Mundane pictures of the North

[Throbbing Angel]

happened across a Book Fair in a village institute

 

[longdog]

You go in first then. I'll wait outside to see if you survive.

Survive my arse. You just want me to get the first round in

OK... What do you want? Lager, lager or lager?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Survive my arse. You just want me to get the first round in

OK... What do you want? Lager, lager or lager?

Damn, rumbled!

I'll have a crate of the finest champagne please.

 

[Sprocket.]

The Humber Princess and the lift bridge at Barnby Dunn on the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've seen quite a few boats using the canals in the city centre over the last few days - will have to remember to take my camera out next time as they make good mundane pictures. There is also something nice about watching people use the canals, and opening the lock gates.

Sadly, bodies are found in the city centre stretches of the canals with depressing regularity. Most are accidents after a night out, but one person has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a body was found last week.

 

[Sprocket.]

The Humber Princess above travels between Hull and Rotherham twice a week transporting oil products.
It passes us regularly when we are out with the dogs.
The vessel is one of the largest in use on our canals at sixty metres long and six metres wide, it carries the equivalent load of twenty HGVs, which is also good for the environment.

 

[Sprocket.]

Sunset over Sheffield and SY Navigation near Thorpe Marsh.

 

[Sprocket.]

Thorpe Marsh before the towers were flattened.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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Thorpe Marsh before the towers were flattened.

I have always liked cooling towers, and it is a shame they are being demolished.

 

[Sprocket.]

Looking the opposite way to Thorpe Marsh along the Sheffield and SY Navigation toward the start of the New Junction Canal (left) and the Stainforth and Keadby Canal (right).

 

[Sprocket.]

I have always liked cooling towers, and it is a shame they are being demolished.

Prefer the subtle curve of cooling towers to the starkness of wind turbines.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Prefer the subtle curve of cooling towers to the starkness of wind turbines.

I like both to be honest, but I grew up in an area with cooling towers where my dad worked at ICI Billingham, so have a fondness for them as they were such local landmarks. The four at that plant were named Tom and Jerry, and Pinky and Perky by the staff at the plant.

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[Frances Lengel]

Shit hot as always, neonwilderness.

 

[Fez909]

Leeds main shopping street, today

 

[Fez909]

Two schools in Burley, and Armley in the distance across the valley

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Leeds main shopping street, today

I hope you didn't catch ticks from the sheep.

 

[Sprocket.]

I hope you didn't catch ticks from the sheep.

Got two ticks from me!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Got two ticks from me!

I caught ticks from sheep on holidays on farms when I was a kid. Horrible little things.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

phone box scrawl near the hospital




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Local Church

 

[_angel_]

Leeds main shopping street, today

what?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

what?

Its Leeds, so that is normal for Yorkshire, and sheep mill around everywhere.

 

[_angel_]

Its Leeds, so that is normal for Yorkshire, and sheep mill around everywhere.

I never seen any. I know a deer came into town once..

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I never seen any. I know a deer came into town once..

Leeds city centre is a bit far from Temple Newsham where I think they have deer, so it must have got lost by a long way.

 

[_angel_]

Leeds city centre is a bit far from Temple Newsham where I think they have deer, so it must have got lost by a long way.

it wandered in off the motorway. Tbf deer are everywhere in Leeds/ west yorks.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

it wandered in off the motorway. Tbf deer are everywhere in Leeds/ west yorks.

I hope it was rounded up and was returned to a more suitable environment. I certainly haven't seen deer in Manchester city centre - or sheep for that matter!

Thinking about it, apart from foxes, I think the only animals I've seen in the built up area were some reindeer in Oldham town centre a few years ago for the xmas stuff. A lot smaller than I thought too.

 

[_angel_]

I hope it was rounded up and was returned to a more suitable environment. I certainly haven't seen deer in Manchester city centre - or sheep for that matter!

Thinking about it, apart from foxes, I think the only animals I've seen in the built up area were some reindeer in Oldham town centre a few years ago for the xmas stuff. A lot smaller than I thought too.

Saw a deer coming into Shipley. They are also in most spaces, the land down near kirkstall abbey/bridge, they're down there and at Roundhay park too. Me mum saw one crossing street lane once!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Saw a deer coming into Shipley. They are also in most spaces, the land down near kirkstall abbey/bridge, they're down there and at Roundhay park too. Me mum saw one crossing street lane once!

I wonder if there are any at Heaton Park here, as that is a large park like Roundhay. I can't remember noticing any when I've been there though. I'll have to look into where they might be n the Greater Manchester and go and have a look.

 

[ddraig]

what?

lost your shame and came back?

 

[Fez909]

I hope you didn't catch ticks from the sheep.

No ticks! Kept my distance from those woolley bastards