Tag Archives: pub

Mar 02 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

The Crown lies empty

Friday 1st March 2024, 4.25pm (day 4,572)

Side of the Crown, 1/3/24

Several public houses premises in and around Hebden Bridge have lain empty for years. This is the old Crown Inn in the town centre: at my back as I took this photo was Marshall’s Bar; neither of them made it through 2020 and have remained closed and empty since. Some pubs on the approach roads to town (like the Woodsman Inn) have been lying derelict for two decades now. Yet the contradictions of the property market are such that it seems now, by law, only new café-bars and restaurants are allowed to open in the town. It is clearly cheaper and more desirable to convert a former bank into a pub than convert a former pub into a reopened pub.

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Feb 24 2024
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Self-portrait, Friday after work

Friday 23rd February 2024, 4.15pm (day 4,565)

Albert selfie, 23/2/24

Another day of data inspection and introspection brings to an end a whole week of much the same kind of stuff, so ending it with a rather ghostly self-portrait seems appropriate. Yes, I’m in a pub (The Albert), though not drinking rum.

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Feb 13 2024
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Hugo portrait

Tuesday 13th February 2024, 5.20pm (day 4,555)

Hugo portrait, 13/2/24

Hugo’s third appearance on here, and all within the last twelve months. As Clare has just said to me, he is an ‘ugly little thing’, but still, endearing. Definitely one of the pub pack, anyway.

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Jan 26 2024
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Daily Post, Interior

Jim’s wine

Thursday 25th January 2024, 4.35pm (day 4,536)

Jim's wine, 25/1/24

I did get very close today to the ‘having nothing to photograph’ assessment — but I did get the marking done. Justification for the latest trip to the pub, anyway: I am now officially On Sabbatical. As I ordered the first pint of this period I was reminded that I do like pub regular Jim’s habit of claiming his daily bottle of red wine. But even that, I couldn’t get properly in focus. 

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Jan 22 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Green light for more rain

Sunday 21st January 2024, 5.20pm (day 4,532)

Rain and green light, 21/1/24

Well, it was quite nice for a day or two. It didn’t last. This picture was chosen for today, in part, because Clare insisted I not use the one of her putting on her slippers, but nevertheless this does epitomise the day.

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Jan 11 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

In the beer garden

Wednesday 10th January 2023, 4.55pm (day 4,521)

White Swan garden, 10/1/24

Those of us in exile in the beer garden must have our reasons…. perhaps just misanthropy, in my case. The two women doubtless have their own thoughts on this. But the weather was OK so why not? Is that even a bit of light in the evening sky? I believe so. 

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Dec 14 2023
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Daily Post, Interior

The City Arms

Wednesday 13th December 2023, 6.20pm (day 4,493)

City Arms, 13/12/23

A busy stint of work comes to an end — this is Manchester’s third appearance in a row, and that hasn’t happened since April ’22. By the end of the working day I needed a pint, and the City Arms on Kennedy Street has definitely become the Manchester Pub of Choice. I’m not the only one who thinks this either, as it’s usually busy like this, but the beer is high quality. Note the old typesetting frame stuck randomly to the ceiling. Anyway, I probably won’t be here again until well into January — my work in this specific city is done for a while.

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Dec 09 2023
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Daily Post, Friend, Portrait

High-risk strategy

Friday 8th December 2023, 5.45pm (day 4,488)

Tom and Jenga, 8/12/23

One might think that Jenga and Red Stripe are a risky mix in the first place, but Tom’s ‘reacharound’ move just adds to the tension on this Friday night match-up. However, though the tower did fall — they always do, in the end — it was not for another few moves yet.

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Dec 06 2023
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Art and architecture, Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Interior

Wire Man

Tuesday 5th December 2023, 3.00pm (day 4,485)

Wire Man, 5/12/23

Wire Man — his official name, according to the ‘information sheet’ he dutifully carries — sits in one corner of the Albert pub in Hebden and has done so for some years now. He is quite an interesting creation, but he doesn’t do much. Visitors like him at first. Then they get annoyed that he is basically occupying two seats in a prime spot, particularly on busy weekends (and they’re all busy at present).

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Nov 16 2023
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Pub study

Wednesday 15th November 2023, 1.50pm (day 4,465)

Pub study, 16/11/23

Multiple meanings in the title of today’s post, for I was, indeed, studying while in the White Swan this afternoon — as was this gentleman. That’s my excuse, anyway.

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