Mundane pictures of the North

[farmerbarleymow]

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

Aha! Makes sense now.

 

[cyberfairy]

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

It's my cat and you are right! I see her there and I am working out the vets fee we don't have ( got her from Cats Protection League with a borked leg from falling, not a good sign)

 

[Dillinger4]

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.

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There is a park like that in Liverpool. Grant Gardens, IIRC. They just removed all the headstones and renamed it as a park. There are around 80,000 still underneath the ground there and no sign as its former existence.

When they were thinking of building a tram in Liverpool a bit of it was excavated as a possible interchange and in the small bit they dug up they found loads of skeletons.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

a bit of north staffordshire (between talke pits and tunstall) late 70s (not my photo) complete with PMT (yes, really) bus.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

There is a park like that in Liverpool. Grant Gardens, IIRC. They just removed all the headstones and renamed it as a park. There are around 80,000 still underneath the ground there and no sign as its former existence.

When they were thinking of building a tram in Liverpool a bit of it was excavated as a possible interchange and in the small bit they dug up they found loads of skeletons.

They regularly find bodies in Manchester during development works, which always causes a halt while the police look into it and conclude that the body has been there for donkeys years. Makes you wonder how many burial sites are actually about that aren't recorded any more.

 

[Tom A]

Sign in pub window.

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Ahh... the Star and Garter, been to a few gigs around there.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Ahh... the Star and Garter, been to a few gigs around there.

A pub with a dubious reputation so I'm told.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

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!

Those used to be our school playing fields. I didn't know they were public now. I think part of the field had to be cordoned off one time because one of the graves collapsed in, after heavy rains. I seem to recall someone saying that one of the kids fell in, but it was probably just a playground rumour. I have a recollection that you could tell it was an ex-graveyard, because there were sunken rectangular patches in a few places.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

Inspired by farmerbarleymow, I took a wander this afternoon to see what mundane Northern scenes I could snap. Starting from my flat near Alexandra Park Job Centre, I headed west through Old Trafford...

Demolition, Eagle Court



A full skip, Ayers Road




Polski Sklep and skip full of slate

 

[Pickman's model]

Semi detached suburbia
A view along Forest Way in Heworth. Very typical of the rash of brick built three bed semis which spread across England in the 1930's. The OS maps of 1937/38 show this road partly built up.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

A full skip plus toilet outside Very Tasty




St Johns. Sign says "Cycle to church for body, soul and planet"




A curious tree, Walter Street

 

[ebay sex moomin]

'Manchester Supermarket'



Banana snack, Seymour Park




A load of balls

 

[ebay sex moomin]

Cat under a car, Addison Crescent




The new Didsbury Metrolink line




Wall and fence, Ayres Road




Graffiti, Metrolink depot

 

[ebay sex moomin]

Trams, TFGM metrolink depot




Dumped bag



The end of Ayers Road

 

[farmerbarleymow]

We need more of mundane Manchester.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

Watering the pitch, Lancashire County Cricket Club



Red Rose, Lancashire County Cricket Club




A contender for the most boring photo I've ever taken. It's Trafford town hall!

 

[ebay sex moomin]

Chester Road and Man United's ground, aka the 'Theatre of Dreams'.



Roadworks and Beetham Tower, Chester Road




United Cafe, Sir Matt Busby Way.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

A skip, Sir Matt Busby Way




Statue, Old Trafford



The Theatre of Dreams! (as long as your dreams are about a bunch of men kicking a ball around)


That's it!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Watering the pitch, Lancashire County Cricket Club

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Red Rose, Lancashire County Cricket Club

My god, he's got a full bladder and a large cock!

 

[ebay sex moomin]

Hehe, yeah it does look like someone power-pissing :-D

 

[farmerbarleymow]

United Cafe, Sir Matt Busby Way.

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Similar? No?

 

[ebay sex moomin]

Harsh! They were very friendly when I asked if I could snap them on their break

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Harsh! They were very friendly when I asked if I could snap them on their break

But true! No-one, but no-one, gets that skin tone due to the Manc climate!

The best they can do is blue due to Vitamin D deficiency.

 

[Fez909]

Nice pics ebay sex moomin, but I can't believe you and farmerbarleymow have covered so much of Manchester and yet there's no pic of Gay Lyfe Aquatic Centre up here yet?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Nice pics ebay sex moomin, but I can't believe you and farmerbarleymow have covered so much of Manchester and yet there's no pic of Gay Lyfe Aquatic Centre up here yet?

Too far off my planned itinerary at present, but on my provisional list. I know it well - used to live nearby.

I feel bullied now into travelling to Lev!

 

[ebay sex moomin]

I did think of Levvy as my first idea- it's full of nooks and crannies, decay and old-style Manc charm. I'll definitely be going there, though fbm might beat me to it...
The other idea I thought might be fun was a Morrissey-themed one- Rusholme, Southern Cemetery, Strangeways... That'd probably take a couple of days, 'cos I don't have a car

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I did think of Levvy as my first idea- it's full of nooks and crannies, decay and old-style Manc charm. I'll definitely be going there, though fbm might beat me to it...
The other idea I thought might be fun was a Morrissey-themed one- Rusholme, Southern Cemetery, Strangeways... That'd probably take a couple of days, 'cos I don't have a car

We should divide our efforts more sensibly - I do north (as I live in town), and you do south. The border being roughly fuzzy but common sense.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I did think of Levvy as my first idea- it's full of nooks and crannies, decay and old-style Manc charm. I'll definitely be going there, though fbm might beat me to it...
The other idea I thought might be fun was a Morrissey-themed one- Rusholme, Southern Cemetery, Strangeways... That'd probably take a couple of days, 'cos I don't have a car

PS - done Strangeways already.

 

[tufty79]

The other idea I thought might be fun was a Morrissey-themed one- Rusholme, Southern Cemetery, Strangeways... That'd probably take a couple of days, 'cos I don't have a car

I am not sure that morrissey had one either

 

[Fez909]

I did think of Levvy as my first idea- it's full of nooks and crannies, decay and old-style Manc charm. I'll definitely be going there, though fbm might beat me to it...
The other idea I thought might be fun was a Morrissey-themed one- Rusholme, Southern Cemetery, Strangeways... That'd probably take a couple of days, 'cos I don't have a car

There's also the street with no name - but that's not really mundane. Apparently East Asians come to visit it especially these days!?