Mundane pictures of the North

[farmerbarleymow]

Some more pictures of Ancoats.

Beswick Street/Bradford Road junction:



Old Mill Street:



Large area awaiting development. There were tons of kids diving into the canal which is more brave than I would be, given what horrors can lurk at the bottom of them. But I think these are newly dug canals so should be fairly trolley-free. Taken from Redhill Street.





Jersey Street:



This is the gated doorway to a really nice building built in 1904 on Murray Street, and attractively faced with brick and yellow terracotta. I really hope they restore it as it would be a crime to knock it down.



Edit to add - the spotlight/camera thing on the top of the scaffolding in the next two pics is for the new Halle Orchestra rehearsal/performance facility. They converted a deconsecrated church which needed some TLC, and now it is a lovely building again. They have been doing some stuff here for the Manchester International Festival I think - lots of security staff and support staff about in the surrounding streets. Pic of the restored church at the end.

Murray Street/Hood Street:



Murray Street/Blossom Street:



Taken from Hood Street:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Note the road sign 'Cotton Street' in the first pic, obviously referring back to Manchester's dominance of the trade back in its heyday. The cotton flower and the bee are the twin symbols of the city, the bee being the symbol of industriousness of course. These are everywhere from on bins around the city, to mosaics on the town hall floor. There's even a mill called Beehive Mill somewhere nearby - I think I've already posted a pic, but will seek it out and take a picture of the engraved name on the front.





George Leigh Street:



Taken from an alley leading off Loom Street:



Loom Street:



Gun Street:

 

[Roadkill]

Top work, farmerbarleymow. Take it you're enjoying your new camera?!

Meanwhile, despite feeling half dead after last night I dragged myself down to Beverley Road for a coffee with a mate, and then took a detour back through the Avenues. I'll put the pics online a bit later. Shame I didn't take any photos in Pearson Park, really, since the scenery was really very nice today, with all the topless lads sunbathing and playing football.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And final ones from Ancoats, all on Gun Street.





This picture looks like the window tax is still in operation:

 

[Firky]

Thread love <3

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Top work, farmerbarleymow. Take it you're enjoying your new camera?!

Meanwhile, despite feeling half dead after last night I dragged myself down to Beverley Road for a coffee with a mate, and then took a detour back through the Avenues. I'll put the pics online a bit later. Shame I didn't take any photos in Pearson Park, really, since the scenery was really very nice today, with all the topless lads sunbathing and playing football.

Ta. Having fun with it and working out how it works as I go - manuals are for wimps! Although getting pissed off with the software for the laptop as I can't get it to work properly yet, so can't download the GPS logs the camera takes so I can easily tot up the miles covered.

Sadly there was no totty out today, topless of otherwise. Only deeply unattractive people wearing far too tight/revealing clothing. Ugh! I'm going to post a pic in a minute that shows one of them.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And here is the example - a topless hunk leaning against the building.

Back in the Northern Quarter now, on Houldsworth Street.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Tatty old building on Little Lever Street, and even the lettering looks ancient.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Another space invader, on Faraday Street.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

An unpleasant concrete monstrosity on Lever Street. They put that new glass central atrium thingy on it the other year, but its like putting lipstick on a pig.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Road works against tatty ex-shops.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And finally, a nice welcoming sign after my 3 mile trek today. Clocked up a total of more than 43 miles so far - I'll be billing Fez909 for new shoes at this rate!

 

[Roadkill]

Queens Road Catholic church.



Social club on Queens Road.



I've not walked down Queens Road for a while, and was slightly surprised to see the electrical shop still in business.



Corner of Queens Road and Beverley Road, with Sculcoates Lane ahead.



Looking northwards up Beverley Road. Once you get beyond the railway bridge you're into the student area. Used to be very popular townie drinking territory as well, but that trade moved elsewhere and several of the bars up there have closed down.



The boarded up building to the left used to be a bar but closed a year or so back: the one on the right is Wetherspoons.



Park Avenue.



Park Avenue again. I love the jumble of mainly Victorian building styles in the Avenues, albeit with a bit of modern infill where houses were bombed in the war. Lovely area.

 

[longdog]

More awesome pikkies FBM. Keep up the good work

ETA: And yours roadie. Quite impressive given your handicap

 

[Throbbing Angel]

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.

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And the Smith's Arms. Stairs!

Although these are at the side of the pub.

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So was this on the telly then or what?

I think it is the same pub - It was the HQ of a drug dealer called 'The Street' in Prime Suspect 5
Here is a screenie from youtube

You can watch the episode here and see quite a few of the street near where you took a load of photos, further up the road from Anita st and the surrounding areas. Some good shots of the inside of Victoria Baths too.

 

[Roadkill]

A nice pair of gargoyles.



Huge house on Park Avenue.



More Victorian villas.



At the junction of Park Avenue and Salisbury Street. The fountains were taken out at one point, but put back again sometime in the 1990s IIRC.



Just up from the same spot. The building on the left is one of a number of huge villas on Salisbury Street. Gorgeous buildings, though I particularly like the tall houses opposite. This being Hull they aren't ruinously expensive either. Tempting, if and when I decide to buy...



Junction of Salisbury Street and Westbourne Avenue, the view spoiled only by the scaffolding on one of the houses.



1860s houses - I think - on Westbourne Avenue.



Westbourne Avenue again, looking up towards Chanterlands Avenue in the distance, which is where I do a lot of my shopping.



And again. The Avenues are sometimes referred to as the 'Muesli Belt' of Hull, since they're leafy, affluent and full of academics (it only being a twenty-minute walk to the university from here) and assorted other professional types. Or so some say, although actually quite a lot of the houses have been turned into flats. It is a thoroughly middle class area, though.

 

[Roadkill]

ETA: And yours roadie. Quite impressive given your handicap

What, the small handicap of being dead, you mean?

 

[stethoscope]

Wonderful pictures @farmerbarleymow and @Roadkill

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Wonderful pictures @farmerbarleymow and @Roadkill

aye
some really good stuff

 

[farmerbarleymow]

What, the small handicap of being dead, you mean?

I thought it was the handicap of living in Hull. An advantage surely?

 

[Roadkill]

I thought it was the handicap of living in Hull. An advantage surely?

No, I rang longdog earlier complaining about being dead after last night's excesses. My eyes look like piss-holes in the snow.

 

[longdog]

WTF?

 

[Roadkill]

WTF?

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When did you take that?

 

[killer b]

this morning in leeds:

this afternoon in preston

 

[farmerbarleymow]

No, I rang longdog earlier complaining about being dead after last night's excesses. My eyes look like piss-holes in the snow.

Well you're no longer a young man who can get away with such drunkenness and debauchery, so let this be a lesson to you!

 

[Roadkill]

Well you're no longer a young man who can get away with such drunkenness and debauchery, so let this be a lesson to you!

True that. I used to be able to roll home at 5am and still be bright eyed and bushy tailed the next day, whereas today was basically a write-off until I went out late afternoon.

 

[machine cat]

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).

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That's not fucking mundane!! It was random as fuck! tufty79 goes out the pub for a fag . After a couple of minutes runs back in, picks up one of TWO copies of Riddley Walker she's acquired over the weekend, says 'back in a minute', runs out and the next thing I know I'm reading a poem about Sputnik out loud to Rid.

 

[tufty79]

That's not fucking mundane!! It was random as fuck!

it was the most mundane thing about shipley that i encountered - that place is mental, and like being in some kind of art-installation interpretation of my brain
i think i want to move there once i acquire more than six cats

 

[machine cat]

obviously
it was next to the diana princess of hearts plaque

 

[machine cat]

it was the most mundane thing about shipley that i encountered - that place is mental, and like being in some kind of art-installation interpretation of my brain
i think i want to move there once i acquire more than six cats

Cats with names like ASBO Raccoon?



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