Mundane pictures of the North

[neonwilderness]

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[Throbbing Angel]

5 years ago today via Google Photos

 

[Marty1]

This corner shop in Herrington Burn was originally owned by husband and wife team for years.

Anyway, they decided to retire and put the business (and their home as they lived upstairs) up for sale.

The shop was making a fortune and there was so much interest that it went to sealed bids and sold for about £50k more than what it was originally up for.

 

[Marty1]

 

[bmd]

A goose.

 

[mauvais]

 

[mauvais]

 

[chainsawjob]

Lovely horse! (Father Ted reference)

 

[Marty1]

 

[Marty1]

 

[Sprocket.]

 

[Apathy]

It’s a heron. Chilling out on a big pile of shit.

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[Sprocket.]

A pair of rustic bridges on this morning’s dog walk.

 

[Marty1]

Loads of little metal cylinders - for laughing gas?

Around Teeside University.

 

[Marty1]

Totem pole of fast food.

 

[Marty1]

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[Throbbing Angel]

Moorgate, Lancaster - Lancaster Castle in the background there

 

[Marty1]

 

[Marty1]

 

[bimble]

Those are not mundane. That thing is amazing an oil rig?

 

[Marty1]

Those are not mundane. That thing is amazing an oil rig?

Yeah, I could have posted these snaps taken from my work travels on a number of threads I guess.

Yes, the oil rig is the Brent Alpha iirc.



It’s absolutely massive and now resides at Seaton Port.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Yeah, I could have posted these snaps taken from my work travels on a number of threads I guess.

Yes, the oil rig is the Brent Alpha iirc.

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It’s absolutely massive and now resides at Seaton Port.

not for long, its the latest in moribund brent field retro rigs to be stripped down . thanks to thatcher, she sold it cheap and what we did get was spunked on tax cuts. we could have been another Norway .

 

[Marty1]

A disused shuttered small block of former retail units in Gateshead.

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[sporadic e]

I love the oil rig photos so much! I was up that way the other week and took a walk around that area, it's so bleak and amazing, one of the finest places I've had the pleasure of visiting all year (don't laugh!).

 

[Marty1]

I love the oil rig photos so much! I was up that way the other week and took a walk around that area, it's so bleak and amazing, one of the finest places I've had the pleasure of visiting all year (don't laugh!).

I know what you mean - the sheer scale of the thing is a sight to behold.