Mundane pictures of the North

[QueenOfGoths]

And again

 

[tufty79]

And again

bloody hell - is that peasholme park? if it is, i've not been there for about twnty five years
do they still have the dinosaurs?

 

[QueenOfGoths]

bloody hell - is that peasholme park?

Yup It absolutely heaved it down all the way through the naval battle!

 

[killer b]

was in this pub at the weekend.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

bloody hell - is that peasholme park? if it is, i've not been there for about twnty five years
do they still have the dinosaurs?

I'm not sure - part of the park was closed and I've a feeling it might have been that bit.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm off on another trek today, and thankfully its rainy here so that always improves things on the mundane front.

Will report back later.

 

[Roadkill]

Not sure these qualify as mundane...

From the top of the tower of Holy Trinity Church, Hull.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Not sure these qualify as mundane...

They certainly do qualify - pics of a typical cityscape from a vantage point.

 

[Roadkill]

These do:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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That reminds of the old town hall in Oldham - been boarded up like that for years, right in the middle of the town. A shame to see such nice buildings left to rot.

 

[Roadkill]

That reminds of the old town hall in Oldham - been boarded up like that for years, right in the middle of the town. A shame to see such nice buildings left to rot.

Innit. Lambert Street chapel has been derelict as long as I can remember. It's in a fairly salubrious part of Hull too: why no-one has tried to demolish it and build flats on the site I've no idea.

Meanwhile:

The burned bits around the windows of this old cinema are from the incendiaries that destroyed it - ironically during a showing of The Great Dictator - in 1941. It's the last secular unredeveloped bomb site in Britain, and no-one can agree on what to do with it. A local group want to buy it and the pub next door - which has been shut for ten years - and turn them into a little visitor centre and memorial garden for those who died in the Hull blitz. The property developer that owns the site wants to demolish the lot for flats, and is asking way more than it's worth to let go of it...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I like idea of a memorial garden - they are unusual in Britain, and Hull did get hammered in the Blitz.

There is quite a nicely done memorial metal 'tree' in Piccadilly Gardens here that is for civilian casualties. It has the names of those known to have died engraved all around the trunk.

 

[killer b]

preston from above, from the roof of the world famous bus station

and the other direction, towards pendle

 

[farmerbarleymow]

preston from above, from the roof of the world famous bus station

We need a pic of the bus station itself before they demolish it. I really like that bus station.

 

[Roadkill]

And a couple more before I go to work...

 

[killer b]

there's a whole thread dedicated to it, farmer. i haven't included pics of it here 'cause it's far from mundane...

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/preston-bus-station-keep-it-or-destroy-it.303615/

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Cheers.

 

[Roadkill]

I like idea of a memorial garden - they are unusual in Britain, and Hull did get hammered in the Blitz.

There is quite a nicely done memorial metal 'tree' in Piccadilly Gardens here that is for civilian casualties. It has the names of those known to have died engraved all around the trunk.

Yes, I think it's a great idea: use the pub as a little museum, and turn the cinema - which is just an empty shell - into a garden. With a nice wrought iron gate across the front to stop Beverley Road's drunks and ne'er-do-wells using it as a doss-house/open-air brothel/convenient spot for a piss on the way home from the pub!

 

[Roadkill]

The pub in this last picture - the three-storey place in the middle - is one of my favourite gay haunts - cheap, scruffy, friendly, camp as a row of tents and open until 5 in the morning at weekends.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The middle one is suspiciously nice. Not sure if those are allowed here!

 

[Roadkill]

The middle one is suspiciously nice. Not sure if those are allowed here!

Perhaps I should have taken the photo from the middle of the road, 'cos the contrast between the two sides of Alfred Gelder Street always amuses me. There's the back of the Guildhall, which is a magnificent building in the wrong place, on one side, and on the other a parade of horrible post-war concrete office blocks.

 

[Roadkill]

I nearly forgot I had this pic. Taken in Grimsby, a few years ago:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I like those unfortunate clashes between nice buildings and nasty ones too. It's just a shame there are so many of them!

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Due to Sheffield's mad hillyness you can be 250m away from this monster and not even be able to see it. You can also be on the 20th floor and look horizontally out at peoples houses.

 

[longdog]

Not sure these qualify as mundane...




From the top of the tower of Holy Trinity Church, Hull.

 

[longdog]

View from a rainy bus.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

There's a big red floating sign above Hull? That's ace!

 

[SpookyFrank]

 

[Roadkill]

You live in that hideous concrete tower block on Bond Street? Since when?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

You live in that hideous concrete tower block on Bond Street? Since when?

No, he lives in a giant floating red sign in the sky.