Right, I think it was Harry Spider or someone last week, what suggested a ‘local’ theme. So, This week’s all about stuff what is within a couple of miles of where you live, or maybe a slightly bigger radius if you don’t live in a town or city. But not stuff hundreds of miles away, you get me? Little bit about the history of stuff is helpful for other viewers.
Will be nice to see any STWers living outside the UK in this one.
I am of course spoiled rotten for this one, but I’ll go for some lesser known stuff rather than the obvious ones.
Whitechapel Library and art gallery. The Passmore Edwards ‘University of the Ghetto’. The library is now part of the expanded gallery, which is a little bit of a shame.
Abbey Mills Pumping Station; lovely old Victorian ‘Cathedral of Sewage’.
The old Bryant and May match factory; site of the Match Girls strike of 1888, which was one of the events which led to the Suffrage Movement and the birthplace of the firrst trade union for women in Britain.
St Peters Church Heppenhiem, looks better at night than during the day.
One I have posted before, the waldspiral in Darmstadt.
and finally castle Frankenstien, on one of my regular midweek ride routes, gets quite spooky riding up to it through the forests in winter. The view is good from there though looking out over the Rhine valley.
The Imperial War Museum in Salford. The concept of the building is to show a shattered globe. The exhibitions inside are wonderfully creative too. They’ve really re-thought what a museum should be about
and… AND… its got a tank by the door. Whats not to like?
The Bridgewater hall. Built on springs don’t you know? By Tigger*
I like this building down the road from me. A beautiful old former Billiard Hall.
Unfortunately its now a Wetherspoons and is an absolute ****-hole inside! Full of old alcoholics and the local chav smack-addicts bottling each other and throwing up!
Always liked this round building just down from Torduff reservoir in Bonaly (Edinburgh), 5 mins walk fron the flat –
The thread inspired me to research its’ origins, & after literally 2 minutes ceaseless searching, lo the answer appeared –
The Edinburgh Water Company constructed the Torduff Reservoir in 1848 and its associated structures including the dam, filter beds, filtering cistern and dam keeper’s house to serve the city of Edinburgh. This set of buildings is an early example of reservoir construction; the filtering cistern is a good example of a simple utilitarian building design.
The building is the filtering cistern. Now I know 🙂
Unfortunately its now a Wetherspoons and is an absolute ****-hole inside! Full of old alcoholics and the local chav smack-addicts bottling each other and throwing up!
My dad always convinces me to go in because it’s cheap and usually always has a good selection of ales in.
Peel Building, U of Salford. Had a couple of lectures in there.
Urbis. A beautiful building housing both the worst museum in the world – the Museum of the City, and the worst TV station – Channel M – who’s six viewers will doubtless disagree with me. The restaurant was meant to be average and overpriced too. Inexcusable use for a great building. Now to become the National Football Museum – we’ll see how that goes?
portlyone – I’m basing my assertion on the fact that I tend to pass it in the morning where the afore-mentioned ‘Chortons finest’ are sat outside getting stuck into their liquid breakfast
The viaduct itself is really rather nice and it strides elegantly over a motorway, the River Mersey, a bus station and a whole host of other random stuff. Stockport is a dump and a half but the viaduct is graceful.
When it was built (1840) it was the largest viaduct in the world, 27 arches and about 35m high.
There’s a law that says that any train passing over the viaduct must stop at Stockport Station – they were so worried after they built it that trains might just go whizzing through that they put a law down to stop that!
The Hermitage – outdoor architecture. The bridge, the hut and the trees were all planned. The hut is shaped like a guitar body and it used to be that when you walked in to it, it amplified the roar of the aterfall so much than in it”s early days, ladies were banned from entering in case “they were overcome by the force of nature and swooned as a result”. The national trust “improved” it by blocing the sound with a glass wall. Muppets.
One of the soon-to-be-ex locals to me, as I move away from the area after 10 years. Formerly the Midland Hotel, a den of rival drug gangs and bikers, it was converted into a swish pub just over 10 years ago and is rammed every weekend with the beautiful people.
Here’s the Eddystone Lighthouse just a short, 12 mile paddle out of Plymouth….
The one on the right with the smoke coming out of it’s a concrete structure disguised as a thatched boathouse near the entrance to Dartmouth Harbour. It was used to accommodate anti submarine netting & winches during WW2….
That’s the hotel on Burgh Island. A popular haunt of Agatha Christie between the wars and, no doubt, an inspiration in some of her murder mystery locations….
And, influenced by Trailmonkey’s photos above, here’s another Totnes street view, (unfortunately, slightly spoilt by the grinning tourist cluttering up the foreground 😉 )….