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Jan 21 2014
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Balloon Street, Manchester

Tuesday 21st January 2014, 9.15am (day 880)

Balloon Street, 21/1/14

Yet another beautiful morning. What a difference a year makes — on 21st January 2013, Hebden Bridge was under several inches of snow. This is Manchester, and customers of the Co-Operative Bank who have long seen ‘1 Balloon Street’ as the corporate address on their correspondence may be vaguely interested to see that this is, indeed, Balloon Street itself. Part of Co-op HQ on the left and (I think) right, the Shudehill bus station straight ahead, and the morning sun doing its best to reach around the corner (the patch to lower right being a reflection). No cars run along this street now but yes, I did check that no trams were coming before I got the shot.

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Jan 20 2014
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

View from my living room

Monday 20th January 2014, 12.10pm (day 879)

Living room view, 20/1/14

Another very pleasant day, though I was stuck inside grading papers most of the day. But the view is compensation. I’d say I was lucky to have it, but you know, I’m not a total idiot. I mean, we did buy the place.

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Jan 19 2014
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Hebden Bridge

The next allotment

Sunday 19th January 2014, 2.50pm (day 878)

Allotment, 19/1/14

Glorious afternoon today, with sunlight streaming onto the allotments in late afternoon. Our neighbours (garden-wise) are much more organised than us. The green netting is evidence of that alone, but look — they have poultry. Why don’t we have poultry?

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Jan 18 2014
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Photographing the old bridge

Saturday 18th January 2014, 3.55pm (day 877)

Photographing bridge, 18/1/14

I know this is rather over-exposed and otherwise suspect technically and in terms of composition (you can’t see the bridge properly) — but I still think it’s OK. Taken on Old Gate, Hebden Bridge, this afternoon.

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Jan 17 2014
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Daily Post, Landscape

Morecambe Bay, from Grange-over-Sands

Friday 17th January 2014, 9.20am (day 876)

Morecambe Bay, 17/1/14

I’m glad I have set my life up in ways that get me round the Cumbrian coast rail line now and again, even on a damp Friday in January. This shot is taken from a moving train.

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Jan 16 2014
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Fire exit, The Academy

Thursday 16th January 2014, 11.05am (day 875)

Fire exit, Academy, 16/1/14

The Academy is the University of Manchester’s principal music venue, and has appeared a couple of times on this blog from the inside, most recently a few weeks ago when we saw Gogol Bordello there. So here it is from the outside, one of its facets anyway, a study in line and shadow.

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Jan 15 2014
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Wednesday market, Hebden Bridge

Wednesday 15th January 2014, 8.55am (day 874)

Wednesday market, 15/1/14

A regular Wednesday event in town. If you want to buy a guitar in Hebden before 9am on a Wednesday morning in January, this is the place to do it, clearly.

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Jan 14 2014
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Daily Post, Interior

Stairwell, Ellen Wilkinson Building

Tuesday 14th January 2014, 2.00pm (day 873)

Stairwell, Ellen Wilkinson, 14/1/14

Snapped for no other reason than I liked the image. There is no deeper agenda. Another pleasantly sunny winter’s day in Manchester.

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Jan 13 2014
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Daily Post, Interior

Platform Nine and Three-Quarters

Monday 13th January 2014, 11.45am (day 872)

Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, 13/1/14

With 40 minutes to kill in King’s Cross station on our way back from Brighton, I entertained myself by watching these activities. When the new King’s Cross was opened a couple of years ago this little memorial had been installed seemingly by the builders, and was left largely unmolested; when the Harry Potter shop opened and colonised it shortly afterwards, and started charging visitors to get their mitts on the trolley, the queues, absent before, started appearing. QED.

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Jan 13 2014
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Daily Post, Transport

Volk’s Electric Railway, Brighton

Sunday 12th January 2014, 11.10am (day 871)

Volks Railway, 12/1/14

This is the oldest extant electric railway in the world, having been running since 1883. It runs along Brighton beach for just over a mile, eastwards from the pier — that station is the one seen here, in front of the Royal Albion hotel where we spent this weekend (our usual Brighton haunt, the Pelirocco, having been booked out by a party this weekend).

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