Mundane pictures of the North

[farmerbarleymow]

Did any of the denizens of Hull (Roadkill, longdog) go to take pictures of this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-23635445

Can't beat a good demolition using explosives.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Me and FBM have carved it up between us - He gets town and the nondescript southside places. I get the northside hinterlands where a lesser man's camera might get taxed. I wouldn't have it any other way TBH. Every place I've took pics of means something to me one way or another.

You two are making me miss Manchester (not Miss Manchester - different ball game altogether that one - well no ball game, feck sake, stop rambling)




Snail at the end of our road

 

[farmerbarleymow]

You two are making me miss Manchester (not Miss Manchester - different ball game altogether that one - well no ball game, feck sake, stop rambling)

I reckon you'd lovely in a sash while wearing a swimsuit.

 

[longdog]

Did any of the denizens of Hull (Roadkill, longdog) go to take pictures of this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-23635445

Can't beat a good demolition using explosives.

Yeah... I went to watch it but no pictures of it actually happening. It's not until you watch one in real life you realise just how fast the bastards come down. It's just BANG! gone. By the time you've hit the button on a phone camera it's too late.

I do have a before and after...

There it was gone

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm very disappointed that you don't have better reflexes.

 

[longdog]

I'm very disappointed that you don't have better reflexes.

I do. My phone doesn't.

I did toy with the idea of using my fancy filum camera but then I couldn't be arsed buying new batteries and a filum

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I do. My phone doesn't.

I did toy with the idea of using my fancy filum camera but then I couldn't be arsed buying new batteries and a filum

The cost is one of the reasons I bought a digital camera - it costs loads to keep buying film and processing it, and it tends to make you stingier of what pictures you take, whereas with digital I'll happily take as many as I like as long as the battery lasts (the memory card is 64GB so capacity isn't an issue).

You've made me wonder whether my camera takes multiple shots for things like demolitions. Will have to check.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Used to have a fantastic Nikon digital camera that did 16 shots in rapid succession.
Used a CF card - soooooo long ago.

My son has a couple of film SLRs and the cost is the thing that keeps him away from it. Shame really.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Been on a wee bit of a wander today round Oxford Road / University area so might have some boring pictures to post later.

 

[Fez909]

I wasn't able to get any pictures of boro due to the circumstances of my visit (illness and death) but I did manage to sneak a handful in of Stockton, just to piss off farmerbarleymow. I doubt you'd venture to these badlands, anyhow, eh?

All pictures are of the Wrensfield Estate/beck

 

[Fez909]

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I used to walk along that bank often on the way to town or friends houses. From Browns Bridge to a road that skirts a more industrial bit (Grangefield Road). Used to walk along the main road that goes over Browns Bridge on the way to town (Bishopton Road) - there is a catholic church opposite the beck, and a primary school nearby, and then a really steep hill up towards town.

A great uncle lived in that area many years ago, who my gran used to take my dad (they used to live with him before when my dad was young as my gran was a single mother after getting divorced in the early 1940s), and my mam used to take my older brother (this was all before I was born).

Lustrum Beck seriously flooded a couple of years back and the area was impassable. The aerial pictures looked ace, but obviously not good for those who live there.

Your photos were around the middle of this picture I think (not mine):

I'm sorry to hear your trip wasn't under better circumstances.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is embarrassingly spoddy, but this is the route I took today starting from Piccadilly station. The GPS track is a bit dodgy, as it always has some interference in built up areas due to signal deflection from buildings. So I didn't really walk through whole blocks as the map suggests. Sadly I don't have superpowers.

 

[cyberfairy]

 

[cyberfairy]

A pub in the not quite lake district but with lake district prices but not Lake District fancy gastropub pine and farrow and Ball decor. Worst of both worlds but did have a good cider.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Methinks you are taking the piss out of my spoddy GPS map.

 

[cyberfairy]

Methinks you are taking the piss out of my spoddy GPS map.

I only took it to try and show the random rummaging chicken which you can't actually see
but now you mention it...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I only took it to try and show the random rummaging chicken which you can't actually see
but now you mention it...

I'll let you off! My post was about as geeky as it gets, so fair game anyway.

 

[Fez909]

Lustrum Beck seriously flooded a couple of years back and the area was impassable. The aerial pictures looked ace, but obviously not good for those who live there.

I've got some pictures from last year's flood on my old phone. If I remember, I'll get them off tomorrow and post on here!

 

[killer b]

i found this carved into the wall at work last week.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

update: went to the shops yesterday - snail has gone

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Sure it wasn't squashed by a car or eaten by a bird?

 

[Throbbing Angel]

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm always tempted to rescue them and put them on soil/grass. I always rescue earthworms crawling on pavements, whether they want to be rescued or not!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Some pictures of my wander towards the University yesterday.

Progress update on the demolition of the old Twisted Wheel. Rear section of the building has now been levelled compared to an earlier picture of this I posted. The building on the right is to go too, so only the corner hotel will remain, and look very odd against tall new buildings.



A close of the remaining bit awaiting demolition - looks like toilets might have been against that wall on each floor given the tiles and the marks of partitions between them.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

On the UMIST campus now (now part of Manchester uni following the merger a few years ago). Two sculptures - first a pair of ginormous magnets...



...and I think this is supposed to be Eureka, getting out of his bath:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Random buildings on the campus. They really do seem to specialise in really boring buildings here.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The Faraday Building. I guess they specialise in all things electrical here? Again, dull dull dull. But it has an interesting concrete pattern on the side walls. City Tower in town has a similar concrete design on its side walls, which is supposed to represent a circuit board (given the link between computers and Manchester).





Looking towards the slip road to the Mancunian Way:



Looking back up Sackville Street towards the city centre:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Looky News! I wonder the owner has the surname Looky?

 

[Fez909]

Looky News! I wonder the owner has the surname Looky?

I took it more as, "Lookie here! News!"