While in the North, Let’s indulge ourselves with a modern not so modern architecture wonder. When a triangle tops a box that tops a building with straight lines it creates interesting shapes 😊
I find myself with an unexpectedly free day tomorrow before I fly back home in the evening. Before I throw money at WeWork – are there friends in #Sheffield or #Manchester whom I could trouble for a desk and access to a coffee maker? #workanywhere
It was Jack Kerouac who stated that “my witness is the empty sky.” But in a solar system full of stars, planets and many moons, is the sky ever empty?
As we share the same sky, one star contributed Jack Kerouac's classic 'On the Road' to last year's https://www.woodstreetmission.org.uk 'Books Forever Appeal'.
Like a shooting star, this copy of 'On The Road' was among the thousands of new books which landed in the hands of a young adult here in Manchester.
My grandfather used to work at White City in Manchester, so I thought I'd draw an image of its gates.
It started life as a botanical garden in the mid-19th century, but was later redeveloped as an amusement park. In 1927, it saw further redevelopment, this time into White City Stadium, a venue for greyhound racing, speedway and stock car racing. It closed in 1982, was demolished, and is now a retail park.
Just like everywhere else.
“Offering sanctuary is a revolutionary act; it expresses love, when others offer scorn or hate. It recognizes humanity, when others deny and seek to debase it. Sanctuary says ‘we’ rather than ‘I’. It is belonging—the building block of community.”
Your regular reminder that, before they were taken over by cars, the streets of our cities were shared spaces where lovers strolled, children played, and life was lived.
Pause to take a tram ride through #Vienna, in 1906.
Roads Were Not Built for Cars, #Manchester edition.
Before they were thoroughfares for cars, city streets were venues for bicycles, walkers, carriages, trams...and fun. Check out some of the kids in this clip from Rochdale in 1900.
The impressive 'Media City' at Salford Quays, Greater Manchester. It's located near the end of the Manchester Ship Canal, destination of the big ships that sailed down the 'Ally, Ally, O'.
Being the recipient of a coveted 'Blue Peter' badge, I was thrilled to discover the bust of 'Petra' the dog in the relocated garden (you need to be a child of the UK and of a certain age to know what I'm going on about!).
I watched North West Today and they had a piece about how Greater Manchester Police are asking people with video doorbell cameras to give the police 24/7 access to their streams
the copper they interviewed said it was brilliant cuz they wouldn't have to knock on your door at 3am to get the footage
in exchange, the police get a full log of every person that visits or walks past my house, and every car that drives past, to use however they feel, with no consent