
© John S. Sargent 3rd August 2009. More about the Chantry Chapel here. |
 Wakefield Thornes Waterfront - this time it's the other bank - Thornes. Not just a large and busy industrial area of the city, it includes some residential areas and farmland by the river. Thornes stretches down to Calder Island. There is a pleasant riverside walk to Calder Island, once the industrial area is left behind. The Calder from this point going generally westwards is part of the Calder and Hebble Navigation.
© John S. Sargent 23rd October 2009.
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 The Market Hall, opened in June 2008.
Not universally acknowledged as a handsome building.
© John S. Sargent 3rd September 2009. |
 Aire & Calder Navigation - a distant narrowboat heads upstream towards Fall Ings Lock.
© John S. Sargent 3rd August 2009.
More pictures of the Aire & Calder Navigation here. |
 Another view of the Market Hall.
© John S. Sargent 3rd September 2009.
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 Aire and Calder Navigation.
This building is the former board room of the canal company. It is situated on the north bank of the River Calder by the Aire & Calder Navigation (Old Cut).
© John S. Sargent 5th August 2003. |
Calder & Hebble Navigation.
Railway bridge over the Calder at Wakefield. The bridge carries the main London - Leeds line.
More pictures here.
© John S. Sargent 22nd September 2009. |
 An old building on Thornes Lane Wharf in Wakefield, near Thornes Trading Estate. In the background behind the lamp post is a modern apartment building - Chantry Waters. This is located to the east of Doncaster Road adjacent to the Calder and Hebble Navigation.
© John S. Sargent 17th March 2010. |
 The Pinder of Wakefield was the keeper of the pound or pinfold for stray cattle on the Town Green. The Pinder's Green or Field is now the area known as Pinderfields.
Read more about the Jolly Pinder and his friend Robin Hood.
© John S. Sargent 7th June 2010. |
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