Mundane pictures of the North

[farmerbarleymow]

Well volunteered

Oh bugger! I'm such a bloody idiot at times!

Will do this towards the end of the week when I've got some time to properly compare the relative merits of each picture in the collection.

 

[Fez909]

More views from the boat. The first is on the Bridgewater canal acqueduct, crossing the Manchester Ship Canal:

I've got some pics of that (and even a video - can't find that right now though ) opening to let a ship go past:

 

[Fez909]

Scarborough

 

[Fez909]

Huddersfield Station

And apologies for capturing some motion in this next one - It possibly makes the picture a bit too exciting for this thread

Burley Park Station

 

[_angel_]

Huddersfield Station

And apologies for capturing some motion in this next one - It possibly makes the picture a bit too exciting for this thread

Burley Park Station

I'll have to see if I can find some pictures of Bramley station, don't come much more mundane than that!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Excitement just isn't allowed!

 

[neonwilderness]

Tynemouth

 

[machine cat]

Huddersfield Station

You can't see it due to the dark, but there is a brilliant building to the left of that second picture.

Will try and get a snap of it on my way home.

 

[Fez909]

You can't see it due to the dark, but there is a brilliant building to the left of that second picture.

Will try and get a snap of it on my way home.

Mundane brilliant or genuine brilliant?

 

[tufty79]

There is also a very good pub, the Junction, a ten minute walk out of town. And there is a mad Victorian funicular tramway thing up Shipley Glen. And walkable to Salts Mill / Saltaire.

well said. and angel.

there's an abandoned crumbled mansion up the glen way - you can still see the mosaic floor. actually, you probably can't any more, considering i went there with girl guides twenty years ago

the funiclar rocks. and i absolutely love going up baildon moor and just absorbing all the green

urban outing! urban outing!
(could we also have a mass 'v's up at my mum' session? haven't been back to bingley since i last saw here fiveish years ago, and think i could probably cope with going there if i was surrounded by internet nutters

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Mundane brilliant or genuine brilliant?

I agree - we demand to know!

I've got no more to offer today - I'm doing a day on, day off approach while I'm on leave so hopefully more mundaneness tomorrow. It's dammed good exercise trawling the city for mundane things - it should be prescribed on the NHS!

 

[machine cat]

Mundane brilliant or genuine brilliant?

Bit of both tbf

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Where's the rest of it?

The original span fell into the river. The public inquiry concluded that links of black pudding were probably not the best bridge building material.

 

[Tom A]

The original span fell into the river. The public inquiry concluded that links of black pudding were not the best bridge building material.

Are you sure this wasn't in Scarfolk?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Are you sure this wasn't in Scarfolk?

They may as well have made the same mistake in Scarfolk. I have been inspired to experiment with tapeworms after looking at that site!

 

[cyberfairy]

Been poorly so not been into town and reduced to doing my shopping from the local Spar. Not an edifying dinner 'solution.'
This photo would have been good if I had a camera as opposed to a mobile phone. It would be the sort of photo that people would even hark at whilst it cementing their fears and prejudices of the North. But I could not get a zoom on the flower.

 

[tufty79]

local mundanity (well, mundane if you're not into plants and lush..)

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[tufty79]

oh god - thank you pickmans.

this thread *demands* otley run pics.

hold on while i rummage for one..

 

[cyberfairy]

The sheer profusion of small items of sharp litter almost takes this photo out of the 'mundane.'

 

[cyberfairy]

I ate here once. There were no cucumbers artfully cut into the shape of lotuses as shown on the fading laminated posters. To be fair, I did only order chips. After eating the chips, I'm glad I did. How can you get chips so wrong?

 

[tufty79]

rummaged

'you don't have to be a knob to drink here, but it helps'

)))hyde park pub(((



and otley runs definitely *do* count as mundane

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The sheer profusion of small items of sharp litter almost takes this photo out of the 'mundane.'

Picture entitled 'A Preponderance of Pointy Things'

Hope you feel better soon cyberfairy and escape the clutches of Spar.

 

[killer b]

and otley runs definitely *do* count as mundane

been past this many times. never felt the need to stop.

 

[cyberfairy]

Picture entitled 'A Preponderance of Pointy Things'

Hope you feel better soon cyberfairy and escape the clutches of Spar.

£1.39 for fucking coleslaw. 'Deli style' my arse.
Oh and thank you- feeling bit better now!

 

[Frumious B.]

Office space to let in Stockport.

 

[cyberfairy]

Office space to let in Stockport.

 

[Dillinger4]

I was in Liverpool today. There are plenty of photographs of Lancashire or Yorkshire, where is Merseyside?

I am going to write something extensive on my love of Liverpool. I might post it in a thread here.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I was in Liverpool today. There are plenty of photographs of Lancashire or Yorkshire, where is Merseyside?

I am going to write something extensive on my love of Liverpool. I might post it in a thread here.

Very good point - we've had nowt about Liverpool yet, which is a shame.

 

[Frumious B.]

Office space to let in Stockport.

It wasn't my pic, it's from a real story about Stockport toilets being used as offices:

Disused public toilets in Stockport have been put up for sale by the council, which has said they would make ideal business premises.
Stockport Council's executive member for regeneration Kevin Hogg said they had been "tried as public toilets, but they just get vandalised".
He said the toilets could easily be converted into businesses. "They are very cheap and what you have to do is use a little bit of imagination and not look at them as a public convenience but as a small office," he said.The properties are valued at between £25,000 and £50,000.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-16527387