Mundane pictures of the North

[farmerbarleymow]

Doomed
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Being blown up or demolished in a boring way?

 

[Firky]

 

[neonwilderness]

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I take it you're a member of Gateshead Past and Present of Facebook too?

Just back from Seaburn via Sunderland and Tynemouth, so I'll upload some pics soon

 

[Fez909]

Great set of pics there Frances Lengel. Especially like the gasometer and Yorkshire St

And Firky, those pictures of Northumberland's countryside are great. They look like a cross between the rolling hills you see in the Tour de France and the Windows XP background. Lovely!

Here's some cobbled streets

And some washing hanging out the front of a b2b terrace

 

[Firky]

I take it you're a member of Gateshead Past and Present of Facebook too?

Just back from Seaburn via Sunderland and Tynemouth, so I'll upload some pics soon

Rumbled

 

[neonwilderness]

Here's the photos from my phone. The main airshow stuff was taken with my camera, so they will come later.

Seaburn, lots of traffic alterations due to the airshow



Lunch



Roker Pier





Queen Vic - I didn't see Peggy





Sunderland Marina



Lots of coaches waiting to take people home



C2C marker (not sure what Uranus refers to )



Docks / Wearmouth

 

[neonwilderness]

National Glass Centre



You walk straight from the car park onto the glass roof and see down to the ground floor





This gives you an idea of the height







Sunderland East End



My Great Grandma used to live in the building in the middle of this photo, I can remember visiting when I was young and seeing the glass centre and university being built across the river

 

[neonwilderness]

Sunderland University - St Peters Campus

I think I spent more time here than at home when I was doing my degree



Prospect Building

Library on the left and canteen (home to the £1 breakfast) on the right





Harry was one of my final year lecturers, so seeing this was a bit of a shock





Looking upriver



I think these sculptures are to do with Sunderland's ship building heritage









Another C2C marker



Pigeons

 

[neonwilderness]

St Peters









When I was at uni this was covered in graffiti and quite often flooded



St Peters Metro station





Some glass on a wall with added razor wire









Crossing the river into town



A fake Tyne bridge

 

[neonwilderness]

Sunderland













The glamorous back entrance to the railway station



Fawcett Street deserted on a Sunday, the upper part of the building on the right was covered in a canvas with fake windows painted on it





Sunderland Museum



Fawcett Street station



Civic Centre

 

[neonwilderness]

Park Lane bus station



Banardos



Varsity





Sunderland University - Chester Road campus. I didn't come to this campus very often and it was a bit of a dump, but it looks quite nice now



Murray Library



University station



Sunderland station

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Sunderland Civic Centre looks grim!

 

[neonwilderness]

I decided to come back home via South Shields then hop over the river to North Shields. Unfortunately I did't realise that the ferry stops running at 6 on a Sunday which left me about 8 minutes to get there from the Metro station

South Shields ferry landing



Looking up the River Tyne



North Shields ferry landing













The Amsterdam ferry





Fish Quay

 

[neonwilderness]

Seagull on a lamp post



Ice Cream











Tynemouth





Tynemouth station









There's a market at the station every weekend which finishes at about 4. This guy was still here at half 6 and didn't seem in any rush to get packed up



Back home at Gateshead with a flat battery

 

[neonwilderness]

Sunderland Civic Centre looks grim!

It's two hexagons with a bit on the side and a car park.

I went to a wedding here once and they didn't even bother with any photos outside, we went over to the park instead

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Excellent pictures neonwilderness - making me a bit homesick for the NE!

That is the thing that Manchester lacks - a proper river or even better the sea.

 

[The Boy]

River Mersey? Bonus points for being mundane as fuck.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

River Mersey? Bonus points for being mundane as fuck.

Yeah, but it is miles away from the city centre so doesn't count, and is too far away from the sea anyway. The ones in town are just crappy little trickles.


Edit to add - its not a bad walk along the river from Chorlton to Didsbury (or through to Stockport if your up to it). I've only walked along there once, Byt will have to it again.

We should organise photo walking tours in Manchester as more pairs of eyes will spot more mundanity.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

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

Near Boggart Hole Clough *snigger* that

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Near Boggart Hole Clough *snigger* that

That is a stupid place name, but the snigger is lost on me.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

well, it makes me laugh

 

[Frances Lengel]

Boggarts are a kind of sprite apparently. I remember in junior school, people used to make up bullshit stories about getting chased by the boggart.

http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/squares/boggart.html

So the landscape explains the "Clough" part of the name but what about the "Boggart Hole"? A Boggart is a mythological creature sometimes described as a "household fairy". They have played a part in the folk history of the north and Scotland. Known to be mischievious they are blamed for curdling the milk or playing tricks on people. Hanging a horseshoe above a door or leaving a pile of salt on the doorstep has been suggested as ways to keep the boggart out of the house. They are thought to live under bridges, like trolls, on sharp bends in roads and, as in this case, in a piece of wild woodland. Mysterious disappearances in the Blackley district over the years have been attributed by some to the boggarts who live in the clough.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

well, it makes me laugh

I've passed it but never ventured in. Will have to have a wander up there one day along with Heaton Park.

 

[Firky]

Boggarts are more of a Yorkshire thing than anything else. It's duergars here. I have lost count of the stories I've heard from people who claim to have seen some small person on the hills.

http://faeryfolklorist.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/duergars-of-simonside.html

I think there probably was some village outcasts living outside of the community in the hills in ye olden days but I don't believe that the tales IYSWIM.

There's loads of odd dwellings like this hidden deep in the forests and hills:

 

[neonwilderness]

There's also the infamous Beast of Chopwell

 

[Firky]

I love this website, covers all the ancient rock art, stone rings, folklore and other stuff in the country.

This is the NE section, it really is quite interesting and you can find yourself getting lost for hours (well I do!)

More than 100 new examples of prehistoric art have been discovered carved into boulders and open bedrock throughout Northumberland and Durham.

The 5,000-year-old Neolithic carvings of circles, rings and hollowed cups, were uncovered by volunteers.

One of the most interesting discoveries was an elaborately carved panel on Barningham Moor, near Barnard Castle in County Durham.

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/9794/durham_and_northumbria.html

 

[neonwilderness]

A mate of mine has a copy of the book which is pretty interesting. You can also download a set of markers for Google Earth too

 

[Firky]

Oohh I didn't know about the markers, I'll have to take a look.

 

[lizzieloo]

I love this website, covers all the ancient rock art, stone rings, folklore and other stuff in the country.

This is the NE section, it really is quite interesting and you can find yourself getting lost for hours (well I do!)

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/9794/durham_and_northumbria.html

We went to see them ones

 

[Frances Lengel]

Blocks of flats at Charlestown, Blackley.



Royton.



Oldham civic centre again.



Queen Elizabeth Hall.