Mundane pictures of the North

[farmerbarleymow]

I do like these low-tech rag trade signs on the old mill buildings.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And my favourite rag trade sign, which is without doubt, proper Northern!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A former cemetery housing 80,000 bodies which was converted into playing fields. The sign doesn't say, but I suspect the bodies were left in situ, as there are a few other sites in Manchester where the same applies. Slightly weird to know you are standing on tens of thousands of skeletons!

An illustrious scientist is also mentioned on the plaque, but not sure if this is clear on this reduced image.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Am still deciding where to go on Saturday. Although I still have to go to fucking Shipley to get that print

Keighley as well? You could do a reccy on street view to find what seems the most mundane small town in the area around Shipley.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

One of the old loops off the main line, severed many years ago by the looks of it. And the connecting section in the second picture. You occasionally hear of talk to re-connect it and convert the old viaduct into a line again, but I doubt that would happen given the cost to upgrade it after years of neglect and damage to the structure.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The most pointless train station in England award goes to....Ardwick.

A really odd station, barely a mile or so beyond Piccadilly, which according the timetable on the wall has two Piccadilly-bound trains stopping per week, and one outbound. So not exactly busy, and in a very peculiar location - maybe a hangover from the past when the area was somewhat busier in employment terms. It has around one passenger using it per day, so you just can't move for the crowds.

It is interesting to compare the annual number of passengers using both this and Piccadilly. In 2011/12, 584 passengers used this station, whereas more than 18.5 million used Piccadilly just a mile away.

It seems it may be popular with prostitutes given some detritus I spotted on the ground. Nice!





No idea what this was in a former life - station-masters house?



Steep slippy steps. Note the full disabled access.



View from top of the stairs.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Rusty old footbridge, with dodgy stairs.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Well-tended platform.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

GUS from across the tracks:



The white graffiti a little closer - they deserve 3.5 years in prison for such unacceptable spelling errors in my view:



Salubrious station area:



Container park:



Bus depot across the tracks:





And you can see the arches of the train shed at Piccadilly to see how close this station is to the main one:

 

[machine cat]

Keighley as well? You could do a reccy on street view to find what seems the most mundane small town in the area around Shipley.

I am fed up with that side of the world tbh. I want to go somewhere fun like Normanton or Soothill.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The footbridge was a good vantage point, so I thought I'd take a mundane panorama to show how dull and boring the area is.

Part 1:

 

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Part 2:

 

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More of the GUS buildings on Devonshire Street:





And a crappy office block (posted from the opposite angle earlier on in the thread):

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Pallets 'r' Us.

 

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Pointy knitwear.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Boring backstreet.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Could do with a paint job!

 

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Sign in pub window.

 

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Bridges over Fairfield Street.

 

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[farmerbarleymow]

I can't work out what that is at all! Is it algae growing on a fountain/water feature? There are no clues as to scale which is throwing me.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Title of this is 'ready to pounce'. It's clearly eyeing you up for its dinner. Look at the glowing alien eyes!

 

[cyberfairy]

I can't work out what that is at all! Is it algae growing on a fountain/water feature?

Greenish tinge on the banks of Lancaster Quay when the tide is down