Archive for February 2008
Victoria Monument, Liverpool
February 27, 2008, 5:45 pmI’m just looking through the backlog of photographs and selecting my favourites to post - this is the Victoria Monument in Liverpool. Located directly outside the QEII Law Courts at the top of Lord Street, this was where I ate my sandwiches every dinner time to enable me to get 45 minutes peace away from the office during 2003 when I worked in the “city of culture”. It is a real shame that it now has a metal fence type barrier surrounding it to stop people using it. The stone seats under the canopy between the columns were a nice place to sit and reflect on life as people walked by. Even in winter you were protected from the winds and it was quite pleasant…
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
Pulp
February 24, 2008, 8:37 pmNot a post about the old Manchester Met University student magazine but a sort of an eco-recycling post.
Using knowledge from my first degree as a Paper Scientist, over the last few months I have been conducting a bit of a test. Rather than putting all my newspapers in the recycling wheelie bin and then putting it out for the council to collect, I have been putting the newspapers in the wheelie bin and then submerging everything in water. The theory is that after a few months, the paper will start to break down into fibre clumps which can then be mixed with soil and shredded conifer cuttings and put in the borders in place of chipped bark. I’ve found a fair proportion of the ink leaches away from the newsprint into the water which can then be poured away once the pulp is ready to be mixed and used. I don’t expect much problems with relation to plant growth due to the remaining ink.
It is an ongoing test but one which seems to be delivering good results.
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
High water mark
February 22, 2008, 4:10 pmThe River Mersey was rather swollen this morning when I was in Warrington. I have never seen the river so high at the bridge - so high that all the vegetation to the south bank was underwater. For comparison is the same photo from July 2007 with a tide mark on the bridge at a similar level - maybe it isn’t so unusual then.
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Deansgate Railway Stn link bridge
February 21, 2008, 7:27 pm
One bridge that seemingly has two personalities. At night, the major feature of the bridge that links Deansgate Railway Station and the G-Mex Metrolink tram stop are the metal arches running the length of the structure. During the day, it is the large white triangulated beams outside the perspex windows that are the major feature and the arches are not as apparent. I shall head back during daylight to take a photo of the other version of the bridge.
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(posted in the Manchester Bridges, Photo Album category)
Piccadilly Gardens
February 20, 2008, 9:41 pm
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
St John’s Beacon
February 17, 2008, 7:26 pm
Next to the St. John’s Shopping Centre in the centre of Liverpool is this tower, I remember it as a revolving restaurant in the distant past. For many years it was left disused until Radio City moved in. There are currently tours around the structure, one day I may visit it.
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
Nottingham’s Big Wheel
February 16, 2008, 3:12 pmIt obviously is THE thing for all city centres to have these days… a big wheel. Nottingham has one in the Old Market Square.
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
Debt Collection
February 16, 2008, 12:20 pmI’m in Nottingham making an unannounced visit to my old student house from when I was at university here. The house is still in one piece… which is nice, and one of the tenants was in to face the spanish inquisition which was even nicer!
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Mystery White Building Revealed
February 15, 2008, 4:53 pmI had earlier guessed the building may be being turned into flats or “apartments” as they are obviously called nowdays. Indeed it has.
“Built in 1933 originally to provide warehouse facilities, this building will be the final phase of Maghull Developments’ showcase apartments and the jewel in the crown of the regenerated Piccadilly Basin in the Northern Quarter.
This development combines the refurbishment of an Iconic Art-Deco warehouse with a contemporary residential development of 70 apartments.”
The building is to be known as “The Met”.
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(posted in the Manchester Architecture category)
Ciderfest
February 13, 2008, 10:45 pmToday was Manchester Rag’s inaugural Ciderfest, part of Rag Week 2008. It was popular… so popular that all the cider was sold by 9pm. Rumour has it that it may be a fair bit bigger next year…
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
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