Mundane pictures of the North

[cyberfairy]

You don't see so many shops selling stuff by advertising their prices on Neon stars in the window down South

 

[farmerbarleymow]

No Trackies!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

You don't see so many shops selling stuff by advertising their prices on Neon stars in the window down South

They're so desperate up here for the few pennies that we have they resort to garish measures.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

How not to allow a large redevelopment on a whole block of a city.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I was yearning to be able to long for something on this street corner. Damn!

 

[Fez909]

This thread is now the official champion of the North and Midlands forum.

Fez909 - looky!

Excellent stuff. And there's plenty more mundane where that came from

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Excellent stuff. And there's plenty more mundane where that came from

But you've been very quiet of late on the thread - we demand mundanity!

 

[Roadkill]

I've just had a lift with a colleague up through the oldest industrial area of Hull, along Wincolmlee and Bankside. There are some fascinating buildings down there - factories derelict and not, some of the old swing bridges, old pubs, little churches tucked away up side streets, and so on. If I get time this weekend I'm going to take a walk down there with the camera.

 

[Fez909]

But you've been very quiet of late on the thread - we demand mundanity!

I'm thinking of going out on my bike tomorrow if the weather's OK (lol) so I will fill up my camera with mundanity

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm thinking of going out on my bike tomorrow if the weather's OK (lol) so I will fill up my camera with mundanity

I demand results!

I'll be monitoring your progress young fella...

ETA - I've done 70 miles in the last month, and if I can do it at my age, so can you!

 

[longdog]

electro town


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I once got a nice new TV and vdeo in there courtesy of my insurance company.

 

[longdog]

I've just had a lift with a colleague up through the oldest industrial area of Hull, along Wincolmlee and Bankside. There are some fascinating buildings down there - factories derelict and not, some of the old swing bridges, old pubs, little churches tucked away up side streets, and so on. If I get time this weekend I'm going to take a walk down there with the camera.

The Whalebone micro-brewery having no influence on that plan obviously

 

[tufty79]

I demand results!

I'll be monitoring your progress young fella...

ETA - I've done 70 miles in the last month, and if I can do it at my age, so can you!

the extra wandering round on foot I've done hasn't quite got to the level of FBM's feetbleeding, but I *have* acquired thighs of relative steel and even more pronounced footballer calves than before I started posting...

 

[cyberfairy]

*sulks* I have not- but then do make a slight perusal around to take some shots into a good excuse to pop into a pub...

 

[cyberfairy]

Been trying to find the photo of the fading neon signed 'forty item breakfast' as advertised on the window of a faded back street caff in Morecambe for four quid or something but no luck- I presume they count the baked beans as separate entities? I do love Morecambe but slightly nervous photographing it. The massive tattooed biker climbing into his spotless Smart Carr today was pleasing.

 

[neonwilderness]

Another from my Flickr contacts

 

[Roadkill]

The Whalebone micro-brewery having no influence on that plan obviously

None at all. Perish the very thought. Coming?

 

[_angel_]

1650

view from the top

street nearby

graveyard exit. The doorway is REALLY low! They must have been tiny.

 

[longdog]

None at all. Perish the very thought. Coming?

I could be persuaded. I'll have to check what's in the beer fund just in case we have to stop off in a pub to use the toilets

 

[longdog]

Speaking of The Whalebone...









It's a funny little place which can't be within a mile of the nearest house being slap bang in the middle of one of those half derelict Victorian industrial areas where you wonder how a business can possibly survive when the only thing they do is overhaul Ford Cortina MKIII back axles.

 

[Firky]

Just remembered:

Middle Earth moves to Northumberland in The Hobbit film posters

Northumberland has mysteriously replaced New Zealand as Middle Earth on a glossy Hollywood poster promoting The Hobbit films.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...orthumberland-in-The-Hobbit-film-posters.html


It's Corby Craggs just outside of Alnwick if anyone wants to see

 

[Firky]

Warkworth

 

[Firky]

This was taken in Scotland but it is looking South across England from Yeavering Bell.

Ancient part of the world Yeavering Bell, loads of stuff from iron age forts and settlements to neolithic stone rings and circles

 

[Firky]

Here's a site with a load of old photos from the construction of Fontburn reservoir.

http://www.fontburnremembered.co.uk/

And 100 years later....

 

[Fez909]

Holy shit, I've found a beach near my house! I'm posting this from the river - actually in it

 

[Firky]

That's a rivr bank

 

[Fez909]

 

[Fez909]

That's a rivr bank

The mud is so dry it's like sand. Its now a beach

 

[Fez909]

And Firky , you were right about tapatalk needing registration. It's a right pain in the arse.

 

[Fez909]

Edit : Argh!

Apologies . Having a nightmare trying to do this from a phone.