neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Those ones (and some of the others I've posted) are in/near the town centre. I live about a mile away. Most or the stuff I've posted is within 10-15 miles of where I live.
Mundane pictures of the North
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Johnny Canuck3
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Well, thanks again for taking the time to post up these photos.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
this ship in grimsby doesn't go anywhere, it's by the sainsbury's by the museum there
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
eya, woh u on abowt m8? a'll smash yer ed in inna minute, ya fucken daft cunt
Violent threats the answer eh, yer fuckin halfwit?
Yer soft bag o' Boro shite.
Outside now, and I'll fucking deck yer.
The denizens of Leeds need to go and take pictures of the uni campus, as the concrete building their are extremely mundane. The terraces up by the old Burtons factory in Harehills would be good as they are very boring. I used to work at that factory many many moons ago.
...calling Fez909 and tufty79...
i used to eat my lunch in the factory canteen many many moons ago - was a callcentremonkey for the office next to it that did burton's storecards. the memories of speaking to the kids who worked in topshop/topman, phoning through storecard applications still haunt me
nice graveyard up opposite jimmy's that way as well..
and the becklin centre's round the corner. i may have been there a couple of times
Fez909
toilet expert
Violent threats the answer eh, yer fuckin halfwit?
Yer soft bag o' Boro shite.
Outside now, and I'll fucking deck yer.
orright gadgie, calm ye fuken self down, like.
(this needs to stop
- I'm not posting again til I have a picture )
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
middleham castle last year when i passed by while i was on holiday
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
and i quite liked this one i took on the same holiday
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
orright gadgie, calm ye fuken self down, like.
(this needs to stop
Typical boro lad - all mouth and no trousers!
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Typical boro lad - all mouth and no trousers!
david shayler - a boro lad - recently (not one of my pictures, btw)
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
sheep in the snow in yorkshire this march
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
some strange plant on a wall in a field in yorkshire in march
That's the Ross Tiger, an old middle-water trawler now owned by the Fishing Heritage Centre. As you'd expect, on the north bank we do things bigger and better than in Lincolnshire:
Arctic Corsair, the last distant-water side trawler, which landed its final catch in Hull in 1987. (Not my picture.)
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I didn't realise they'd extended the trams to Rochdale, must be fairly recent?
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I think they are in the final stages of getting it ready for opening. The line already runs to the railway station in Rochdale, but they are extending it to the town centre with a scheduled opening date of 2014. They really need to extend it to the town centre as the station is quite a distance away if memory serves.
King Biscuit Time
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That's moss during it's sporophyte generation phase iirc from A level biology.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
you have the advantage there because i only did chemistry history and maths.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
orright gadgie, calm ye fuken self down, like.
(this needs to stop
That was fun re-living my youth in Teesside.
This is a good site with the Teesside dialect explained to anyone reading who is hopelessly confused by our exchange:
http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/teesspeak/page3.phtml
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
i used to eat my lunch in the factory canteen many many moons ago - was a callcentremonkey for the office next to it that did burton's storecards. the memories of speaking to the kids who worked in topshop/topman, phoning through storecard applications still haunt me
nice graveyard up opposite jimmy's that way as well..
and the becklin centre's round the corner. i may have been there a couple of times
I worked in the picking warehouse boxing up orders for the shops across the country. Always interesting to see what type of clothes were being bought in different regions - shell suits were very popular in Essex at the time I recall.
People bought some hideous clothes from those shops - we used to laugh at some of the stuff we had to box up for an order.We used to ride along the rails in the hanging warehouse when the supervisors weren't around by grabbing one of the suspended rails and running down the ramp to pick up speed.
It was a huge site wasn't it? I think it employed 10,000 people when it was a garment factory.
I was on a casual contract, and whether you got work or not depended on how fast you picked orders, and they used to check the league tables every day to decide who got work. Luckily I'm a fast walker so usually got called in. In effect a zero-hours contract though.
And if you were late in clocking in you were quartered for even being 1 minute late. The buses were rubbish at 6am so I started to walk from Hyde Park area to work each morning.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I've just read the wiki, blimey, I didn't know half of how much it's grown since I was living there. Down to Didsbury now as well!
I really need to spend a weekend in Manchester at some point soon, check out how much has changed in the last 15 years
They were in a centre over Corporation Street from the Arndale (which as you rightly say, was grim before the bomb), in this 'beautiful' building. None of these are my pics.
And this was them part way through this place being built, after they'd been jacked up to reach the right floor level as the then new centre. Leaving after chucking out time looked a bit precarious...
Shambles Square was great - Windswept as fuck, place had character. And there was a bridge going from Shambles to the Ramada hotel in the 80's and at the end of the bridge were some escalators that were completely vandalised and graffiti'd and looked New York as fuck. I used to like St Peter's precinct in Oldham as well (it was where the Spindles shopping centre is now) - That was a similarly windswept concrete wasteland.
I remember when Spindles was being built and there were all boards around the site which had been decorated with romanticised depictions of mills from yesteryear. Anyway, someone had defaced it by writing "You rewrite history with colourful paint to camoflage your white elephant monolith". And under one of the pictures of a mill (Monarch IIRC) they'd written "Killed your ancestors" and drew a plume of smoke topped by a death's head coming out of the chimney.
Anyway, here's a book of photos by a guy called Sefton Samuels which some of you might like.
http://www.seftonphoto.co.uk/northerners/
The no nonsense bit does make it sound a bit corny but it really isn't.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
We have been to Arnside with my iPod touch in tow
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Clasper Village, Gateshead
This is all due to be pulled down at some point
The flats in the distance on the right are next to the Garden Festival stuff I posted a couple of weeks ago
A few of the flats still have residents, as can be seen here
I don't remember taking this one
Plenty of TVs going spare if you want one farmerbarleymow
This is all due to be pulled down at some point
The flats in the distance on the right are next to the Garden Festival stuff I posted a couple of weeks ago
A few of the flats still have residents, as can be seen here
I don't remember taking this one
Plenty of TVs going spare if you want one farmerbarleymow
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
<pops up to Gateshead>
If it didn't exist you'd have to invent it. A giant of a man in every sense.
Kingsbridge court and some maisonettes. Both the maisonettes and the flats are in grave peril coz of the bedroom tax. They're mainly 2 and 3 berth properties which aren't suitable for families.
Nuclear free city bullshit from the 80's. Let's not forget though, it was the same council who brought us this type of bollocks who also had a no redundancies policy and regularly held rent amnesties. Them days were better than nowadays, no mistake.
Shop on rochdale Rd that used to be a pub.
Collyhurst Village.
Condemned maisonettes.
Reprieved maisonettes.
Abandoned building in Collyhurst.
A viaduct in Collyhurst.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Houses in Collyhurst.
Ok then.
Al fresco living room, Hampson st, Miles Platting.
This used to be a pub called the Notts Castle. M/P.
Tree growing out of the top of poor old Rodney.
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