Mundane pictures of the North

[Roadkill]

From when I went out shopping earlier:



Hipster fish and chip place opening up on Prinny Ave, which will no doubt serve tiny portions on wooden chopping boards for high prices. Setting up a place like this in a city of whose trawler fleets used to supply much of the cheap fish to the UK's fish and chip shops and which still has dozens of traditional chippies strikes me as akin to going to Rome and mooning the pope.



No, I don't know why they were walking a horse down the street.

 

[longdog]

From when I went out shopping earlier:

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Hipster fish and chip place opening up on Prinny Ave, which will no doubt serve tiny portions on wooden chopping boards for high prices. Setting up a place like this in a city of whose trawler fleets used to supply much of the cheap fish to the UK's fish and chip shops and which still has dozens of traditional chippies strikes me as akin to going to Rome and mooning the pope.

Now now... Let's not jump to conclusions... Let's wait until the price list goes up... "FIFTEEN FUCKING QUID FOR FISH AND CHIPS? FUCK OFF!!!"

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No, I don't know why they were walking a horse down the street.

Because the driver wouldn't let it on the bus

 

[Steel Icarus]

I actually looked up "Prinny Avenue" on GoogleMaps and got to the right place

 

[Roadkill]

I actually looked up "Prinny Avenue" on GoogleMaps and got to the right place

So you can. Just had a quick 'walk' up the avenue on Street View, which is now rather out of date: pretty much all of the units it shows as empty are now either full or being fitted out. Amazing how much has changed round here in the last few months, really.

 

[Steel Icarus]

the google van has only been here once, back in 2009 - my wife's faintly visible in the front bedroom, about a fortnight away from having our daughter (who is now 6 and currently providing an amusing running commentary on the Ipad game she's on)

 

[kwaimaisabai]

Halo Panopticon.

 

[neonwilderness]

Cumbrian coast at Nethertown

 

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Empty can on a stick

 

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Holiday home type things (and a bit of my finger )

 

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Whitehaven North Side

 

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Newcastle fans

 

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Whitehaven

 

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And old bit of track from the adjacent railway

 

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An old helium balloon under the rocks

 

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A tunnel under the railway to an old industrial works

 

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A large rock made of concrete, you can climb through it to get on top

 

[Fez909]

A bloke having what he thought was a sneaky piss in Leeds city centre - didn't notice the glass sided restaurant full of people

 

[neonwilderness]

A good vantage point for train pics

A guy there was telling me the two columns were chimneys from underground works. But an internet search seems to think they were supports for a bridge over the railway from the works to the sea.

 

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I didn't see many burqas in Whitehaven

 

[Fez909]

Transporter Bridge, the Middlehaven devlopment and the old Town Hall clock tower, Middlesbrough

 

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Sellafield station

 

[fishfinger]

I didn't see many burqas in Whitehaven

Well, their protest must have worked then!

 

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Morcambe Bay

 

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[Fez909]

Staithes house