Mundane pictures of the North

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Weir and Bridge
A fast flowing weir just before the Spine Road Bridge.

 

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Coal Tub At North Seaton
Coal Tub commemorating North Seaton Colliery which was sunk in 1859 & closed in 1961. The land was reclaimed in 1978 & this tub was placed her originally in 1987 although the rear wall has recently been built.

 

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Gated entrance to the Orgreave regeneration area

 

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Roundabout on the B6066

 

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Southroyd Park, Pudsey
These houses were built by the local authority between the two World Wars as part of a small housing estate. They are two-up, two-down dwellings with a coal store and bathroom off the kitchen; the sitting room was heated by a cast iron cooking range with back boiler; the lavatory was upstairs. At times the kitchen used to "run wick wi' black-clocks". No housing development is shown here on the 1940s OS map. Here we are at the southernmost extent of Pudsey's built-up-area quite close to Fulneck Moravian village and school.

 

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No 5 Fulneck
The Blue Plaque on the wall shows this to be the birthplace of the Yorkshire and England cricketer Sir Len Hutton.

 

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Environmental Health & Education Welfare Building - Kent Road

 

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The Swinnow, Harley Drive

 

[cyberfairy]

Can't remember if I posted these last night...

 

[cyberfairy]

 

[cyberfairy]

The Swinnow, Harley Drive

I like those pubs that could have closed in 1998 or could have three blokes sitting in silence at the bar at 11 am.

 

[tufty79]

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

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 )

I am having a bradford nostalgia jaunt soon, and my DoE award centre was opposite undercliffe cemetery.want to join me?

 

[tufty79]

I'm off to Stalybridge

staleyVegas!!1!
if Oliver's is still by the market square in Ashton, please could you snap it?

 

[cyberfairy]

Best cemetery ever is Glasgow's Necropolis. The name itself is enough to make me swoon. Awesome overgrown Jewish one in Stamford Hill/Stoke Newington (or there used to be 10 years ago-might be a Waitrose now)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Finished my mundane trek for today, and am sat in the bar at Stalybridge station having a beer and resting my feet before the train home.

Got some good pics, and one specially for Roadkill

Will post them later on.

 

[Pickman's model]

Finished my mundane trek for today, and am sat in the bar at Stalybridge station having a beer and resting my feet before the train home.

Got some good pics, and one specially for Roadkill

Will post them later on.

Huddersfield Canal in Stalybridge
The Huddersfield Narrow Canal passing through Stalybridge. This section had been in-filled but was restored and re-opened in 2001.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

staleyVegas!!1!
if Oliver's is still by the market square in Ashton, please could you snap it?

Oops! Only just saw this.

I took various pics of the market so if you can say what Oliver's is I can see if I've snapped it.

 

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Stalybridge : Golden Jubilee of Twinning Monument

 

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Commercial Property - 125 Minto Street, Ashton-under-lyne, OL7 9DA

 

[machine cat]

Pub 'garden' in Huddersfield

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Some quick observations of the two towns I've been to today. Ashton had the usual empty shops and proliferation of cheap ones, but generally seemed to be bearing up in the economic circumstances.

Stalybridge on the other hand has been badly affected. It seemed that the majority of shops were closed and I did wonder whether I'd forgot the day and travelled there on a Sunday.

As I clearly looked an outsider, taking photos and stopping often to seek out the next mundane view, I attracted the attention of beggars very rapidly. One woman was so extremely nice about asking for money that I felt bad for not helping her. The town really did feel like there just wasn't anything going for it any more.

Sad to see.

 

[Roadkill]

A few photos taken mainly through the rather grubby windows of my train to London yesterday, and back today.



Spring Bank, on a dull morning.



Mundane 1970s houses just north of the railway line.



A bit of ghost advertising, on the edge of the industrial bit of south-west Hull.



I've found some railway arches!



Light industry.



The buildings with the odd-shaped chimneys are part of a caravan factory now. Originally there were load of buildings like that in the streets off the Hessle Road: they were fish smokehouses.




A bit more light industry.



Headquarters of Shipham Valves, a long-established Hull company.



New housing along (I think) Eastbourne Street; part of the regeneration of what used to be a seriously nasty part of the city.



The St George's Hotel, which closed down a couple of months back.

 

[Roadkill]

Town end of Selby Street. I've always liked the ship motif on the wall of the house in the middle.



Hull Royal Infirmary complex.



The building to let used to be Silhouette's Nightclub, scene of a lot of my gay-scene gallivanting in years gone by. Now long superseded by places in town where you don't stick to the carpet, and which don't turn the same blind eye to drugs and goings on in the toilets. I miss dear old Sils.

 

[Roadkill]

And a few train-window shots of the Selby area:



Level crossing at Eastrington.



A bit of typical East Yorkshire countryside.



Barlby signal box, on the edge of Selby.



Part of the huge Bocm Pauls plant



And another part, which they're knocking down.



And the west end of the site.



Looking north up the Ouse, from the swing bridge.



Part of the High Street.

I did mean to get some more pics on the way back through today, but the sun was right in the lens and they didn't come out.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A view from Stalybridge station, to the Pennines the town nestles against. This sort of view of the whale-backed hills of the Pennines always make me happy and feel at home. Hilly places are where I belong.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Some shots of the buffet bar at Stalybridge station. A lovely little proper pub on the platform, and dates back quite a way. It is full of bits and bobs from history, especially the railways (understandably given its location). Really friendly staff and nice real ale on sale. Without doubt the best station pub I've ever been in.

Plaque outside:



Case full of bits and bobs:



Nice old clock - probably used for clocking on in its previous life:



General inside shot:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Mundane Stalybridge.

 

[cdg]

When I were a lad Harvard mills was called grandways.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Industrial park in Stalybridge. More to follow...

 

[cdg]

Kirkstall housing association takes me back to snogging Emma G***** round the back before I was even in high school