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Colmore BID Angels in Cathedral Square.
The main Christmas lights attraction near Birmingham Cathedral and Colmore Row.
No Christmas market due to the pandemic / restrictions, so the Colmore BID have put up lights to cheer people up after a hard year.
Sunday morning walk in the quiet parts of town.
I put the zoom lens on the camera, for a change, lots of stepping back as I am used to the 12-32 lens.
Lockdown 2 day 18
22.11.2020
Start of the 2nd Lockdown in England for 4 weeks. So went for an afternoon walk down to Yardley Wood and popped into the Trittiford Mill Pool, just before 3pm.
So was sunburst in the clouds on the Priory Road side of the mill pool.
The bank down to the River Cole was being cut down I noticed as I passed from Highfield Road towards Scribers Lane.
Elaborate ceiling windows in Caxton House.
View from my office window in the afternoon after it got dark.
The staircase lights are on, but The Studio lights were off (closed during the 2nd lockdown).
There are no organised displayed this year due to Covid restrictions.
Someone let off a load of big fireworks opposite my flat. This is hand held so not the sharpest shot, but I was pleased to get a few shots of fireworks this year.
Normally I'd be on the Quay photographing the main Poole display (see photo in comments from last year).
Lockdown 2, day 1
Hamworthy 05.11.2020
Scaffolding Selfridges after dark with Christmas lights.
The scaffolding has so far only gone up halfway on the Park Street side of the famous building.
Many of the discs have been removed, but now they will be able to do a proper job, take them all off, and repaint blue underneath.
Will eventually be a pink hoardings design on the outside while they replace the discs underneath.
Meanwhile the Christmas lights have gone up on Park Street and Moor Street.
Temporary bus stops for the 35 and 50 on Moor Street. I expect that side to be scaffolded as well.
Sunday morning walk in the quiet parts of town.
I put the zoom lens on the camera, for a change, lots of stepping back as I am used to the 12-32 lens.
Lockdown 2 day 18
22.11.2020
Scaffolding Selfridges after dark with Christmas lights.
The scaffolding has so far only gone up halfway on the Park Street side of the famous building.
Many of the discs have been removed, but now they will be able to do a proper job, take them all off, and repaint blue underneath.
Will eventually be a pink hoardings design on the outside while they replace the discs underneath.
Meanwhile the Christmas lights have gone up on Park Street and Moor Street.
Temporary bus stops for the 35 and 50 on Moor Street. I expect that side to be scaffolded as well.
Colmore Row - Public Realm works at Snow Hill.
Roadworks outside of Colmore Gate and the Great Western Arcade as seen from Colmore Square.
Set on the ground floor of the former Havens Department store in Westcliff-On-Sea, Essex.
Closed for Lockdown2 when I took this photograph.
The first Saturday of the 2nd lockdown. A walk down the Warwick Road in Acocks Green after a long walk down Gospel Lane.
Non essential shops, cafes, restaurants, bars and pubs are closed for 4 weeks.
Acocks Green Village is Back in Business!
Sign on the Warwick Road in Acocks Green Village.
Also a poppy above. The Remembrance Sunday event outside of Acocks Green Library is cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic and lockdown.
About a week or more to go on this 2nd lockdown, and I popped into Grand Central Birmingham to got to Tesco Express.
The escalators and stairs near the Stephenson Street entrance was closed, so ended up going up an escalator from inside Birmingham New Street Station.
Saw this Christmas tree.
View of Poole from Purbeck.
A short drive out of town in dull drizzly weather.
Lockdown 2, day 17.
21.11.2020
Sunday photo walk. First weekend of Lockdown 2 in England. The weather is grey today, but still good the get out.
Poole 08.11.2020
Scaffolding Selfridges after dark with Christmas lights.
The scaffolding has so far only gone up halfway on the Park Street side of the famous building.
Many of the discs have been removed, but now they will be able to do a proper job, take them all off, and repaint blue underneath.
Will eventually be a pink hoardings design on the outside while they replace the discs underneath.
Meanwhile the Christmas lights have gone up on Park Street and Moor Street.
Temporary bus stops for the 35 and 50 on Moor Street. I expect that side to be scaffolded as well.
It is Wednesday 4 November 2020. The time 07:30. Tomorrow is the start of England's 'Lockdown 2'. Many businesses will be forced to close by law. Hairdressers are one of these businesses.
Unsurprisingly the normal early Wednesday barber (an Italian in his late 70's is not there).
A limited number of socially distanced seats is available. Others are taking their last opportunity too.
I think I've only had my hair cut 3 times this year (I can't remember much before March to be honest).
Just Eat West Midlands Metro tram 18 from Corporation Street to Stephenson Place.
Seen after dark in the rain from Corporation Street.
Was about to head left onto New Street towards the Bullring.
Usually this time of year would be the Christmas Market, but it was cancelled due to the pandemic / lockdown / social distancing etc.
The former Vodafone store at the corner of Corporation Street and New Street in Birmingham.
Princes Chambers.
Stratford-on-Avon Canal at Solihull Lodge.
Near the Canal Bridge on the High Street in Solihull Lodge.
The idea was to walk the towpath towards Yardley Wood, but the towpath was too wet and muddy.
I did go along a bit before turning back for the Solihull Lodge High Street.
Will need to try again in future.
Narrowboat and dinghy - looks like the one I saw in Yardley Wood a month before.
The first Saturday of the 2nd lockdown. A walk down the Warwick Road in Acocks Green after a long walk down Gospel Lane.
Non essential shops, cafes, restaurants, bars and pubs are closed for 4 weeks.
Poppy on a lamppost on the Warwick Road in Acocks Green.
The Remembrance Sunday event outside of Acocks Green Library is cancelled due to the pandemic and 2nd lockdown.
First thing in the morning after 9am, had time before work to pop up to Paradise Birmingham to see the three red Christmas Baubles on Centenary Way, before going back towards the Colmore BID.
'Tis the season to stay safe
Probably a bit early than usual to put up the decorations but what the heck, not much else to do!
For my 120 photos in 2020, number 37, Dr Doolittle's animals. I always remember the push-me pull-you from that film and this reminds me of it.
Lockdown 2, Day 24.
at home 28.11.2020
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I don't know what the weather is like in the rest of the country today, but here on the South coast it's very wet and windy.
There was a brief window in the weather so went out for a short walk, and some shots, just about managing to hold the camera still.
This massive yacht has moored up on the Quay, I googled it, it's a 203 foot Hoek schooner. I assume it's taken shelter because of the bad weather.
Lockdown 2, day 10
Poole 14.11.2020
The pub putting up decorations in the hope that they will be opening next week when the current lockdown ends.
Lockdown 2, day 20
24.11.2020
A lockdown 2 walk around Beacon Hill at the Lickey Hills Country Park.
After checking out the skyline, walked down through the woods, with leaves all over the ground and some paths were a bit muddy.
The Birmingham skyline from Beacon Hill as of November 2020.
Old Joe at the University of Birmingham, Selfridges and St Martin's Church. With The Sentinels and Beetham Tower.
Published in the Birmingham Mail Your Flickr photos page on Monday 11th January 2021.
Yardley Wood Bus Garage.
A lockdown 2 walk up and down Yardley Wood Road towards Solihull Lodge and back.
Went past the "Home of the famous route 50" both ways.
They are also home of the Electric route 6 buses.
pair of off duty NXWM Electric buses.
E004 and E018. Usually on the 6 up and down the Stratford Road.
First time back in the City Centre in 2 weeks.
Got off the bus just short of Birmingham Coach Station in Digbeth.
Christmas lights at the Bullring from Digbeth.
A tamping machine or ballast tamper is a machine used to pack (or tamp) the track ballast under railway tracks to make the tracks more durable. Prior to the introduction of mechanical tampers, this task was done by manual labour with the help of beaters
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Same machine in action!
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"Due to the new national lockdown from 5th November 2020, our train services are currently suspended." ...so a good time for maintenance I guess.
Almost had a walk along the muddy towpath on the Stratford-on-Avon Canal from the High Street in Solihull Lodge (went along a bit of it).
But ended up walking back to Yardley Wood at road level instead.
The no 49 NXWM Platinum bus near the bridge over the Stratford-on-Avon Canal, heading towards Solihull Station.
It goes via Cotteridge.
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