Mundane pictures of the North

[_angel_]

don't tell me you're the person who complained a few years back

She really is the italian version of Yvette in Allo Allo. They should sell cheese to stuff in customers ears!

 

[tufty79]

she's fucking brilliant though, even if she's loud and off-key. she doesn't know it, but she's my honorary grandma (in my head )

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A quilt factory on Great Ancoats Street, with UU fixing the sewers.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Mortgage advice catering for eastern Europeans (Polish?).

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This has been around for donkeys, perched right on the corner of Great Ancoats and Store Streets - an unusual location for a DIY cum furniture shop.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Close up of the top of an ugly building in town (taken from about a mile away hence being a tad blurry). Festooned with antennae, this is some kind of line of sight relay station. There used to be peregrine falcons nesting on the top of this at one time, and you could sometimes see them lazily sailing the thermals high above Piccadilly Gardens waiting for the opportunity to dive and kill a small child pigeon.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Random canal bridge - this is a spur off the main Ashton Canal.





This building site is on the bank of this spur, suitably boring. Probably building boring new housing too.



And while I'm not sure exactly what they were digging out here, I really was hoping the bloke on the bank lost his balance and fell into the canal.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Swans live on this street. Honest.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The Chips building, with suitably derelict site in front of it. I like the way this has not one, but three fences to keep the intruders out. Who knew rubble was so valuable?

A measure of Manchester perhaps?



Presumably someone just felt so hot walking down here the other day they had to strip off and dump their clothes.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I saw a dinosaur down by the canal...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The Ashton Canal, heading towards Ashton from Great Ancoats Street.



A boring lock gate.



The old canal cottage contrasted against the dull new flats next door.



And our very own city centre waterfall! This is under the bridge carrying Great Ancoats Street over the canal.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Old against the new against the old. The new flats look very cheap and nasty.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Presbar Diecastings on Store Street. I posted another picture of the brick bit towards the end of the street earlier on in this thread, but I took this from the canal aqueduct over the street.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Pointy aqueduct retaining wall.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I zoomed in on these blokes from a fair distance away, but I'm sure the standing one was watching me!

And look at the one on the right - his balls are hanging out!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Greasy spoon on Ducie Street.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Shiny car and shiny building, Ducie Street.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The communal gym in this block of flats, with delightful canal-side views.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

They reclad this building a couple of years back, and although the coloured panels make it look horrible, it is marginally less horrible than it was before. It is destined to be demolished for the extension to Piccadilly for HS2 (if it ever gets built that is...).

 

[Frances Lengel]

Laundrette in Shaw, Oldham.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Curvy building on Piccadilly Approach. It is mostly empty I gather.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A poor orphaned leccy meter.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Shaw sheet metal.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Shaw high street



Shaw's Amusements.



Nother bit of Shaw



Vernon Works - So you don't have to.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Royton Market, Oldham.



Vine Mill Royton.



Flats now.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Boat wankers. Rochdale canal, Mills Hill., Chadderton.



Bowling green, Chadderton Park, Oldham.



JPT bus garage, Mills Hill.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Couldn't organise a piss up.

Lees's brewery Middleton Junction/Chadderton.




Moston Labour Club.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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Moston Labour Club.

I remember going past there every day on the number 81 bus.

 

[cdg]

she's fucking brilliant though, even if she's loud and off-key. she doesn't know it, but she's my honorary grandma (in my head )

If it's that lady in Leeds the council tried, and failed, to get an ASBO against her.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

If it's that lady in Leeds the council tried, and failed, to get an ASBO against her.

An Anti Singing Behaviour Order I presume?