Littleborough, Drawing

Drawing of houses in Littleborough

Dublin, Paddy Cullens

http://www.dublinpubs.ie/pub.asp?id=525


I spent many an evening in this pub with good friends that these days have mostly moved away to different parts of the globe as the Celtic Tiger takes a cat knap in this economic climate.
I was in Paddy Cullens on New Years Eve 2008, good atmosphere, good band, good beer and the ghosts of a thousand memories.

Dublin, Temple Bar

http://www.thetemplebarpubdublin.com/

I lived in Dublin for three years from spring 2000, so it was nice to come back here and catch up with a few old mates from the Bank of Ireland over a pint or two in Mulligans. So this should be a picture of Mulligans…

It isn’t. It’s The Temple Bar. If you get to Dublin, this pub is a must to visit. It’s big inside, lots of interconnected rooms. Some with Irish bands thrashing away, others quieter. You can easily get lost in here. If you do, the best tactic is to go outside and come back in through the door you first came in and retrace your steps (according to my girlfriend who went missing for 15 mins).

Dublin, The Porterhouse

http://www.porterhousebrewco.com

Another of my favourite places of worship, The Porterhouse in Temple Bar, Dublin centre.
They have their own micro-brewery on site. I’m not a beer connoisseur, so all the beers they brew are lost on me. I just drink lager. Still, their in house brewed lager was mighty fine.

Dublin, Christ Church Cathedral

Dublin, Christ Church Cathedral

Christ Church Cathedral

Dublin, Christ Church Cathedral

Christ Church Cathedral

Dublin, church

Dublin, small house

House close to Dublin centre

Dublin, Phoenix park

I have some clever software to alter pictures. But no matter what I did to this one I couldn’t improve it. I wanted more colour, but it just looked wrong, so here it is, in the raw.
Oh, it’s a picture taken in Phoenix park in Dublin, showing the monument dedicated to the Duke of Wellington, an Irishman, and twice the British prime minister. (I though he was English, but no). Phoenix park is the biggest city centre park in the world. Even bigger than Central Park, New York. Well, the tourist bus said so.

Dublin, Guinness brewery

Dublin, Guinness brewery

Buildings around the Guinness brewery

Dublin, tall houses

Dublin, St. Stephens Green

Posh houses around St. Stephens Green

Dublin, Molly Malone

Molly Malone on Nassau Street, known with typical Irish humour as ‘The Tart with the Cart’.
Statue by Jean Rynhart

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In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone
She wheeled a wheel-barrow through streets broad and narrow
Crying 'Cockles and Mussels a-live, a-live, oh'

A-live, a-live, oh, a-live, a-live, oh
Crying 'Cockles and Mussels a-live, a-live, oh'

She was a fishmonger, but sure 'twas no wonder
For so were her father and mother before.
They both wheeled a barrow through streets broad and narrow
Crying 'Cockles and Mussels a-live, a-live, oh'

She died of a fever, and no one could save her
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone.
Now her ghost wheels her barrow through streets broad and narrow
Crying 'Cockles and Mussels a-live, a-live, oh'

Dublin, Grafton Street

Just off Grafton Street

Ireland, Dublin, Grafton Street

Grafton Street, Dublin’s main shopping area

Ireland, Dublin, Shelbourne Road

Typical row of houses, with the pub at the end.

Holyhead, ferry

Looking back at Anglesey as the ferry leaves Holyhead on it's way to Ireland

Holyhead, ferry

Ferry out of Holyhead, destination, Dublin.

Manchester, Old Trafford

Crowd builds up before kick off at Old Trafford
Man Utd 1:0 Middlesbrough

Clocks

Clocks, made from driftwood

Manchester, Cross Street

Manchester, Albert Square

Christmas Market in Albert Square

Manchester, Christmas Market

Christmas Market

Manchester, Christmas Market

Christmas Market

Manchester, Christmas Market

Christmas Market

Manchester, Christmas Market

Christmas Market

Halifax, pool

Game of pool in a pub in Halifax. I lost!

Halifax, Piece Hall

Piece Hall, Halifax

Halifax, Piece Hall

Gates leading into The Piece Hall where there are many quaint shops selling jigsaws, toys and ornaments.

Halifax

Littleborough station

Littleborough train station.

One train heading west towards Manchester and the other heading east towards Halifax.

That’s the one I’ll be getting.

Littleborough, Royal Oak

Littleborough, shops

Shops in Littleborough centre.
The sign saying Heeley’s is actually on straight. It’s the buildings that are slanting.

Huddersfield, Fireworks

Fireworks to close the parade

Huddersfield, Spanish parade

Huddersfield, Spanish parade

Huddersfield, rat

Spanish parade.
Is that a rat on his shoulder?

Huddersfield, Spanish parade

Spanish parade through Huddersfield centre

Huddersfield, cold

Chilly evening in Huddersfield

Stalybridge station, clocks

Very cold evening waiting for the train on Stalybridge station

Stalybridge station

Grotton Brickworks

These are what’s left of the original coal fired kilns in Grotton in Saddleworth, before there was a civilized housing estate built just to the side.

These kilns were used to fire clay pots and bricks. When I was a child and lived in Grotton. I would occasionally sneak into the Brickworks to see what went on. The kilns then were domed, like an igloo. And though the doors into the kilns could be seen shimmering heat and glowing orange pots and bricks being fired. It was a very scary place, like Dante’s inferno, I always imagined.

Grotton Brickworks

Here’s another one.

Grotton Brickworks

Can you tell what it is?

21st

Lucy 21.

21st

Snap from Lucy's 21st do this weekend.

Lauren, Jade and James.