Mundane pictures of the North

[tufty79]

Oooh, is that taken from Woodhouse Ridge? It looks very familiar.

yus

Don't play war in the electrictiy substation.

exactly.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I was driving back from visiting a mate in Buxton last year and stopped at that car park to try and get a photo of the viaduct silhouetted by the sunset. I completely failed due to all the mundane shit getting in the way. If only this thread was going back then...

I've had a quick look and predictably there are quite a few pics of this - but I agree, it's better to get your own as you experience the moment too.

These aren't my pics.

And although this is daytime, I like the way the light highlights the structure.

 

[tufty79]

for farmerbarleymow

 

[tufty79]

When does the dogging begin?

about 7ish, i think. once the boot sale's firmly cleared out, anyways.

 

[machine cat]

I feel a sense of comfort seeing the red metro bus stops in West Yorks. It freaks me out whenever I'm in somewhere like Liverpool and they're yellow!

 

[tufty79]

i was telling a friend about this thread, and her first reaction was 'when's the exhibition?'
i am tempted to watch this again, and learn

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A view over the moor to Little London?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The one in Leeds is still there and operational.

I used to walk past it every day for years. Pretty annoying when they had a delivery/were taking out gold as the cops would close all the surrounding streets and I'd have to take a detour to work.

That would explain why they closed the Manchester branch - they just got robbed too often!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

about 7ish, i think. once the boot sale's firmly cleared out, anyways.

Oh no, it's half eight. I'm too late, again. Damn!

 

[Fez909]

An unusual pub name.

But there was a carved stone pineapple outside the nice old timbered building I posted earlier, so I wonder whether Stockport had some involvement in the pineapple trade centuries ago

Just did a quick search as I was curious as well.

I couldn't find anything on pineapples specifically, but that pub was previously the headquarters of the botanical society, so perhaps it's that?

 

[Fez909]

A view over the moor to Little London?

I think LL is a little to the right of this pic? It's mainly Woodhouse and LS7 in the distance there!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

When does the dogging begin?

But Fez909 what is this about you stalking dogging sites?

 

[Fez909]

But Fez909 what is this about you stalking dogging sites?

I'm not stalking them; I organize the meat...err, meets

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm not stalking them; I organize the meat...err, meets

Have you been watching me?

I demand pictures - middle-aged shagging is by definition mundane. All those wobbly and flabby bits (says he being an old git)

I've not even been in that car park, honest!

 

[ebay sex moomin]

rain falls hard on a humdrum town...

row of shops where i grew up.

Oh, that's where I grew up too. I used to deliver the Reporter to those houses and shops. Lived just up the road on Burnage Lane.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

Some mundane pics...

It could be said that the canals in Manchester have a romantic ambience that rivals Venice.



Meat stall, New Smithfield Market, Openshaw



Pigeons, Chorlton precinct

 

[ebay sex moomin]

Metrolink towards Trafford Bar


Wasteland near Cornbrook Metrolink Station

 

[ebay sex moomin]

A mound of earth, Manchester




Bald bloke




Tangled binliner, Old Trafford

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Just did a quick search as I was curious as well.

I couldn't find anything on pineapples specifically, but that pub was previously the headquarters of the botanical society, so perhaps it's that?

I've had a look this morning and can't find anything beyond what you did. There is a Pineapple Street in the town too, so maybe the usage was just a reflection of a fad in the past for using names of exotic fruit. I don't know enough of the history of Stockport to say more - but I'm now ploughing through various websites to learn more. This quest for mundane pictures is also educational.

 

[Roadkill]

I took a few more on my walk to work this morning, which I'll upload later when I get home. Good job I didn't photograph the police cordon, ambulance etc on George Street when I went by, though, since evidently the Old Bill are trying to talk some poor sod down from the roof of the casino down there.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That's always depressing. There are a couple of multi-storey car parks in the city centre that tend to attract this. Hope they talk the poor person down safely.

 

[Roadkill]

That's always depressing. There are a couple of multi-storey car parks in the city centre that tend to attract this. Hope they talk the poor person down safely.

They just have. Turns out he wasn't threatening to jump and was just pissing about.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

They just have. Turns out he wasn't threatening to jump and was just pissing about.

Good news. No doubt he'll be given 'words of advice' aka a bollocking for wasting the emergency services' time.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Been perusing the map again this morning, and I think a walk from home to Eccles is the plan for today, mainly following the route of the Manchester Ship Canal once I get to Old Trafford, through Trafford Park which should yield some interestingly mundane pictures of boring industry. I'll post the pics up later as long as I manage to avoid falling into the canal.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Well I'm halfway, and just having a sit down by the Lowry Centre after 2 hours walking and pondering if I should press on or be a big girls blouse and catch the tram home?

Views?

 

[neonwilderness]

Is it a mundane tram?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I think they all are. My feet are hurting a bit and it's starting to rain a bit more properly so enough for today.

 

[Roadkill]

Princes Avenue, from outside Garbutts bar.



Some more very ordinary terraced houses.



And some more.



The bakery which this morning was wafting a pleasant smell of jam doughnuts when I went by.



Alfred Gelder Street, looking across from by the Guildhall, up Manor Street towards the Land of Green Ginger.



Car park by Drypool Bridge. There was an office block here ... until it took a direct hit in 1941.



Drypool Bridge lifting to let a barge through, passing the derelict flour mill, which I hear is slated for demolition and replacement with flats at some point.

 

[tufty79]

the definition of northern mundanity: complaining about someone singing along with the opera music they play in their caff.
it all ended up backfiring on them though

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've got lots of pics of urban wasteland by the Quays, and lots of graffiti so I'll be posting them up later when I've reduced the file sizes. I was out walking for 4 hours and didn't see a soul until I got to Salford Quays. Makes a lovely change to have that solitude in the middle of a city.