Mundane pictures of the North

[cyberfairy]

Blimey....is it a nursery? I wasn't paying attention when I was there. I was dropping a load of toys off at International Rescue round the corner. The main hing that struck me later, when looking at the photo, was thAt the font reminds me of Farm Foods or something similar, some frozen food shop anyway.

It is indeed a nursery- I threaten my toddler with it sometimes just out of spite. Not had a decent charity shop crawl around the West End for a while- although only the Animal Care one seems to sell stuff at an unoutrageous price.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

This is the piece of land right next door to my flat in the mill.

I think you should trawl the collective minds of Urban to come up with a load of balls about what it represents, and then we'll sell the whole lot as a modern art installation

 

[Shirl]

My neighbours are a moany lot.One has already emailed the developer with threats. I'll leave it to them

7.30am today and two blokes in a van have turned up to deal with it. Looks like my neighbour's threats worked

 

[farmerbarleymow]

7.30am today and two blokes in a van have turned up to deal with it. Looks like my neighbour's threats worked

You can't beat middle-class anger to get things sorted. I bet they threatened to write to the Daily Mail.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I passed the tatty shipping container yard on the train today on my way back from B & Q.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And I spotted one of my favourite innuendo laden words chalked up in the gay village. Flange is such a superb word!

ETA - preferably combined with the word 'moist'.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Nice one for keeping it going FBM. I need to get back on this next week.

 

[The Boy]

I passed the tatty shipping container yard on the train today on my way back from B & Q.

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Ardwick?

 

[cyberfairy]

Ancient church in centre of Wigan had a charity shop open in building attached to it- apparently only open a few weeks a year and this was the last day. Utterly amazing inside and full of wonderful tat. Got an Italian mens cashmere coat for 2 quid.

 

[cyberfairy]

 

[cyberfairy]

Another Wigan building

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Ardwick?

Yes indeed - just by that station. I posted a pic of this a while back from the platform but haven't been able to get it from the tracks before now. Annoyingly I saw some other odd graffiti as I passed but wasn't quick enough.

* cue pointless return trip to Stockport just for this thread. Assuming the train slows down enough to take a picture. *

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Another Wigan building

Ooh I like the brickwork on that. I saw some lovely terracotta on a building on the A6 just outside of Stockport which I'll have to take pictures of.

 

[Orang Utan]

And I spotted one of my favourite innuendo laden words chalked up in the gay village. Flange is such a superb word!

ETA - preferably combined with the word 'moist'.

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Have you got a pic of Anal Treet?

 

[Fez909]

Ooh I like the brickwork on that. I saw some lovely terracotta on a building on the A6 just outside of Stockport which I'll have to take pictures of.

If you're in Stockport, the council building on Piccadilly is an ace building: a massive brutalist imposing thing that wouldn't have seemed out of place in the USSR. I have tried to take pictures of it before but it's too big and my skills weren't good enough to get a decent shot of it.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Have you got a pic of Anal Treet?

I'm certain that I do somewhere - will search and post. You can't beat a good anal treet after all.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

If you're in Stockport, the council building on Piccadilly is an ace building: a massive brutalist imposing thing that wouldn't have seemed out of place in the USSR. I have tried to take pictures of it before but it's too big and my skills weren't good enough to get a decent shot of it.

Either I've been totally blind, or just oblivious, but I've not noticed this. Even more reasons to make a return trip!

 

[Fez909]

Either I've been totally blind, or just oblivious, but I've not noticed this. Even more reasons to make a return trip!

Hmm, I just got a better pic from street view than I did when I was there! Must be the fish-eye-like distortion on the photosphere software that Google uses.

Hope this doesn't dissuade you from trying to get your own pic of it!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm certain that I do somewhere - will search and post. You can't beat a good anal treet after all.

I can't find one quickly, despite knowing for certain that I do have a photo of that sign, but here is the next best alternative. Not mine obviously.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Hmm, I just got a better pic from street view than I did when I was there! Must be the fish-eye-like distortion on the photosphere software that Google uses.

Hope this doesn't dissuade you from trying to get your own pic of it!

Fucking hell that's vile!

Definitely a return trip to mundane Stockport is in order just for that.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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[Fez909]

Fucking hell that's vile!

Definitely a return trip to mundane Stockport is in order just for that.

I actually grew to like it after walking past it twice a day and seeing it in all weather. In the sun it looks quite nice, but of course the sun is a rare beast around there so it usually blended into the sky!

There's a horrendous new annex on the other end which is pretty shit and doesn't match the existing building whatsoever. The entrance to the place is the worst thing about it though. Vile doesn't do it justice.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Ta for the tips. Off to Stockport I go...

 

[cyberfairy]

There is a pub whose name has been modified to The Anal Turn instead of Canal Turn. It is the best thing about Carnforth apart from the station.

 

[cyberfairy]

There must have been some furious arguments about how to create this building to best assimilate itself seamlessly into its Victorian Wigan neighbours.

 

[The Boy]

Fucking hell that's vile!

Definitely a return trip to mundane Stockport is in order just for that.

There's a lot of very mundane concrete stuff in the part of town around the bus station. The shopping centre was particularly awful iirc.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

There's a lot of very mundane concrete stuff in the part of town around the bus station. The shopping centre was particularly awful iirc.

I must have been selectively blind as I just didn't notice this the last time I was there. Will have to pay more attention next time I'm there.

The shopping centre is shit - that is true.

 

[cyberfairy]

I am shocked and saddened at the lack of Grimsby in this thread.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I am shocked and saddened at the lack of Grimsby in this thread.

We'll have to organise school trips for all these places that are missing from the thread.

 

[cyberfairy]

First stop Nelson then Fleetwood and Blackpool. Roll up, roll up, you'll wish you had never been born!