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Mundane pictures of the North

ta! there's some well nice stencil/spraying/sharpie-ing around at the minute - think i took those last year..
am off on a snappingtour along the canal by kirkstall/along the ridge again soon. :)
 
woodhouse street, acksherley :p well spotted! i lived round that way for years (give or take a london sabattical) - was sad to leave, but now realising what the non-student-ghetto of leeds is like and absolutely love it :)
 
tufty79 said:
woodhouse street, acksherley :p well spotted! i lived round that way for years (give or take a london sabattical) - was sad to leave, but now realising what the non-student-ghetto of leeds is like and absolutely love it :)
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Aha - I used to live round the corner in two different places - one up towards the ridge, and the other facing the park itself. :cool:
 
same :hmm:
except five different places - four up towards the ridge, and one facing the park *twilight zone music* :cool: :D
 
I remember on street I lived on near the ridge was very tatty and mundane - very much crappy student housing. The one facing the park was nice though, albeit with no central heating. Scraping the ice off the inside of the window in winter was fun.
 
one of the houses i lived in, backing right onto the ridge, was called 'the slanty shanty' - it was sinking on both front/back sides (back to the ridge, and front towards the japanese knotweed decimating the front yard. there was also a disused rusty wheelchair in the basement with the dangerous stairs, and a landlord who used to let himself in and mutter mildly wondering where his fairly late rent was.
glorious times :D
right, sorry, totally threadjacking with nostalgia now :oops:
 
I lived in a really shitty house which wasn't even earthed. Kept getting electric shocks from anything metal. Surprised we survived. I bet crappy student houses would make ace mundane pictures. :)
 
hyde park christmas (july 1st, when all the student contracts are up and they all move out and leave most of their possessions on the street/in the garden/spilling out of wheeliebins/piled up in front doorways) is coming up - i will take a camera :)
 
tufty79 said:
hyde park christmas (july 1st, when all the student contracts are up and they all move out and leave most of their possessions on the street/in the garden/spilling out of wheeliebins/piled up in front doorways) is coming up - i will take a camera :)
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Excellent - can't beat streets looking like open-air council tips for mundanity. When people see you taking photos they'll probably think you're a spy from the council looking out for fly-tipping. :D
 
Right, I've been studying the map of the city centre, and after doing a wide circuit the other day, I've devised a plan of action. I'll target a zone at a time so sort of divvy it up into slices, and capture as much mundane things are possible.

I'll even try and get a pic of the best factory in the world - where they make dead fly pies - as that isn't far away. :)
 
Some canalside relics:

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Somewhere near Diggle

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And Ashton.
 
Went through there by canal boat a couple of years ago. You see lots and lots of knackered mills by boat... Shall be doing the Calder & Hebble / South Yorkshire navigations shortly, which should offer up plenty in the way of the mundane. Some quite marvellous power stations that way as I recall.
 
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