Mundane pictures of the North

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A couple of phone pics from this weekend in Newcastle.

 

[neonwilderness]

A couple of phone pics from this weekend in Newcastle.

The first two are Gateshead

 

[stethoscope]

The first two are Gateshead

Yeah sorry

 

[tangerinedream]

Preston

 

[Throbbing Angel]

a wander around Lancaster earlier this week - this was the old indoor market hall - soon to be a Primark

 

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Nearby sandwich shop i

 

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Nearby sandwich shop ii

 

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Museum back door innit

 

[neonwilderness]

Nearby sandwich shop i

That's a very bold claim

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That's a very bold claim

A self service salad bar probably counts as a groundbreaking novelty in Lancaster.

 

[Roadkill]

Been to Arnside for chips'n'that - there are a load of these knocking around the place

Is it only me who looks at this and sees a big yellow cock and balls?

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Is it only me who looks at this and sees a big yellow cock and balls?

Nope

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Is it only me who looks at this and sees a big yellow cock and balls?

You've just got a dirty mind.

 

[stethoscope]

Wander around Sheffield today…

What seems to be left of Wards Brewery - surrounded now almost entirely by apartments and plush student accommodation..

 

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Sheff…

I was actually looking for a red $ graffiti around this area - legend had it that where a red dollar was sprayed, marked the spot of a student having being attacked. This was passed down to students each year to strike fear in them. The reality I learned some years later was that it was actually a symbol of a local band! Anyway, spotted this instead!

 

[Roadkill]

You've just got a dirty mind.

 

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Haven't posted on this thread for ages...

 

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[Roadkill]

Hull History Centre, seen from the beer garden of the Old English Gentleman next door.



Corner of Jarratt Street and Grimston Street.



Window of the Oddfellows building on Jarratt Street.



Nice old Victorian public building, now a humongous Chinese supermarket.



No prizes for guessing what this restaurant specialises in, and very good they are too. I had lunch in here with my parents before my last graduation in 2006, complete with floppy cap and turquoise and red robes. The waitress was curious about what the garb was all about, given that most graduates were just in black gowns and mortarboards. My proud father (to my embarrassment) explained that I was about to get my doctorate. When we left the staff lined up and clapped me out.



Back in the 90s this place was The Institute, a busy townie bar which one of my mates kept dragging me in because he was knocking off one of the cage-dancers. Nowadays it's a boutique hotel.



Gymophobics? That'll be me. Except it's women only.



Gay Pride, from the top of a bus.



Specifically, this bus.

 

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Pavement maze on King Edward Street. Probably won't be here much longer as this whole area is about to be repaved.



Trinity Square. The two people passed out on the bench were attracting quite a bit of comment from the pub opposite, and people were going over to take selfies with them.



Photographing the buildings reflected in this hideous office block is the oldest local cliché in the book, but we were sitting outside The Old Corn Exchange (another formerly shit pub that's reinvented itself as a rather passable real-ale joint) so it would have been a pity not to.



City centre map.

 

[neonwilderness]

Byker last night, spotted on my way to the Metro station from the pub

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Byker last night, spotted on my way to the Metro station from the pub

No sign of Ant and Dec?

 

[neonwilderness]

No sign of Ant and Dec?

I don't think they frequent Byker these days

 

[Roadkill]

A nostalgia-google for a view I once knew very well turned up this, taken the other week:



My old room is just out of view to the left. The room I lost my virginity in is just in shot on the right.

 

[machine cat]

TMI

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Unlovely Crewe train heritage thingy, five minutes ago.

 

[tangerinedream]

Stuck in traffic next to Lawson's quay in Lancaster. The development vof which has stalled again from what I can see

The site has been derelict for as long as I have lived in Lancaster which is about 8 or 9 years. It is I think the site of a former shoe factory and also is named after the adjoining quay from which sugar was importes in the 18thc

 

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Unlovely Crewe train heritage thingy, five minutes ago.

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OOOOOOOH ! ! ! I was dragged up in Winsford and as such wanted to leave it as soon as possible, often taking train journeys hither and yon and I'm familiar with that train heritage thingy

 

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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.

Oh God. It's worse than I thought.

 

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Playground in Lancaster