Mundane pictures of the North

[tufty79]

today's mundanity (edited in cos it wouldn't upload from my phone)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Another mundane knackered mill building - probably ripe for redevelopment into flats at some point. It would be great to have windows that size in a flat.



The old Ancoats Dispensary, extremely fragile and held up by scaffolding, with large containers of water to act as ballast. There's a campaign to save it as it is quite a local icon historically.

Front:



Back:

 

[Callie]

Another mundane knackered mill building - probably ripe for redevelopment into flats at some point.

thats ace - i like those pointy slopey rooves

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A towpath tunnel on the Rochdale Canal...



...with some curious graffiti...



...and some boring graffiti...



...and some conspiraloon graffiti...



...and some slanty hairy cobbles.

 

[killer b]

oh, i like the poem. good spot.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Another mundane canal side factory.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Damn! Totally ruined my mundane trek - I was looking forward to some lewd conduct.

 

[seeformiles]

Like this? (also from Manchester & worth posting again..):

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The warmest street in Manchester.

 

[Dillinger4]

Temperance Street. Apt.

That's right classy that. I hope thats a cig in her left hand.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Like this? (also from Manchester & worth posting again..):

That follows - it is that sort of area! I love the way she seems to holding a fag in her other hand while doing the deed!

The road that runs under the bridge with the white arches is really busy, so a bit close to passing traffic and buses full of bored people looking out the window.

The lewd conduct I had in mind was far worse than that!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Fancy a pint?

 

[Dillinger4]

If you look there now he is zipping up his pants and she is walking off

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A smorgasbord of mundanity.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This mill has been converted into nice flats, and I presume this is the communal swimming pool the developers promised in their shiny brochure.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is the old Labour Exchange on Aytoun Street, and has been disintegrating like this for donkeys years. Oddly, it is directly opposite the Minshull Street Crown Court which is a lovely building, so a bit of a local eyesore right in the city centre.

Very 1950s civic architecture though.

 

[killer b]

that's a grand building. hope someone does something with it before it crumbles beyond repair...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Northern Quarter - some graffiti and the site of a former lovely building that burned down in curious circumstances.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

More NQ. The first is a backstreet, which looks nicely industrial. I quite like that these sort of streets are still in the city centre.



This is another old set of buildings over the road. If you removed the street furniture you could be in the 19th century.

 

[Dillinger4]

I thought that was the back of the old Odeon near St Peters Square.

Little known fact: behind the Odeon there used to be a box that looked like an electricity box or ventilation shaft. It was actually one of the entrances to a tunnel underneath Manchester built as a nuclear bunker / hardened communications system during the Cold War.

This is it

 

[Dillinger4]

Also, whilst I am at it, it is fairly easy to get right to the top of the tower of The Palace Hotel. My friend used to work there and knew how to get up there, we went up and smoked a spliff up there

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Time for some hideously mundane buildings. Why oh why were these ever given planning permission!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm not sure whether they are saying they haven't quite mastered the art of making kebabs.

'It's a kebab - ish'

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is my favourite bit of wall décor in town - lovely and cheerful, and a good use of a gable end.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And last but not least, the true essence of the North.

 

[mauvais]

Liking these pictures of mills etc.

I once climbed in here, in Ancoats:

but it doesn't exist any more.

 

[Fez909]

Is that just up from Kirkstall Lights and the Leisure centre?

Yep.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

that's a grand building. hope someone does something with it before it crumbles beyond repair...

It is, but I think it has been left to rot for so long it is beyond saving. There was a plan to build a swanky tower block there, but as with others, the money ran out in the crash.

And so it sits, sad and forlorn, waiting for the wrecking ball.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I thought that was the back of the old Odeon near St Peters Square.

Little known fact: behind the Odeon there used to be a box that looked like an electricity box or ventilation shaft. It was actually one of the entrances to a tunnel underneath Manchester built as a nuclear bunker / hardened communications system during the Cold War.

This is it

I've always wanted to go down into those tunnels - they look amazing. I've bought a couple of books about underground Manchester, and there are quite a lot of them, some quite mysterious as there are no plans for them so no-one quite knows where they go as some of the tunnels are impassable now.

There are also entrances on New York Street (in the old telephone exchange), Salford, and Albert Square in some former public loos which have long gone now.

 

[Part 2]

I'd love to go in the old jobcentre on Aytoun St. Many memories of signing on there years ago.