Mundane pictures of the North

[neonwilderness]

And the registration plate if anyone is able to work out how old it is:

A V suffix is 1979

Just uploading some pics from a quick stroll before going shopping

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A V suffix is 1979

Just uploading some pics from a quick stroll before going shopping

Ta.

 

[neonwilderness]

I spotted this on the way into the car park and thought I'd go for a wander





This sale has almost been going as long as the DFS one

 

[neonwilderness]

The River Derwent just before it joins the Tyne, complete with a selection of shopping trollies and traffic cones

 

[neonwilderness]

A train waiting to take shoppers back into town







Looking back towards the stuff in the last post

 

[neonwilderness]

River Tyne

 

[neonwilderness]

There was in interesting aroma of sewage and cannabis around here



Heading back the way I came

 

[neonwilderness]

Ended up missing the turning back to Asda, so kept going to take a longer route back







Another mysterious door





There's a scrap yard behind here, but I couldn't get a clear view



Back of Ikea



The car park would have been at least half full an hour earlier before the shop closed

 

[farmerbarleymow]

There was in interesting aroma of sewage and cannabis around here

Maybe there was someone laid in the bushes, so stoned that they'd shat themselves? You never know!

 

[Tom A]

I liked this old thing, parked appropriately enough opposite the Antiques Village.

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And the registration plate if anyone is able to work out how old it is:

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V reg, on the end of the plate rather than the beginning. Which means, IIRC, it was registered in 1979/80.

E2A: neonwilderness beat me to it

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The River Derwent just before it joins the Tyne, complete with a selection of shopping trollies and traffic cones

This hotel is so posh it even has steps down to it's private beach and swimming pool.

 

[_angel_]

knaresboro

 

[Fez909]

Although quite why they've picked Luton as a distance marker is beyond me.

I think that's where the A6 ends. And I think it starts in Carlisle, hence their choices. If you look, the man is blocking the A6 bit of the sign

Excellent work, btw. Feet ok?

 

[Fez909]

ok, just be careful, and stop swimming there if you start to grow a second head or anything like that, ok?

Will do

Question time for the foreigner (if you don't mind!): Have you been looking through this entire thread? Have you been to England before? And if so, did you go up North? If not, how you finding this thread? I can imagine it contradicts the image that most people have of England, but I don't know? I guess films like Full Monty and whatever show some stuff like this.

Anyway, was just curious

 

[farmerbarleymow]

knaresboro

That takes me back! Many a day trip we had there as kids. A lovely little place if I remember rightly.

And Mother Shipton's cave - what a disappointment that is!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I think that's where the A6 ends. And I think it starts in Carlisle, hence their choices. If you look, the man is blocking the A6 bit of the sign

Excellent work, btw. Feet ok?

Ah, that would make sense then. I'm not very knowledgeable about roads so don't have a clue about these things. But even then who would want to go to Luton anyway?

Feet are fine actually - I smothered my weeping heel wounds with germolene before I set off wearing trainers so they seem to have survived.

I've now got a 50p-sized flap of dried skin hanging off one heel that I need to remove - I might nibble it off later on. Call it recycling.

I have developed an itchy red rash on my hands though - I think I've caught the notorious Levenshulme Leprosy.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Will do

Question time for the foreigner (if you don't mind!): Have you been looking through this entire thread? Have you been to England before? And if so, did you go up North? If not, how you finding this thread? I can imagine it contradicts the image that most people have of England, but I don't know? I guess films like Full Monty and whatever show some stuff like this.

Anyway, was just curious

I think Miss Caphat was (lived?) in Scotland for a time if I remember rightly from the thread about the gay marriage Act in England and Wales.

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/gay-marriage-discussion.313010/#post-12411542

The League of Gentlemen is the best factual travelogue you can watch when considering whether to visit the North of England.

 

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[Roadkill]

Put a lump in my throat trousers that.

Fixed it for you.

 

[Roadkill]

This used to be a branch of Netto, so the area was moved up in the world, if only very slightly (I hate Asda I'm afraid):

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I think Asda bought out quite a few Netto branches. Certainly, the old Beverley Road branch in Hull is also an Asda now...

 

[cyberfairy]

Ditto in Morecambe.

I got up at six and walked four miles to go to a cancelled carboot so tried to tell myself it was worth it to take a few pics for this thread. I failed

 

[Redeyes]

Weaver's Triangle Burnley today...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I think Asda bought out quite a few Netto branches. Certainly, the old Beverley Road branch in Hull is also an Asda now...

Reminds me of the old joke

'what's yellow and black and full of shit?'

'a netto carrier bag'

 

[Firky]

Used to have a pet cat htat would corss these stones

 

[cyberfairy]

Used to have a pet cat htat would corss these stones

When I lived in an isolated hidden in hollow farmhouse on Dartmoor, had a persian cat that would follow me on walks. Made hikers somewhat shocked to see a teenage girl in flowing skirts suddenly appear with persian cat faithfully following her on a bleak tor and then soon vanish. I hope I might be a ghost story in the future.

 

[neonwilderness]

Used to have a pet cat htat would corss these stones

When did they get damaged?

I took this photo a few days before Moaty was found hiding in the drain