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Mundane pictures of the North

farmerbarleymow said:
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. :)
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Oh, I'm much more scattergun usually, today was a one-off. Often I'll go a week and only take a couple of pics. So don't limit yourself on my account :)
I've got a few pics on my flickr I want to add, but I don't think I'll be taking new ones for the thread for a bit.
 
farmerbarleymow said:
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.
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You need to have a mundane trip to Denton sometime :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denton_railway_station
 
neonwilderness said:
You need to have a mundane trip to Denton sometime :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denton_railway_station
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I've heard of that station, as it is occasionally in the local press because of the threats of closure, and the laughably low passenger numbers too! It is in a very odd area, and a fairly rough one too so not a station I'd like to have to wait at even if there was a regular service. There is a nearby station with an inaccurate name - Flowery Field. Sounds lovely, but a friend who uses it to commute to work says the area its in is neither flowery, nor a field. :D

There was a recent article about it, and apparently there is a similar station nearby which is also poorly used - Reddish South, with 56 passengers a year.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/we-wont-give-up-ghost-3309224
 
ebay sex moomin said:
Southern Cemetery
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Have you posted Southern Cemetery pics already or is this your next plan? It's an ace cemetery that, and I was gonna suggest farmerbarleymow take a trip there after he posted the masonic graves earlier in the thread. Not sure if you've been to SC, but there's a whole section for masonic graves, all complete with your favourite conspiraloon symbols. Some of them are huge and elaborate, too.

Well worth a trip!

Oh, and there's a few famous people buried in there. Some Man U players; John Dalton (I think?) and some other scientists.

#gravenerd :cool:
 
Fez909 said:
Have you posted Southern Cemetery pics already or is this your next plan? It's an ace cemetery that, and I was gonna suggest farmerbarleymow take a trip there after he posted the masonic graves earlier in the thread. Not sure if you've been to SC, but there's a whole section for masonic graves, all complete with your favourite conspiraloon symbols. Some of them are huge and elaborate, too.

Well worth a trip!

Oh, and there's a few famous people buried in there. Some Man U players; John Dalton (I think?) and some other scientists.

#gravenerd :cool:
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I've not been to SC for donkeys years, but I do like cemeteries and elaborate gravestones. John Dalton was buried in the cemetery that was converted into playing fields that I posted yesterday. LS Lowry is buried in SC though. :cool:

Biggest cemetery in the UK too, so lots and lots of dead people!

A great one is Undercliffe Cemetery in Bradford, full of Victorian show-off gravestones.

http://www.undercliffecemetery.co.uk/
 
farmerbarleymow said:
I've not been to SC for donkeys years, but I do like cemeteries and elaborate gravestones. John Dalton was buried in the cemetery that was converted into playing fields that I posted yesterday. LS Lowry is buried in SC though. :cool:

Biggest cemetery in the UK too, so lots and lots of dead people!

A great one is Undercliffe Cemetery in Bradford, full of Victorian show-off gravestones.

http://www.undercliffecemetery.co.uk/
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Ah, was wrong on JD.

And didn't know it was the biggest in the UK!? It is absolutely massive, like. :cool:

Undercliffe sounds good. Might check it out if I'm ever in Bradford (which is rarely :D )

I went to an ace cemetery in Cuba, but it's neither mundane nor in the North so I won't post any more about it here (look it up though! Havana's Necropolis :cool: )
 
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Keasden road
At this point, the road is heading directly towards Ingleborough, which can be seen several miles away on the horizon.
 
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Electricity substation
These two buildings in the middle of nowhere appear on the 1940's OS map. The one in the background is now used for commercial vehicle repairs...but what was its original use?

On the 1919-1926 their is indicated old mine workings, ie shafts. On the 1894-1899 maps, nothing is there. It would appear that the building must have had some association with mine working.
 
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