Yes it is! Wigan in north west England between Liverpool and Manchester. And it has a pier although there's not much left of it, it just went onto the canal not the sea. It was used for loading coal onto canal boats in the years around 1800. I haven't read that book of Orwell's though.
A ladder stile for leaving a footpath level crossing, with ivy growing up it.
A Northern train just passing a broken old metal sign which says Eware of the Ains.
Two bare crop fields side by side with no boundary other than a green path. A tree in the distance marks where the next, invisible path branches off. Blue sky fills the top half of the photo.
An old mill converted into apartments, with a tall chimney up the middle of the photo. In the foreground is a bare silver birch tree. Everything is beautifully lit by the sun, and the sky is deep blue.
Some more pictures from @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route Southport to Burscough. It was a glorious day, full of big open blue skies, in the flatlands of west #Lancashire.
Former railway building at a level crossing on the way out of Southport. Red brick and red paintwork.
A wooden footbridge over a small river in an urban park. The shadows of the wooden fence make a nice pattern on the path.
Two wooden posts, maybe weatherworn telegraph poles cut shorter) with cheery faces painted on them and stick sticking out for noses.
A thatched cottage with sunlight highlighting the thatch.
Some pictures from @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route Southport to Burscough #Lancashire. It was such a glorious day that I didn't get grumpy about the long main road section!
Electricy North West van parked fully in a dedicated cycle lane. With a raised kerb between the cycle lane and the main carriageway of the road. Next to a speed camera.
Of course it's okay for utility vehicles to park badly. NOT!
#BadlyParked #BadParking #CrapParking Everyone else was at further up too 🤨
View from the bridge end of the platform looking along the railway line through the tunnel under the main road. The sun is shining into the far end, lighting up the curved bridge supports.
The sunlit view from #Wigan Wallgate Station. On my way to walk @hikinghistorian.bsky.social 's @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from Southport to Burscough the other day.
Henry Gibson regular featured on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, a US comedy show from 1968-73. Although I don't think the trailer meant him.
About a hundred little, fairly pointed shaped mushrooms, packed closely together on a fallen log, which is also covered with moss. Perhaps 2cm high.
A lovely little collection for #FungiFriday. I didn't realise they could still be pristine in March. Please don't ask me what they are, though, I'm not very knowledgeable about #Fungi or #Mushrooms.
Thanks!
Scary stuff!
"We therefore stand firmly against both projects, as they not only threaten our profession as astronomers, but also pose a grave and irreversible risk to dark skies, biodiversity, and human health."
Worth a read, not too long.
A sign for Weavers Fields, a small park. The support for the sign is three vertical posts an three horizontal bars, woven together in a pleasing sculpture.
Not exactly a #FingerpostFriday, but close. From Spitalfields #London, the area where weavers lived.
In the middle of a bright and busy shopping arcade, with pastel bunting hanging from the ceiling, is a slim black and white post saying Cardinal Place, in vertical lettering. The black fingers point to Westminster Cathedral, Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and Victoria Station.
#FingerpostFriday from the Westminster area of #London.
Image showing 5 iPhones each with a screen from Star Hordes on it. On the 1st screen it shows the logo and three buttons to start a new game, high scores and instructions. The 2nd shows a number of small starships flying towards the players green ship in the centre. The 3rd screen is similar but with a reddish purple galactic background and more asteroids. The 4th screen has a green planet and lots of ships against a hazy nebulous background and the final screen shows the weapon upgrade screen with a number of weapons in glorious retro green screen.
Just a quick note to say Star Hordes is free at the moment. Galactic carnage has never been so cheap 👾
apps.apple.com/gb/app/star-...
#indiegame #gamedev #retrogaming
A sizeable, but dead tree stump with quite a substantial vertical split down it. Maybe a victim of a lightning strike. Surrounded by a wooden fence, green grass, blue sky with fluffy white clouds.
#ThickTrunkThursday from Richmond Park, #London, from a new version of @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route Richmond to Putney which uses more parkland.
A grey door with a grey painted stone surround.
Another grey door with a larger grey painted stone surround and porch. Five sash windows surround it, the ground floor ones having shutters.
The side by side doors of two terraced houses, number 11 and number eleven and a half!
A grand black panelled door with a Liverpool Street sign on the wall. There's a round window above it. There's a sign on the wall beside it saying Site of the first Bethlehem Hospital 1247-1676.
#ADoorableThursday from Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Liverpool Street, #London @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route Bethnal Green to Liverpool Street Station.
A pattern of black and white tiles on the pavement, mostly like a chess board, but some of the tiles have been laid out wrong so that the pattern is broken.
Another pattern of black and white tiles on the pavement around the corner, mostly like a chess board, but some of the tiles have been laid out wrong so that the pattern is broken.
Ugh, this is horrible!
How can people do this?
#TilesOnTuesday
Excellent photos. Interestingly the moon is also green-rimmed. Do you think it could be chromatic aberration?
I have just sent the following email to my Labour MP, Jeff Smith. Text is in Alt - feel free to use/adapt it. But whatever the case, write to your MP!
The rhododendrons have taken over. As they tend to do.
@philsturgeon.com
Ground floor is red painted Bar and Restaurant on Crispin Street. At the top of the second floor on the brick wall are the remains of a painted sign saying Nut Importers & Roasters.
An old green painted shop front saying Verde & Company Ltd, fruit importers.
A couple of old shop fronts in the Brick Lane Spitalfields area of #London from @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route Bethnal Green to Liverpool Street Station.
@kathrynmorrison.bsky.social
#GhostSigns @royreed.bsky.social
The thick trunk of a tree is taking up 60%of the pavement width, leaving about 70cm gap between it and the wall.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
blocking the pavement in Paddington #London making access difficult for many. Not sure how I'd suggest dealing with this.
One end of the Maida Hill Tunnel, which has no towpath, so we are looking down to the canal from the pavement above the side of it. Above the portal there is a restaurant, with a lovely view!
The other end of the Maida Hill Tunnel, which has no towpath, so we are looking down to the canal from the pavement high above the canal. There is a towpath visible below us which ends abruptly at the tunnel portal, but access to this has now been blocked.
Looking along the towpath as we walk beneath some flat bridges. It's fairly dark, but that makes for some dramatic reflections.
Looking back along the towpath as we walk along it, to view some benches and an ornate pedestrian bridge which crosses above the canal, to London Zoo.
Another new #UKCanals version of a @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route, walked with @rehctubynotna.bsky.social , this time from Paddington to Camden along the Regents Canal, through the zoo!
The Daily Mail has said it obtained "internal documents" revealing the Green Party's migration policy.
As a long-term Green Party activist, I'm very familiar with the actual policy. And what the Mail describes and what the document says are two very different things.
A thread 🧵
DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...
Old towrope grooves in the metal corner of a bridge.
Part of the side of a canal boat turned into a bar at Paddington. The boat is painted with colourful dazzle patterns.
View underneath a metal road bridge. Riveted underside of the bridge fills the top of the picture, paved towpath below. In between is a window of canal with lovely dappled reflections showing a blue sky, and a roofed but open pub garden. Several boats are moored further along the towpath.
#UKCanals scenes from a new version of @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route Westbourne Park to Paddington Station #London, walked with @rehctubynotna.bsky.social. Grand Union Canal rather than roads 😁.
A shrub, possibly wisteria, trained along the top on iron railings, woven in and out of each upright. Rather lovely in the sun. Imagine it full of purple flowers too! #Gardening
London Eye from Westminster Bridge with a fine old 3-light lamppost in the foreground looking the same size. Also County Hall is in the background.
Statue of David Lloyd George with flying coat tails. Further away is a statue of Winston Churchill (a few days before it got paint daubed on it). Beyond that is Big Ben, and in the very far distance is The Shard. The pavement is wet and the statues, some pedestrians and Big Ben are reflected.
A view from the side along Westminster Bridge to Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament.
#Westminster views from @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route Waterloo to Victoria. #London #BigBen
Photo of trees surrounded by mist with the sun behind. Beams of sunlight shine through gaps
Misty morning photo from a walk a while back near Widnes.
#silentsunday #photography #nature #landscape
Inside the booking hall of Richmond Station. Square lampshades, Crittall windows, sleek straight lines, but curved glass at the sides of the doors.
Outside Richmond Station. Flat porch canopy with curved corners, flagpoles and supports in a sweeping style, blocky lettering.
A ghastly boarded up shop front with giant wheelie bins in front of it. But the the floors above are beautiful, in an Arts and Crafts style, I think. Next door is an M&S with Art Deco upper floors.
An ornate lamppost on Putney Bridge.
Tried out a new @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from Richmond to Putney #London. Pictures of the two ends but in between was lots of Richmond Park and Putney Heath and not very much road. #ArtDeco #Railway #Architecture
Looking along a line of small trees, face on to the big wheel. It's a very grey damp day and there's not much colour in the scene.
Looking along a line of small trees, face on to the big wheel. It's a dark night and the moon is visible near the centre. The wheel rim and supports are lit up in blue, and the line of trees have golden fairy lights in them.
The same view of the #London Eye, day and night, from my recent visit to the city. Quite a contrast!
With the Gorton and Denton win, our opponents have been working overtime to misrepresent Green Party drugs policy. Heroin in corner shops? Crack for kids?
Let's clear this up. 🧵
