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This waiting shelter was to be found on the Chester/Ellesmere Port platform at Birkenhead Central...until that was Merseyrail replaced it with a characterless modern structure. So, Merseyrail, what the fuck have you DONE with it...?
The town centre is much quieter now it has been pedestrianised.
Note the Loughborough Echo building opposite. They have long since moved out of this office to a drab characterless modern office on the edge of the town.
Founded by Joseph Deakin in 1891, the Echo has only had four editors in its history.
This is a beautiful, simply designed and thoroughly charming place. The house was built by the family's great-grandfather. He built it room by room; saving up money over time and building more onto it when he could afford to. The family have now sold up because properties like this are difficult to maintain; because of major deterioration problems due to age and neglect and also because of the poor economic climate. The family have moved into a modern apartment out of town. The person who bought the property is going to tear it down and build an apartment block in its place. I see a lot of this kind of activity in Beirut. If only their were grants for people to help them keep their properties and prevent Beirut from becoming another faceless, characterless concrete jungle. Ho-hum.
Muir of Ord Station on the Far North & Kyle of Lochalsh lines on the 2nd of October 2017
The remains of the sidings hidden away behind fencing
This was the most disappointing station of my visit in 2017 because I remember it from the mid 1980's and it was upsetting to see how it had been literally wiped clean of all of its character and turned into a clinical characterless location
Shop fronts along the new development, same old, same old, and characterless with it. No.5 was hand demolished, note the gap between No.3 and the new building and the fact that the terrace is still boarded up.
A look through recent Google Streetview images shows that No.5 has been rebuilt, as today the building butts up against the grey brick section. The shop front is now a hairdresser's and the flats above have recently been offered for occupation.
Above is just a simple photo of a billboard. Somehow I liked it. Maybe I have been Living in the characterless suburban life for too long. Maybe the spontaneous and vibrancy of city life is something I am craving for.
Bob's rating = 3/10
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A pub that appears to have turned itself into a characterless pastiche of a 1970's seaside café (that just happens to have a bar in it). The only good thing about it is that the seats are fairly comfortable. On the downside - locals seem to get served first regardless of how many are in front of them, it's a Palmers house (as are most Lyme Regis pubs), the food looked OK but is very expensive as, indeed, are the bar prices. Everywhere else would need to be shut before I visit again.
Check out my new website The History of Yeovil’s Pubs - the town with over 100 pubs!
When I was a kid, this part of the 3750-seater Olympia Theatre (opened in 1905 but closed in 1939 months before the outbreak of war) was all glazed and I think it formed part of what was then (the mid-70s) the Mecca Locarno bingo casino.
But look at it now - utterly characterless. It was never like this when it first opened and I think whoever was responsible for getting rid of the glazed 1960s facade ought to be shot!
The day I took this, my support worker was Ibe Uken, who soon turned out to be one HELL of a jobsworth. I don't mind people who do their job, but if it's one thing I can't stand, it's fucking jobsworths!
Eventually, I decided enough was enough and asked not to have her again and I have a feeling that things are going to be much worse, because I've got male support from CIC and I prefer FEMALE support.
Another view of D78 stock unit 7079 with the train accelerating away from Kew Gardens station on the remainder of its journey south to Richmond. To think that Kew Gardens station was synonymous with the D78 stock since they were new way back in 1980 and these faithful trains are now replaced by the rather characterless S7 stock.
Muir of Ord Station on the Far North & Kyle of Lochalsh lines on the 2nd of October 2017
This was the most disappointing station of my visit in 2017 because I remember it from the mid 1980's and it was upsetting to see how it had been literally wiped clean of all of its character and turned into a clinical characterless location
For some, bread is the staff of life. It's been like that since the development of widespread agriculture facilitated permanent settlements and a transition from nomadic to sedentary living.
There is a problem when getting your daily bread is interrupted by COVID-19 self isolation, social distancing, quarantine and closures. You can't get your preferred supply!
Before the great supermarket heists of 2020 the amount of shelf space given to flour was diminishing. It was enough to form the opinion that baking was dead, or at least dying.
Come the virus and the shelves were swept clean of flour. Were the dusty old bread machines hidden away in the back of cupboards dug out from behind the sous vide machines and schlemmertopf pots? Had baking been rediscovered, not as a pastime, but as a survival tactic?
Denied access to a decent boulangerie, it would be sad to add insult to injury by resorting to badly made or compounded from substandard flour, "bread improver", "rising agents", anti-mould agents and unspeakable chemical contrivances as you might find in supermarket soft white bread. This "bread" is rushed, characterless and puffed up by chemicals, not good technique and ingredients.
In a perfect world, all bread would start with a long, slow ferment, no chemical sh!tstorm, and time to prove ahead of baking in one of these homemade woodfired ovens, a full scale commercial version or even an historic version.
Todays project, Danish rugbrød ramps all this up. It's not your daily bread, knocked out in a day, this is bread that can take a week. If it weren't for the dark, dense character of rugbrød its ability to sustain life might see it confused with elvish lembas!
There is nothing in rugbrød which isn't food and shouldn't be there. It begins with a starter. I've shortcut mine by days because I have a sourdough culture from a renowned atrisan bakery and did not need to make my own. Don't be mistaken about the mystique of sourdough starters, you know, oh, this one crossed the Oregon Trail and the like. Sourdough starters are a lot like homeopathic potions, diluted by each use and addition of flour and water to feed the bugs. Over time their biome will change and adapt to their new home and diet; taking on a kind of terroir.
After a day, or more, a sponge of flours, cracked grains and seeds which has absorbed all of its water will have soured and puffed up just a little. Into this is added simple flavourings of malt and treacle and more grains from cooked barley and a large amount of pre-soaked cracked rye grains.
Now I couldn't get cracked rye in these difficult times meaning that my rugbrød project had to dig deeper to begin the process by taking whole rye and cracking it a grain mill. You want wholegrain bread? This is it!
Once mixed, the thick batter, not really a dough, is set into oiled bread pans for another little rest. I gave mine 24hrs after which time it may have risen about half a centimetre.
Most bread goes into a blazingly hot oven, the contained water expands rapidly and the bread puffs up. Not rugbrød. Like a frog in a pot, rugbrød goes into a cold oven which is then warmed to a meagre 190° C and then as much as anything dries out over a long, slow bake.
Hours later you still don't have your daily bread. After coming from the oven, when the baker has judged that the rugbrød is due to emerge, it then gets wrapped in a cloth for another sleep.
Tomorrow it will be ready to sustain you. And sustain you it will. This is dense, energy packed, high nutrition bread.
So take a step back from the soft white while you are in exile and discover the wonderful world of slow, slow bread.
Muir of Ord Station on the Far North & Kyle of Lochalsh lines on the 2nd of October 2017
This was the most disappointing station of my visit in 2017 because I remember it from the mid 1980's and it was upsetting to see how it had been literally wiped clean of all of its character and turned into a clinical characterless location
Glorious sunset. Pity was, too many buildings prevented me from getting a clear shot. And I couldn't run/climb somewhere quick enough to get the right shot.
Still.
Madras has this way of surprising you at every turn. Days on end the sky is characterless, and then, 5 days back-to-back with fantastic clouds, perfect lighting and great colours.
St Mary, Bucklesham, Suffolk
Set down a quiet lane not far from its village centre, this is an attractive little church despite a relatively undistinguished pedigree. Small churches which were largely rebuilt during the second half of the 19th Century can sometimes be a little characterless, but not so here.
The rebuilding took place throughout 1878, and when the church reopened after being closed for nearly a year, there were, according to the Ipswich Journal, gasps of astonishment at the impressive and radical alterations. The nave had been extended and a new south aisle and chancel added. Not much had survived the restorers, but early 14th Century doorways were retained, the one on the north side with its external holy water stoup. Some work was retained from an earlier restoration in the 1840s, including the east and west windows which were reset in the new walls.
Inside, the church retains its 17th Century pulpit and 15th Century font. In medieval times this must have been quite an impressive church, judging by the foundations of the great west tower which were uncovered in the 1920s. But centuries of neglect meant that by the 18th century it had fallen, and like many rural Suffolk churches, St Mary was virtually derelict by the time of its restoration.
A sign of changing attitudes to old buildings is the London newspaper which reported at the time of the rebuilding that the old church had been conspicuous by its ugliness. It added that fortunately, its situation was not a prominent one, so that only those living in Bucklesham remember it as an eyesore. As much as we might have preferred the old church to the new nowadays, I think this trim little building would still please the Victorian villagers today.
St Mary, Bucklesham, Suffolk
Photograph taken April 2006.
Set down a quiet lane not far from its village centre, this is an attractive little church despite a relatively undistinguished pedigree. Small churches which were largely rebuilt during the second half of the 19th Century can sometimes be a little characterless, but not so here.
The rebuilding took place throughout 1878, and when the church reopened after being closed for nearly a year, there were, according to the Ipswich Journal, gasps of astonishment at the impressive and radical alterations. The nave had been extended and a new south aisle and chancel added. Not much had survived the restorers, but early 14th Century doorways were retained, the one on the north side with its external holy water stoup. Some work was retained from an earlier restoration in the 1840s, including the east and west windows which were reset in the new walls.
Inside, the church retains its 17th Century pulpit and 15th Century font. In medieval times this must have been quite an impressive church, judging by the foundations of the great west tower which were uncovered in the 1920s. But centuries of neglect meant that by the 18th century it had fallen, and like many rural Suffolk churches, St Mary was virtually derelict by the time of its restoration.
A sign of changing attitudes to old buildings is the London newspaper which reported at the time of the rebuilding that the old church had been conspicuous by its ugliness. It added that fortunately, its situation was not a prominent one, so that only those living in Bucklesham remember it as an eyesore. As much as we might have preferred the old church to the new nowadays, I think this trim little building would still please the Victorian villagers today.
It may have a new platform, but this is still one of the most characterless stations in Britain (up there with Euston and New Street).
Designers’ Saturday happens at a place where design is actually created. Designers’ Saturday is not just a product show held on characterless trade fair premises. Instead it is a stage where authentic design skills are put on view at the atmospheric production sites of the companies involved.
In background to this character, warm building large characterless, cold high rise apartments are being built. Parramatta is becoming a dormitory suburb for Sydney business district.
I shot this alleyway about 18 months ago. Since then it's had one of the beautiful old lights replaced with a rather characterless plastic one.
Muir of Ord Station on the Far North & Kyle of Lochalsh lines on the 2nd of October 2017
This was the most disappointing station of my visit in 2017 because I remember it from the mid 1980's and it was upsetting to see how it had been literally wiped clean of all of its character and turned into a clinical characterless location
There was only one winner at the Test match, the groundsman who prepared a flat horror of a pitch. The bowlers stood no chance and I had lost interest long before the 5th day, which I missed.
I was a bit disappointed with the Kensington Oval. It's the sort of ground that looks good in pictures, but you have to select your angles very carefully. Characterless, I would say.
There were pigeons in the roof of our stand (Hall & Griffith Stand) who used us for target practice, which was more exciting than the cricket.
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Fine house built 1725, the cellars are on ground floor with main entrance on first floor. Converted to hotel but a bit 'run down' in recent years. Taken over by Thwaites Brewery who spent a lot of money but result is perhaps a bit characterless.
or candi borobudur is a listed UNESCO world Heritage site. This is a 9th century Buddhist monument which is located near Magelang.
The temporary rain that welcomed us and the characterless sky did not overshadow the beauty of the Borobudur. It was quite dissappointing though that we did not managed to catch the splendour of the building bathed in sun set.
Muir of Ord Station on the Far North & Kyle of Lochalsh lines on the 2nd of October 2017
This was the most disappointing station of my visit in 2017 because I remember it from the mid 1980's and it was upsetting to see how it had been literally wiped clean of all of its character and turned into a clinical characterless location
Model of residential redevelopment of Mary Datchelor Girls' School in Camberwell. Went on a guided tour - high quality, characterless refurb.
Investors are tearing down old Reykjavik to make space for characterless hotels and apartment buildings.
Burning on the clouds is a bit uncomfortable - a bit like over smudging on a charcoal drawing, too smooth and characterless. I like the composition, so will give this another turn, no doubt using the cloud>darken layer technique.
Muir of Ord Station on the Far North & Kyle of Lochalsh lines on the 2nd of October 2017
This was the most disappointing station of my visit in 2017 because I remember it from the mid 1980's and it was upsetting to see how it had been literally wiped clean of all of its character and turned into a clinical characterless location
St Peter and St Paul, Langham, Rutland
You leave Oakham on the road into Leicestershire, and shortly come to the large, apparently undistinguished village of Langham. The name is one of the most common placenames in England, meaning simply 'long village'. But I remember this Langham for a reason I am sure many other people do. Twenty-odd years ago we used to go this way to visit friends in Derby, and if you wound down the car window at Langham you might just catch a delicious whiff of malted barley being heated, for the village was home to one of the great independent family breweries of England, Ruddles.
The day came when Ruddles was taken over Morlands of Abingdon, who closed the Langham brewery, but who were in their turn taken over by the rapacious Greene King, who closed the Abingdon brewery as well as the Langham one, and switched production of both Ruddles and Morland's Old Speckled Hen to Bury St Edmunds. But of course neither beer was ever the same.
Ruddles was a victim of its own success. In 1996, Ruddles County bitter was voted the best beer in the world no less, and was advertised on national commercial television. It even achieved 'protected geographical status', one of only three English beers to do so. But by then the brewery had only a year of its life left. I remember seeing the brewery buildings closed and derelict soon after, but they are all gone today, to be replaced by typically characterless housing. The name remains in Ruddles Avenue.
Not far off is the church of St Peter and St Paul, which Pevsner records as being large and imposing, which is certainly true, although it is a bit quirky as well, because the huge south transept is no longer balanced by the one on the north side, giving the church the shape of a letter T.
The tall spire is visible for miles, and the church is set in a wide, open churchyard. As Pevsner also observes, the interior is large, airy and spacious, but perhaps a little dull, and this is not unfair. The leaven in the lump is one of the largest expanses of Ninian Comper glass in the country, the vast windows in the east of the chancel (the orders of angels, 1907) and the transept (a selection of favourite Saints, 1912) both being his. Otherwise there is not much to set the pulses racing, but it is all pleasant enough and obviously well-loved, looked after and used.
Outside in the churchyard I noticed the grave of Sir Kenneth Ruddle, a member of the brewing family dynasty. All gone today.
The characterless, yet expensive to cross (80p. each way) bridge linking Pembroke Dock with Neyland was opened in the 1970's.
Hobbs Point, from where this picture was taken, was the original sea terminal for the Irish Sea packets, and the original 1840's milestones on the main road from St. Clears still refer to it. But it was superceded by Brunel's port at New Milford (now known as Neyland) and then by Fishguard.
Muir of Ord Station on the Far North & Kyle of Lochalsh lines on the 2nd of October 2017
This was the most disappointing station of my visit in 2017 because I remember it from the mid 1980's and it was upsetting to see how it had been literally wiped clean of all of its character and turned into a clinical characterless location
Muir of Ord Station on the Far North & Kyle of Lochalsh lines on the 2nd of October 2017
It costs you £1000 trespassing on the modern part of the station but apparently only £25 on the old part ;)
This was the most disappointing station of my visit in 2017 because I remember it from the mid 1980's and it was upsetting to see how it had been literally wiped clean of all of its character and turned into a clinical characterless location
For me this is a depressing, characterless station set in a depressing landscape. Views of the marshland that is the Thames estuary are marred by massive industrial complexes and tank farms. The whole area seems to be a dirty grey colour - the buildings, the concrete, the vegetation. Came away feeling quite cheerful!
13/01/07 Have now been invited to post pictures to the area to the Thurrock group. Should I leave the above description in place?
I thought I would use a fibre tip pen today.I don't like them very much as they dont give you anything when you work with them.They produce a very characterless line all the same thickness,but its good to have a change.I resorted to the wet finger technique to give a variation.
Muir of Ord Station on the Far North & Kyle of Lochalsh lines on the 2nd of October 2017
This was the most disappointing station of my visit in 2017 because I remember it from the mid 1980's and it was upsetting to see how it had been literally wiped clean of all of its character and turned into a clinical characterless location
Pyramiden was a proper, functioning town. It wasn't just a mining camp full of single men and those running away or exiled. It had schools, a swimming pool and this cultural centre complete with basketball court, gymnasium, music and art rooms. These things might all have been done in characterless block houses. But however we might like to depict Russia, here was a community with the same needs and desires as everyone else. They might have been harder to achieve, Maybe it wasn't possible to have a cultural centre with elegant cast balustrading. But they cared enough to make an effort. All of this scrollwork, the welding and painting wasn't necessary to deliver kultcha. But they tried to humanise an outpost at 78°N and good on them for having a go.
This large and characterless structure was constructed in 1969 to replace the county's previous 1902 Romanesque Revival Courthouse that still stands in downtown Starke. This one stands to the north of downtown Starke on highway 301.
Muir of Ord Station on the Far North & Kyle of Lochalsh lines on the 2nd of October 2017
This was the most disappointing station of my visit in 2017 because I remember it from the mid 1980's and it was upsetting to see how it had been literally wiped clean of all of its character and turned into a clinical characterless location
The Arlington Temple United Methodist Church is located in the amazingly user-unfriendly Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. Thanks to horribly botched 60s-style urban planning, Rosslyn is an inhuman maze of streets, traffic, and characterless office buildings.
Unsurprisingly, in such a neighborhood, the Arlington Temple has faced enormous challenges in maintaining a congregation of functioning size and generational mix. However, unlike many declining congregations, Arlington Temple has not had to face declining revenues along with the declining attendees. Years ago, Arlington Temple made the far-sighted decision to lease the ground floor of the church to a gas station, which has turned out to be a real cash cow.
Local Methodists' nickname for Arlington Temple is now "Pump and Pray."
Muir of Ord Station on the Far North & Kyle of Lochalsh lines on the 2nd of October 2017
The other disused part of the station platforms
This was the most disappointing station of my visit in 2017 because I remember it from the mid 1980's and it was upsetting to see how it had been literally wiped clean of all of its character and turned into a clinical characterless location
Just after we were all seated and our drink orders filled we each received a rather mediocre lump of a roll, characterless except for it's cool flavourless chewy exterior and it's open but standard crumb. It was something that filled the stomach, but didn't leave as strong an impression on me as the butter knife and the oval bread plate.
The Least Intriguing Retail Outlet in the Midwest.
The Boring Store
Absolutely nothing of interest
No Longer Supplying Anything of Utility
The region's first exclusive supplier of holes (not to mention equipment used for making holes in things, such as drills, augers, awls, punches, bradawls, very sharp sticks, and, of course, the ever popular gimlet) we were surprised a year or two after opening our doors that mose customers who happened to stop in conceived of us only as purveors of CHARACTERLESS, DREARY, BANAL, MUNDANE, TIRESOME and TEDIOUS merchandise. Well, after some prolonged consideration, and after two years of absolutely no business whatsoever, to say nothing of not wanting to be accused of misrepresenting out inventory, we were more than happy to point out to said customers that such things as holes, drills, augers, awls, punches, bradawls, very sharp sticks, and, of course, the ever-popular gimlet, could actually be considered, at least amongst the general lay populace, somewhat lackluster, if not genuinely and irretrievably DULL. Needless to say, these customers usually left in disgust, and rarely returned.
VERSATILITY, we left, being the very spine and soul of commerce (to say nothing of the crippling financial hit we sustained during the Great Hole Clut of the early 1970's) thus compelled us to eventually diversify out catalog into what is now widely regarded as the single most characterless and xxxlating stock of wearisome and useless items available in the Unisted States. And Success being the sweet taste of shrewd charter, we have no had a single customer in almost 28 years.
ABSOLUTELY SAFE! EASY TO AVOID!
As Simple as NOT COMING IN THE DOOR
REALLY, IT'S A BREEZE! Just pass us by. No need to satisfy your curiosity or see if there actually might be something available here that's not as monotonous as we say it is. There are no..... the rest gets too fuzzy.
When I took this photo eight years ago, it was the ONLY surviving street lamp of its kind in Grafton Street and now...well, it's been replaced by shitty, modern, characterless ones.
This is a beautiful, simply designed and thoroughly charming place. The house was built by the family's great-grandfather. He built it room by room; saving up money over time and building more onto it when he could afford to. The family have now sold up because properties like this are difficult to maintain; because of major deterioration problems due to age and neglect and also because of the poor economic climate. The family have moved into a modern apartment out of town. The person who bought the property is going to tear it down and build an apartment block in its place. I see a lot of this kind of activity in Beirut. If only their were grants for people to help them keep their properties and prevent Beirut from becoming another faceless, characterless concrete jungle. Ho-hum.
Most characterless hotel room I have ever stayed in actually... white white and yet more white, oh and a telly but it was warm and the windows opened fully (always a must for me) and reasonably local to public transport and its own bar so it wasn't as bad as it might have been.
I like this because it's vaguely horror film-esque or I have an overactive imagination (aka spent too long in the bar!)
This scene will disappear soon, as the Planning department at Epsom Council has seen fit to approve the ghastly plans to replace the station building with yet more characterless blocks, turning the approach into a 'concrete canyon'. Taken 20 August 2010, when preliminary work had already started. Taxis used to use the forecourt and have been moved to the opposite side of the road.