Vanity Fair, Holme Lane, Hillsborough. I dream of her. Alt: A heavily faded shop front of green and dark wood with net curtains drawn. The sign reads ‘Vanity Fair’ in a very elegant font and will probably have been hand painted. It was a women’s hairdressers.
at the point in my cycle where I get sad about my favourite lost shop fronts
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Shop front for “dri-N-wash Ltd WASHETERIA” in lovely festive font with a sign out front that says “1/2 price dry cleaning here!”
It’s on the list! Slaithwaite Washeteria was a classic too
Slaithwaite, Town Hall, West Yorkshire. A stone built building adorned with the words TOWN HALL in slab italic lettering.
You might enjoy Slaithwaite Town Hall too.
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A cabinet displaying John Virgo’s snazzy harlequin waistcoat and bow tie at the World Snooker Championships 2026 ‘John Virgo 1946-2026 Snooker legend & iconic broadcaster’. 💔
I was not prepared to see JV’s harlequin waistcoat on display at the Crucible today
A modern industrial building with a large grey shutter, air vents on the wall and yellow window panes & bollards I have posted this one before but ff frankly I don’t give a damn
The other half of the building with a yellow letter sign for “F. F. Franklin & Co Ltd.” in an excellent bold italic font, underlined by 3 slim, yellow windows and to the right a yellow door. A good one for a font fan like me since it has both upper and lowercase, and some lesser spotted full stops :0 Neepsend, Sheffield
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F. F. Franklin & Co Ltd.
In the far north west of England, beer is flourishing. Who could have predicted that, like the felling of a tree, the fall of one brewery would create space for so many more?
@katiematherkm.bsky.social on Cumbria's thriving beer scene.
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Grey wall, lamppost with loading zone times & round sign says ‘G B H’ G.B. Housley - car spares and scrap yard
Large red scrap yard gates. A door has been cut out on the left side, it’s closed. Attercliffe
GBH
these feathered fiends who steal the soul from you and me
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The ramshackle, rusty fencing has taken a right battering in the recent storms and hangs treacherously across the footpath, with tangled barbed wire at chest & neck height. The photo appears still, but it was bowing and c r e a k i n g loudly, like nothing I’ve heard before. The lot with two ventilation chimneys next door, is occupied, presumably it falls to him to sort it all out.
The repurposing of doors on the lots I think is what first attracted me. I ♡ original features wherever they are, it turns out. This is an empty lot with sunlight shining through the glass of an old door. The rubbish strewn spare lots make a bit more sense now I’ve seen what can happen after a few weeks of strong wind. This one has fencing, containers: beer kegs, large plastic drums, spare doors. Probably left from the previous tenants, but all useful things for a fancier to have lying around nearby
The top of a repurposed house door, now the front door for this loft. Despite being torn from its hinges, the transom window is still attached and the floral patterned glass unbroken. Let a little light into your dingy northern terrace’s hallway.
A bright blue pigeon loft that, with a bit of sculpting, wouldn’t look entirely out of place in the Jardin Majorelle. It has a line of dove holes 1/3 the way up, and overgrown plants fill the space with spring shoots and a much older unused wooden loft falls into disrepair to the left. Very interested in the colour scheme choices on this one. Shirecliffe, Sheffield
Friends fear she’s been to the pigeon lofts again
A loosely painted picture of a young woman in a pale olive green jumper and brown skirt. She is standing in the corner of a domestic room with pale brown walls. There is a window with red curtains to the right of her, overlooking greenery. She is holding a black and white cat up to her cheek with her left hand beneath its chin so that is looking at us. In front of her there is a table covered with a white cloth on which stands crockery, a flask and a box of Kellogg’s cereal.
Breakfast cat (Mrs. Hollingsberry) by Ruskin Spear (British, 1911 – 1990)
Toei Takabashi apartments in Morishita, Tokyo. Built in 1958, they are now very run down. Power lines stretch out from the rusty blocks across the blue sky
I Dream of Wires
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Thank you :-) I love it’s measured enthusiasm. It was pretty commonplace across the UK & Ireland
Trying to collect them wherever I go for a mini photobook project, have become a little fixated, though I’m certainly not the first! Some are fairly well documented though, like this one
One image split down the middle, because I’m a bit allergic to landscape. This is one half. Not sure if this format will work on here but we try Half of a chip shop with white tiles and ochre/olive beams. The sign says “station road” in lovely red Festive font. Neon orange paper menus and offers stuck on the wall inside.
Same as before, but the other half of the building. You can see the food counters and a neon sign for open in the window and the back of a notice board with opening times. Following on from the other side the sign above says “fish & chips”. the gap between fish and and and and and chips is not equal Station Road Fish & Chips Hadfield (if the bypass construction is good for one thing, it’s forcing a detour through the villages this side of the peaks)
Chippy tea Friday #2
My favorite grain elevator in New Haven. Perfect it pattern. I love him.
Old Grain Elevator (b.1895)
New Haven, Macomb County Michigan
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Gorgeous noses that are impossible to ignore!
“My favourite grain elevator in New Haven … I love him.”
I have truly found my people on here :’) these are gorgeous by the way
Once again thinking about this being released in 1960.
nine ! teen ! six ! ty !
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Literally
A path leads to the forgotten slopes of an old dry Ski Village. You can see the patchwork old ski jump and the red floodlights dotted up the hill. Slowly being taken over by buddleia and other young shrubs. At the foot of the hill, a ride on car for a little one has been left behind Sheffield Ski Village
Left behind friends
Editorial refreshments poster with visual noise turned down 👌🏼 You’ve got your multi flavour ice cream, multi flavour scoop ice cream, lollies, knickerbocker glories and so on. Fanciful grey and blue steeple from the school across the road pokes out Might go and remove the labels off everything in the house now
Round the back of the ice cream parlour’s there’s this sign which I like, the brandless-ness gives it a slightly more editorial feel
anxiety is bad, long walks aren’t cutting it. need for terrible things to start happening to bad people
Red brick building with graffitied, shuttered entryways. Above the right a sign says “lambrettas only”. There’s a worn out scooter shaped silhouette on the wall and a blue bucket and traffic cone on the ground
A tan wall with a barred, window shaped vent. Whatever the small pipe has been chucking out has completely blackened the wall. Below it, more sheff graff scribbles, a pink bird and a faint ghostly looking figure
A Neepsend little guy exposed brick has been highlighted with eyes and teeth giving him an angry expression
Part of what’s left of the old Stones Brewery, a three storey lonesome block next to a pile of rubble as tall. Lots of little guys on the walls, blue lobster, bear-dog thing etc. So many memories of this place, one of the first buildings that I explored as a teen. There was some early phlegm and kid acne on the second floor of the main part of the building (which is now gone). will dig the pics out when I can be arrrsed.
Neepsend buff today
Net curtain incorporating a floral design with two birds, one drinking from an ornamental bird bath. A sunny suburban Parisian street can be seen as a reflection in the window in front
An old car showroom stands empty, the perfectly clean glass walls holding up the weary, peeling wooden frame. gorge red letters in a Festive looking font says “quality cars”
The office end with more decay and peeling paint action. Corrugated fibre/asbestos lookin roof. Vauxhall.. omega(?) parked in front. A mechanic in overalls is behind the till inside. Signs for “open” “reception” and more red letters “Tel: 250336” - don’t see the numbers often anymore. So much beauty in one old building W. Ashworth & Sons, West Yorks
Corners of a beautifully weathered car showroom & garage from today
A beige olympic brand kiosk booth with a smiley sticker that says “SMILE You’re on Sheffield CCTV” this is in fact my second favourite Olympic booth. The best one is obviously the pink and blue one on Cleethorpes beach.
Smile *love
Screen grab from YouTube of Sugababes performing Overload (Top Of The Pops) in 2000, serving iconic chairography. The comment says “they gave nothing and everything at the same time” 🍦
call that soft serve
at my signal, unleash hell