Mundane pictures of the North

[Throbbing Angel]

I have eaten in Glamorous. It didn't live up to it's name

Same here

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Can't be sure whether this empty building was formerly a pub, but it looks like it from the design:

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But this one was:

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bits of Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement was filmed around here - one of the old pubs, possibly the first one, was used as a drug dealer's den/secure house - the fencing at the back looks familiar

Was there a staircase and metal balcony at the back of the building Farmer

 

[farmerbarleymow]

bits of Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement was filmed around here - one of the old pubs, possibly the first one, was used as a drug dealer's den/secure house - the fencing at the back looks familiar

Was there a staircase and metal balcony at the back of the building Farmer

Can't remember - which pub should have the metal staircase? I could pop back to check as its not far away.

 

[Firky]

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

My mundane little north-eastern city.

 

[Firky]

My mundane little north-eastern city.

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A very fat man on a bicycle recently went that way

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Is that bloke on the bench dead?

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Can't remember - which pub should have the metal staircase? I could pop back to check as its not far away.

Oh no....just idle curiosity and my ridiculous TV memory kicking on there.

You do seem to do a lot of walking about for this.

 

[Redeyes]

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Is that bloke on the bench dead?

Prolly not.

I woke up in Piccadilly Gardens (per revamp, when it was like a park) like that a few times on a Sunday morning.

 

[Firky]

Is that bloke on the bench dead?

Just northern!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Oh no....just idle curiosity and my ridiculous TV memory kicking on there.

You do seem to do a lot of walking about for this.

I'm going to have to go and find out now...will report back in a bit which, if either pub, has metal stairs on the outside.

 

[Roadkill]

I had a bit of a walk yesterday; along one of the Avenues, across Pearson Park, down Beverley Road, along Freetown Way and up into east Hull along Witham and the Holderness Road. Some pics;



Coming home from the pub on Friday evening I walked down a path I've never used before just off Chanterlands Avenue, and found a load of weird modern houses.



Corner of Marlborough Avenue and Richmond Street.



Some of the trees in the Avenues were taken down in the 1990s, because of some disease IIRC. The stumps were carved into totem pole-esque shapes by local artists.



Typical Victorian houses on Marlborough Ave.



Some of the oldest houses in the Avenues, near the corner of Princes Ave and Marlborough Ave.



Community arts festival in Pearson Park. I stayed to listen to a couple of the bands, which is why I didn't walk as far in east Hull as I planned.



From the same spot looking the other way: Hull Bowls Club doing their thing.



Eastern end of Pearson Park, with the recently-reopened Pearson Park Hotel. A lovely spot to watch the world go by with a pint on a summer afternoon.



The gateway to Pearson Park, except that the ornamental gates were taken down in the scrap drive in World war II and have never been replaced. Most of the houses in this view have been turned into flats. I know this 'cos ten years ago I was knocking off a lad who lived in one of them.

 

[Roadkill]

Former Dorchester Hotel on Beverley Road. Was sporting 'sold' signs recently, but that seems to have fallen through, although some work is evidently being done on it.



Beverley Road swimming baths, and Stepney primary school.



This used to be a singularly unprepossessing pub; now a well-rated Polish restaurant.



The former Stepney railway station. The pub opposite used to have a signal box in what is now the beer garden.



The old Northern Library. Hull City Council have boasted that they're one of the few local authorities not to have closed a library in the current spending cuts. The main reason they haven't IMO is that they reorganised the library service in 2005 and shut down a few less well used ones, including this one.



Lovely Georgian villas at the bottom of Beverley Road, which is IMO the single most interesting street in the city - walking up it out of town is to walk from the outer edges of the Georgian town, through the Victorian boom town, and then out into successive phases of twentieth-century development. And a few bomb sites.



Old Trafalgar Street chapel. I don't ever remember it being open, and when I lived on Beverley Road the alley behind it was a frequent venue for a furtive piss on the way home from clubs in town.



Kingston youth centre.

 

[Roadkill]

Looking into the industrial area along the river, down Raywell Street.



More industrial stuff.



Rough ol' dive of a pub on the right, followed by more 50s industrial development, mostly built over what was a very badly bombed part of the city.



More mundane industrial streets.



Freetown Way. The brown building opposite is the archives and local studies library.



Other side of Freetown Way - which was uncannily quiet - looking north.



Part of Hull College.



Ditto.



Bottom of Wincolmlee - very industrial further up but with some fascinating buildings and a couple of surprisingly great pubs. Didn't have time to walk that way yesterday though.

 

[Roadkill]

Vacant industrial unit by the river.



View northwards up the River Hull, from North Bridge.



And the view in the other direction, with Drypool Bridge and the old flour mill in the background.



Years ago the big shop used to be an undertaker called Boddy and Son.



Hire this pub? No thanks.



View along New Cleveland Street. The legendary Spiders is in the far distance.



View along Witham.



Witham used to be car-dealer central. Most of them have either shut or relocated, giving the whole street a pretty desolate feel. That said, it's one of the main night-out destinations for the lager-and-fighting brigade these days, as there are quite a few bars down there.



Side street. I wonder what the pointy building in the background is - must go back and find out.



Bottom end of Witham, at the corner with Dansom Lane.

 

[Roadkill]

Not somewhere I'm very keen to try for a drink, tbh.



More industry.



Another of Witham's oh-so-classy bars.



The big green building used to be a club and bowling alley. Now a dance studio.



Former ( ) James Reckitt Library.



At the bottom of Witham, on the corner with Brazil Street.



Apparently this eyesore is up for redevelopment. Seeing it shut in 2009 was a first indicator of how hard the recession was hitting the city.



Mundane retail park.



Bottom of the Holderness Road.



I found some more arches!

 

[Roadkill]

Holderness Road, framed by the railway bridge which carries the freight line down to the docks.



Mundane ol' Holderness Road.



Another rough old dive, now closed.



Holderness Road again.



Interesting 30s building.



... and some rather pretty Victorian houses, now shops.



Ugly church.



Pramland. Not something I'm ever likely to need.



Cant work out how to separate these two without deleting one. The house on the left is the birthplace of J. Arthur Rank, according to the blue plaque. The statue is James Stuart, whoever he might have been.

 

[Roadkill]

Edge of Garden Village, an early twentieth-century garden suburb, now east Hull's equivalent of The Avenues.



The Bank pub, on the corner of Southcoates Lane.



Why a local taxi firm has decided to fly the rainbow flag I can't imagine, although it is pride next weekend.



Waiting for a bus back into town, opposite some very mundane shops.



One of Holderness Road's endless side streets.



More shops.



Bus stops by a scaffolded building, near the junction with Witham and Mount Pleasant. Which isn't.

 

[Roadkill]

I also took a few pics nearer home last night:



The Queens, on the corner of Queens Road and Princes Avenue. Used to be the local fash pub. Last time the EDL tried to meet in there the landlord told them to fuck off.



Newland Avenue, from under the railway bridge.



This place used to be a hideous old dive called the Nags Head. Now part of what the local trendy types call the Newland Avenue Scene. I like it cos it does good food and good beer. Packed to the rafters with dancing people - including in the upstairs bar I didn't know about - at midnight last night.



Beer garden of Larkin's bar, Newland Ave. One of my favourite places in the area.



I have no recollection of taking this picture on Spring Bank, but my phone tells me I did it at something like 445 this morning. So that'll be when I finally staggered out of the Star and Garter, then.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Prolly not.

I woke up in Piccadilly Gardens (per revamp, when it was like a park) like that a few times on a Sunday morning.

I'll take your park bench in Piccadilly Gardens and raise you a BT phone box.

It seemed a sensible option at the time, when I was stranded in Leeds city centre in the early hours with no cash to get a cab home. Of course, I was very very drunk. Not recommended.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

bits of Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement was filmed around here - one of the old pubs, possibly the first one, was used as a drug dealer's den/secure house - the fencing at the back looks familiar

Was there a staircase and metal balcony at the back of the building Farmer

Right Throbbing Angel, before I go through the new pics I took this afternoon, we need to settle this pub question.

I've been back and took photos of the back of the buildings, and one does indeed have metal stairs! So here are the pics:

White pub (called the Edinburgh Castle I now know). No stairs.



And the Smith's Arms. Stairs!

Although these are at the side of the pub.



So was this on the telly then or what?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A very mundane Parker Street bus station in Piccadilly Gardens. A truly soulless place, and the Berlin Wall is presumably designed to shield the gardens behind from the bus and tram stations.

But in truth, the wall just makes it even more ugly! I would have thought councils would have learnt by now that bare concrete structures are not sensible with our maritime climate as they look wet and depressing most of the year. They have tried to pretty it up by stringing fairy lights along the top. Like that's going to work!

 

[neonwilderness]

Just northern!

Is that at The Green?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Mundane local mill.







The lower sign has been there a while - the phone number is 061 and it must have been many years since the '1' prefix was added to STD codes.

 

[Firky]

Is that at The Green?

Aye

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Canal cottage in Ancoats:



Remains of a wall. I presume this must have been the wall of a mill that stood on this site in the past, and they've kept this as it borders the canal.



Don't know what this building was, but its clearly been left to rot.



From Pollard Street:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

More mill shots, on Pollard Street.



I like the brickwork design in this chimney - quite unusual.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Pollard Street:



Beswick Street/Pollard Street junction:



Spectator Street:



Mills alongside the Ashton Canal, taken from the bridge carrying Beswick Street over the canal:





Beswick Street:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Boarded up housing on Pollard Street. I guess these are destined for demolition.