Photo Thread.

[Soph]

My area doesn't care about historical preservation either.

They planned to install a tram line to go through Ealing which would have totally screwed up the roads

There used to be a "haunted" house near mine.  It was dark green, old, mouldy and decaying but then someone bought it and restored it

We also had the 1st Middlesex County Asylum 

Asylums are cool

[Parts]

I saw a show with them re thatching a roof in the UK and they talked a lot about all the historical laws they have.  Well maybe it's like here where there are districts where they enforce these things

[zaftig]

This is th maternity ward at that hospital in 1929
The hospital already existed before it because the first NHS hospital, I think it was first opened in 1926, but I can't remember actually

I'm not sure
It's a really long road so I dunno which part of the road it was on - I think that might ave been further up the other end that the one my school is on. The hospital is on that road as well. Iw as born in that hospital. It's called Trafford general now but when Iw as born there it was called park Hospital, it was the first NHS hospital to open in England, in 1948. If I'd been a month later been born a month and a day later, it would have been exactly 40 years after

I remember from your profile how you said you were born in the first NHS hospital

Are any of the houses you found (like that cottage) still there? 

[zaftig]

More interesting places in my area 



This is the Central London District School, built in 1856 to educate and house poor children.  Charlie Chaplin went there 

Plus it was used for the film Billy Elliot

[Soph]

I remember from your profile how you said you were born in the first NHS hospital

I put it in there?   
lol I've probably told you several times as well, I tend to tell everyone about that, then I forget I told them so I tell them again, when really I don't think anybody gives a shit 

This is a pub called the Nags Head just down the road
It's at a roundabout with a war memorial in the middle
It got bombed as well
Just further down the road is now a McDonalds, a KFC, a Pizza Hut and a Blockbusters



That's from circa 1870
There's also a Spar nearby and an Italian restaurant just nextdoor

This is the war memorial at the cirlce:



and this is where it got bombed:

[Soph]

This is the place more recently:
You can see the Italian restaurant at the back:

If you carry on that way you get to the motorway and the Trafford Centre

[Soph]

More interesting places in my area 



This is the Central London District School, built in 1856 to educate and house poor children.  Charlie Chaplin went there 

Plus it was used for the film Billy Elliot

I remember watching Bill Elliot lol
I have pictures of workhouses from round here as well, not sure where they are though, I have lots of pictures 

[Soph]

I saw a show with them re thatching a roof in the UK and they talked a lot about all the historical laws they have.  Well maybe it's like here where there are districts where they enforce these things

I think we have a lot of laws about it here, just not enough

They should tear down all the monstrosities they built in the 70s, not the old ones

[Soph]

I hate buildings from the 70s
I hate everything from the 70s actually
I get horrible feelings from it, apaprently it is my AS

[Christopher McCandless]

I saw a show with them re thatching a roof in the UK and they talked a lot about all the historical laws they have.  Well maybe it's like here where there are districts where they enforce these things

I think we have a lot of laws about it here, just not enough

They should tear down all the monstrosities they built in the 70s, not the old ones

Some of those laws would not stand up because of implied repeal...

[Parts]

I hate buildings from the 70s
I hate everything from the 70s actually
I get horrible feelings from it, apaprently it is my AS

Good thing I'm from the 60's

[zaftig]

We have a clock tower that looks slightly similar to that war memorial:

I put it in there?   
lol I've probably told you several times as well, I tend to tell everyone about that, then I forget I told them so I tell them again, when really I don't think anybody gives a shit 

Yep, you did But I found it interesting

Vincent Van Gogh stayed in a house just opposite to where my secondary school is now, I found that so cool when I did art lol. That was in 1876.  I always wanted to see who lives there now but thought that person would find me too weird 



If you look up, around the middle, there is Twickenham Road.

[Soph]

Lots of cool people have stayed in Manchester as well
Engels lived near my university at one point when he was here
And Elizabeth Gaskell had a house just round  the corner from my building there



You can see the church labeled in this map as well:
That's All Saints Church
Further south down oxford road is my university



I have three original 19th century maps of manchester with that church labeled on them

I have one of them on my wall

I also have copies of the ordnance survey maps of urmston and davyhulme and trafford park

[GalileoAce]

Here's some really big random photos that I've taken.



A building in Perth








shining a laser at the lens


if I were a girl I'd so wear that

[zaftig]

What year was your university built in?

I want an old map of Ealing.  Don't know where I can get my hands on one though.

We have Ealing Studios, they were and still are the film studio in Britain.  Their "Ealing comedies" are especially famous For example, Passport to Pimlico was created after the Second World War when England felt they were losing their identity and trying to rebuild their country and lives after the war.



Circa 1939.