Showing posts with label buildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buildings. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 December 2024

Stormy weather

 Another storm is rolling in as I write...but today started with a beautiful sky


The second parcel that I was waiting for arrived just after 1...and of course as I stepped out of the house on the way to the bus stop it started raining!

It stopped as the bus arrived in town, thankfully, but my coat was rather wet..and still was when I arrived home just before 4!! Only the outer layer thankfully.

With the rain gone, parcel posted, fresh food shopping done, I could pause and appreciate...




Then over the bridge and turn off Sandgate street on the high street.

A high street with many boarded up shops and sad buildings.

I must come back one early morning in the summer to get better pictures of the town, "warts and all"

But here is the Grain Exchange..one renovated building with the ground floor used for exhibitions and small fairs


But the block just before it also needs attention.

The old photos in the windows show the place as it was


There is hope that Newmarket Street which runs across from the Sandgate to High street will have its old buildings restored to their former glory..you can see where it meets the High street by The Wool Sak.

Presents for grandies bought, I just caught the bus home in time ! 

Arriving to a phone call to say that the other executors to Pirate's will have okayed the payment of his Celebration expenses..too late to go back into town..and to save time I'll return to town tomorrow and get the cheque straight in my bank account! Better than waiting for it to arrive in the post.

I arrived home in enough daylight..with the help of streetlights at the end..to prune some of the bushes in the front garden where the birds have eaten all the berries. "Green waste"  4 weekly collection tomorrow with the weekly recycling....I'll put them out by the kerb if the wind isn't too strong!.

Sunday, 6 August 2023

Family day out to Glasgow


 Over the hill from Crawfordjohn to Glespin




Then along the A70 to join the M74 towards Glasgow until we headed for the railway terminus at East Kilbride




The older towns have their older Gaelic names on the signs, others are only in English


A picnic lunch by the Clyde, then to the canyons of Glasgow (Glaschu) ...and murals...


Oor Billy...






A mosaic of photos..a portrait of Mr Mackintosh.... unfortunately The Lighthouse gallery was closed..








Which primed us nicely for the Banksy exhibition...and all equipment capable of photography was locked in bags for you to carry, or like my tablet, the lenses taped over.....



What I missed on the horse was a new Banksy.....a traffic clamp on its rear leg!!

The shop over the road taking inspiration....

The exhibition kept my grandsons...age 13 and on the Autistic Spectrum... interested and attentive...for an hour and a half...that says a huge amount.
Then back to Glasgow Central, a great building...


And then returning to the car and on to deliver me home and have supper together..a great way to celebrate Daughter's birthday!


Tuesday, 1 November 2022

Manchester walking

 We had a train journey! Not long but most enjoyable..must do this more often. We went from where middle son lives...three minutes walk...then by train to Salford Central.


Surrounded by tall buildings





Another three minute walk...to the river Irwell, along Bridge Street. 

This is the border between Salford and Manchester.



To the People's History Museum , previously a power station and pump house, plus a modern extension.



Not the tall building behind it!

It is a place that all should go to and learn.




I think that I will do another post about the things we saw there....there is so much!

Then a walk around Manchester with daughter and family....looking at a couple of shops, and trying to find somewhere that my grandsons would eat.....


Daughter is having foot problems...so long walks are out of the question!! But she does wheel herself, as it is good exercise!

We had a good wander around, eventually had a rather late lunch, and back on the train at teatime, as we had off peak tickets.

The buildings and graffiti deserve separate posts too...watch this space!

Meanwhile...





More travelling today, this time Northward.