Mundane pictures of the North

[farmerbarleymow]

A little street off Deansgate with nice old townhouses on it.

 

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Random alley.

 

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The Opera House on Quay Street. Horrible pastel colours.

 

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Quay House on Quay Street, being demolished by the look of it.

 

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Overseas House on the corner of Deansgate and Quay Street. There are a few similar brown brick buildings in town and all look boring. Sainsbury's and Tesco battle for market share at street level though.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Walkabout bar on Quay Street - this is where the police coralled the EDL idiots the other weekend when they were in town.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This looks like it might be one of the old medieval streets curving up to the Town Hall. The Victorian street pattern is much more grid-like and laid down on top of the original street plan.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Another side street heading up to the Town Hall.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

St John's Gardens, the site of a former burial ground with 22,000 bodies underneath it.

 

[neonwilderness]

Newcastle

 

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Brett Oil in Gateshead

 

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Gateshead West Station (long closed)

 

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Gateshead East Station would have been on the other viaduct

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Newcastle

I wonder if they went and found the brick to prop the bottle on top of, or whether the brick already lived there?

I see a lot of that round where I live - but bottles of crappy stuff like Lambrini. Obviously down-market drunkards wandering round this area.

 

[kwaimaisabai]

This looks like it might be one of the old medieval streets curving up to the Town Hall.

Isn't the Guardian exchange down there?

 

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[kwaimaisabai]

A not so mundane eclipse through mundane Bradford clouds.

 

[Roadkill]

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Where's that? It looks like Killingholme oil refinery.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Where's that? It looks like Killingholme oil refinery.

It is indeed!

 

[kwaimaisabai]

Squire's cafe. Sherburn in Elmet.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Isn't the Guardian exchange down there?

There might be an entrance to it round there, but there's a substantial one more towards Chinatown I think which I've taken pictures of before.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Squire's cafe. Sherburn in Elmet.

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I remember doing a temporary job there in an industrial estate. Sorting and picking shop fittings in a Kwik Save warehouse one summer in the early 90s.

 

[Roadkill]

On my way to a meeting today I went past this, on Stoneferry Road:

'Oh my God! They've taken over Hull too! #foxnewsfacts'

 

[kwaimaisabai]

there's a substantial one more towards Chinatown

I got the location of your picture wrong and mixed up Deansgate with round the back of the Odeon.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I got the location of your picture wrong and mixed up Deansgate with round the back of the Odeon.

That's where it is! I was trying to remember where the entrance at that side of town was, but couldn't think beyond the general area. There is one in Salford I think somewhere - I'll have to find out where they are and go on a wander.

 

[kwaimaisabai]

There is one in Salford I think

I think there's one up towards Ardwick as well. I'd love to go down there.

 

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