Mundane pictures of the North

[neonwilderness]

That's the place. The cafe looked fair enough ... just next door to a knocking shop.

I didn't get there until after lunch and I think the cafe was closing so didn't go in. I can recommend the garage though, even if I could only understand about 1 in 5 words the owner said

 

[Throbbing Angel]

This was quite random - a fork embedded in a scrubby bit of land. Looked like it'd been there for years.

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"I'll be back in a minute."



Some sterling work on here.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

According to this photo it was a brand of tobacco. It's been a pork shop for years now though, I'm not sure what it was before that

That's interesting - thanks for digging that out. Hmmm...pork and snuff. Strange habits in that town.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

"I'll be back in a minute."



Some sterling work on here.

So it was you littering the countryside.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

did you go for a Rag Pudding?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Nah - was far too hot for hot food. Had a rhubarb crumble ice cream sat in the sun by the canal further up the valley in the wilder bit. It were lovely.

 

[neonwilderness]

That's interesting - thanks for digging that out. Hmmm...pork and snuff. Strange habits in that town.

It's probably worth pointing out that the fake shops in this post and the demolished house in this post are all in the same area

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Nah - was far too hot for hot food. Had a rhubarb crumble ice cream sat in the sun by the canal further up the valley in the wilder bit. It were lovely.

For Shame!

Uppermill and no rag pudding is like..well...wrong.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

For Shame!

Uppermill and no rag pudding is like..well...wrong.

I stand here deeply ashamed!

 

[Firky]

Another photo of the mundane Northumbrian countryside. I can't really do city photos because of where I live but nevertheless...

 

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And finally my local bus

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Manchester's economy is thriving - look at this vibrant row of shops on Newton Street!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This poster could be applied to any number of situations:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Some more of the burned out building, as they'd reduced the cordon today. In the first one you can see daylight from the back of the building, so presumably the whole ground floor (and probably basement) is wrecked. No idea of any structural damage yet.





And a memorial for the fireman who was killed. They also had a vehicle with a book of condolences the other side of the street which I and other passers by signed.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A pair of very boringly mundane buildings on Deansgate.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A profoundly ugly car park, with a row of business on one side. This monstrosity is at the back of Kendals on Deansgate.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This boring structure is a synagogue, and I've never noticed it before in all the years I've lived here. This is on Jackson's Row. It doesn't appear very inviting but rather looks forbidding with the narrow windows.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A boring loading bay (and underground car park secret nuclear bunker) on Jackson's Row.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A final duo of dull buildngs, both on Deansgate. The brown one is Overseas House, and I think that's where certain tribunals take place as you sometimes see it on the news.

Edit to add - to the left of Overseas House you can just see the blue fascia of the Scientology 'bookshop' - it always pleases me when I see demonstrations outside.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And finally for today, this is the old Twisted Wheel which is being demolished for new flats. I liked how they had clearly left loads of crap in the building when they moved out, hence the weird xmas bauble trees on the upper floor. Cheers up a demolition site I suppose!

 

[Roadkill]

Another photo of the mundane Northumbrian countryside. I can't really do city photos because of where I live but nevertheless..

Lovely photos. No need to apologise for them. After all, since when did 'mundane' mean either 'urban' or 'ugly'?!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Lovely photos. No need to apologise for them. After all, since when did 'mundane' mean either 'urban' or 'ugly'?!

I agree - they are beautiful pictures and makes me want to go further north to walk around there.

 

[Firky]

I got moaned at earlier in the thread because apparently the mundane has to be urban and ugly

(I agree with you two btw!)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I got moaned at earlier in the thread because apparently the mundane has to be urban and ugly

(I agree with you two btw!)

Its like me posting up pics of Saddleworth the other day - not gritty and urban, but mundane in their own way.

 

[tufty79]

 

[Roadkill]

One from Hull that I took walking to work this morning:



Lovely Georgian terrace on the north side of Albion Street. The car park from where I took this photo is on the site of this rather lovely old building, of which this obviously isn't my photo:

It was the old municipal museum and (until 1927, when Ferens opened) art gallery. Unfortunately it was destroyed in an air raid in 1943. Much of its basement was never cleared before the site was levelled and turned into a car park. In the late 80s some workmen digging a drainage ditch came across some ancient pottery and other exhibits. A major archaeological dig was mounted, and thousands of objects were retrieved and returned to the city museums collections, including the first ever motorbike to be excavated by archaeologists. Its owner had just bought it from the museum caretaker, left it in the boiler room the evening before the raid, and was there to see it unearthed nearly fifty years later!

 

[Roadkill]

A few from around Keighley:



View over the town.



Crossflatts station.



Random side street.



Keighley fire station.



Corner of the High Street.



Lovely terrace on the High Street.



Top of the High Street.



Hideous 1950s shopping centre.



I really liked this building, especially the inscription over the door.



Old chapel.