Mundane pictures of the North
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someone's taking the piss!Ginger persons
I thought that was an urban myth like EU laws against the word blackboard?
"ginger ladies stand up and be counted.. no discrimination here!"
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Ginger persons
I thought that was an urban myth like EU laws against the word blackboard?
Look at the small writing beneath. Either a terribly right-on place, or a piss take.
Skip thing having some sort of stuff dropped into it at Lees's brewery, Greengate. The stuff isn't sand, there's steam coming off it & it smelt all brewery-ish.
Wastewater processing plant, Royton.
Water place again.
Some octagons near the water place.
Water place.
Off middleton Rd, royton.
Bought maisonette, Middleton Rd, Royton.
Mill off Holden Fold Lane, Royton.
Little industrial unit at TwoBridges Rd, Newhey. Newhey is a little villagey sort of place between Shaw and Rochdale.
Ex works, Shaw Rd, Newhey.
Newhey terminus.
Huddersfield Rd, Newhey.
Huddersfield Rd.
Hudddersfield Rd again - The pub's called the Bird in Hand, there's another Bird in Hand about a hundred yards down the road. This is known as the top bird, the other one's the bottom bird.
Babbling brook, Huddersfield Rd. Dropped me camera here & it landed about an inch away from a piece of dogshite. Still, I could've always washed it in the brook.
Wrecked sheds.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Possibly mash destined for pig food? No idea what they do with brewery waste, but guess they sell every bit of it they can.
Brum brum, Huddersfield Rd.
Goat on a hillside & some chicken sheds from Huddersfield Rd.
Shaw Rd from the metrolink station, Huddersfield Rd.
Newhey history.
Approaching Milnrow along Newhey Rd. Milnrow's the next place along towards Rochdale.
Nice looking side of a house, Milnrow.
Shops off Dale St, Milnrow.
Milnrow WMC
Dale St, Milnrow. dale St's the main drag.
Engineering place off Clifton St Milnrow.
Clifton St
Minky, Clifton St. I worked here for a few weeks sometime in hte early 90's.
A peek inside Minky - I wanted to go a bit further in but there were guys just on the other side of the door.
The Bobbin, Milnrow - Used to be the Tim Bobbin.
Waithlands Rd, Rochdale - These houses used to have corrugated asbestos rooves & the whole estate was known as Tintown.
Newbold is an area of Rochdale, so it's not nappy warriors who are also both new and bold.
Street between Drake St & Molesworth St, Rochdale.
Inside yet another workplace, Rochdale. When you've not worked for a while, you tend to forget about the realities of spending forty odd hours a week in gaffes like this.
Summer St - It would've looked better if it was raining.
Drake St toward Rochdale centre.
Drake St looking t'other way.
Champness Hall, drake St.
Falinge flats, Rochdale.
Falinge again.
And again.
Falinge stairwell.
Bucolic Falinge in bloom. Whenever the daily mail want to do a story about Britain on benefits, nine times out of ten they come here. Central & Falinge ward has the highest percentage of the population on benefits in England. Or something. Thing is though, central & Falinge is a big area, it's not just these flats & Rochdale has a lot more hostels and halfway houses than other Mcr satellite towns, most of which are in the C&F ward. Given that most of the people in these hostels will be on benefit, that tends to skew the figures a bit. The papers never mention that though, they just like to show loads of moody pics of the flats
Entrance to Underwood, College Bank. Most of the blocks in Rochdale have one word names like this one. It wouldn't have killed them to call it Underwood House/Court/Point/Tower or something. It seems somehow mean spirited just giving it a one word name.
The Esplenade with the council offices in the background.
War Memorial.
Bandstand, Broadfield park, Rochdale.
Street overlooking the park.
Castlemere St, Deeplish.
Back to civilisation - Harpurhey Baths, Rochdale Rd, Mcr.
Just for farmer b. Tanya Hide, Moston Lane.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Three more taken in Kingston Square whilst I was walking home the other day.
Kingston Court. When I first moved to Hull in 2000 the old part of the frontage was just propped up with baulks of timber, the building behind it having (I presume) been destroyed in an air raid. It was worked into this development of flats a few years ago. Note the people in wedding garb standing outside the hotel on the right - it's quite a posh little place and popular for weddings. AFAIK the bigger-name actors who appear at New Theatre often stay there too.
From the same spot, looking back towards Worship Street. The big white building on the left started life as the Assembly Rooms in 1831; now it's the New Theatre.
The Maltings - part of the old Hull Brewery and now offices - and then the main Catholic church to the left, looking up towards Albion Street.
Kingston Court. When I first moved to Hull in 2000 the old part of the frontage was just propped up with baulks of timber, the building behind it having (I presume) been destroyed in an air raid. It was worked into this development of flats a few years ago. Note the people in wedding garb standing outside the hotel on the right - it's quite a posh little place and popular for weddings. AFAIK the bigger-name actors who appear at New Theatre often stay there too.
From the same spot, looking back towards Worship Street. The big white building on the left started life as the Assembly Rooms in 1831; now it's the New Theatre.
The Maltings - part of the old Hull Brewery and now offices - and then the main Catholic church to the left, looking up towards Albion Street.
Is that Walsden?
Frances, I don't think I've ever been to Newhey but my dad was born there. That stone with the carved history text is interesting. I like your photos. Grim and a bit brutal but that's the north hey! Some lovely scenery amongst all the photos too. Rochdale and Hull are both close to some wonderful countryside
lazythursday
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yep it is there. Funny, I found a pic on some heritage site a few years ago showing really similar destruction on the same street in the 1930s. Don't trap streams under roads, it doesn't work.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
A few snaps from Gateshead this morning.
Back of the Co-op. This area has recently been opened up as part of the town centre redevelopment.
He Olde Fleece
Moon and Sixpence
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Regents Court
Curleys
Furniture shops
Computer House
Outdoor seating
Back of the Co-op. This area has recently been opened up as part of the town centre redevelopment.
He Olde Fleece
Moon and Sixpence
[Regents Court
Curleys
Furniture shops
Computer House
Outdoor seating
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Back of the Law Courts
Matalan
Flyover
longdog
What is it you can't face?
Mundane shopping precinct.
Very mundane toilets. It's hard to believe even the most dyed-in-the-wool brutalist architect ever thought that had any design merit to it whatsoever.
Dreadful pun. The owner of the shop got done for 'stickering' every lamp-post in Hull but rather than accept the £60 FPN with good grace
She came out with some cock and bull story about somebody stealing her stickers and blah, blah, blah. The court didn't believe her and neither did anyone else.
Prospect street. Home to charity shops, over-priced domestic appliance shops (No credit checks and only your entire income for life gets you this wanky cooker that you can get at half the price in Argos) and instant loan shops.
A gate-post which is pretty much all that remains of the old botanical (or is it zoological) gardens on Spring Bank. There was one on one side of the road and the other was on the other but I can't remember which was which. There's a cluster of three pubs on the corner called The Botanical, The Zoological and The Polar Bear, supposedly named after an unfortunate beast kept in the Victorian menagerie.
A mundane alley.
longdog
What is it you can't face?
A few snaps from Gateshead this morning.
Computer House
Do you think somebody had the idea that 'Computer House' was an edgy and futuristic name when they built it?
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