Category Archives: Art and architecture

Sep 20 2024
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Der Mäusebunker

Friday 20th September 2024, 4.40pm (day 4,775)

Formally this used to be the “Research Institute for Experimental Medicine”, which I am sure is quite as sinister as it sounds, so its being more popularly known as “The Mouse Bunker” does show that Germans indeed possess a sense of irony. It’s a masterpiece of brutalism, anyway, of which no one picture can do justice but you’ll get a better impression looking it up online. It’d be nice if the white ball of the street lamp wasn’t there, but otherwise, the light will certainly do.

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Sep 15 2024
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Garlic house

Sunday 15th September 2024, 10.40am (day 4,770)

Garlic house, 15/9/24

This bizarre construction — surely I don’t need to justify the title of this post? — sits on Victoria Road in West Bromwich and as far as I can tell, is a private house and possibly brand new, as its exact position shows on Google Maps as an empty plot. Whomever wanted it building clearly had something to say, I’m not quite sure what though. (There is a Sikh temple round the corner, which may explain it somewhat.)

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Sep 09 2024
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Cloth Market, Newcastle

Monday 9th September 2024, 8.25am (day 4,764)

Cloth Market, 9/9/24

A final hour or so to get some shots of Newcastle as we made our way back to the station. This has gone monochrome for one simple reason: to get rid of the bright blue monstrosity that was the wheelie bin in the middle. Tell me you don’t see it, even now I’ve pointed it out.

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Aug 25 2024
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Mining memorial (slightly creepy)

Saturday 24th August 2024, 1.00pm (day 4,748)

Mining memorial, 24/8/24

The town of Doncaster has never seemed all that exciting a place to me, but it does have some decent public art: see this mural, for instance, which I pictured on a previous visit and nearly did again, today. Then there is this memorial, which is obviously for some aspect of the coal mining industry (the main statue is clearly a miner, and there are names of collieries on plaques around the base), is impressive, but, I think, also slightly creepy — there’s a ‘buried alive’ thing going on. Although maybe that’s exactly the point.

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Aug 06 2024
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Daisy Hill station

Monday 5th August 2024, 7.10pm (day 4,729)

Daisy Hill station, 5/8/24

There are some days when I really can’t think of any caption or explanation for posting a photo beyond the fact that I just quite like it. Daisy Hill is a place (in the Wigan-Bolton hinterland) with a cute rustic name, but its railway station doesn’t follow this lead — at least, not while some renovations are going on.

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Aug 04 2024
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Art and architecture, Daily Post, Hebden Bridge

Attics get an airing

Friday 2nd August 2024, 11.15am (day 4,726)

Open skylights, 2/8/24

The sun is still shining. A few attics need airing, skylights need opening. Ours too — this photo was taken by sticking my head out of the roof.

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Jul 05 2024
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Back in Brighton

Thursday 4th July 2024, 10.05pm (day 4,697)

Brighton Pavillion, 4/7/24

Brighton still hangs on to its place in the top 10 of ‘Most Depicted Locations’ on this blog, but its rate of appearance has declined in recent years, for various reasons. I came for a couple of days in 2022, but that has been it since 2018. However, here we are, back again for the last burst of the summer holiday down South. The Pavilion was built by King George IV when he was Prince Regent, and really is one of the tackiest palaces anywhere on the planet, particularly inside. But nowadays it’s part of the fabric, and is one of those unique buildings that instantly identifies the location of a shot.

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Jul 03 2024
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Art and architecture, Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

In Carisbrooke Castle

Tuesday 2nd July 2024, 12.40pm (day 4,695)

In Carisbrooke Castle, 2/7/24

He’s just discovered running. Which means he’s discovering the pleasure of chasing things. The gull will tolerate it for now: revenge will come later, when the kid’s chips get stolen.

This cameo played out in the grounds of Carisbrooke Castle, in the centre of the Isle of Wight — worth a visit, if you want a recommendation. It was the place that Clare and I saw out much of our silver wedding anniversary: we were married on 2nd July 1999, and have made it this far, at least.

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Jun 19 2024
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Cell block Chelsea, 20 floors up

Tuesday 18th June 2024, 12.25pm (day 4,681)

Cell block Chelsea, 18/6/25

I have nothing against the Chelsea Hotel in Toronto — if I had I would not have come back here to stay for another two weeks, on top of the time I spent here earlier in the year. But I would like to go home now, and instead, I ended up for various reasons obliged to spent almost the entire day locked in my room, working. This semi-abstract architectural shot — one wing’s worth of floors 14-27 I reckon –thereby epitomises the day. A photowhack too, meaning, the only shot taken today.

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Jun 18 2024
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Art and architecture, Daily Post, Urban scene

Another Toronto mural

Monday 17th June 2024, 5.25pm (day 4,680)

Church St mural, 17/6/24

I have mentioned before that there are many murals adorning the walls of buildings in Toronto, and this is at least the third to feature on here, mounting up at a rate of one per trip. I do hope this isn’t my last visit to the city — though we will see — should I return, though, there are plenty more to document yet.

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