Mundane pictures of the North

[Fez909]

Amazing with cheap mint sauce in em

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_peas

I asked the man on the stall how best to eat them and he said for me to drown them in vinegar (malt, of course) and liberally apply white pepper.

I did and they were nice and my mouth is watering with the memory of it.

Mint sauce sounds like it would be great as well.

*drool*

 

[tufty79]

and finally..
i left 'em with a menu for this lot:

and told them to decide what they wanted and suprise me when it arrived.
they got a bit carried away with the northern cheap, and i ended up with this:



it all counts as northern and mundane, ok?

 

[Fez909]

My favourite pic on here for a while. Sums up the North, this does.

Industrial heritage on the one hand; cheap pound-shop type shops on the other.

 

[neonwilderness]

You don't get them in the North East, or not that I've seen, anyway.

Not something I've heard of either

 

[Fez909]

Not something I've heard of either

The wiki page says there's a similar thing in the NE called pigeon peas, but I haven't heard of them either.

Only pea-based foodstuffs in the NE that's noteworthy are mushy peas and pease pudding.

Bonfire/parched peas are like mushy peas, but much darker. Black, almost. They're well nice

 

[neonwilderness]

Just mushy peas and pease pudding here too. It sounds like something you have to try to appreciate, a bowl of peas with vinegar and pepper doesn't sund that appealing

 

[tufty79]

Just mushy peas and pease pudding here too. It sounds like something you have to try to appreciate, a bowl of peas with vinegar and pepper doesn't sund that appealing

oh yes it does

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The Tripe Shop seemed to sell only three things: tripe, malt vinegar and cow's hooves. What else do you need!?

A side order of UKIP leaflets and a lifetime subscription to the Daily Mail?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

My favourite pic on here for a while. Sums up the North, this does.

Industrial heritage on the one hand; cheap pound-shop type shops on the other.

I agree. On the one hand it symbolises that we built the industrial world, and on the other that we now scrabble for cheapo bargains in discount shops.

 

[Espresso]

Parched peas are immense. In my market there is man who sells the dried maple/pigeon peas for 65p for a pound of the dried peas. I buy them all the time and make not only parched peas but also a thing of splendour and deiciousness from the Midlands - gray paes and bacon. One pound of peas, one ham hock and there's your tea every night for a week for about two quid.
Bit like this - not my picture, though, I stole it from the internet. As mentioned, I don't have it with a rasher of crispy bacon, but it's just to show you the pea bits look like.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Fixed the colour...a bit.

Can't be arsed doing the rest, but seeing as QueenOfGoths wanted one of this...

Yay!! Thank you, thank you, thank you that has right cheered me up

Look at its glory...if I had the money I'd buy it!!

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I am also still giggling about tripe stealing asylum seekers I mean I know it's not really funny but...

 

[neonwilderness]

oh yes it does

I think I'll stick to this

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I am also still giggling about tripe stealing asylum seekers I mean I know it's not really funny but...

The foreign bastards come here and steal our fucking tripe! How fucking dare they!!!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I think I'll stick to this

Why oh why did you post this picture, you evil person? I'm now craving a ham n' pease pudding stottie that I can't have!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I did try and convince a hapless southerner once that Yorkshire Tea was actually grown on the Pennines, and fertilised with sheep droppings. I wasn't quite sure whether they actually believed me.

 

[Pickman's model]

B6279 junction with minor roads at Low Moor House

 

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Heighington

 

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Heighington village green

 

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Darlington County Court

 

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Snooker hall on Woodland Road, Darlington

 

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Bondgate roundabout, Darlington

 

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Blackwellgate in the rain, Darlington

 

[Pickman's model]

Joseph Pease. 1799-1872
Bronze statue, Peterhead granite plinth with four bas-relief panels representing some of his concerns; Elections, a colliery school, a colliery engine and docks, and black slaves. Erected on September 28th 1875. Removed for restoration, as part of the £6.2m Pedestrian Heart project, and on March 21st 2007, re-erected in its original position on the junction of High Row, Northgate and Prospect Place, facing the town clock.

 

[Pickman's model]

St Chad Close, Bridlington

 

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Path in Queen's Park, Bridlington

 

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Roundabout on Queensgate

 

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Memorial to the ferry disaster
Listed structure in the grounds of Newby Hall

 

[Fez909]

Joseph Pease. 1799-1872
Bronze statue, Peterhead granite plinth with four bas-relief panels representing some of his concerns; Elections, a colliery school, a colliery engine and docks, and black slaves. Erected on September 28th 1875. Removed for restoration, as part of the £6.2m Pedestrian Heart project, and on March 21st 2007, re-erected in its original position on the junction of High Row, Northgate and Prospect Place, facing the town clock.

Mr Pease Pudding himself makes an appearance!

 

[Pickman's model]

Disused railway, Newcastle West 12 July 1976

Newcastle West was an intermediate station on the railway between Limerick and Tralee. The line from the Limerick direction opened in 1867 and from Newcastle West to Tralee in 1880. Through trains had to reverse at the station which had been built as two stations side-by-side. The entire line closed to passengers in 1963. It remained open for goods traffic until 1975 when the service was withdrawn between Limerick and Listowel (over the Barnagh Bank). Listowel to Tralee closed in 1977/78. The photographs show the line at Newcastle West on 12 July 1976.​