Today's post for ABC Wednesday is L for "Low Cloud" and the photo shows low clouds obscuring the hills in Mossley. Even ...

Today's post shows the steps and entrance to Ashton Town Hall on a damp winter's day. On each side of the steps is a non-working ...

Today's post for ABC Wednesday is R for "Rain" . Of course, being close to Manchester, rain is not something that we see ve...

A week ago people were wandering around in shorts and tee shirts, splashing sun lotion over themselves. This week it's back on with t...

Today's Sky Watch image shows a rainbow over Mossley, about 4 miles from Ashton, earlier in the week. Because Mossley is the steep-s...

Today My World was A Bit Wet. Today's photo shows Market Street in Ashton in the rain. Some cynical people might say that, since it...

(Click photo for larger version. Press Back button to return here.) "Rain, rain, go away!" was the general sentiment in Ashton ...

(Click photo for larger version. Press Back button to return here.) Yesterday was a chilly day - it even snowed around lunchtime. Yet, by...

The area around Ashton woke up to a light dusting of snow on Friday, which quickly started to disappear at lower levels, so I took a walk ...

Some followers of this blog have commented that the photos mostly seem to show Ashton in the sunshine. This is probably true as I do tend to...

A dull morning in Warrington Street - today's photo looks from the corner of Bow Street towards Old Street. The buildings fade into the...

It's not always sunny in Ashton, although you might think so from looking through the photos on this blog. Naturally, when I go out to p...

Cedar Street is off Curzon Road, in the Hurst area of Ashton. The bright red of the Accrington bricks contrasts with the white of this we...

Winter returned to Ashton this week with a good helping of snow on Monday. This photo shows the Town Hall steps through a curtain of snowfla...

Sky Watch? Where's the sky? It's disappeared in the fog! Or, put it another way - the sky has come down to earth and engulfed Ash...

January's theme day is "Best Photo of 2008". I asked for suggestions (here and by email) for the best photo to appear on this ...

This photo sort of sums up the wet and windy wintery weather of the last few days! It shows Stamford Street in Mossley, with the Market ...

After the snow, the sunshine. Hartshead Pike, on the ridge overlooking Ashton and Oldham, looks good in all sorts of weather conditions, b...

It's been a few years since we had snow in early December, but this morning saw an inch or two. This caused the usual chaos to traffic a...

Autumn seems have have arrived all of a sudden in Ashton. This was the autumnal scene this week in the small gardens at the top of Crickets ...