Archive for August 2007
Stairway to Heaven
August 30, 2007, 10:55 pm
This fire escape caught my eye a few weeks ago but i’ve only tonight got around to stopping to take a photo. It was formerly attached to an old 4 or 5 storey warehouse in Shaw Heath, Stockport which lost its gable end wall during strong winds a few months ago. A building losing a whole gable end wall can be quite a terminal problem, especially for old buildings, this one was hence demolished.
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
Piccadilly Approach
August 27, 2007, 9:18 pmIt’s a place everyone sees as they leave Manchester from Piccadilly Station. The video tower being an addition only a few years old but one i’ve always thought is sympathetic in style to the rest of the building. It is maybe something to do with the horizontal steel banding continuing around from the original structure.
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
48 years on…
August 23, 2007, 11:52 pmAlways a fan of the Concrete Centre’s Concrete Quarterly Magazine, i’ve downloaded issue 42 dating from 1959 which includes an article on the “emergence” of a new Manchester. Highlighting examples of new architecture, i’ve recreated (so far) two of the photographs to see the changes. First, Peter House on St. Peter’s Square and then Piccadilly Gardens Bus Station (apparently demolished in 1996).
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(posted in the Main Blog, Manchester Architecture category)
Einstein’s Riddle
August 23, 2007, 11:27 pmEntertainment from the pub… it required a little thought and probably thinking about when a little more sober… So then - who will be first to work out who owns the fish?
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Video Car
August 22, 2007, 11:03 pm…or “How to make people slow down and drive at the national speed limit when they see you.”
I thought it would be an interesting experiment to video my journey from Warrington to Stockport, the plan being to eventually speed the footage up by 5x-10x and see whether I got something entertaining.
On my passenger seat, I had the camera tripod set up with the video camera mounted on top. I didn’t think people in other cars would take so much notice of it when I was driving along. As it was, evidently a fair few of them must have have thought I was driving an unmarked police car! I can’t offer any other excuse for all cars in all lanes for no reason slowing to below 70 mph on numerous occasions throughout the journey as I passed by. Why the police would drive an old Nissan Almera I don’t know.
The video in the end was a huge success, I just need to buy a firewire card to download the footage so I can process it. I think a loop of the M60 might be worth a try next…
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Purchases
August 22, 2007, 11:51 amIt could be argued I suppose that my appetite isn’t particularly varied. I just think it is amusing filling the entire length of the conveyor belt with the same product and then watching the checkout persons reaction when they realise i’ve simply cleared a shelf directly into my trolley…
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(posted in the Moblog category)
Vimto Statue
August 21, 2007, 8:07 pmThe Vimto statue at UMIST in Manchester highlighting the location of the now demolished building in which the first batch was made. Alas it seems the large bottle has developed a case of wet rot in several places causing the wood to start to disintergrate, which is a shame. The piece has been there since 1992 according to the plaque.
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
The Allstars in Earlestown
August 19, 2007, 7:08 pm
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Culinary adventure
August 19, 2007, 6:30 pmThis week I will mostly be eating crackers, jelly, lamb chops, beef burgers and potato waffles. These are items that have been found lurking in the kitchen that I certainly haven’t bought but would probably consume just to use them up. I seem to have inherited a large supply of Flora margarine and flour which as yet i’m undecided on how to utilise them.
I just need to get around to reassembling the cooker hood which I dismantled back in June for a bit of a service before I can use the cooker again.
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Walton Hall & Gardens
August 15, 2007, 9:36 pmVarious photo’s from Walton Gardens, south of Warrington.
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
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