MsMCR
When Pliny lost his life & Herculaneum was buried
Not sure if anyone has answered this yet but it's the former Goulden Street Police and Fire Station.
http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/tours/tour12/gouldenpolice.html
Mundane pictures of the North
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Not sure if anyone has answered this yet but it's the former Goulden Street Police and Fire Station.
http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/tours/tour12/gouldenpolice.html
MsMCR
When Pliny lost his life & Herculaneum was buried
The cotton flower and the bee are the twin symbols of the city, the bee being the symbol of industriousness of course. These are everywhere from on bins around the city, to mosaics on the town hall floor. There's even a mill called Beehive Mill somewhere nearby - I think I've already posted a pic, but will seek it out and take a picture of the engraved name on the front.
And on my arm
Got it done last November.
MsMCR
When Pliny lost his life & Herculaneum was buried
Great pics, MsMCR
You're all most welcome! I have loads more of Manchester, also some of Liverpool and West Yorkshire (although some of them not quite mundane as I'm a sucker for grand old Victorian architecture - that being said it will be mundane for those of you who live there - haha). This thread has inspired me to get them out of Facebook and put them on my proper photo site.
MsMCR
When Pliny lost his life & Herculaneum was buried
Mosaics outside of Affleck's palace - not sure when they went up but sometime between 1994 and 2012 - ha.
Factory records legends including my hero Tony Wilson
Who has this shirt at home?
Excellent Joy Division tribute
Corrie legends
Local music heroes
The lot - they've done another one on the far left sometime between 2012-2014 with local icons (Turing, Vimto etc) which I'll have to add later when I finish uploading the 2014 pics to my photo site.
Factory records legends including my hero Tony Wilson
Who has this shirt at home?
Excellent Joy Division tribute
Corrie legends
Local music heroes
The lot - they've done another one on the far left sometime between 2012-2014 with local icons (Turing, Vimto etc) which I'll have to add later when I finish uploading the 2014 pics to my photo site.
The lot - they've done another one on the far left sometime between 2012-2014 with local icons (Turing, Vimto etc) which I'll have to add later when I finish uploading the 2014 pics to my photo site.
Manchester, so much to answer for...
Limejuice
Well-Known Member
The Black Midden rocks. They look nice for rock-pooling these days...
Before the harbour quays were built, the tide came screaming into the river mouth, dragging ships onto the rocks and shifting sandbars.
One particularly disastrous month in 1864 saw 24 people drowned within yards of the shore.
longdog
What is it you can't face?
We'll be the judge of mundanity thank you. When you have posted 100 pictures you might get invited to join the mundanity committee.
Welcome to the thread
MsMCR
When Pliny lost his life & Herculaneum was buried
We'll be the judge of mundanity thank you. When you have posted 100 pictures you might get invited to join the mundanity committee.
Welcome to the thread
Be sure to let me know if what I am posting is too pretty! Haha!
MsMCR
When Pliny lost his life & Herculaneum was buried
This is a crazy out-of-place question and a longshot, but are any of you going to the Shiiine On festival in Minehead November 5-8? Will be over for that and am losing my mind as it will be my first trip to the UK that does not include the North. I really kind of HATE that, but I figure that the North will be coming to me this time instead. If any of you are going would deffo want to meet up for a pint!
Yes: it's to promote an exhibition on piracy that opened the other day. I was chatting with an old friend who's a curator there last week. As he put it, 'It'll cause more of a stir if we don't tell anyone: we'll just hoist the jolly roger and see how long it takes people to notice.'
Yes: it's to promote an exhibition on piracy that opened the other day. I was chatting with an old friend who's a curator there last week. As he put it, 'It'll cause more of a stir if we don't tell anyone: we'll just hoist the jolly roger and see how long it takes people to notice.'
it took me fucking ages - had to zoom in and everything. Then I showed it to my missus and she looked up from her laptop and was like "Oh yeah. pirate flag".
*removes' good attention to detail' from CV*
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
These are on the main photo thread, but I thought I'd stick them here too. Tanfield Railway, allegedly the oldest (mundanist ) working railway in the world.
) working railway in the world.
Where is Tanfield neonwilderness?
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
blairsh
pale knuckle grip on this steering wheel
Really like those neonwilderness
^ So do I. On a considerably more mundane note, though, a few from around Hull in the last week or so:
New solicitor's practice on Spring Bank, in a former computer shop. The badly hand-painted sign gives it a real air of reassuring professionalism.
Dumped sofa, off Newland Ave.
Manor Street. You might want to get that seen to...
Carr Lane, from outside the Punch hotel. I remember when the gigantic Primark was a branch of Allders.
Indian and Continental on Princes Ave having a makeover, and revealing its 1970s signage in the process.
Chapel Street.
This one's from Beverley, in the entrance to the legendary Nellie's. Almost certainly a fake, given that Beverley was not in LNWR territory.
New solicitor's practice on Spring Bank, in a former computer shop. The badly hand-painted sign gives it a real air of reassuring professionalism.
Dumped sofa, off Newland Ave.
Manor Street. You might want to get that seen to...
Carr Lane, from outside the Punch hotel. I remember when the gigantic Primark was a branch of Allders.
Indian and Continental on Princes Ave having a makeover, and revealing its 1970s signage in the process.
Chapel Street.
This one's from Beverley, in the entrance to the legendary Nellie's. Almost certainly a fake, given that Beverley was not in LNWR territory.
There was an anti-austerity demo in Queens Gardens yesterday, in support of the London one. I didn't take many pictures and no good ones, which is a shame because I'd estimate there were about 1,000 there.
Singer in the bandstand.
I loved the local RMT branch banner.
Local lefty (and very good) folk act The Hillbilly Troupe doing their thing. The lead singer in this is a bloke called Mick McGarry, who used to be union shop steward for an FE college in Hull. A colleague of mine who used to deal with him there refers to him affectionately as Mick McGrievance.
It was a shame the demo was in Queen's Gardens, since it felt a bit sidelined, but it was probably inevitable as it was the Lord Mayor's Parade yesterday too. I'd headed to Beverley Folk Festival by the time that got under way, but did see this street entertainer doing her thing:
Singer in the bandstand.
I loved the local RMT branch banner.
Local lefty (and very good) folk act The Hillbilly Troupe doing their thing. The lead singer in this is a bloke called Mick McGarry, who used to be union shop steward for an FE college in Hull. A colleague of mine who used to deal with him there refers to him affectionately as Mick McGrievance.
It was a shame the demo was in Queen's Gardens, since it felt a bit sidelined, but it was probably inevitable as it was the Lord Mayor's Parade yesterday too. I'd headed to Beverley Folk Festival by the time that got under way, but did see this street entertainer doing her thing:
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
More ugly buildings on Prospect Street. This part of the city centre was levelled by bombing in 1941, and its 1950s rebuild hasn't aged well.
Boy-racer fail near the university: big exhausts that write cheques the engine can't cash look ridiculous at the best of times, especially when they're falling off. The driver's wing mirror was held on with gaffer tape too.
Two pictures from Blaides Staithe of Drypool Bridge and the old Rank flower mill. Spot the difference.
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