Mundane pictures of the North

[Throbbing Angel]

Aye

And just around the corner from the best named street in Manchester

*Sparkle Street*

 

[farmerbarleymow]

You can't get away with anything embarrassing these days!

It was you wasn't it!

 

[Sprocket.]

It was you wasn't it!

Ah well I suppose trying to reply to a thread on urban when driving is not a good idea!

 

[avu9lives]

Not mine but Manchester artist Wanksy, who has decided to draw penises around potholes in order to draw attention to them.

 

[longdog]

Totally Mexico!

I thought it looked more like Nouvion and should have a piano and Madame Edith

 

[longdog]

I have no recollection of taking this picture.



Remember the picture of the metal ball that I said was the second worst bit of public art in the city?

This is the holder of the title. I have no idea what it's supposed to represent if anything. I fucking hate it. I suppose it does have one saving grace in that in comparison the adjacent dole office looks slightly less hideous.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Not mine but Manchester artist Wanksy, who has decided to draw penises around potholes in order to draw attention to them.

Dotted line emanating from the crown - good; no hairs at the base - fail

 

[Roadkill]

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I have no recollection of taking this picture.

That's in the window of an empty shop on George Street, isn't it? I've a photo of it about twenty pages back.

 

[longdog]

That's in the window of an empty shop on George Street, isn't it? I've a photo of it about twenty pages back.

Shows how much notice I take dunnit?

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[avu9lives]

How welcoming!

 

[avu9lives]

Lovely

 

[avu9lives]

Loft conversion Rochdale style

 

[avu9lives]

Beals department store

 

[avu9lives]

Rochdale

 

[avu9lives]

Lookin tuther way

 

[The Boy]

We had a nice day out in Rochdale visiting the co-op museum once. Bit of an odd place.

 

[avu9lives]

Gave it a miss.

 

[avu9lives]

If those cobblestones could only talk.

 

[avu9lives]

I need a drink!

 

[avu9lives]

We had a nice day out in Rochdale visiting the co-op museum once. Bit of an odd place.

Odd and Depressing and i wont be going back any time soon.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Not been to Rochdale for years - used to work there sometimes back in the 90s. An odd place, and the train station is stupidly far away from the town centre. Haven't they been opening up the culvert in the town centre to show the River Roche for the first time in decades? Not sure whether that has been completed or not.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The pork pies were pretty good.
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You know you're in Yorkshire when you can buy a pie in the church.

 

[longdog]

The New York Hotel on Anlaby Road was due to be demolished until they found shit loads of asbestos and it was going to cost the owners more than the site was worth.

Last week the council announced they'd run out of patience and would knock it down and bill the owners.

Yesterday it was gutted by fire.

Purely a coincidence I'm sure... Like the fire at the derelict chapel a couple of weeks ago...

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Rochdale

Used to work in that Barclays.

 

[Roadkill]

Cottingham Road, from the beer garden of its best pub. The takeaways opposite have been there for donkey's years, purveying pizza and kebabs to drunken students.



Hipster market.



A stray duck, amid fresh-cut grass on Princes Ave.



The morning after the election, looking rather as if the polling station sign is on the wall of Fudge.



Mundane back yards. And yes, that garden shed is an old air-raid shelter.



Come in and buy beer and explosives. What could possibly go wrong?!

 

[Roadkill]

Hope this thread isn't petering out...



Either Freehold Street is drunk or someone driving down it evidently was.



Vespa ride, on Princes Ave. By the time I'd got my camera out a couple of dozen had gone by.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Kendal Town Hall

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Freerange Comedy Festival in Kendal (Alan Davies)

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Dolphinholme - Jumble Sale