Mundane pictures of the North

[farmerbarleymow]

Shipley Swimming Pool

I like the tile work there - that always cheers me up.

I see they've made sure the clock is included!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The old Smithfield Market on Great Ancoats Street.

This is the 600th picture I've resized for this thread, most of which I've posted. This is becoming an addiction!

 

[machine cat]

I like the tile work there - that always cheers me up.

I see they've made sure the clock is included!

It really is a nice work of art

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Gate with rubbish behind, Great Ancoats Street.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I like the tile work there - that always cheers me up.

I see they've made sure the clock is included!

That is brilliant and I love those kinds of little tiles that only seem to be used in swimming baths...I can almost smell the chlorine

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This shows the approach of the council over the years. Just keep dumping new layers of tarmac on the nice old cobbled street. It would be so much nicer if all the cobbled streets were restored.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That is brilliant and I love those kinds of little tiles that only seemed to be used in swimming baths...I can almost smell the chlorine

I love the smell of chlorine - takes me right back to childhood at the baths.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

In the Northern Quarter now. This picture isn't mundane as such, but I love the frogs.

 

[machine cat]

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This makes me want fish and chips! I might have to go and get some this afternoon.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Demolished buildings, turning this street into a gap-toothed one.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is a boring building, but I like the Butty Bar - nice Northern name.



Another sex shop. There are a surprising number of these in Manchester.



Another sex shop! The pub, now called The Northern, used to be the Kings Arms (I think), and had a reputation as a rough pub. I don't know whether this was justified, as it was OK the one time I went in. The new owners have transformed the place and it is now a nice pub.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Frank Sidebottom, Oldham Street.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This used to be an underground public toilet in Stephenson Square, long since closed. Now nice and colourful which cheers the area up.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Boring car park on Church Street, Manchester.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A mundane Northern tea shop.

 

[machine cat]

I need to go out and buy some stuff for the house.

Yes, the camera is coming with me

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I need to go out and buy some stuff for the house.

Yes, the camera is coming with me

I think I need to go out for absolutely no reason at all, but take my camera with me.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Boring old Piccadilly Gardens, with the metal remembrance tree commemorating the city's civilian war dead during WWII.




The Berlin Wall, as it is known.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is quite a contrast. This first building is crumbling...



...but is next door to this great piece of wall art. I like the bikes they've attached to the staircase.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Another empty building awaiting sale. I think it may originally have been a pub or shop judging by the style of the windows on the ground floor.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Boring old mill in the NQ.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Some wall art/graffiti in the NQ. This makes mundane streets look far more cheerful, and metal shutters look far better with a bit of decoration like this.

I think these pictures may not be mundane enough

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And finally for this morning, a tatty takeaway.

 

[tufty79]

i am working backwards through my mundanity.

sikh temple




my favourite abstract topiary/nice bit of bush in leeds. i don't know if they're deliberate, but i think two of them look like they're having a proper nice cuddle



nice bit of thoughfulness in chapel aaaaaaaaaaay



northernly mundane 'cos i'm lucky enough to live up here, *plus* i found a five leaf clover at shipley station..

 

[tufty79]

shipley in all its glorious sunshiney weirdo glory (reposted from the northbashing thread)




ridley and jazz/jeff. they approve of being put on The Internet. and ridley gives his love to anyone reading in london (he was another honorary southerner for a bit).






jasper



a Very Polite Notice

 

[neonwilderness]

shipley in all its glorious sunshiney weirdo glory (reposted from the northbashing thread)

Is that a goat with a shopping bag?

 

[tufty79]

Is that a goat with a shopping bag?

obviously
it was next to the diana princess of hearts plaque

 

[tufty79]

little london ain't all that for hard men walking dogs.



woodhouse street from behind



reasons to luv leeds: comfy seating in public spaces



this is st mark's church, where there was a Grisly Murrrrrderr years ago



..and even more disturbingly, all the angel headstones i saw were headless

 

[tufty79]

last push:

functional concrete (i'm going to try get the ec stoner building and the red route next time)



detail



the headrow eastgate



more headrow eastgate