Mundane pictures of the North

[Roadkill]

Ten or fifteen years ago this would have been a deeply mundane sight, but these days this is more 'cool as fuck photos of the north':





Mint-condition Ford Capri, parked outside a cafe on Newland Avenue, presumably where the owner could keep an eye on it!

 

[neonwilderness]

Mundane 1970s Gateshead
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/gateshead-1970s-old-photos-show-8954198

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Latest on the new building on the site of the old Aytoun Street Labour Exchange.

 

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Criminal bridge. This bridge takes the condemned into the cells of the Crown Court. The towpath is one of the places where 'The Pusher' lurks, ready to murder people. Something like 60 odd people have been hauled out of waterways in the city in the past few years or so, and some people are suggesting that there is a serial killer afoot. Manchester does have previous for serial killing, so possible.

Handily, there is also a probation office on the next street at the top of Canal Street.

The Assizes from the other side:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Boring brown building.

 

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Tatty looking office block on New York Street.

 

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The old telephone exchange on New York Street, possibly where an entrance to the secret nuclear bunker is.

This doorway has always looked unused, and I wonder whether it has anything to do with it.

Secret nuclear bunker main entrance.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Princess Street

An odd row of houses still intact among the Victorian warehouses.

 

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Chinatown.

And on a back alley in the area, in case anyone feels the urge:

 

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Gladstone dancing to Saturday Night Fever, Albert Square.

 

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Gratuitous shot of the Town Hall.

 

[Pickman's model]

could you do a review of tropical palms, Hateful Blobfish?

 

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The fountain built to celebrate the completion of the aquaduct from Thirlmere. I think the worthies gathered here to watch the first water emerge from this fountain after its journey from the Lake District.

Nice water spout.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

could you do a review of tropical palms, Hateful Blobfish?

You go and do it, you:

 

[Pickman's model]

Criminal bridge. This bridge takes the condemned into the cells of the Crown Court. The towpath is one of the places where 'The Pusher' lurks, ready to murder people. Something like 60 odd people have been hauled out of waterways in the city in the past few years or so, and some people are suggesting that there is a serial killer afoot. Manchester does have previous for serial killing, so possible.

Handily, there is also a probation office on the next street at the top of Canal Street.

The Assizes from the other side:

you've never seen this pusher, have you?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

For some unearthly reason, they gave these dull buildings planning permission right opposite the Town Hall. At least they're not concrete I suppose.

 

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This ornate building used to be an Inland Revenue office.

And it has its very own unicorn.

 

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Looks like they ordered the wrong-sized doors, and had to quickly brick up the gaps.

 

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Victorian / 1960s / 2015

 

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Looking down Oxford Road towards the Universities. Old Odeon on the immediate left.

 

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Boring new buildings. No imagination at all.

 

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Not sure what this building was originally, but the four statues on the second floor have one of these words carved at their base - Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Bland. Former Co-op building, not sure what it is now.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

you've never seen this pusher, have you?

No, that's because I threw out all my mirrors.

 

[kwaimaisabai]

the old Aytoun Street Labour Exchange.

Signed on there myself for many a year.

 

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not sure what it is now.

Portland Tower? I used to work in the Monkey oposite.

ETA: Wasn't there a Yeats' or something similar on the ground floor for a while?

 

[kwaimaisabai]

I need a weekend in Manc.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Portland Tower? I used to work in the Monkey oposite.

ETA: Wasn't there a Yeats' or something similar on the ground floor for a while?

Portland Tower is the one over the road from the one I posted above.

And you can just see Yates's Wine Lodge in this picture of the Britannia Hotel.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Art Gallery, Moseley Street

 

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Side of Midland Hotel.