Mundane pictures of the North

[coley]

Possibly the only 21+'Virgin'. You will,find in the 'toon'

 

[Throbbing Angel]

from near Blea Tarn Reservoir above Lancaster you can see Blackpool, Barrow and The Lakes on a clear day - this piccy doesn't really do it justice, but it was clear enough yesterday

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Lancaster Centre a couple of Fridays back - no, me either

 

[kwaimaisabai]

Halo Panopticon.

 

[kwaimaisabai]

Colourfields Panopticon.

 

[kwaimaisabai]

Tree Panopticon.

 

[kwaimaisabai]

Atom Panopticon.

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[Shirl]

Waiting for the steam train to pass at Oakworth Station crossing today.

 

[kwaimaisabai]

Drax, Ferrybridge and Eggborough from Queensbury.

 

[Shirl]

Drax, Ferrybridge and Eggborough from Queensbury.

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I went on a tour around Drax a few years ago and I've never left a light on in an empty room since

 

[kwaimaisabai]

M62 from Scammonden bridge.

 

[kwaimaisabai]

I went on a tour around Drax a few years ago and I've never left a light on in an empty room since

I'm just amazed that you can make them out so clearly at the distance. I used to live slap bang in between Eggborough and Ferrybridge and you certainly can't see Queensbury from there.
Only power plant I've visited is Sellafield, or Calder Hall as it was known at the time. I don't remember much about it to be honest, there was an alarm beeping all the time, the idea being that the alarm sounded by stopping beeping. Also, we had to wear special BNFL socks and bin them at the end of the visit.

 

[Favelado]

Sellafield was Calder Hall before it was Windscale then? It's had a lot of names.

 

[mauvais]

Sellafield is Windscale + Calder Hall. Two neighbouring sites.

I went around either Sellafield or more likely Springfields once on a school trip. Probably just me but all kinds of things seemed to be going wrong. Alarms going off and people running around in hazmat suits. Then in the visitor centre they were demoing something involving steam and the kettle (because of course it needed a kettle) blew up. Good times!

 

[Shirl]

Who recognises this hill?

 

[kwaimaisabai]

Sellafield was Calder Hall before it was Windscale then? It's had a lot of names.

Calder Hall was the power station and has been decomissioned. Winscale was R&D and reprocessing and is now Sellafield.

 

[Favelado]

 

[mauvais]

What did that used to be?

Also, Shirl , what's the answer?

 

[kwaimaisabai]

Pendle?

 

[oneflewover]

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Unfortunately that picture sums up Blackpool completely. It's very sad going around the place.

 

[mauvais]

Oh, is it Layton flats? They came down on Sunday.

 

[Favelado]

Yeah, it's Layton flats.

 

[Shirl]

What did that used to be?

Also, Shirl , what's the answer?

kwaimaisabai got the answer, it's Pendle Hill. I alway think it's dark brooding outline is unmistakable.

 

[Favelado]

Can't see anyone rolling down it in that photo.

 

[Shirl]

Can't see anyone rolling down it in that photo.

That's because it was dark

 

[Favelado]

That's because it was dark

The sexual laxity sounds pretty good.

The accused witches lived in the area around Pendle Hill in Lancashire, a county which, at the end of the 16th century, was regarded by the authorities as a wild and lawless region: an area "fabled for its theft, violence and sexual laxity...

 

[Shirl]

Hey, sexual laxity, sounds like Burnley

I'm from Burnley but defected to Yorkshire at the first opportunity. Now, when I drive into Lancashire like I did yesterday and going though villages like Bolton by Bowland I rather like Lancashire after all

 

[oneflewover]

Hey, sexual laxity, sounds like Burnley

I rather like Lancashire after all

You can't say that, especially on Yorkshire Day