Tall arêtes of gritstone and brick on the corners on the severed lengths of viaduct running between Bath Place and Lower Avenue. The viaducts were built in 1852 and were part of the Rugby-Leamington line which was closed during the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.
Kelsey's Arete (f5+) - The obvious tall arête on Lower Avenue, climbed on its left. Finished matched on the flat top beyond the 45 degree slopers.
The bold right hand side has not yet been climbed.
Kelsey's Arete (f5+) - The obvious tall arête on Lower Avenue, climbed on its left. Finished matched on the flat top beyond the 45 degree slopers.
The bold right hand side has not yet been climbed.
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Avenue Station, which was located a few hundred meters down the line from this viaduct.
Closed in 1965 and demolished in 1977. |
The last train at Avenue Station.
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He was abjectly incompetent at easy practice climbing on boulders, because he knew he could do them. It seemed increadible to the other men that this lazy duffer should be the most daring and dextrous cragsman of his generation, as he proved whenever he tackled a precipice which had baffled every other climber in the world.
- Aleister Crowley's Four Books of Magick, S. Skinner (2021)
Leamington Spa's most infmaous son
Leamington Spa's most infmaous son
