Mundane pictures of the North

[farmerbarleymow]

Keighley - the town with the stupid name!

Edit to add - I like the cycling club building - that is so unusual, and I've found this which is very brief but gives a flavour of bike-madness in Keighley back in the day. It seems there were several clubs, and some had political affiliations.

http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/dewhirst1/9061435.print/

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Ooh, I forgot to post one my most hated buildings in town. Thankfully it is on a back street.

This is Sacha's Hotel, and not only is the building bizarre and completely unlike anything else in Manchester, but it is downright ugly - for reasons I can't quite put my finger on, but the feeling is instinctive.

I haven't a clue what building 'style'* it is trying to emulate (Spanish?), but either way they fucked it up and it is as ugly as sin!

* if you can call that a style in the first place.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Ooh, I forgot to post one my most hated buildings in town. Thankfully it is on a back street.

This is Sacha's Hotel, and not only is the building bizarre and completely unlike anything else in Manchester, but it is downright ugly - for reasons I can't quite put my finger on, but the feeling is instinctive.

I haven't a clue what building 'style'* it is trying to emulate (Spanish?), but either way they fucked it up and it is as ugly as sin!

* if you can call that a style in the first place.

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Cheapest beer in the MCR though in the Fridays/Wave bar/whatever it's called these days bit.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Still misses Manchester
and Uppermill

fucksticks

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Cheapest beer in the MCR though in the Fridays/Wave bar/whatever it's called these days bit.

Maybe, but there are always ne'er do wells lurking outside, which is enough to scare me off!

 

[tufty79]

locally sourced northern PIE.

 

[Firky]

Some of your photos are pissed, tufty.

 

[tufty79]

I know on diet coke an all.
in a well nice mundane-if-you've-been-here-before pub though

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Three more worth posting from my wander today. A random back alley replete with obligatory bins.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Café in the Northern Quarter. I gather this has got a good reputation, but I don't think I've ever been in. Tacky café name though!

 

[cdg]

I'm off to Manchester on Thursday so might get some pictures while I'm out.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And I've posted the arse view of this monster, but it is equally, if not more hideous from the street-side. Thankfully the IRA bomb meant the connecting set of buildings (which housed the old M & S) had to demolished. Just a shame they didn't flatten this while they were at it and open up some view to the river.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm off to Manchester on Thursday so might get some pictures while I'm out.

Excellent - whereabouts will you be? Can give you some tips of rough areas if you're feeling brave!

 

[cdg]

Off to wilmslow to meet my mate then off into Manchester Piccadilly.

 

[cdg]

Excellent - whereabouts will you be? Can give you some tips of rough areas if you're feeling brave!

Do you mean moss side rough or rough as in just in general. I don't know how the reight proper Yorkshire accent will go down in Manchester is all.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Do you mean moss side rough or rough as in just in general. I don't know how the reight proper Yorkshire accent will go down in Manchester is all.

Bring a phrasebook with you!

I was thinking of the areas that form the first ring around the city centre, most of them quite deprived. Don't forget to take a really expensive camera and I'm sure you'll be fine.

Would you like red or green grapes bring to you in the Manchester Royal Infirmary when the inevitable happens?

And you'll see this sign as you cross the city limits:

 

[cdg]

Bring a phrasebook with you!

I was thinking of the areas that form the first ring around the city centre, most of them quite deprived. Don't forget to take a really expensive camera and I'm sure you'll be fine.

Would you like red or green grapes bring to you in the Manchester Royal Infirmary when the inevitable happens?

And you'll see this sign as you cross the city limits:

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I'm sure you're all lovely people really and if not I'll just kick your fucking red heads in

 

[cdg]

I know on diet coke an all.
in a well nice mundane-if-you've-been-here-before pub though

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Don't recognise it?

 

[cyberfairy]

A Woolworths bag blissfully sailing along the canal path like the last ten years never happened...

 

[cyberfairy]

Can't beat a small random shrine along said canal path.

 

[cyberfairy]

 

[cyberfairy]

 

[cyberfairy]

Café in the Northern Quarter. I gather this has got a good reputation, but I don't think I've ever been in. Tacky café name though!

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I refuse to go anywhere with 'wacky' spelling. You never get that in a good graveyard

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[farmerbarleymow]

God I've not seen a NISA shop for donkeys! I wonder if they are not in the NW which would explain why?

 

[neonwilderness]

Looks like there's plenty in the NW but not that many within the M60 for some reason

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Looks like there's plenty in the NW but not that many within the M60 for some reason

Odd. Maybe there isn't a space in the market here for some weird historical reason. Or maybe they have differently-badged shops within the M60? You never know these days. I remember when Greggs used to have a different name in Yorkshire if I remember rightly - think it was called Thurstons. Unless I'm just making that up.

 

[neonwilderness]

I remember when Greggs used to have a different name in Yorkshire if I remember rightly - think it was called Thurstons. Unless I'm just making that up.

I think Greggs bought out Thurstons (and some other chains), but there might have been a gap before they rebranded them. I still rue the day Bakers Pride stopped selling their own pasties

ETA - My local NISA (not the one in the photo) has just been refurbished, so I'll have to snap that at some point

 

[Frances Lengel]

God I've not seen a NISA shop for donkeys! I wonder if they are not in the NW which would explain why?

There's a Nisa at White Moss shops on Charlestown road.

E2a Decent pics of Ashton inside market though. But you missed the ornament stall.

 

[Firky]

There's a Nisa in Gatesheed?