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Ford at Market

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:25:33 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

This is a market trader's Granada, and I love the colour of it as well as the shape of this and other Granadas. I was on a day of photo taking, and this was too good to pass up, even though I was feeling particularly shy that day.

Litter (Southport, Lancashire, UK)

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:19:09 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

Don't drop litter.

Tower Staircase

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:14:36 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

Narrow spiral stairs in a tower of Barnard Castle. Probably much darker originally when the castle was intact.

Room with a View

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:16:18 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

Looking out to the valley surrounding Barnard Castle. I wonder how the view felt to those seeing it in the 12th century.

Castle Remains

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:18:38 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

Barnard Castle just before the site closed for the day. The rain came and went with the wind and the sun, a little cycle of weather changes in the space of fifty hurried minutes of exploring the site.

Tower Staircase in Warm Sunlight

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:12:53 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

The sun was phasing in for this one but the wind also finely sprayed rain in through the stone windows.

Fun in the Snow, Avenham Park, Preston. Panoramic

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:16:08 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

Preston Docks Froze Over

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Sun, 09 May 2010 16:18:03 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

Preston Docks, Lancashire. January 2010.

Island Building Decay

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:53:08 -0800

fearthecat posted a photo:

One of the derelict buildings on Ellis Island in New York / New Jersey. What you see as a tourist in the museum is only a small portion of the island's character and history. Unfortunately buildings such as this would never be available for exploration.

Wine Glass Amongst the Flower Gardens

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:52:17 -0800

fearthecat posted a photo:

Ellis Island, New York / New Jersey. I spotted this wine glass by the flowers and liked its curvature with the large curving leaves behind. Not a 'perfect' photograph but it does make me wonder where the glass came from.

Slurpee. Too Cool.

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:14:45 -0800

fearthecat posted a photo:

Many a Slurpee was had from the 7-11 on the corner of Mojave and Charleston. Hot days and cold nights.

Now-a-days looking at this photograph reminds me of a comment it sparked from Kt. Back when I was on f***book. So this photo makes me think of her even more than it makes me think of Las Vegas.

To Nailsea

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:47:47 -0800

fearthecat posted a photo:

I passed this traditional sign post many times over the years. I always adored those created in cast iron, metal, or natural wood. I am also very fond of this style of sign post (though it probably has a name, and a definition, I just say "it's pretty").

The thin lines in the upper right are telephone cables. Whether they look right in the image or not, I don't know. I can't even remember my thoughts on this picture at the time of taking it.

I'll never pass this sign post again.

Dad's Mini van. January '85

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:45:26 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

My father took this photo of his L-reg Mini Van in the winter of 84/85, when I was less than a year old. It will forever be one of my favourite pictures, although the damage on the actual photograph happened during my care.

Revealing a few pieces of my childhood / my life / me: The right-hand driveway post with its missing concrete top was often used by people for their litter, much to our disapproval. The door frame you can see is... was... our back door, leading to the kitchen with bright red venetian blinds that I miss seeing the sun beam through. Glass milk bottles with thin foil caps used to be delivered regularly on that doorstep. Once I dropped one of them on the kitchen floor; it smashed with ease. The out-building was a 'wash house'. There was a toilet and sink in there perhaps before from the house was fitted with such things. The rest of that building housed a great amount of my father's old possessions and left-overs from his hardware and video businesses. The fence behind the Mini van was a sky-blue colour. The pieces were tall but thin and I remember the wood being very crumbly when it decayed. There was a uniquely shaped Elderberry tree hidden by the 'wash house' which was my tree house and where I lost a spare key to the Morris Marina and probably a few Matchbox cars. There were a few lost in the loose gravel guttering between buildings and paving flags, like a metallic green VW Beetle with 'monster truck wheels', as well as countless things lost in the front and back gardens over the course of my childhood. I still have a scar on my knee from falling on the driveway when I was very young. My dad had a Yugo at the time. I remember him patching me up in our dining room with it's old dark wood oddments of furniture and his dark grey Amstrad computer. Maybe he'd just upgraded to that Windows 3.1 thing that turned beige so fast from my parent's smoking... The memories are fragmented. I'm baring all this to you strangers because even if the house remains, even if the driveway post is still missing it's top... everything that I knew and grew up around is gone. The person I would have shared all these private memories with is also gone. Guess I want some memory of me to stay behind.

Nailsea Field

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:07:13 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

Summer rain, and haze on the horizon. I have walked through a tree covered path many times, and wondered why this came to be here and overturned.

Royal Oak Garage

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:21:42 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

Love urban decay

Harris Library & Museum, Preston

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:24:35 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

Silly Signs: Free Funhouse Inside Cigarettes

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:19:46 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

The wording itself is funny, but then consider that your two primary reasons for entering should be "funhouse" and "cigarettes". Sadly, stepping into this place, the smell of cigarettes was all around, not just in the miserable cafe. I had visited this place with my family, many times as a child, and it was never particularly brilliant, but the rest of Southport was always good, and it was being with my family, out somewhere, that was the best.

Tyre Path on Sand (Southport, Lancashire, UK)

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:19:23 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

Edited on computer, not completely happy with it but if I didn't put it on Flickr, it'd probably never see 'the light of day'.

Rust Factory

nobody@flickr.com (fearthecat) — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 07:25:17 -0700

fearthecat posted a photo:

I thought the rust on the giant gas cylinders and just the whole setting really suited the car. One of my favourite shots of this Capri.

Location, gas cylinders and historic tank-building factories, all destroyed by business / retail park development and supermarkets.