What's Your Current View?

[Skinny Ethel]

The cobwebs a cracking shot kebabking.

 

[Tankus]

What castle is that ?

 

[kebabking]

Yeah, another short (ha!) skive. Sticking it to the Man with my informal Anarchist actions - striking at the shackles of wave slavery...

0c, alternating between fog and gin clear. Ice, crunchy leaves - frost in the sunlight like a crown of diamonds...

 

[Rebecca Riot]

What castle is that ?

Llansteffan. Built in the 11th century and only the ruins left now but is well looked after by CADW.

 

[Cloo]

Very grey on my way up to Birmingham office for a meeting but now blue skies above the beautiful Business Services Operation Centre

 

[Elpenor]

A somewhat unused shopfront which also had some strange mannequins I forgot to photo

 

[Elpenor]

The mannequins (see bandwidth thread for close up of poster)

 

[kebabking]

Quick dump.

 

[spitfire]

Hope you brought a shovel with you.

 

[kebabking]

Hope you brought a shovel with you.

Stick.

 

[Elpenor]

Not the best view so far

 

[Elpenor]

Feeling like a God on Olympus looking down at the little people bustling around like ants

 

[Elpenor]

I find it interesting what they keep on the roofs of these buildings. I presume the crane arms (like at a docks or something) were used in construction to get things here and it’s either too much hassle to remove or it’s useful to keep them there for future maintenance

 

[spitfire]

Window cleaning and/or maintenance. They wouldn't lift much those cranes. the construction ones are taken away at the end of their usefulness.

 

[spitfire]

Known in the trade as "Formby"cranes.

 

[Epona]

Window cleaning and/or maintenance. They wouldn't lift much thoise cranes. the construction ones are taken away at the end of their usefulness.

Yeah this, a cradle can be attached for window cleaning or external maintenance/repairs.
Not feasible to use scaffolding above a certain height, hence the cranes.

 

[Epona]

I find it interesting what they keep on the roofs of these buildings. I presume the crane arms (like at a docks or something) were used in construction to get things here and it’s either too much hassle to remove or it’s useful to keep them there for future maintenance

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Are you up the Shard or summat?

I've not been up there, but I imagine being at the top of the Shard is probably the best place in London cos it's the only place you can't see the fucking Shard

 

[Elpenor]

Are you up the Shard or summat?

I've not been up there, but I imagine being at the top of the Shard is probably the best place in London cos it's the only place you can't see the fucking Shard

No it’s Horizon 22. I only go up the free ones, you need to book in advance though, tickets seem to go quickly.

I would hate to live surrounded by tall buildings but I do like going up them. I’m a tourist in this city. So it’s like people coming to where I live and having a cream tea or fish and chips I suppose

It’s a bit hazy today unfortunately but still enjoyable get to see London from a different perspective and perhaps the only one that gives a sense of the sheer size of this place. Big buildings like tower 42 and gherkin are dwarfed by this. Tower of London seemed huge as a kid and now appears insignificant

The shard is 310m high, the hill I can see from my front garden at home is half as tall again at 457m. So everything appears small eventually

 

[kebabking]

8am, a few minutes before dawn - Wyre Forest.

A little group of Fallow, by the pool, about 200maway. Aware, cautious, but not on their toes. The Mighty Hunter, this Scion of Hronvitnir, has of course not noticed, because the useless cunt is chewing a stick...

It's absolutely nobbingly cold.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Biggest pile of wank evah…







A three hundred quid version of TGI Friday’s ….

 

[Elpenor]

Interesting name

 

[e.g.g.]

Humans building their hotels - on flood plains - for the eco-tourism dollar

 

[Serge Forward]

From my Sunday morning constitutional...


View towards Leicester City's ground.


The Statue of Liberty is just down the road from me. It used to stand atop the old Liberty shoe factory but when the building was demolished to make way for student flats, they kept the statue and put it on a busy road junction that spans the river. The torch used to light up at night but I've not seen it lit for a while. The council needs to change the bulb.

 

[Elpenor]

Earlier (two days earlier)

 

[Elpenor]

Earlier (also two days earlier)



Another in my series of “Brutalism from the Bus Stop”



See part 1 here

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[Elpenor]

Now - Sky Garden



HMS Belfast, London Bridge station, Shard, my dads office from around 1987-1999



Towers both Bridge and London

Glad I booked a time slot to allow for stunning sunset pics

 

[Elpenor]

Walking back over Waterloo bridge for my train home. Successful trip to London all in all!

 

[Elpenor]

Earlier - the other two viewing platforms I’ve been up in London; identifiable by the lights on the extra tall windows I think


The Lookout (last year)

And behind it Horizon 22 (Friday)

 

[Epona]

Walking back over Waterloo bridge for my train home. Successful trip to London all in all!

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Dirty old river...

(Yes I know sunset had been and gone when the photo was taken, but still...)