Mundane pictures of the North

[farmerbarleymow]

Rondin Road, to where it has been blocked off due to the construction of a train servicing shed:









A weird gap in the old rail viaduct, and you can just see the Beetham Tower in the far distance if you zoom in.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Here is the abandoned section of Rondin Street.

You can see where the pavement used to be before they slapped the train shed (the building on the left) across part of the street, cutting it off from the rest of the world:









I took this especially for Roadkill - look at those arches! Phwoar!





This makes me think of Ribena, although the black blobs above also look a bit like Mandelbrot Sets, at least in my mind:



BITCH!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And more of Rondin Road, abandoned section:

What appears to be an empty industrial unit through the viaduct:



Another for Roadkill - the same arches but with a huge mound of mud, topped with big boulders:



This was an open entrance to some warren under the arches. I didn't dare venture in - god knows what lies within!



Urban street decoration:



And the pleasing juxtaposition of a tyre and empty super-strength lager cans:

 

[lazythursday]

A few more from my travels. These are all somewhere around Elland / Brighouse / Mirfield.

The world's local bank, for local people...

 

[lazythursday]

A reminder of when Leeds had an actual industry rather than a second-rate financial one:

The north is angry:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

More of the abandoned stretch of Rondin Street.

Mundane-orama of abandoned industrial site:



Graffiti mundane-orama:



Close up of graffiti - I quite like this one:



Pile of bricks and junk, being consumed by nature:



Near the end of the blocked off road!



Abandoned industrial site through the fence:



Back in the real world. The road block seems to attract rubbish:

 

[cyberfairy]

A few more from my travels. These are all somewhere around Elland / Brighouse / Mirfield.

The world's local bank, for local people...

Great pics but can I please hate bloody running woman with her bloody running pushchair? (unless you know her then I appreciate her stamina)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

On Gorton Road now.










Wall about to collapse:

 

[cyberfairy]

I'm ploughing through the 254 photos I took today, so I'll start with what is one of the most bizarre notices I've seen on the communal noticeboard in the flats where I live.

The pic is a bit blurry - sorry. But it is complaining about someone's rabbit eating a neighbour's plants. The problem is the fourth floor only has balconies, so unless the said rabbit has wings it is rather unclear about how exactly it is eating the neighbour's plants!

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A novel could be based around that note.

 

[lazythursday]

Great pics but can I please hate bloody running woman with her bloody running pushchair? (unless you know her then I appreciate her stamina)

If it makes you feel any better I don't think she was a health freak, she suddenly dashed off in a panic like she'd forgotten the other child or something.

 

[cyberfairy]

If it makes you feel any better I don't think she was a health freak, she suddenly dashed off in a panic like she'd forgotten the other child or something.

I bet she'd nicked the pram Pure jealousness here of course.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Still on Gorton Road.

I gather the author is a fan of HHGTTG:









The one on the left is wrapped in curtains, and the one on the right has a strange hat:







Mundane-orama at the end of Gorton Road:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A novel could be based around that note.

'Hoppy the ASBO Rabbit'

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Mundane unit on Pottery Lane:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Two shots taken in Ambrose Street:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The single-track road under the rail bridge on Clayton Road South:



I really need to work out how to set the camera so when I take pictures inside a tunnel the light at the end doesn't end up blindingly bright.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Pigeon shit central:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Another empty site mundane-orama, on Clayton Lane South:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This pub on Ashton Old Road has won a CAMRA award it seems, but I've no idea what it is like:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A nice old building on Ashton Old Road, surrounded by dross. Part of it being left to wrack and ruin which is a criminal waste of a lovely building. But I do like the way nature is well on its way to eating the place.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This pub on Ashton Old Road had this sign which made me smile. Gentlemans Club with an entrance to the rear. Fnarr!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Knackered row on Ashton Old Road, with a church occupying the white-washed building. Notice the strange way they've attached old doors to the windows on the left:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Saggy old roof off Ashton Old Road:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Zoomed image down Ashton Old Road, and you can see the town hall spire in the distance, so I'm slightly uphill from town here:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

On Bessemer Street now, which is named after the Bessemer Process I gather, as there was an industrial connection to this industrial process in the 19th Century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_process

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_&_J_Galloway_&_Sons

Interestingly the google books page also mentions Cornwall Street nearby which I'll post a couple of pictures of later on, in respect of its involvement in research into maglev trains.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JXbjc3p9I84C&pg=PT382&lpg=PT382&dq=bessemer street&source=bl&ots=DJM27bhYKO&sig=cOEXmCssT6uIijwxj0FuJFTVEWk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mBPbUfGpO-Pw0gWB14DwBQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwATgU





Dust-damping in operation, due to the depot below:



Building construction depot:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Kinky road under some Northern bridges in an industrial area, Bessemer Street.

Edit to add, this actually felt like a bit of an oasis of greenery right in the middle of a very industrial area. If it wasn't for the endless dust from the construction depot and the litter that is...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Oh how I wished I had some tippex and red paint!

On Preston Street.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Now this is what you call a brick wall!

This is on Preston Street, which is a continuation of Bessemer Street pictured earlier. This it is the back wall of a huge Manchester City Council Depot, which adjoins Smithfield Market which abuts Bessemer Street:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The Steelworks Tavern, at the end of Preston Street just over the road from what is now the huge council depot, which presumably was a steelworks back in the day:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Completely unconnected, but I thought this was a nice shot of an old VW camper van passing the old industrial works. If the two new vehicles were taken out of the shot, you could almost be time-travelling: