| 15 May 2008, 5:37 pm |
The view from Site
Everyone involved rather likes one of the projects I am working on at the moment, mainly due to the location. When the weather is good, I tend to not bother using the site cabin - instead I go and sit in the field next to it with my laptop and work from there. Just over the hill in the background is Derbyshire… a mere 1 mile away.
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| 11 May 2008, 6:09 pm |
Manchester Skyscrapers #2 (1)
March 2008
Work was underway clearing the site of the new Piccadilly tower on Store Street behind Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station. The old railway arches were being demolished first.
May 2008
Brick arches have been demolished, site clearance is now in progress.
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| 11 May 2008, 4:46 pm |
…and it’s goodnight from him
This was the train from Chester to Manchester Picadilly late on friday night. The train was stopped at Manchester Oxford Road station for a good five minutes during which time, neither of the two people moved. I reckon the chap on the right spent most of saturday with a hangover. You have to be quite drunk to fall asleep face first onto such a table.
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| 10 May 2008, 2:29 pm |
Screen Blocks
What are the chances of a company still making those concrete screen blocks you saw everywhere in the 1970’s? These are the ones i’m talking about.
If you look around, no-one seems to have walls made of them anymore, they have all been torn down an replaced with fences or brick. None of my neighbours like them, I on the other hand think they have a retro style to them and are sure to make a comeback. I’ve just been building a screen wall out of the “grey cubic” variety to complement to other two “grey cubic” walls to the front of the house. I collected together a lot of them that seem to have just been lying in various places around the garden for 20 years or so, so i’ve built a wall just to use them up! Alas, i’m two short - I just need to find a sales outlet that isn’t the advertised one in south wales… but at least I know they are still manufactured.
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| 6 May 2008, 6:05 pm |
Blossom
It must be that time of year again as the flowering Cherry tree is sprouting pink bits again, so time for my annual blossom photo.
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| 5 May 2008, 7:35 pm |
Discarded Mill equipment
Over in the main car park at Quarry Bank Mill is this rather interesting item from the mill. It now appears to have a new life as an open air “art exhibit”!
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| 4 May 2008, 9:42 pm |
Soberness
It has obviously been a riotous night in Earlestown for some this evening…
I on the other hand must be getting old, casting a disaproving eye over what has just got on the rail replacement bus going to Warrington. I think they must come from Bakewell and have a taste for cakes.
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| 1 May 2008, 6:10 pm |
Local Elections (2)
Well there you go, i’ve voted in the end. I went with my mass photocopied piece of A5 to the junior school only to find the school locked up and with signs pointing to the adjacent infant school. I handed the man sitting at the desk my piece of paper and enquired whether it was the right place. No, apparently I should go to the portakabin in the park to vote - I was the 6th person to come with such a scrap of paper.
In the end I voted in the Portakabin.
On getting home I found in the letterbox yet another A5 mass photocopied message from the Returning Officer… “Go to the Mobile Unit in the Park” it said.
Five alternate venues in the end, what a complete waste of money all the printing will have cost. A pre-school infant could have done a better job than the returning officer this year and saved a fair bit of money which could have then been wasted more productively on some more pointless skittles / cacti for the town centre.
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| 30 April 2008, 8:13 pm |
Arched ceiling
This is the ceiling of the upstairs viewing gallery in the room Manchester Rag held their annual Beneficiaries Evening. Alas, I can’t remember the name of the room, however it was in the Whitworth building.
It reminds me of the photo’s I took from the roof of the MMU “Toastrack building” further south towards Fallowfield a few years ago…
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| 30 April 2008, 12:09 pm |
Local Elections
It is local elections time and it is nice to see the borough council wasting so much money even before the vote. At first I received a polling card stating my polling station would be the “Youth & Community Centre” in the local park as usual. A couple of days later I noticed a blue portakabin had been placed next to it. Moving on a further few days, I received a new polling card stating my polling station would now be “Mobile Unit - Youth & Community Centre”.
Today I have had a note pushed through the letter box from the official returning officer informing me that my polling station now won’t be the “mobile unit”, instead it will be “Barrow Hall Community Primary School on Barrow Hall Road”. Hopefully there won’t be a 4th alteration to the location - it is hovever concerning that the council has got the address of the school wrong in that it is actually located on Barrow Hall Lane…
Going with my method of deciding who I should vote for from the last election (which in the end resulted in me voting Green Party) i.e. “I will vote for whoever bothers to make the effort to canvas my vote”, so far the Lib Dem candidates are the only ones who have made any effort this time round. They are going on the “improved bus stops” and “improved drainage to the road outside the local shop” ticket…
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