in praise of ordinary things (a thread about streets and buildings)

[colly]

Speaking of Mill chimneys' ( which we weren't)

I used to visit Lister's Mills in Manningham Bradford. Long after it's heyday but when it was still a working mill.
The mill chimney there was nicknamed ''Lister's Pride'' after Samuel Lister who built the place. I think among the mill owners having a 'big chimney' was important. It stood 285 feet tall and took 10,500 tons of stone to complete. Mind you it needed to be big. At it's peak Manningham Mills had 27 acres of weaving sheds working flat out and the steam boilers that used to power the mill took 1000 tons of coal a week to keep going.

 

[Kiwiavenger]

Here is one that I like that is tucked up a narrow street making it hard to get a full view, and I suspect many pass it by without noticing it:
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http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.455...rqoDy9MwS6ux4zrD8RMsZA&cbp=12,322.12,,0,-4.34

my wife works in that building! theres a lovely building entrance opposite it made out of glass, will try and get a snap in a day or so

 

[Piemaster]

link
Building on the left was a pub, closed in 2003.
Building on the right was a picture house, closed by the Luftwaffe when it was bombed during the blitz.
Bit more info and some pictures of both in their prime here

 

[summerdays]

my wife works in that building! theres a lovely building entrance opposite it made out of glass, will try and get a snap in a day or so

What a lovely building to work in! Of course it may not be so practical on the inside in a modern world. Out of interest do you know if the style carried on inside the building? I have no idea what is on the other side of the road as I always look to that side if I'm going along there.

 

[Globalti]

Many of those old Victorian warehouses can't be knocked down because they are so massively built - a figure of seven tons per square metre capacity comes to mind but that might be wrong. It is cheaper to turn them into apartments than knock them down, though thanks to the od layout and small windows they don't always make brilliant apartments.

Bad apartments: The Place Aparthotel, Manchester; gloomy and built around a central atrium, that makes neighbour noise a big problem.

Good apartments: Brooksbottoms Mill, Summerseat near Bury, now The Spinnings:

Excellent soundproofing and rooms so tall every apartment has a mezzanine.

Mind you... the first was a warehouse while the second was a mill, so there's the answer I guess. A mill would have needed good light.

 

[srw]

The talk of mill chimneys reminds me of this:

And, riffing on the theme of water towers:

And on the theme of buildings-which-remind-you-you're nearly home:

A major landmark on the A34; also visible as part of the coup de theatre that is the Oxfordshire plain revealed from the M40 travelling north.

 

[MontyVeda]

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And on the theme of buildings-which-remind-you-you're nearly home:

This one...

possibly the best looking service station in the UK.

Great thread BTW.

 

[RedRider]

This concrete submarine emerges every day from the cobbled surf of a central reservation between Camberwell and Brixton.

At night it submerges and patrols the depths of South London.

Powered from within by vast boilers which also heat two nearby estates.

It's conning towers double up as vents.

 

[Night Train]

Church Langley Water Tower.
http://www.m11watertower.org.uk/

I'd love to convert it to live in. Imagine the roof garden you could have!

 

[slowmotion]

Can anybody tell me how to make a jpeg file smaller so that the CC server will accept a piccy? How small does it have to be, BTW. Thanks.

 

[RedRider]

Viking kings live in Southwark (but their dogs are not allowed).

 

[ColinJ]

Can anybody tell me how to make a jpeg file smaller so that the CC server will accept a piccy? How small does it have to be, BTW. Thanks.

You can shrink pictures online at ShrinkPictures.com. The picture can be 1MB in size but please make them smaller than that! If you shrink them down to a maximum of (say) 1024 x 768 pixels then they will load much more quickly and won't need to be scrolled (much) by most people when expanded to full size.

 

[dellzeqq]

Many of those old Victorian warehouses can't be knocked down because they are so massively built - a figure of seven tons per square metre capacity comes to mind but that might be wrong. It is cheaper to turn them into apartments than knock them down, though thanks to the od layout and small windows they don't always make brilliant apartments.

Bad apartments: The Place Aparthotel, Manchester; gloomy and built around a central atrium, that makes neighbour noise a big problem.

oh. shoot.

Move along, there....nothing to see!

 

[dellzeqq]

Can anybody tell me how to make a jpeg file smaller so that the CC server will accept a piccy? How small does it have to be, BTW. Thanks.

right click on it, open it with a picture editor (it's usually some Microsoft thing) and look for something to change the number of pixels

 

[slowmotion]

Thank-you Colin and DZ.
Lyric House, London W14 is just round the corner and I'm rather fond of it. It's fully detached and you can get a good view of it because it's opposite a side road. I have no idea when it was built.