Mundane pictures of the North

[Frances Lengel]

Limerston Drive, N/H.



Little street next to a railway bridge Oldham Rd Newton Heath/Miles Platting.



Little lean-to thing next to the same railway bridge.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Some gates Queens Rd Monsall/Collyhurst.



Monsall from Queens Rd.



Bunting at Collyhurst Village.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Carslake Rd, Collyhurst Village.



Waste ground on upper Monsall St with Monsall in the background.



Moston Lane.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Jolly Miller estate, Harpurhey.



Some shops off Fernclough Rd, Harpurhey.



Old Rd, Blackley with Mount Carmel church in the background.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Maisonettes at Riverdale estate, Higher Blackley - There used to be loads of this type of maisonette all over the rover. There's hardly any left now. These ones though, apart from the stairwell door, the new white front doors & double glazing, are pretty much in original condition.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Tweedle Hill Rd, Higher Blackley.



Game of cricket off Tweedle Hill Rd.



Flats on Victoria Avenue, Blackley.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Mainway, Alkrington, Middleton.



Big (but not very nice looking) house on Mainway.



Shops on Kirkway, Alkrington.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Bungalows on Mount Rd, Alkrington.



Houses off Grimshaw Lane, Middleton.



Miggleton Arndale.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Shops & maisonettes on Langley estate, Middleton.



Some houses on Langley.



Changing Langley forever.

 

[Frances Lengel]

The happy couple, Rose of Lancaster, Mills Hill/Chadderton.



Glad we cleared that up. Subway, Chadderton.



Oldham centre.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Vitafoam, Mills Hill.



The Snipe, Oldham.



Yorkshire St, Oldham.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Boot, Yorkshire St, Oldham.



Oldham council offices.



Wimpenny House, Eldon St estate, Oldham.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Eldon Stores.

Listen Uri, if you want to work here bending spoons just won't cut it.

Hollinwood.

 

[Firky]

Oldham council offices.

Any more pics of that? I'm a bit like killer b when it comes to modernism.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Any more pics of that? I'm a bit like killer b when it comes to modernism.

It's in the background on post 2975 of this thread a couple of pages back - Not sure how to link to specific posts, soz. I'll get some more next time I'm in Oldham though.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Just seen an advert for "The Mill" coming to C4 soon

Me: "Hmmm.... that looks a bit shite.. a bit It's Grim Up North!"
Mr.QofG's: "Yes...but it is grim up North!"

 

[cyberfairy]

Just seen an advert for "The Mill" coming to C4 soon

Me: "Hmmm.... that looks a bit shite.. a bit It's Grim Up North!"
Mr.QofG's: "Yes...but it is grim up North!"

When my mum comes to stay who hates the North (originally from Middlesborough) she is frogmarched to Cartmel, Kendal, Windermere, anywhere posh until she is yearning to have a cup of coffee for less than three quid. She now thinks the North is incredibly posh and rich compared to the South and is even more embittered.

 

[Firky]

Hogwarts.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Any more pics of that? I'm a bit like killer b when it comes to modernism.

You can see those offices from a most of Manchester as they are perched on the hill Oldham town centre sits on. As a building of that era they aren't actually too bad. They must have spent a decent amount on them.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

* snip *

The Miners estate Moston - Teddington Rd in the foreground, Bradford Court in the background. Those flats are built on top of the entrance to an old mineshaft - Tho Moston colliery.

* snip *

That interesting - didn't know that. Thanks


Did you get a picture of Tan Ya Hide on Moston Lane? It's a sunbed place whose name I've always liked, on the stretch of the Lane after The Bluebell and the big playing fields as you head towards Broadway? There was a dog grooming place next door last time I passed.

Great pics by the way.

 

[neonwilderness]

Welcome to Sunderland

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Pies and peas.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Cheers I'll get Tan Ya Hide next time.

Bit of history of the Moston colliery;

http://arthurchappell.me.uk/book.review-father.brian.seale-the.moston.story.htm

Coal was mined here as early as 1615, and rich deep seams run for miles under the district. The pit was the scene of two tragic disasters. In 1884 a flood filled a major section of the pit, and though it killed or injured none, it proved disastrous in other ways. The pumps supplied by Matther & Platt nearby failed to drop the water levels, so four hundred men and boys lost their jobs. The tools of a Miner’s trade were acquired as they learned their craft, rather than easily shop bought. Now most picks and hammers were underwater. Despite hardship funds and charitable donations, the community was pushed literally to the brink of starvation before everyone could find employment again. In 1940, a coal truck brake failure pitched a truck and the men on board into a high-speed derailment, which killed nine men and injured many more. The Moston Pit itself closed in 1950, though miners continued to maintain it as a venting shaft site for the nearby Bradford Colliery until 1968. A group of houses built for the pit crews and families is still known as the Moston Miner’s Estate to this day. The Great Flood of 1872 floated coffins and corpses right out of the ground in Philip’s Park, in the Bradford District; many were reinterred in a stretch of consecrated open ground in Moston. This was the beginning for St. Joseph’s Cemetery (sometimes called Moston Cemetery).

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Cheers I'll get Tan Ya Hide next time.

And find out if it is also run by a woman called Tanya. That would be even better.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Tanya/Tan-Ya. I've only just realised what you're on about

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Tanya/Tan-Ya. I've only just realised what you're on about

To be fair, I spent years passing it every day so you're let off.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Welcome to Sunderland




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Free pie and peas ...... pure poetry!

 

[Firky]

 

[Firky]

 

[longdog]

Doomed