Category Archives: Urban scene

Sep 18 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Humboldt University

Wednesday 18th September 2024, 5.55pm (day 4,773)

Amongst various (acknowledged) perks of my job I get to visit some world-renowned seats of learning, and the Humboldt University of Berlin is definitely one of the elite. Scholars who have worked here include Einstein, Schopenhauer, Marx, Weber, Hegel, Planck and von Braun, and if you haven’t heard of at least three of those, you need to do some more reading.

There is something terribly autumnal about this shot, even if it was 25ºC and extremely pleasant in Berlin today. But here we are, mid-to-late September, and I suppose it’s an inevitability.

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Sep 12 2024
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

What’s he got then?

Thursday 12th September 2024, 12.10pm (day 4,767)

Dog at fish van, 12/9/24

Oh, the dog knows. Probably it already knows more details about the guy’s fish than he does, in, like, two seconds.

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Sep 09 2024
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Dunston Staiths

Sunday 8th September 2024, 10.15am (day 4,763)

Dunston Staiths, 8/9/24

This is the second time the River Tyne has been depicted on this blog, but the first time I saw it, it was considerably smaller: this was on my walk up Burnhope Seat in 2020, where I passed the farm of ‘Tynehead’ at the other end of the river. By Newcastle the Tyne has grown fat, big enough to have what is, reputedly, the largest wooden construction in Europe built out in the middle of it — Dunston Staiths, a former coalport. And there it is. I like the lamp-posts on this one, too.

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Sep 05 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

By the old bridge

Wednesday 4th September 2024, 10.30am (day 4,759)

By the old bridge, 4/9/24

Another picture of someone sitting down, though she looks a little more comfortable than yesterday’s model (and has both her shoes on). Meanwhile, over on the other side of the bridge, there are interventions taking place in the ongoing duck-pigeon conflict,

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Aug 22 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Portrait, Stranger

Fresh food for sale…

Thursday 22nd August 2024, 11.45am (day 4,746)

Market stall, 22/8/24

The Thursday market is the place to come in Hebden Bridge for fish, vegetables, food of all kinds, and I certainly indulged today. Was it warm? No — autumn is in the post, I feel, but that’s why we stock up with food at this time of year.

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Aug 21 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Making an effort

Tuesday 20th August 2024, 8.40am (day 4,744)

Empty campus, 20/8/24

The title of this post can have multiple meanings today — for me, and, presumably, for him. Being on campus at all in August requires some kind of effort, but particularly at 8.40am: this is actually the earliest Manchester shot I have published in well over a year. But we were both there, and my day went well enough: I hope his did too.

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Aug 20 2024
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The TV people are back

Monday 19th August 2024, 11.00am (day 4,743)

TV light by Albert

Following the success of Happy Valley and its evident impact on Hebden Bridge’s tourist trade/appeal to stag and hen parties the BBC have been persudaded to return, having taken over chunks of the town centre and at least two of its pubs over August. Although apparently, this time, HB might be pretending to be Todmorden. Whatever…

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Aug 18 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Transport

The Sunday flotilla

Sunday 18th August 2024, 3.20pm (day 4,742)

This is now a standard sight on a Sunday in HB town centre. But I include it today more because of noticing the participant in the middle — one of those things you don’t see until uploading it to the laptop, later.

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Aug 12 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Portrait, Stranger, Urban scene

Bridge Gate collage

Monday 12th August 2024, 9.20pm (day 4,736)

Outside Shoulder, 12/8/24

For some reason this looks and feels like a collage. The streak of the bus in the background and the overlay of the reflected lettering on the guy’s head are what make it, I think. The whole thing seems to sum up my Monday night, anyway.

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Aug 04 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Passing by

Sunday 4th August 2024, 5.00pm (day 4,728)

These things are not necessarily unusual sights in Hebden Bridge, but perhaps their juxtaposition is rare.

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