Mundane pictures of the North

[neonwilderness]

Spurn Head lighthouse

I went down there last year after getting some work done on the car in Hull. It was a bit strange driving through the sand dunes to get there and I kept seeing traces of railway tracks on the road, so I assume there was a line down there at some point?

 

[Roadkill]

I went down there last year after getting some work done on the car in Hull. It was a bit strange driving through the sand dunes to get there and I kept seeing traces of railway tracks on the road, so I assume there was a line down there at some point?

Yes. It was a military railway, supplying the gun emplacements and so on at the end. There are all manner of half-buried earthworks down there, dating from the eighteenth century to World War II. Of course, Spurn Head has shifted over time - and been breached a few times - so the railway now criss-crosses the point in rather surreal fashion. The lighthouse was decommissioned in the 1980s, but the local paper was running a story last week about it being turned into some kind of visitor attraction.

 

[The Boy]

There's a tunnel underneath the motorway that leads to his farm.

That's disappointing . I had images in my head of a farmer in his tractor trying inch out onto the motorway.

 

[neonwilderness]

Spurn Head has shifted over time - and been breached a few times - so the railway now criss-crosses the point in rather surreal fashion.

I thought so, I noticed that the road seemed to diverge off a few times. I'd like to go back for a proper look round sometime, when I was there it was pissing down and was starting to get dark by the time I'd eaten the chips I'd bought on the way

 

[Roadkill]

I thought so, I noticed that the road seemed to diverge off a few times. I'd like to go back for a proper look round sometime, when I was there it was pissing down and was starting to get dark by the time I'd eaten the chips I'd bought on the way

Spurn Head is well worth a walk, although it's longer than you think and quite a hike to the end! I'll post a couple more pics I took on the same walk as the lighthouse one...



Looking out over the Humber

 

[Roadkill]

And ... for some reason I can't seem to resize the others I took down below the 200kb attachment limit. Bugger.

 

[Fez909]

imgur.com let's you upload up to 2mb, free, no registration.

 

[Roadkill]

imgur.com let's you upload up to 2mb, free, no registration.

Ta. I'm going to have to crack on with some work now, but will have a look later.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That's disappointing . I had images in my head of a farmer in his tractor trying inch out onto the motorway.

It's a lie! They can only leave by crossing the motorway on tractors in the dead of night. It's true!

A constant game of chicken!

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[cyberfairy]

Lancaster. Yesterday.

 

[machine cat]

Huddersfield a few seconds ago:

 

[Dillinger4]

phwoar thats right northern that

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Huddersfield a few seconds ago:

Makes you want to get the table out and drink some wine in the evening sun.

 

[machine cat]

Makes you want to get the table out and drink some wine in the evening sun.

I sit on the wall with cider and watch the world go by

 

[Firky]

Blyth

 

[Firky]

 

[Firky]

Alnwick Castle (where Harry Potter was filmed and loads of other stuffq)

 

[Firky]

 

[Firky]

Seahouses from a friends' living room window!

 

[neonwilderness]

Blyth

North Blyth

 

[Firky]

North Blyth

Loev the bottom one, I think the train driver is clocking you

Blyth's not the kind of area you want to go wandering about with a big arsed camera

 

[neonwilderness]

Loev the bottom one, I think the train driver is clocking you

Blyth's not the kind of area you want to go wandering about with a big arsed camera

That's not one of mine, but I did have a few trips up there when that was running. It was a bit unusual, so there was often quite a few people hanging round with cameras. /anorak

I had a better shot (similar, but taken in the 80s) in mind, but it doesn't seem to be googleable

 

[machine cat]

Heptonstall:

 

[neonwilderness]

Heptonstall:

I presume the old man in a tin bath on wheels is just out of shot in the first photo?

 

[machine cat]

I presume the old man in a tin bath on wheels is just out of shot in the first photo?

I think you're thinking of Holmfirth:

 

[neonwilderness]

That's the place

This is now been pulled down and replaced with a Tesco


"You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself."

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Sewage works from the M60 over the Manchester Ship Canal. Shit picture though

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Manchester Ship Canal taken in October 2002.