longdog
What is it you can't face?
Is the middle of a pub really such a sensible place to keep an antique chair anyway?
Well quite.
The fact they'd put it where it was also getting scorched by the fire somewhat undermined the claims of antiquity.
Mundane pictures of the North
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Well quite.
The fact they'd put it where it was also getting scorched by the fire somewhat undermined the claims of antiquity.
farmerbarleymow
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AnD IN diFferENT foNt sIZes anD styLEs.
All the best nutters take the time to PROPERLY craft their letters like this!
Bloody hell, that took me ages to keep changing the colours and fonts!
I had a 150 page letter sent to me at work from a loon once, although thankfully typed. But random font changes like this which made it somewhat hard to read - took hours ploughing through it with a marker pen to work out what on earth it was on about. But the hand-written ones from the crazies are without doubt the best.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
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Lakeland Court shops, Langley.
Original Langley street sign with some newish private houses in the background.
Shops and flats on Windemere Rd, Langley.
Windemere Rd.
Houses off Windemere Rd looking all leafy and suburban.
Queensway, Rochdale.
Arrow Mill, Queensway.
Chimbley.
Throbbing Angel
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Bare, near/in Morecambe
Shops at Balderstone, Rochdale. Wandrus Hardware used to be called The Wandrus Stores and has been there since the 1930's apparently. I wonder if it's name was meant to be The Wondrous Stores - A lot of people couldn't read and write that well in those days.
Roller City, Rochdale - An eighties institution, recently re-opened.
Odd name for a close - Kirkholt, Rochdale.
Throbbing Angel
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Roller City.
Ahhh, the 80s....all Mandate and love bites...ahem...so I heard anyway
Ahhh, the 80s....all Mandate and love bites...ahem...so I heard anyway
Halfpenny Bridge, Rochdale.
High Level Rd.
Oldham Rd from High Level.
Rochdale rooftops from High Level. The spire's the old fire station & the dome's St John's (pronounced "sinjunns") Church. St John's isn't really pronounced sinjunns btw.
Richard St from High Level with College Bank flats in the backround.
Stairs off Milkstone Rd, R/dale.
Sinjunns church, Maclure Rd Rochdale.
Haji Cash n Carry, corner of Tweedale St and another street I don't know the name of.
The Navigation, Drake St.
Drake St, Rochdale. The space age looking tower's the council offices - Due for demolition in the not too distant future.
Catholic Club, Anne St. A fun night out for a callow sixteen year old tripping on acid when it's packed out with old timers having a sing song round the old joanna NYE 89/90.
Freehold flats, Rochdale.
And again.
And once more with feeling.
And that's where the battery went. i wanted to get some more of the Dale. Never mind though.
Throbbing Angel
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Frances. are College Bank flats known as the Seven Sisters?
Throbbing Angel
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Blimey - are they knocking the Black Box down too!
farmerbarleymow
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Are those the row of tower blocks right by the edge of town?
Yeah, the seven sisters or sometimes the more prosaic "town flats".
And yeah, the bus station and the black box are getting the old heave-ho.
E2a yes, those ones farmerbarleymow
Throbbing Angel
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farmerbarleymow
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Ta. I used to work in an office which faced them about 15 years ago.
Throbbing Angel
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Did you go in the Madison Square pub?
farmerbarleymow
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I can't remember to be honest - too long ago. I worked about a day a week in Rochdale and went to a few but no idea of names.
I went in Madisons a few times - Didn't it become some sort of pound a pint gaffe in the 90's?
lazythursday
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I did some agency driving there for a week and learnt something they don't tell you in your HGV test... Coal dust is VERY slippery when wet.
I drove my eight wheel tipper straight in to the back of another one. There I was, a good 300 metres from the truck in front... A little bit of gentle breaking... WTF!!!! Nothing's happening... Try a bit of cadence breaking... Nope... Try whacking the fucker in reverse and giving it full throttle... ARRRRGH!!! CRUNCH!!!
"Don't worry about it mate" says the driver in front "We all do that at least once a month that's why all of the trucks have their fronts smashed in"
Yeah, I know how slippery coal dust is from playing on slag heaps in my childhood. I have the bluey-black scars on my knees to prove it to this day. That site looked mental from the canal - not sure my ideal working environment...
lazythursday
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I also worked in Rochdale at a similar time. I live reasonably close but I have never set foot in the town centre since the day I left. It is a place of no redeeming features at all (although I believe Hitler had a fetish for the town hall).Ta. I used to work in an office which faced them about 15 years ago.
My normally mundane Pennine street has been transformed into this: (not my pic)
I spose I should go and check on the house or something.
farmerbarleymow
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I'm planning on having a wander round Trafford Park this weekend if any of the Manchester lot fancy coming along. General plan to start around Old Trafford and head into the park, and pick up transport back either from the Trafford Centre or Eccles.
Should be some good dull sites to photograph.
Should be some good dull sites to photograph.
Two I took whilst walking into town yesterday:
Central Library, at the top of Albion Street. The big stone building behind it was originally a bank AFAIK. By the time I started going out round Hull in the mid-90s it was a seedy bar with girls dancing in cages, and it then went through various other incarnations including as a gay club. I had a few good nights in there but there wasn't really the demand for such a big club in addition to Fuel and the other gay places in town, and it didn't last long. Now been turned into a boutique hotel of some sort.
End of Jameson Street.
Central Library, at the top of Albion Street. The big stone building behind it was originally a bank AFAIK. By the time I started going out round Hull in the mid-90s it was a seedy bar with girls dancing in cages, and it then went through various other incarnations including as a gay club. I had a few good nights in there but there wasn't really the demand for such a big club in addition to Fuel and the other gay places in town, and it didn't last long. Now been turned into a boutique hotel of some sort.
End of Jameson Street.
farmerbarleymow
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Now there's a stark contrast between the very mundane and a nice old building. The difference couldn't be more abrupt.
Throbbing Angel
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Oh I can't remember, I went in in the early 90's.
Used to nip in after I'd been to the shooting range on the other side of Rochdale.
Got thrown out once for sticking Mandinka by Sinead O'Connor on the video-jukebox 8 or 9 times in a row and dancing like a twat (midday on a Saturday)
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farmerbarleymow
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Oh I can't remember, I went in in the early 90's.
Used to nip in after I'd been to the shooting range on the other side of Rochdale.
Got thrown out once for sticking Mandinka by Sinead O'Connor on the video-jukebox 8 or 9 times in a row and dancing like a twat (midday on a Saturday)
Two questions:
Were you carrying a gun? And were you shitfaced hence dancing like a twat?
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