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Mundane pictures of the North

From this ladder in the back garden of an unassuming bungalow in Chadderton does a sinister, wet-suited figure gain access to the waterway system of Greater Manchester....ladder.jpg

Up his sleeve is an extendible shepherds crook with which he yanks unsuspecting victims, with little thought to ceremony, into the foaming briny - Never to be heard from again.

That's right, the polis and the evening news are tying themselves in knots looking for "The Pusher", when all along it's the puller, you daft twats...
 
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Old barn doors in Appletreewick
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A sack of sheep wool in the barn
 
Has anyone ever had a pint of Slalom Lager? I've never heard of it.

Lancs Lagers Lost: A Top Beer Not So Perfect Ten


3. Slalom Lager:
besides being another lost lager, the name Slalom Lager would be remembered by Rugby League fanatics. There was actually three types of Slalom Lager: the bog standard one, Slalom D, and Slalom Strong. They were brewed in Workington till 1985 when Scottish and Newcastle took over Matthew Brown. The Workington brewery closed in 1988. Today, Slalom Strong is owned by Heineken UK and brewed under licence by Debevit for the Italian market. It is a 9% bottled lager, alas seemingly unavailable outside its home town.
 
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The loan shop on Newland Ave has closed down and its signs have been removed, revealing the building's previous incarnation: Fat Larry's was a legendary second-hand record shop.

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At the Big Bus Day at the Streetlife Museum one bus company was showing off its latest bus, powered by ... well, fairly obvious, isn't it?!

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Also at the Big Bus Day, a London Transport B-Type that transported soldiers to the trenches in World War I meets East Yorkshire Motor Services' latest addition to its fleet.

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Naval memorial on the waterfront.

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Nowadays the front of the Hull & East Riding Museum, this was originally the Corn Exchange before being turned into a museum in the 1920s.

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Statue of ol' William Wilberforce, in his front garden.
 
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Two surviving Georgian merchants' houses on High Street. This is Blaydes House.

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And Haworth House, which always confused me since it's very obviously Georgian but has 'National Works 1887' emblazoned over its front door. I found out recently it was rebuilt and extended in that year. Behind it is the old docks offices from 1820 to 1871, which were superseded by the building now occupied by Hull Maritime Museum.

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A sunny day, and tea on Prince's Dock side.

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Offices and flats along the west side of the marina.
 
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Old flour mill not long for this world now. A lot more has gone since I took this picture last week, and they're closing the road every past it every night atm whilst they pull the last bits down. Local business are complaining about the dust, though I bet they won't be complaining when the hotel that's planned for the site opens and the area gets smartened up. That's if the hotel is ever built, of course, which given the record of the developer is less than a certainty. I'll believe it when I see it, tbh.
 
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