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I'm sure there is a proper name for this, but it has the proportions of prams from the 1960s and further back in time.
Leyton Bus Garage.
Post war modernist extension.
Sign surface and colourful wet brickwork.
LR 4168 © Joe O'Malley 2021
Ye olde Aerial & Satellite Installations.
Pre April 2000 telephone prefix, it then became 0208.
The future has come to pass . . .
LR4117 © Joe O'Malley 2021
Walthamstow Market.
I remember stopping for lunch here in 1976 with my mum and sister after we watched a band play live on the site that has long been a shopping mall. This was an old family cafe back then.
I stopped for lunch there about three year's ago and was served more than one human hair and lots of grease with my chip's on that occasion, and needless to say I did what I am good at and complained !
Hopefully it will not be lost as it is one of the long surviving market building's.
(Update : Demolished in May 2021)
LR4079 © Joe O'Malley 2021
Modernist architecture with wayward signage.
Someone is walking about with a 13mm socket & speed ratchet !
Central Line Subway.
LR3933 © Joe O'Malley 2020
Former scaffolders yard on a colourful corner in Hackney.
Pattern, texture, geometric shapes.
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HAPPY TUESDAY'S TEXTURES !!
This is just a trio of highly contrasting textures that I happened upon. They were juxtaposed on a street in an Alsatian village. It offered a chance to do an abstract reality image.
The white section is a little mysterious to me. It contains a pattern of symbols that suggests some kind of writing. I have no idea whether or not this is the case. If anyone knows more about this, please add a comment.
Location: Village of Blotzheim, Alsace FR.
In my album: Dan's Miscellany.
No way in/out and a broken window !
This Victorian building is suffering from subsidence, just look at the bowing walls.
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HAPPY TUESDAY'S TEXTURES !!
I just happened upon this early spring afternoon iight. It had found its way down a stairwell to an underground pedestrian passage at the end of my street. I don't know why the passage has a red floor, but it is a fine thing from a photographic standpoint.
The passage lets me and everyone else walk between our part of the village and the village center without crossing the tracks of the train line. BTW, it's a magic train line. Hop on a train there, and via connections, you can travel to anywhere in Europe. So, from my POV, the best train line in the world has a stop right at the end of my street!
Location: Riehen BS Switzerland.
In my albums: Dan's Miscellany and Roaming Riehen
Yard Gates.
One foot on the door handle, the other with your toe's just in the letterbox and you are in !.
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Victorian alleyway,
Steel window frame, steel mesh, glazed and London bricks.
LR4185 Joe O'Malley 2021
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Lateral forces of load bearing toward the gable/pine end of terraced housing can cause bowing that if unchecked can lead to structural failure and collapse, hence the use of wall ties, truss rods and wall washers.
There is plenty of evidence of this problem throughout London's Georgian/Victorian and Edwardian housing stock.
LR3962 © Joe O'Malley 2020
This building once had one of my favourite pieces of street art on it. Now the render has been taken off and looking at the structure beneath it looks like it may be treated to a spot of demolition.
The art in question is in my Run album (below) and is of two hands and a piece of thread.
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An access cover/valve embedded in the sidewalk of East Front Street in downtown Buchanan, Michigan. I'm still trying to decipher the lettering at the top of the valve.
The state of the nation, people paying weekly rent to housing associations that sit on the money and ignore their responsibilities to maintain the properties to a high standard.
Thankfully this issue has been very well highlighted and publicised by ITN News.
LR4161 © Joe O'Malley 2021
Window tax, the taxation of light, imposed by King William III in 1696 in England & Wales until it was repealed 155 years later in 1851.
Daylight robbery !!!
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