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This was the future once!
I remember wishing my dad would drive by slow enough for me to see the Time change to the Temperature, the height of technology when digital wasn’t everywhere.
This incoming structure was part of the local newspaper print works. Along with the unique modern facade of the ‘nearly’ Olympic-size Swimming Pool (now totally gone) were friendly welcomes to Leeds City Centre.
There was an outpouring of desire that it should not be demolished but it now remains a sad and painful reflection of what happens when the best of intention has no funding.
Of course? It is totally useless and redundant and it now seems no more than a middle finger from modern town planners and developers to the idiots like me who don’t like change.
The Evening Post tower is now allowed to decay in the most prominent part of the entrance to our city as an insult to Leeds’ evolution from a wool town to a centre of media and communication.
Leeds: the birthplace of moving images (over Leeds Bridge), Waddington’s Games with their Monopoly and enough playing cards to cover the world, dye works, tank factories, a centre for the arts, literature, science, medicine, Teltley’s Bitter, and world famous football team (not always for the right reasons, mind!).
It now supports its fame as the non-terminus to HS2, home of Channel 4, the Ministry of Stealth and Total Obscurity, and a carbuncle on the skyline that looks a bit like a flippin’ dalek which the planners did not foresee the creations of hurricane speed winds around it. Ho hum!
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/09/why-leeds-lo...
Passengers await the departure of Premier's new Alexander bodied Volvo Ailsa NET520R from Christ Church bus terminus, Doncaster in September 1976, while the local newspaper seller counts his remaining copies.
Clare, MI - The Evening Post, a local bar, has placed a face mask over the rooster on the sidewalk near the front door
This is a hand held long exposure shot (i.e. I rested my camera on a pillar and prayed ;) ) of the cascades in Castle Square, Swansea City Centre today. This weekend it hosts the Get Welsh, food, drink and craft festival a day of fun and entertainment, which will be hosted by the South Wales Evening Post and sponsored by Swansea Bid and the Big Heart of Swansea.
"Promising to be the biggest one to date, there'll be more than 29 stands at this year's event with local producers offering a wide array of delicious food and drink, from succulent meats and cheeses to homemade cakes, alongside some unique and beautiful crafts.
Throughout the day there will be a variety of live entertainment from talented local artists, choirs and even a children's fancy dress competition to make it a great day out for the whole family"
www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Welsh-food-drink-crafts-...
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Post Box Portrait - 2009
Look, I'm in the newspaper!
Hah.
Well, I will be very soon anyway.
This was super fun collaboration stylee....crafted and photographed by FoxyRoxy, modelled and edited by me. I'd been wanting to make a newspaper dress for ages but kept putting it off.....but what better time than now?! :D
This was the most reaction we've had to a public photoshoot yet (shot outside ASDA on Bedminster Parade)....and a gross dirty old man tried to kiss me 0_o
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Roxy and I had a super fun day today, we found lots of fun stuff to take photos with in the street....and then we poached some strangers for a Post Box Portrait before it was tattoo time...
HELLO to those strangers who have come to my flickr page from the link on the card I gave you :D
I'm sure you must have thought it was odd (!) so to explain....this is what you were taking part in:
For good old Facebook and the Post Box Portrait fan page: Click here ...and invite your friends! :D
For my Post Box Portrait photoset: Click here
For the Post Box Portrait flickr group: Click here (for people to add their take on the theme!)
This was just a fun tongue-in-cheek take on the seemingly British institution of queuing.
It was featured in the Evening Post back in November...and is soon to be a book. So do send me an email if you'd like to buy a copy when it's ready....and even if you don't, please do send me an email if you'd like your name in the thank you section :)
Thank you all, you were ace!
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The old New York Evening Post building at 20 Vesey Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City was completed in 1907. It was the headquarters of the Evening Post (today's New York Post) from 1907 to 1927. The building has housed other periodicals and a variety of other organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It also housed the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) during the 1980s. (Not surprisingly, it is both a designated NYC Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.) Today the building is still used for offices and houses the National 9/11 Memorial Preview Site.
The building faces the graveyard of St. Paul's Chapel, allowing for a full view of its facade from a publicly-accessible location, unusual for a Lower Manhattan side street.
In 1907, the building's architect R.D. Kohn wrote an article about the just completed building for Architects' and Builders' Magazine. The piece, "The New Evening Post Building," in the September 1907 issue, included Kohn's description of the statues shown in this 2015 photo.
"At the level of the ninth story are four heroic-sized statues in limestone, typifying in a way the "four periods of publicity." The first, "By spoken word," is represented by a male figure leaning forward listening; the second, "By written text," is typified by a monk; the third, "By printed text," appears as a printer of the period of Guttenberg, while the fourth, "Indicative of potentialities of the newspaper," shows an editor in modern garb. Two of the figures were executed by Gutzon Borglum and two by Estelle Rumbold Rohn."
For more information on this and other sites related to New York City newspaper history, please see my article "The Ghosts of Newspapers Past: 15 Former Locations of NYC Newspaper Headquarters" on Untapped Cities at:
untappedcities.com/2015/12/14/the-ghosts-of-newspapers-pa...
WMATA DuPont Circle Station in NW Washington DC on Thursday morning, 8 December 2016 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Squirt YOUR PLACE OR MINE? Ad Poster
Read about the February 2016 removal of these ad posters from bus stops in South Wales at www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/disgusting-gay-dating-si...
Transit Advertising 2016 Project
We discovered a delightful new tearoom/ coffee shop/ gift shop very close to home today. It would have been rude not to photo this.
You can read about the shop here www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/moved-150-miles-fulfil-s...
Awful weather conditions today with people living near the coast being told to stay indoors, hence this (baaa-d.....very bad) composite which started off as a simple shot of the rain on my window.
These were the scenes of where I usually go on a Thursday and Friday
www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/pictures/Pictures-Storm-...
Nottingham City Transport, OmniDekka 716 turning from Canal Street into Greyfriar Gate, Nottingham in lunch hour traffic. I quite like this green as a modern day livery, even though it couldn't hold a candle to the old NCT colours.
06.9.10
My gorgeous and clever wife Susie, was recently selected from among thousands of entrants to take part in 'Cycle India' along with Fern Britten who hosts 'This Morning' on the UK's ITV television channel.
The picture above shows the article covering this event featured in our local paper, it's official - my wife is a Star!!
The Cycle India challenge requires participants to cycle 425km in 5 days across Rajasthan to raise sponsorship for the 'Women for Women' Charity.
Women for Women raises funds to improve the health of women and babies and is administered by the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Trust. Professor Winston is Chairman of Women for Women and the Trust.
Susie is trying to raise as much money as possible for this cause so any donations would be greatly appreciated and can be made online at Just Giving.
National Eisteddfod 2014
Is this a former mobile library? Further info please.
It was a sad day for lovers of the written word when Swansea's Dylan Thomas Bookshop closed its doors last year after more than 42 years of trading in the city.
The store had built up an international reputation for its stock, which included rare books, ones of Welsh interest, as well as those by and about the poet himself.
The business attracted discerning book lovers from across the globe, but in the digital age it faced increasing competition from the likes of Amazon, eBay, Kindles and smart phones.
But now the man behind the shop, antiquarian bookseller Jeff Towns, is once again getting his show on the road — this time literally.
Having bought a giant former mobile library, Jeff is launching Dylan's Mobile Bookstore, stacked with a selection of antiquarian and second-hand books, to become possibly the first business of its kind in the country.
It has up to 5,000 books on board to browse or buy, and Jeff will be touring the country — starting on Saturday at the inaugural Uplands Market, before heading to this year's National Eisteddfod.
And next year it has been booked to appear at the Laugharne Weekend, the Welsh Literature Festival at Dinefwr Castle, the National Eisteddfod in Llanelli, the Do Not Go Gentle festival in Swansea, and Welsh language book fairs in Bala and Aberystwyth.
Jeff, sometimes known as Jeff the Books, said: "Times have changed, and people have changed. So too have their habits, and the book business is no exception. It's a very different beast these days, but hopefully this will provide a lovely new opportunity for lovely people to buy lovely old books.
"We're going to take it to the people, charabanc style, to literary festivals, music festivals, art festivals, in fact anywhere that will have us.
"Places where like-minded folk can hop on the bus, hang out, listen to music and poetry and hopefully buy a few books."
It is not the first time Dylan's Bookstore brand has had to re-invent itself. He had a shop in Salubrious Passage, off Wind Street, but when the pubs and club moved in, the area changed and he moved on. He then had a shop with a cafe in the Dylan Thomas Centre but had to leave.
He added: "I tried to open in King Edward Road but finally realised people just aren't reading like they used to. Books can be bought online with such ease now, and you can't compete with the likes of Amazon."
The mobile store came about after Jeff brought the shutters down on his final bookstore and sold 30,000 of his remaining books to a fellow dealer in Hay-on-Wye. But he still had about 25,000 of his best books stored in a lock-up and needed to get rid of them.
Find out where you can get on the bus by following @thedylanthomasguy on Twitter.
Read more: www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Owner-closed-Swansea-boo...
WMATA Shaw Station in NW Washington DC on Thursday morning, 7 July 2016 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Squirt YOUR PLACE OR MINE? Ad Poster
Read about the February 2016 removal of these ad posters from bus stops in South Wales at www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/disgusting-gay-dating-si...
Transit Advertising 2016 Project
National Eisteddfod 2014.
Is this a former mobile library? Further info please.
It was a sad day for lovers of the written word when Swansea's Dylan Thomas Bookshop closed its doors last year after more than 42 years of trading in the city.
The store had built up an international reputation for its stock, which included rare books, ones of Welsh interest, as well as those by and about the poet himself.
The business attracted discerning book lovers from across the globe, but in the digital age it faced increasing competition from the likes of Amazon, eBay, Kindles and smart phones.
But now the man behind the shop, antiquarian bookseller Jeff Towns, is once again getting his show on the road — this time literally.
Having bought a giant former mobile library, Jeff is launching Dylan's Mobile Bookstore, stacked with a selection of antiquarian and second-hand books, to become possibly the first business of its kind in the country.
It has up to 5,000 books on board to browse or buy, and Jeff will be touring the country — starting on Saturday at the inaugural Uplands Market, before heading to this year's National Eisteddfod.
And next year it has been booked to appear at the Laugharne Weekend, the Welsh Literature Festival at Dinefwr Castle, the National Eisteddfod in Llanelli, the Do Not Go Gentle festival in Swansea, and Welsh language book fairs in Bala and Aberystwyth.
Jeff, sometimes known as Jeff the Books, said: "Times have changed, and people have changed. So too have their habits, and the book business is no exception. It's a very different beast these days, but hopefully this will provide a lovely new opportunity for lovely people to buy lovely old books.
"We're going to take it to the people, charabanc style, to literary festivals, music festivals, art festivals, in fact anywhere that will have us.
"Places where like-minded folk can hop on the bus, hang out, listen to music and poetry and hopefully buy a few books."
It is not the first time Dylan's Bookstore brand has had to re-invent itself. He had a shop in Salubrious Passage, off Wind Street, but when the pubs and club moved in, the area changed and he moved on. He then had a shop with a cafe in the Dylan Thomas Centre but had to leave.
He added: "I tried to open in King Edward Road but finally realised people just aren't reading like they used to. Books can be bought online with such ease now, and you can't compete with the likes of Amazon."
The mobile store came about after Jeff brought the shutters down on his final bookstore and sold 30,000 of his remaining books to a fellow dealer in Hay-on-Wye. But he still had about 25,000 of his best books stored in a lock-up and needed to get rid of them.
Find out where you can get on the bus by following @thedylanthomasguy on Twitter.
Read more: www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Owner-closed-Swansea-boo...
Read more at www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Owner-closed-Swansea-boo...
The 13-story former limestone faced home of the Evening Post, from 1907 to 1926, this is a rare example of Art Noveau and Vienna Secession (a 20th century European artistic reform movement) architecture, designed by Robert D. Kohn. The bronze finished cast-iron spandrels are decorated with colophons of well known 16th- and 17th-century printers, and the statues on the ninth floor represent "The Four Periods of Publicity"—the Spoken Word, the Written Word, and the Newspaper, by Gutzon Borglum (of Mount Rushmore fame) and Estelle Rumbold Kohn.
The New York Evening Post Building was designated a landmark by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1965.
National Register #77000963 (1977)
Ricmond House, a striking Art deco style building that stands at the junction of Canal Street and Greyfriar Gate in Nottingham City Centre. Knowing nothing of its history, I presume that it was originally built as a shops/ offices, or a department store?
Thursday, 25th June 2009.
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WMATA DuPont Circle Station in NW Washington DC on Thursday morning, 8 December 2016 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Squirt YOUR PLACE OR MINE? Ad Poster
Read about the February 2016 removal of these ad posters from bus stops in South Wales at www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/disgusting-gay-dating-si...
Transit Advertising 2016 Project
The 13-story former limestone faced home of the Evening Post, from 1907 to 1926, this is a rare example of Art Noveau and Vienna Secession (a 20th century European artistic reform movement) architecture, designed by Robert D. Kohn. The bronze finished cast-iron spandrels are decorated with colophons of well known 16th- and 17th-century printers, and the statues on the ninth floor (panoramic tight shot) represent "The Four Periods of Publicity"—the Spoken Word, the Written Word, and the Newspaper, by Gutzon Borglum (of Mount Rushmore fame) and Estelle Rumbold Kohn.
The New York Evening Post Building was designated a landmark by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1965.
National Register #77000963 (1977)
Office of the Goulburn Evening Penny Post newspaper circa 1900. Text on the rear of the photograph reads "Jack Daniel who owned before Sheen"
My Paternal Great Grandfather Frederick John Chapple (1884-1965).
Started playing football at school and it was from Bristol School’s Fred crossed the Bristol channel to South Wales to play for Ebbw Vale.
It was from Ebbw Vale in the 1905-6 season Fred turned professional playing for Treharris.
Treharris later sold him to Aston Villa, with whom he played for, for nearly three seasons.
From Villa Fred was signed to Birmingham City.
He was at Birmingham for two seasons and made over 50 first team appearances.
Fred’s next move was to Crewe Alexandra. He played for Crewe against Bristol City at Ashton gate on January 14th 1911, when they knocked Bristol City out of the F.A Cup. Crewe won, 3-0 and Fred scored twice.
He then went to play for Brentford where he was top scorer for the season he was there with 30 goals.
Fred then returned to his home town, to play for Bristol City (whom he had helped knock out of the F.A Cup two seasons earlier.
He played at Bristol City for two seasons and in the second season he was their second highest scorer with nine goals.
Dad has a scrapbook full of pictures and newspaper clippings about my Great Grandfather that was put and glued together by my Grandfather Leslie.
The 13-story former limestone faced home of the Evening Post, from 1907 to 1926, this is a rare example of Art Noveau and Vienna Secession (a 20th century European artistic reform movement) architecture, designed by Robert D. Kohn. The bronze finished cast-iron spandrels are decorated with colophons of well known 16th- and 17th-century printers, and the statues on the ninth floor represent "The Four Periods of Publicity"—the Spoken Word, the Written Word, and the Newspaper, by Gutzon Borglum (of Mount Rushmore fame) and Estelle Rumbold Kohn.
The New York Evening Post Building was designated a landmark by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1965.
National Register #77000963 (1977)
Annual Christmas concert, I'm not that sure about the year, I think it was 2002. The year after, I'd joined steel pans and we played at the next concert and when the concert was finished, we were out the back packing everything into the van and this really old man came up to me and said in a really wheezy, pausy way "You're my favourite".