Posted in Photography, Places, Yorkshire, tagged city, Leeds, town, Yorkshire on March 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday I went to Leeds – I took a few photo’s which on the whole didn’t come out as excitingly as I’d hoped, but anyhows, here they are anyway.
The market is lovely – A real old fashioned proper northern market building, it’s been really well looked after as well.
I was impressed by the ornate [...]
Posted in Lancashire, Lancaster, Photography, Places, tagged Carnival of Culture, Centros Miller, Lancashire, Lancaster, march, protest on March 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Carnival rolled into town on the back of strong feeling about protecting Lancaster from developers who propose to destroy green space and replace the unique feel of the city with more identikit big business shopping opportunities. Some of the notable causes today included opposition to the proposed Heysham ‘link road,’ protest against the almost [...]
Posted in Lancashire, Lancaster, Photography, Places, tagged canal, concrete, graffiti, icy, modernist, odd, old railway, walk, Winter on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
North of Lancaster you can take a path up to Caton, via Halton and Crook O’ Lune – You have to go under the brutal 60’s archetecture of the motorway bridge.
The graffiti was of varying quality but some of was great! – These were my two favourite pieces, though a third really interesting one had [...]
Posted in Lancashire, Lancaster, Photography, tagged , fireworks, guy fawkes, Lancaster Castle, November, UK, Winter on November 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hey, it’s not all post indie, bhangra and dancehall here y’know…
This was my first time at the annual firework display and if the experience of walking in a large crowd through darkened narrow streets arround the castle wasn’t medieval enough for me, I don’t know what would be. It’s amazing that this half hour display [...]
Posted in Lancashire, Lancaster, Literature and Arts, Live Music Review, Photography, indie, twee shit, other jingly jangly guitar music, tagged , Lancaster, Los Campesinos, Music, photo, review, Sky Larkin, You Say Party We Say Die on October 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Three bands that got it loud at ‘Get it Loud in Libraries‘ – Lancaster Library’s fabulous and deservedly prize winning semi occasionally regularly excellent series of music nights. A big and alarmingly youthful crowd gathered squished in amongst the shelves in the music section and were treated first to Leed’s Sky Larkin, a three piece [...]
Posted in Lancashire, Lancaster, Photography, Places, tagged , England, estuary, Lancashire, Lancaster, Lune, North West, photos, River Lune on September 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
With hangovers stubbornly intact from an evening at the Gregson we set off on a head clearing wander along the banks of the River Lune. It was Saturday and so Lancaster City were playing against Wakefield FC at the Giant Axe (a game the Dolly Blues triumphed 1-0 in.)
Walking past the ground and under the [...]
Posted in Photography on August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Telstar motel, originally uploaded by Texas Finn.
Is this not just the finest photo you ever saw? It makes me all funny inside….
