07 Friday Apr 2017
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cake, Chalk board, Food and Drink, Manchester, Manchester Museum, Oxford Road Manchester, Tea and Cake, The Cafe at the Museum
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Out and About.
06 Thursday Apr 2017
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latte, Manchester, orange, please, Stickers, Street Art, whistle, whitewash, Whitworth Street West Manchester
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Out and About.
03 Saturday Dec 2016
Posted in Out and About.
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Bristol Street Swindon, British Listed Buildings, Grade II listed, Grade II listed building, Great Western Railways, Great Western Works, railways, Swindon, Water Tower
To quote from British Listed Buildings. co. uk (mainly because I wouldn’t know where to start describing this rather unusual Grade II listed structure):
“Water tower for Great Western Works. 1870. Cast iron. Round storey stanchions. 3 bays by 3 bays, in 4 lifts, all diagonally braced and with cast iron girders with interlaced circles at each lift. Central bay on plan with timber faced shaft. Grillage platform for water tanks at top, the tanks a replacement of 1979-80. The water tower forms an important landmark“.
Now it stand in the grounds of the University Technical College and is, in my opinion, the best preserved landmark relating to the former Great Western Works on Bristol Street.
30 Wednesday Nov 2016
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Cavaliers, Chester, cloak, Grosvenor Street Chester, hats, historical re-enactment., period dress, street photography
Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Out and About.
29 Tuesday Nov 2016
Posted in Out and About., Yorkshire.
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Bradford, Bradford Forest Square, Bradford Interchange, Film, films, Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, railway station, The Railway Children, Train stations
With the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, the location for Lionel Jeffries’ 1970 film version of “The Railway Children“, being only a few station stops away, I suppose it is only right that a scene from “The Railway Children” welcomes visitors to Bradford. Interestingly though, it might be quickly to get to Keighley from Bradford’s other railway station, Bradford Forest Square, but there is only 20 minutes in it!
26 Saturday Nov 2016
Posted in Out and About.
25 Friday Nov 2016
Posted in Out and About., Yorkshire.
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celebrities, Celebrity Guest, George, ITV, media, media personalities, Museums, National Media Museum, puppets, rainbow, television, Zippy
I didn’t get their autographs.
24 Thursday Nov 2016
Posted in Out and About.
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Destination Moon, Hergé, Moon, Objectif Lune, rocket, scale model, Science fiction, shop window, Shop Window Displays., Tintin, window, window shopping., windows
It‘s strange how something can become icon in a person’s mind. I have never read Hergé’s “Destination Moon“, but the image of the rocket on the cover has somehow lodged itself firmly in my brain to such an extent that I became very excited to see this shop window display as I was walking up Friar Lane, towards Nottingham Castle or, more accurately, the “Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem” public house. I suppose it is quite distinctive as far as rockets go, in the same way “The Mallard” or “Flying Scotsman” are distinctive looking steam locomotives, but, in design terms, it also helps that it is a model of a fictitious rocket and its form has not been compromised by the practicalities of space travel! Hergé’s “Destination Moon” was published in 1953, predating Nasa’s Apollo Program by 8 years and the Moon landings by 16 years.
Joe’s Store is well worth a visit [I retraced my steps back to the shop the next day]… if you’re fan of Tintin.
23 Wednesday Nov 2016
Posted in Out and About.
“The flag of Wales” or “The Red Dragon”, which ever description is more appropriate. This example can be seen flying proudly at the heart of the Cathedral Quarter.
22 Tuesday Nov 2016
Posted in Out and About., Yorkshire.
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Bradford, Bradford-by-the-Sea, Councillor Brian Lynch, crab, Maggy Howarth, Morecombe, Mosaic, mosaics, Octopus, Parks, pebble mosaics, pebbles, seahorse
According to WWW.Waymarking.Com, this pebble mosaic was designed by Maggy Howarth and it forms part of a memorial to Councillor Brian Lynch, who had a seafaring past, having served in the “navy“; presumably the Royal Navy, rather than the mercantile marine. Bradford-by-the-Sea was also a nickname given to Morecombe, because so many mill workers from Bradford holidayed in the Lancashire seaside town, so Bradford does, or certainly did, have strong links with the coast.
Having travelled from the coast all the way to West Yorkshire, it was very comforting to see the sea or at least a fantastical vision of it, with seahorses bobbing along beside octopuses and crabs.
If you happen to be leaving the train at Bradford Interchange station and set off towards the city centre on foot, look out for Norfolk Gardens and its pebble mosaic.
