Is this Morecambe? I've been wanting to go there for ages but now we have a trip planned for later this year to a vintage fair.
Mundane pictures of the North
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cyberfairy
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Def is Morecambe, the Midland hotel. Had a fair few cocktails there before the child came along
neonwilderness
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Yeah, a few miles from Wark
I'll let you know when I'm coming, cocktails for urbsDef is Morecambe, the Midland hotel. Had a fair few cocktails there before the child came along
cyberfairy
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I am suspecting you have not seen the prices- it will be like the Fat Duck all over againI'll let you know when I'm coming, cocktails for urbs
Will get a round in the Wacky Warehouse first...
Is it that bad?I am suspecting you have not seen the prices- it will be like the Fat Duck all over again
Will get a round in the Wacky Warehouse first...
OK, wacky warehouse then the Midland. I'll start saving up now
farmerbarleymow
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Is it that bad?
OK, wacky warehouse then the Midland. I'll start saving up now
No idea what you're all on about and wacky warehouses, but why not just sneak a bottle of good old gin in with you? Always works a treat.
Dillinger4
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needs more towerblocks
farmerbarleymow
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Alnmouth.
Off topic (but lovely picture btw), but this has always puzzled me. Why do some religious people/institutions seek to bung up crosses in prominent places in the landscape - headlands like this, or hills and so on?
Build a church by all means, but please don't cement a great big cross on top of a random hill that everyone else uses. Even if you own it - we all own the view collectively after all.
Off topic (but lovely picture btw), but this has always puzzled me. Why do some religious people/institutions seek to bung up crosses in prominent places in the landscape - headlands like this, or hills and so on?
Build a church by all means, but please don't cement a great big cross on top of a random hill that everyone else uses. Even if you own it - we all own the view collectively after all.
There used to be a church on the site of the cross but during a bad storm hundreds of years ago it was washed away and the estuary also changed it's position. It's also on the Northumberland coast, which was the crucible of Christianity in Britain a couple of thousand of years ago
Google St. Cuthbert and Lindisfarne.
farmerbarleymow
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There used to be a church on the site of the cross but during a bad storm hundreds of years ago it was washed away and the estuary also changed it's position. It's also on the Northumberland coast, which was the crucible of Christianity in Britain a couple of thousand of years ago
Google St. Cuthbert and Lindisfarne.
Fair dos. I've no problem with marking the position of former churches, as I know they are important to people and of course to history. And especially if they are ruins, like in Whitby - that's great.
But there are some particularly egregious examples - e.g. a big FO white cross on the moors above Gtr Manchester which frankly ruins the landscape - even if, on the off chance there was a church there in the past many years ago, it doesn't justify a 50' or so white cross ruining the landscape! Just because there may have been a church on site in the past doesn't necessarily justify the placing of a monument, unless there are specific and special reasons in my view.
I'm from the NE btw.
A bored Queen Victoria keeps watch over some bored Mancunians.
One of the few mundane pics on the thread - Nice one for reading the OP. A crap, nondescript building and fuck all going on.
neonwilderness
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I pass this most days on the way to/from work
I used to pass The Rocket too, before it was pulled down
That reminds me of something in a tale I read about in a book of sailor's adventures. It seems that some unlucky mariners from a time long ago, were in a lifeboat after their ship had gone down, when they saw land. They were fearful that the inhabitants might be unwelcoming or dangerous as they approached the land. One of them suddenly said "Look on the hill over there. There is a gibbet" With that they all relaxed because they knew they had come upon a Christian country.Off topic (but lovely picture btw), but this has always puzzled me. Why do some religious people/institutions seek to bung up crosses in prominent places in the landscape - headlands like this, or hills and so on?..(snip).
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Gateshead Flyover
farmerbarleymow
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Some mundane pics I took today before going on a pub crawl in Manchester city centre.
Corn Exchange:
Corn Exchange:
farmerbarleymow
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Old Fire Station by Piccadilly station (quite a nice building, but in serious disrepair)
farmerbarleymow
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Random dull mix of modern office blocks and a glimpse of the lovely Crown Court through the gap:
farmerbarleymow
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Decorative wall artwork:
farmerbarleymow
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And finally a nice footbridge linking the Arndale with M & S:
It is. And it's been subject to fucking about by Britannia hotels/Manchester council for years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Road_Fire_Station,_Manchester
Fez909
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It's on the at risk list of listed buildings I believe. Really is amazing. They need to do something with it asap!
Park Square absolutely packed at dinner time
That's my old office building centre right. And on days like that I used to lie and read at lunch exactly where the bloke is in the foreground
Fez909
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That's my old office building centre right. And on days like that I used to lie and read at lunch exactly where the bloke is in the foreground
That's my favourite building in Leeds if you mean the one that almost looks Moorish? It's empty at the minute and I dream about setting up some cool tech company based out of there every time I walk past it...to the job centre.
I also like the Metropole Hotel.
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