Showing posts with label street scene. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street scene. Show all posts
Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Hednesford Honi Soit

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Hednesford has a reputation as a no-nonsense mining town (well, ex-mining town, I should say), so to see a rather aesthetic tiled work ab...
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Friday, 6 February 2015

Past in the present

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Lambert Street in Tunstall is another of those terraced streets in the former industrial quarters of Stoke-on-Trent which has probably n...
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Sunday, 9 March 2014

Unused grit

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Poor old Staffs County Council...  After the winter last year, when we were under snow and ice for virtually two months, it laid in loads...
Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Warm games in the winter damp

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At last, the constant rain is starting to ease off - though it comes back in dribs and drabs. This photo shows what is, to me, a defini...
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Friday, 12 October 2012

Albert's house

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Whoever Albert is, I admire him. He clearly has decided that his name is all the explanation that is needed here. I can't help won...
Thursday, 6 September 2012

Inspired (not) street name

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This road-name sign makes me laugh… You can just see the city-planners - seated round a table at the end of a long day where they have bee...
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Sunday, 22 July 2012

Bored teenagers

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Are there bored teenagers all over the world? This pair were unimpressed by all the activity around them at this village festival. Out of ...
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Rats in the rubbish

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Refuse is strewn over this alleyway. I thought it must be because a restaurant is here; but it's not, this is a residential area. It al...
Saturday, 26 November 2011

Advertising sign looks back to Spratts

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These old tin advertisement-signs are disappearing now; and you’re more likely to see one in a curio shop than you are up on a wall anymo...