Mundane pictures of the North

[farmerbarleymow]

Extrator fans from takeaways on Portland Street.

 

[kwaimaisabai]

Great pics btw.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Great pics btw.

Thanks. It was a nice day to take pictures and mostly not too bright. I'm off next week so I'm thinking of going on a trip somewhere to take some more pictures. It's going to be either somewhere nice or somewhere awful. Not decided yet...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Another shot of this 1960s office block I posted earlier. I worked here briefly probably in 1996. It was at a Barclaycard call centre, dealing with their 'rewards' scheme where people could swap points for stuff like Breville toasters. It was an awful job, and the managers were utter cunts. I left in early September, and on the August Bank Holiday Monday I'd been to a gay pride night at GMEX where they'd turned the whole place into a club with funfair rides inside. I was off my tits and stumbled into the office straight from there and talked utter gibberish to the punters on the phones for a few hours. I suspect I fucked up a fair few accounts on that day!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Just next to that horrible building is the demolition site where they're demolishing a row of buildings opposite the Town Hall complex. Some of the buildings were crap, but the one in shot was a nice old Portland stone type clad building so its a shame to see it go. I'll try and find an earlier picture of the place.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is the building - the white stone one on the corner, from the window in the Central Library last year.

 

[quiet guy]

Didn't that building house one of the banks that went bust in the 90's?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Didn't that building house one of the banks that went bust in the 90's?

If memory serves, I think it was on the other end of that row, at the junction with Princess Street - BCCI.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/9/newsid_2498000/2498975.stm

I also found another article that says Bury Council eventually got back the lost cash 18 years later. Better late than never I suppose.

 

[blairsh]

Extrator fans from takeaways on Portland Street.

I really like this Team farmerbarleymow

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I really like this Team farmerbarleymow

Just think of all that vapourised fat being pumped out of those chimneys. Walk around that area and you get covered in a greasy sheen.

I sometimes wonder why you often see barrels of cooking oil in these back alleys - I guess they must be empties or used oil awaiting disposal, or perhaps they've been dumped?

 

[avu9lives]

Bury Castle

 

[avu9lives]

Hmmm!?

 

[avu9lives]

Yo Yo Knickers

 

[avu9lives]

The Dibble giving me the finger! Bury.

 

[avu9lives]

Realised why he was there now.... Gods people are on the march.

 

[avu9lives]

Bury indoor market

 

[avu9lives]

Black peas with lots of vinegar please.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Realised why he was there now.... Gods people are on the march.

The weekly execution of a sinner, I guess.

 

[avu9lives]

Black Puddings!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Black Puddings!

Lovely stuff. Worth a trip to Bury just to get some.

Although in quantity they do look like a big pile of mangled intestines.

 

[avu9lives]

Lovely stuff. Worth a trip to Bury just to get some.

Although in quantity they do look like a big pile of mangled intestines.

My dear old mother always says "they need to put some greenery round em" ?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A few from today.

Chetham's School of Music.

The back street behind the old buildings. Sadly the street is gated off so you can't wander through to take pictures.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The BRSA Club, by Victoria Station. I think this has been discussed before, and it is an undergound place that is abandoned.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A strange sight. A woman in a wedding dress wandering through town - I don't think I've ever seen anyone kitted up like this in town before.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A former industrial unit being demolished, just off Great Ancoats Street. In use until fairly recently I think. It'll probably end up as yet another car park.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

She didn't want to tell anyone yet, but moose has opened the first of her chain of coffee shops. Free tea and cake for all board members too!

 

[moose]

Actually, their coffee's shit I refuse to be associated with it.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Ashton Under Lyne - these lights were on red for an inordinate amount of time

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Morecambe - Pleasureland Arcade

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Pleasureland again