Just ten random pictures I have taken in the last month - but not posted before...
The Union Hotel, Nether Edge, Sheffield
Statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester. She was a leading light in the
British suffragette movement - campaigning for women to get the vote.
Our Phoebe as a butterfly at Sewerby Park
The author of this blog with a Lego sabre toothed tiger at Sewerby Park
Cobbler's dummy on Ecclesall Road, Sheffield
The Path to Rawmarsh from Parkgate
Railway footbridge at Halfway
Phoebe in the old bearpit - Sheffield Botanical Gardens
Dock plants one evening in Bingham Park Woods, Sheffield
The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield - rising above the leafy suburb of Broomhill
And that's all for today folks!
The designers of the bridge over the railway line have stolen your blog colour.
ReplyDeleteThe hospital is substantial. There must be lots of people feeling poorly in Sheffield.
We have another big general hospital in the city. It is called The Northern General.
DeleteThey are all lovely, thank you. I love the Lego tiger.
ReplyDeleteI had to have my picture taken with it as I am a Tigers supporter (Hull City).
DeleteMy favourite is "The path to Rawmarsh from Parkgate".
ReplyDeleteI like a photograph that leads the eye. What's down there, I wonder?
You might say that is a path that leads back to my roots - where my mother was raised by her grandparents in a mid-terrace house on Quarry Street, Rawmarsh. She would certainly have walked that path when she was a girl.
DeleteI am surprised that the railway bridge isn't covered in graffiti ! Is it a long way from habitation?
ReplyDeleteNo, it is close to habitation Frances. Yorkshire yobs are not like Hertfordshire yobs tha knows lass!
DeleteDid you know that Emmeline Pankhurst's mother was Manx? It was her influence that introduced Emmeline to women's suffrage.
ReplyDeleteNo. I did not know that JayCee. Thanks for the tidbit.
DeletePhotos are the one second memories we capture of place. The last photo appeals to me. The church spire emphasising the large modern built block of flats behind. The composition is perfect.
ReplyDeleteBut it's not flats Thelma, it's a general hospital - opened I believe in 1979.
DeleteGreat photos as usual. MY favourite is also the path.
ReplyDeleteThat day I turned the corner from Scrooby Lane and saw that very sight in front of me. It stopped me in my tracks and I had to get my camera out promptly before the bashful sun slipped away behind the clouds again.
DeleteApologies for the Daily Mail capitalization!
DeleteThe Lego tiger is amazing!
ReplyDeleteA wonderful collect, evidence of a life well lived in a place you love, surrounded by people you love.
ReplyDeleteI'll leave a pair of winter boots at the Cobbler's to get heeled & re-soled.
ReplyDeleteThen I'll cross the footbridge, and sit in the station drinking my bottle of
lime & lemon water ; railway platforms are agreeable places for reflection.
Then I'll walk to the Union Hotel for a pint of Best Bitter (I'm a drouthy man)
and a spot of Dinner. My mother used to say that I'm easily pleased when it
comes to food, not fussy, so I'll have whatever the Chef recommends.
And I'll take from my shoulder bag my biography of Emmeline Pankhurst by
June Purvis. Emily was a very great English campaigner like Marie Stopes,
Jenny Lee (Labour minister and wife of Aneurin Bevan) and Barbara Castle.
I'll look up from my dinner and see a familiar character enter the Lounge.
I believe his name is Neil. He gives me a friendly nod and sits in the other corner.
Phoebe as a butterfly is my favorite!
ReplyDeleteThat hospital looks a bit like the Royal Free here. NHS construction!
ReplyDeleteThat's the nicest looking photo of dock, my gardening nemesis, that I think I've ever seen.
The cobblers dummy could be your brother.🤣🤣
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