Mundane pictures of the North

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Yesterday morning, on my way to work. You see a lot more horses in Hull than most other cities for some reason. We even have a horse-drawn rag-and-bone man round here, who trots through the streets shouting 'raaAAAG'n'BOOone!' with a little rulley full of fridges and scrap metal.




George Street, yesterday lunchtime.



Pryme Street, this afternoon. Not one of central Hull's most stunning vistas, really.

 

[longdog]

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

Hull likes to make the best of its more famous citizens. They were going to put a bronze statue of me in the trains station but there was a mix up with the paperwork and they put Philip Larkin there instead.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A triplet of ugly mundane buildings. The last one is particularly nasty.

 

[longdog]

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

No,no,no...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Demolition time. This was originally the Twisted Wheel in Manchester. Latterly a very seedy gay club which was not for the faint hearted.

Unsurprisingly, to be turned into yet more flats.

 

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Faintly surreal sights in Victoria Square:



Part of the Lord Mayor's Parade. No, I don't know what the bird is all about.



Top fuel dragster outside City Hall. No idea what that was about either, but the powerboat was to publicise the P1 powerboat racing on the Humber the following day, including the début of the one bought by a consortium of local businesses:

(last one obv not my picture)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Rainy London Road today.

 

[longdog]

Hull bus station.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Boring block in town. At least its clad in decent stone so doesn't look awful given its age.



And the old Odeon, long since closed and looks like they're doing something to it. No idea what.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The old BBC Broadcasting House on Oxford Road, closed and flattened now they've moved to Salford Quays.

 

[Roadkill]

A triplet of ugly mundane buildings. The last one is particularly nasty.

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That really is drab. Reminds me of a nasty Caeucescu-era hotel I stayed in in Romania.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

To the point. Payday Thursday clubbing I guess. Am tempted by the debauchery on offer though - might have to pop along one Thursday evening.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A culvert for one of the rivers in town - note the obligatory tyres.



You have been warned!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The Mancunian Way in all its rainy glory. Notice the weird extended bit that stops in mid-air in the third pic. They planned to extend into the centre, but got bored. Or something.

 

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A bit of good old urban dereliction.

Former dry dock, on Little High Street. Possibly on the site of the eighteenth-century Blaydes shipyard, where a collier called the Bethia was built in 1784. A few years later she was bought by the Royal Navy, modified and renamed ... the Bounty.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A very ugly car park. I spent a memorable evening in there once many years ago. Not saying exactly what I was doing though...although it loosely involved some knitting and listening to Radio 4.

 

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Bond Street. The hideous concrete tower block is on the left. The department store in the middle has been derelict as long as I've known Hull. One of the hazy memories of my eighteenth birthday party is walking across the car park to join the line of blokes who'd tumbled out of the bars on Albion Street and were busily pissing up the side of it. Scheduled for demolition, apparently.

A couple of streets away:

John Street. A pretty, quiet little corner of the city centre.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Various idyllic scenes under a viaduct. I like the sense of abandonment here.





It's watching you!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And I suspect the wording on this was added after it was pasted on the wall...

 

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[Roadkill]

A very ugly car park. I spent a memorable evening in there once many years ago. Not saying exactly what I was doing though...although it loosely involved some knitting and listening to Radio 4.

What was loose? The knitting, your involvement with it, or ... actually no, just don't go there.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

cyberfairy - have you got any from the observation tower in the Imperial War Museum? I've got some somewhere I could dig out, showing the Quays as they were several years ago.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

What was loose? The knitting, your involvement with it, or ... actually no, just don't go there.

I dropped a stitch.

 

[cyberfairy]

cyberfairy - have you got any from the observation tower in the Imperial War Museum? I've got some somewhere I could dig out, showing the Quays as they were several years ago.

I don't sadly- was in the Lowry today but with two classes of over excited children but still managed to flout the 'no staff allowed to use their phones' policy. If I am sacked due to my urge to take some boring pictures for strangers on the internet, you better take up a collection Or cut me in on the proceedings of the 2014 'Meanderings into the mundane' calendar.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I don't sadly- was in the Lowry today but with two classes of over excited children but still managed to flout the 'no staff allowed to use their phones' policy. If I am sacked due to my urge to take some boring pictures for strangers on the internet, you better take up a collection Or cut me in on the proceedings of the 2014 'Meanderings into the mundane' calendar.

I'll dig my pictures out and post them later.

 

[Roadkill]

Since longdog is late ( ), herewith another few:



That hideous concrete tower block. It's a monstrosity at the best of times, but I do wish the council could order whoever owns it at the very least to smarten it up a bit!



Prince Street. A perfectly preserved corner of the Old Town.



One of the best pubs in the city. Now thankfully open again and doing well under a landlord who actually knows his business and doesn't forget to renew his licence at the busiest time of year!



On Victoria Pier.