Mundane pictures of the North

[neonwilderness]

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[Throbbing Angel]

 

[Shirl]

Hebble End Mill in Hebden Bridge. Outdoor facilities

 

[Favelado]

Im sneaking a moan about not having a forum just for the North in here because I dont want to start a thread in the feedback forum about it. The North has more people than Wales and Scotland combined, has its own very strong identity, and just gets lumped in with the Midlands. It's such a thick fucking Southerner thing to do.

Should we try a petition?

 

[Shirl]

Im sneaking a moan about not having a forum just for the North in here because I dont want to start a thread in the feedback forum about it. The North has more people than Wales and Scotland combined, has its own very strong identity, and just gets lumped in with the Midlands. It's such a thick fucking Southerner thing to do.

Should we try a petition?

I'm with you Favelado
The North is more than worthy of it's own thread.

 

[Favelado]

Others who agree should PM me so we can put together a coordinated and very polite request.

 

[moose]

Here's when the Midlands first were incorporated, 10 years ago. Not sure the name has swapped round as suggested, though - I suspect editor has other stuff to do.
Adding 'The Midlands' to the 'Northern' forum

 

[Throbbing Angel]

There used to be a pub here

e2a: sorry - it was a Social Club I'm told

 

[Throbbing Angel]

There used to be a shop here

 

[Throbbing Angel]

There used to be a pier opposite this pub

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Here's when the Midlands first were incorporated, 10 years ago. Not sure the name has swapped round as suggested, though - I suspect editor has other stuff to do.
Adding 'The Midlands' to the 'Northern' forum

now I feel old

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Been to Kendal this morning. What's this red awning I see out of the corner of my eye in one of their 'yards' off the main street...

Oooooooh, a bookshop I've not seen before. I wonder if they'll have a copy of this, that, t'other, etc

bastards!

 

[Fez909]

Leeds Bradford Airport

 

[Fez909]

More LBA

 

[Fez909]

Yet more

 

[Fez909]

And the best of the lot: Leeds Bradford Airport smoking cage. The most depressing place I've seen recently. And you have to pay £1 to get in.

 

[neonwilderness]

Barbie looking a bit worse for wear

 

[Roadkill]

Corner of Beverley Road, Clough Road and Cottingham Road, from the top of a bus. The flat I lived in from 2001 to 2006 is about 100 yards further on from here, so this part of town feels like home.



Mundane pub interiors of the north, this one Wm Hawkes, on Scale Lane. It's the best fake in the business: they've done a great job of making it look old, but it actually opened in 2012. I remember when it was a newsagent's shop. It's one of my favourite places in the Old Town for a drink, not least because it does a range of excellent beers and serves them in proper old-fashioned beer mugs.



Since I took this photo they've finished doing the sides of Jameson Street and are now ripping up the middle!



Carr Lane roadworks.



North Hull Estate.



Formerly derelict house on Spring Bank being brought back to life.



Good stickers.



Ferensway, from the front of the station.



Drag acts of the north: Bobby Mandrell at the Vauxhall Tavern. He was hilariously catty.



Alleyway off Princes Ave.

 

[Roadkill]

I can't imagine why the staff in this place get a lot of tips.



A parade of ride-on lawnmowers, on Spring Bank. I counted five.



I was walking to work a couple of weeks ago when this bloke went by. Yes, he is on a unicycle.



Spring Bank again. I kind of assumed the fire brigade would clean up the bits after they'd had to cut the roof off a car to get someone out, but no, they're all still dumped in a churchyard. AFAIK the driver wasn't too badly injured.




Spring Bank completely closed off to traffic after another accident, this one much grimmer: a young woman and her child killed by a lorry turning into Stanley Street. They weren't even letting people walk past the scene on the other side of the road.



Princes Ave on a warm bank holiday, with the bars doing good business.



Flowers at the scene of the tragedy on Spring Bank.



Anlaby Road entrance to the station.



Zebedee's Yard.



Tyre fitting place on Spring Bank, rendered anything but mundane by the MkI Escort.

 

[Roadkill]

Lovely old villa on Beverley Road, now a nursing home.



Sunny day at Queens Gardens.



BBC Building.



Ella Street Social - which used to be quite a good late venue - being redone as an Italian restaurant. Which does beg the question, how many more Italian restaurants does this part of Hull need?!



Just a couple of locals out shopping.



Newland Avenue. John Hargreaves has been flogging second-hand appliances from that tatty shop with its hand-painted sign and moth-eaten canopy since time immemorial. That's him, actually, standing by the rolls of carpet. He was a surly, suspicious, dodgy, miserable old bastard when I moved to the area fifteen years ago, and he's still a surly, suspicious, dodgy, miserable old bastard now!

 

[neonwilderness]

Collingwood Monument, Tynemouth

 

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[neonwilderness]

Tynemouth Priory

 

[neonwilderness]

Looking up the Tyne

 

[neonwilderness]

South Shields

 

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