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Nick J. Brown

@northernmailman

Writer of To Rise in the Dark (2024) and Hunter (2025) “He speaks in your voice, Salfordian, and there’s a pie in his hand bought half-price from the Co-op.”

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Hulmes Ferry A free ferry service has run between these two English villages since 1885.

Free passage across the ship canal!
www.atlasobscura.com/places/hulme...

07.03.2026 22:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The mate I got if off is always on the road as well. Probably why he had a stack of these.

07.03.2026 20:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I almost had scampi in the pub! What’re the chances!

07.03.2026 20:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A tribute to Lancaster services over the years.

A tribute to Lancaster services over the years.

It’s not every day you return home from the pub with a tribute to Forton services.

07.03.2026 20:48 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Relatable

07.03.2026 20:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My second proudest moment of the day

07.03.2026 20:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can only hope they too weren’t cut off from a branch of Greggs.

07.03.2026 20:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This post on Instagram has just been liked by ex Magazine and Bad Seed member Barry Adamson, just so you know how high quality this content is….

07.03.2026 20:18 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I feel it important I point out there’s a Greggs just over that side of the river.

07.03.2026 20:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A sign for Hulmes Ferry

A sign for Hulmes Ferry

Another sign for Hulmes Ferry

Another sign for Hulmes Ferry

Yet another sign for Hulmes Ferry

Yet another sign for Hulmes Ferry

No sign of Hulmes Ferry

No sign of Hulmes Ferry

You wait for one Hulmes Ferry in Salford and frankly sod all happens…

07.03.2026 19:39 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1

Still have a version of this on my shelf. Started it and got distracted. Keep meaning to go back to it, then watch the mad Fassbinder epilogue.

07.03.2026 10:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lucky you! I wish I'd made the effort as it's nowhere to be found now.

07.03.2026 10:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So did I! Keep meaning to watch the documentary as well but lose track of what it’s on.

07.03.2026 10:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Alternative rock: on Fugazi's surprise official release of the 'Albini Sessions' version of In On The Kill Taker silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/03/alte...

07.03.2026 10:04 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I’ll be downloading this today. Still got the 33 1/3 book on my shelf to read.

07.03.2026 10:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The mother of the Australian cricketing brothers also, I believe.

07.03.2026 09:44 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Rik off The Young Ones with a pen and notebook.

Rik off The Young Ones with a pen and notebook.

“Well then, I shall write to the lead singer of Echo & the Bunnymen.”
#RikMayall

09.06.2025 10:08 👍 78 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 0
Noel Edmonds says “dimesmeric
andersonphosphate"

Noel Edmonds says “dimesmeric andersonphosphate"

06.03.2026 21:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Too much bassoon.

06.03.2026 20:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thought for a moment they’d turned the Press Club into a sex dungeon.

06.03.2026 18:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For those in a hurry

06.03.2026 18:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
06.03.2026 18:33 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Carwash Fox & the Moscow Mausoleum Mystery!

06.03.2026 18:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m guessing it might lack both comedy and entertainment.

06.03.2026 18:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tell him that you met Lenin!

06.03.2026 18:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This looks and sounds like the start of a DON’T DO DRUGS public information film from about twenty years ago.

06.03.2026 18:15 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

No surprises! 10p short! When they did the afternoons the end of their show was my cue to leave for work.

06.03.2026 18:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Loachness with the mostness?!?!

06.03.2026 18:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a man is standing in front of a darth vader mask ALT: a man is standing in front of a darth vader mask

In the Grand Moff Tarkin of things…

06.03.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Stop literally everything.

Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.

fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

06.03.2026 14:56 👍 1363 🔁 501 💬 34 📌 135