Mundane pictures of the North

[neonwilderness]

I'll take a different route when I go back to get the car later

 

[neonwilderness]

Made my way back to a different river crossing







I walked over here, I could feel the wood moving under my feet

 

[neonwilderness]

Going back the way I came

 

[tufty79]

But the thistle will have to be deported if Scotland declares independence...

i've got a sound weegie friend it can go live with, as long as my downstairs neighbour doesn't mind (i think he's responsible for the fantastic garden prickliness)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

ive skimmed a bit through the thread but i havent noticed any Middlesbrough ones . Cant believe the Las Vegas of the Northisnt better represented

Eagerly waiting for Zetland House to appear - with duty dealers to hand outside...

I don't think we have anyone who lives there contributing here sadly. Me and Fez909 are from there, but exiles nowadays. A shame, because there is tons of mundane stuff in that area.

 

[Casually Red]

then youll appreciate the Las Vegas comparison, teeside being a place were you can also exchange chips for sex.

 

[Fez909]

I don't think we have anyone who lives there contributing here sadly. Me and Fez909 are from there, but exiles nowadays. A shame, because there is tons of mundane stuff in that area.

When me mam gets back from her holidays I'm due a visit as she's going for major surgery soon. I could do with taking my bike to cover maximum amount of mundane areas, but that means taking it on a train...or cycling there

68 miles on a bike...doable for a fatty?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

then youll appreciate the Las Vegas comparison, teeside being a place were you can also exchange chips for sex.

I thought chips were the official currency up there?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

When me mam gets back from her holidays I'm due a visit as she's going for major surgery soon. I could do with taking my bike to cover maximum amount of mundane areas, but that means taking it on a train...or cycling there

68 miles on a bike...doable for a fatty?

Bike it! You'd be a thinny by the time you got there.

But to do it properly you'd have to make sure your route goes over the Cleveland Hills. Just think of the lovely scenery along the way - much nicer than boring old flat roads.

 

[Fez909]

Bike it! You'd be a thinny by the time you got there.

But to do it properly you'd have to make sure your route goes over the Cleveland Hills. Just think of the lovely scenery along the way - much nicer than boring old flat roads.

Hang on...you want me to avoid the boring bits on a mundane trip?

I'm beginning to doubt your commitment to documenting the North's mundanity!

Either that or you just want to see me die

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Hang on...you want me to avoid the boring bits on a mundane trip?

I'm beginning to doubt your commitment to documenting the North's mundanity!

Either that or you just want to see me die

The latter.

 

[lazythursday]

Some more from my travels. Mirfield/ Dewsbury ish. BTW, does anyone know how to extract GPS info from photos so you can figure out where the hell it was?

This was one of a series of Marxist scribblings. I was expecting to see some grafitti about the dialectic.

WTF is this for?

Seats for ghosts, still waiting for the cargo to be winched up?

 

[neonwilderness]

BTW, does anyone know how to extract GPS info from photos so you can figure out where the hell it was?

This will pull the exif info from an image, although it doesn't seem to work with yours. You might need to use the originals.
http://www.findexif.com/

 

[lazythursday]

Some more...

Bloody vicars, vandalising everything in sight:

 

[lazythursday]

OK, brace yourselves, actual working industrial coal fired stuff. Mundane back in the 70s but thrillingly unusual these days.

Actual coal! like from the 80s!

 

[tufty79]

'kin excellent stuff lazythursday
are you travelling by boat?

i have done a little bit of a leedschapeltown travelogue. well, amblelogue. might take a bit to get it all resized, but should be up by this eve

 

[Throbbing Angel]

then youll appreciate the Las Vegas comparison, teeside being a place were you can also exchange chips for sex.

or more correctly, some of one's chips

 

[lazythursday]

'kin excellent stuff lazythursday
are you travelling by boat?

i have done a little bit of a leedschapeltown travelogue. well, amblelogue. might take a bit to get it all resized, but should be up by this eve

Yep, on a boat trip. Went to Sheffield, which has some lovely mundanity, but got carried away drinking and partying and forgot bout the thread

A few more to resize from around Rotherham. I'll see if I can get some shots of Keadby at the end of the week, which is one of the bleakest most depressing shitholes I have ever passed through.

 

[tufty79]

nice!

I'll see if I can get some shots of Keadby at the end of the week, which is one of the bleakest most depressing shitholes I have ever passed through.

bring it

 

[Throbbing Angel]

I'll see if I can get some shots of Keadby at the end of the week, which is one of the bleakest most depressing shitholes I have ever passed through.

from wikidoodahday...
'Keadby's three public houses are now closed'
'Village amenities are a fish and chip shop, a working men's club, a small post office, and a local shop'
'On occasion the village is prone to flooding.'

those are edited highligts, obv

 

[lazythursday]

Last time I was there one of the public houses was open. A man (who had his oxygen tank hung up on the end of the bar) prodded us aggressively with his stick. It is one of the quickest pints I have ever drank, in one of the tensest environments. You know when you can just sense it all about to kick off - the quiet before the storm...

The kids were alright though. Bored out of their skulls on the canal bank, so we played them some tunes. I think this time we shall pass through very quickly, high tide on the Trent is at some painful time in the morning. I remember the locks being amazing. When people think of canals etc they think of those pissy little narrow things you get down south, but there's all this amazing huge infrastructure left in Yorkshire for massive coal barges etc.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

from wikidoodahday...
'Keadby's three public houses are now closed'
'Village amenities are afish and chip shop, aworking men's club, a smallpost office, and a local shop'
'On occasion the village is prone to flooding.'

those are edited highligts, obv

Are you sure it isn't really called Royston Vasey?

 

[cyberfairy]

Loved those pics, especially the strange awful arch in second pic. Like something from a Sci Fi film when the future world has been reduced to rubble.

Some more from my travels. Mirfield/ Dewsbury ish. BTW, does anyone know how to extract GPS info from photos so you can figure out where the hell it was?

This was one of a series of Marxist scribblings. I was expecting to see some grafitti about the dialectic.

WTF is this for?

Seats for ghosts, still waiting for the cargo to be winched up?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

or more correctly, some of one's chips

You seem to know about this with rather too much precision. Care to tell us more?

 

[cyberfairy]

Went on the 555 bus from Lancaster to Keswick- a two and half hour journey through the lake district- a bargain with an explorer ticket for a tenner. Got bored, hot and needed a piss by the time we got to Kendal (over an hour for a normal twenty min car journey) so got off. Pissed me off that I was the youngest one by a few decades in the queue but couldn't hack the pace. The slow slow pace.

 

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[davesgcr]

This has to be one of the best ever threads - thanks to excellent input from some perceptive and urbane correspondants

 

[neonwilderness]

A few from tonight

A small river forming in my street during a downpour



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