A Walk From Bents Green to Trap Lane

 

An interwar sandstone house on Trap Lane

Setting off from Bents Green Methodist Church, having walked from Banner Cross via Ecclesall, the route for the last last leg of my day out was planned to enable me to photograph the last four listed buildings for my British Listed Buildings Photo Challenge. 

 

Views of High Storrs School

First on my list was the Grade II Listed High Storrs School (1933) - built in red brick with artificial stone dressings - and the separately listed boundary walls, railings and gates, which were designed by the Sheffield city architect W.G. Davies, who was also responsible for Sheffield Central Library (1934). 

 

A map of the Porter Valley Woodlands Nature Reserve

 

Using an extract from the 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey map to guide me around the Porter Valley Woodlands Nature Reserve, I eventually arrived at Trap Lane and carried on past Muskoka Drive without taking much notice of my surroundings, but was stopped in my tracks by a series of placards outside a fine example of an interwar semi-detached house. 

 

Placards on Trap Lane

 

As a geologist with specialist interests in building stone, my day had been spent taking a good look at every stone building and boundary wall that I passed but, once I started reading these placards, I forgot all about this and instead found myself nodding in agreement to each statement that rallied against the insane policies of ‘Trussonomics’. 

 

Placards on Trap Lane

This really made my day and, after hanging around in the hope that the owner of the house might notice me, I was very tempted to knock on the door to congratulate the author on both the sentiments and the incredibly neat way that they have been presented. 

 

Trussonomics

 

Laughing to myself as I continued along Trap Lane, I later got home to discover that Liz Truss had announced her decision to resign – having trashed the UK economy and leaving a legacy of being the shortest-serving prime minister in the country's history, with the lowest rate of approval ever. 

 

A panoramic view of the Porter Valley

Stopping to take in the panoramic views over the Porter Valley, I continued along Trap Lane for a short distance, when it suddenly turned from a tarmac surfaced road into an old track that, in a few places, has small exposures of the Loxley Edge Rock poking out from it. 

 

Exposures of the Loxley Edge Rock on Trap Lane

A little further down the track, I was interested to see a strongly flowing stream coming down through the woodland, which filled a water trough and continued as a ford before entering a culverted section and then disappearing beneath the flagstone path and adjoining wall. 

 

A ford on Trap Lane

I was very pleasantly surprised by the rapid change from a soulless interwar suburban housing estate into an idyllic rural scene such as this, with only the modern electronic communications mast at Meadow Lane Farm spoiling the view.

Meadow Lane Farm