I slept here once..
Right behind this billboard - I wasn't homeless, just temporarily locked out of the world.
Anyway, I wish I'd have known about this place.
Mundane pictures of the North
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I slept here once.. Right behind this billboard - I wasn't homeless, just temporarily locked out of the world. Anyway, I wish I'd have known about this place.
Irlam Street.
Irlam St substation.
The metal mountain - Actually a scrapyard on Irlam St. The Metal Mountain though is an unpublished story by this guy...John Healyhttp://www.thegrassarena.net/
An actual surgical spirit drinking London-Irish tramp who not only got himself off the streets and became a chess master but wrote a book as well - And it's not just that he's told an interesting story, the guy can write. Well. A properly remarkable man. And he's still alive. Let's hope The Metal Mountain gets published in his lifetime. Anyway, I'd urge anyone & everyone to read the Grass Arena.
Oh shit - Nah, it's only display.
Best streetname ever - This is where it could all begin - We get a house on hear then everything we've ever wanted comes effortlessly true on a semi mythical Starcross Walk of our dreams.Or some bullshit.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
That must be that odd business flogging statues/carvings/fireplaces just over the road from the 24 hour garage. They always had white plaster fireplaces propped up against the front on the main road when I used to pass by on the bus.
The Amber Club - You could skin up in here.
Just a wall now with nothing behind it. I remember years back, one of my uncles was working here (obviously when it was more than just a wall) - A guy in his forties or maybe fifties doing a bullshit labouring job that required no skill for about ten pence a week. Anyway he went "I've got to get out of that shithole - The job's a waste of time and the bogs are hanging" - I know what he meant about bogs, workplace toilets are always a joke - Fuck hearing someone on the throne. Or them hearing you. People need dignity.So what he did was feign the symptoms of schizophrenia - His son actually was schizophrenic so he was coached by an expert. He could've got on the sick just by saying he was depressed or had a bad back but he wanted (and got) to be signed off on the sick for life and get DLA. In a way that's bad coz it plays into the anti benefit narrative that's going on ATM, but fuck it - Uncle Gordon did what he needed to do. For himself. And what happened to the fuckin "white heat of technology, people will have to retrain to be able to make use of the abundance of leisure time" line that men and women of his generation were fed. I'd want my money back as well.
That must be that odd business flogging statues/carvings/fireplaces just over the road from the 24 hour garage. They always had white plaster fireplaces propped up against the front on the main road when I used to pass by on the bus.
It is. It's been there ages though, so someone must buy them.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
There must be a vast untapped market where people buy plaster cast cherubs and the like.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
I sometimes used to get off the bus on the way home after a drinking session in town to have a piss round the back of the run down buildings on this stretch of Oldham Road.
Eh, got off the bus to have a piss?!
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Some friends of mine used to live round the corner from there. It always made me laugh when I passed as they've made no attempt whatsoever to make it look like anything else
Puddy_Tat
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dunno really
there is a Quinnell Close in Plumstead, SE London.
I want to live at No. 4...
I want to start doing some night ones as well.
dunno really
there is a Quinnell Close in Plumstead, SE London.
I want to live at No. 4...
Not as good as Starcross Walk - No way.
Bladder the size of a
Yeah but, like TA says - You'd have pissed on the bus surely?
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
cyberfairy
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I have been to Blackpool with a toddler! I am now drinking strong vodka.
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You're well coolI have been to Blackpool with a toddler! I am now drinking strong vodka.
cyberfairy
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I love donkeys more than any other animal. I used to have a donkey called Jezebel and if ever I had any land again a donkey would be the first thing I'd get. I think that's why wolfie makes sure we stay here in a flat.
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I like their sheer bloody-mindedness and rolling eyes- perpetual angry teenagers with a dash of the devil.I love donkeys more than any other animal. I used to have a donkey called Jezebel and if ever I had any land again a donkey would be the first thing I'd get. I think that's why wolfie makes sure we stay here in a flat.
Yes, there's all that but apart from sometimes kicking you on the shins, they are just really lovely and gentle.
cyberfairy
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Oh definitely. In my dream world, the kids being extremely very naughty on the park opposite which consists of a lone swing (they are very resourceful it must be said) are replaced by a load of borked rescue goats, donkeys and ex battery chickens.Yes, there's all that but apart from sometimes kicking you on the shins, they are just really lovely and gentle.
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