Picture of the Day October 2010

[Kev]

Post 'em!

1st October - Outside Central Station. Spot the coin :)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2667/3734111867_5fe4a2d8f4_z.jpg (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2667/3734111867_5fe4a2d8f4_z.jpg?zz=1)

[kevin]

Why can I never get jackets with sleeves that long?

[gregs dad]

[img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5044398139_cdcfdc76ca_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5044398139/)
Evening sun on the waterfront

[corky100]

Thats a rather warm photo there GD :handclap:

[Norm NZ]

Nice pic! and I particularly like the old gas lamps!

[GeorgePorgie]

I particularly like the old gas lamps!

Pity they didn't use the original gas lamps....those are a poor representation with a modern twist.

[Norm NZ]

Still looks good to me! adds a bit of character to the area, much better than those modern 'concrete' pole type we see so many of these days!

[wsteve55]

Got to agree Norm'...no pleasing some,though!:)

[corky100]

3rd October

(Done as 3rd as its missing, and to give someone else a chance for today)

Rough day at Egremont...

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[brian daley]

Brilliant picture Corky,well done, loved yours too Joe,
BrianD

[lindylou]

Excellent picture. It looks like a painting.

[Leon]

Rough day at Egremont...
wow! that's cool!
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4th OCT 2010

the birch in JMU garden.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BoNRiXGHRVQ/TKpElCj3CRI/AAAAAAAAAgM/Gi6Un0AT6SM/s1600/the+birch.jpg

[scouse smurf]

That tree would look nice in my back yard, where is it ? lol

[Leon]

That tree would look nice in my back yard, where is it ? lol
I'm waiting for tomorrow ;)

[gregs dad]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/5055332526_d3192af28e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5055332526/)old liverpool street (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5055332526/) by exacta2a (http://www.flickr.com/people/exacta2a/), on Flickr

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1041/697002483_9f1594310f.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/697002483/)Gill Street liverpool (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/697002483/) by exacta2a (http://www.flickr.com/people/exacta2a/), on Flickr
Two for the price of one Gill Street today and in the sixties, seems like the people have got richer

[GeorgePorgie]

seems like the people have got richer

Thats tru,GD...they've upgraded the TV aerials.;)

[az_gila]

Might be an older car in the old pic, but the "wigwam" wasn't completed until 1967 - so the pic is mid to late 60's. It doesn't look like any blue plastic is on the stainless roof in the BW pic...

[gregs dad]

Notice how us poor pedestrians have lost a lot of pavement to make a lay by for the motorists. The car looks like an Austin A7O. I took this on my lunch time ramble around the area.

[Leon]

JMU

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BoNRiXGHRVQ/TKzd2Hk-tsI/AAAAAAAAAhs/tRhryVxqI80/s1600/_DSC8609.jpg

[Bernie]

The car in the pic is a hillman minx from about 1954.

[GeorgePorgie]

Looks like an AustinA90 to me,Bernie.?

[Bernie]

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/visitors_hillman_minx.htm

I was around at the time and was a car nut.

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&expIds=17259,17311,25753,25854,26209,26218,26339,2 6788,26805,26856,26885,27014,27047&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=austin+a+90&cp=10&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=pi2tTJGwF4S0lQecxoWSCA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQsAQwAw&biw=1014&bih=599

[az_gila]

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/visitors_hillman_minx.htm

I was around at the time and was a car nut.

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&expIds=17259,17311,25753,25854,26209,26218,26339,2 6788,26805,26856,26885,27014,27047&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=austin+a+90&cp=10&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=pi2tTJGwF4S0lQecxoWSCA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQsAQwAw&biw=1014&bih=599

Thanks - very interesting - I remember the A90 Westminister version, but don't remember the A90 Atlantic version, which looks quite different.

Was the Atlantic version much less common?

[Bernie]

Hi Az,The A90 Atlantic was built for the American market but was available to order in the UK. I seem to remember it held an endurance record at the Brickyard for many years. It wasn't really a success over here.

[az_gila]

Hi Az,The A90 Atlantic was built for the American market but was available to order in the UK. I seem to remember it held an endurance record at the Brickyard for many years. It wasn't really a success over here.

Thanks, that explains it... they were all gone here by the time I came to the US....:)

Because they were both "A90" models, was the only major difference the body?

[Bernie]

I think they came out soon after WW2, they had a 4 cylinder engine, the later Westminster had a 6 cylinder. The Atlantic was available as a 2 door coupe and as a convertible. I saw one on Ebay a while ago and it made over $50k. It wasn't original the engine had been changed for a later Austin Healey 100/4 unit. The Atlantic coupe had an electric back window, supposedly for extra ventilation, being a flier you probably know the aerodynamics of the car and know it would suck in exhaust fumes. Very interesting car though.

[gregs dad]

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee283/exactavarex/yoll/image001-69.jpg
Our Austin A70 which we used on camera trips to Wales and the Lakes. I don`t know anything about cars but I know it was under powered because with 4 of us in it we had to reverse up the hills because it couldn`t climb in foward gear.

[Oudeis]

You will be praising the brakes too then, as the car-full will have had to roll down the hills as well. :)

I wonder if the locals greeted you with, "Hello again" as you backed into view? :)

I can see why you take such excellent pictures Joe, a life times experience.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Joe

Great photograph and great story. However I doubt if the photograph dates from 1866 as you have on there at lower right.

Chris

[Bernie]

Most 4 cylinder cars had that problem on the extreme welsh hills. I had the same problem in a Mk2 Consul trying to get to the graveyard where my family is in Tremeirchion.

[wsteve55]

Hi Joe

Great photograph and great story. However I doubt if the photograph dates from 1866 as you have on there at lower right.

Chris

Ha,ha,and still paddling a kayak after all those years!:nod:

[az_gila]

Most 4 cylinder cars had that problem on the extreme welsh hills. I had the same problem in a Mk2 Consul trying to get to the graveyard where my family is in Tremeirchion.

...and our old Ford Anglia going up the Honister Pass in the Lake District....:)

ADDED - just found this pic on-line

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...but, if I remember correctly, it would have said "1 in 4 hill" in the 60's not a percentage....

That's steep for any car, even now...:)

[GeorgePorgie]

Most 4 cylinder cars had that problem on the extreme welsh hills.

Well me being a kid at the time...I don't remember me old fella struggling to get the Ford Popular up the welsh moutain roads,every weekend we went and camped through Wales and Caernarfon countryside.

Things I remember....sheep sticking thier heads in the tent late at night...baaaa,baaaa.
Fireflys on the outsideof the tent.
Bloody freezing cold when you woke up in the morning with mountain dew on the ground.

[gregs dad]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4124/5063049992_c1a1001c31_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5063049992/)liverpool wiew (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5063049992/) by exacta2a (http://www.flickr.com/people/exacta2a/), on Flickr
Come to sunny Liverpool holidays,from St Mary`s tower

[lindylou]

Great view GD.

[Leon]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BoNRiXGHRVQ/TLC5rDiZuxI/AAAAAAAAAh8/IFe6NYFthPw/s1600/_DSC9091.jpg
it is in Conwy, Wales.

[Bernie]

Great pic Leon, where is it?

[GeorgePorgie]

Castle is a dead giveaway Bernie,Conwy

[scouse smurf]

Excellent pic, Leon.

Well if we're doing liverpool related things in other area, I'll put this one on for the 8th October
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2169/1872698290_4fa52cf6b5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scousesmurf/1872698290/)
Probably posted it before, but so what :)

[Sean Hughes]

Awesome picture of the waterfront

[lindylou]

Lovely picture Smurf. :)

[scouse smurf]

Ta, Was taken in Swansea and it's a few years old now

[gregs dad]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/5078487965_368af584cf.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5078487965/)
Goose having a good feed at the canal at Sandhills
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/5079081832_13168999b4.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5079081832/)
Merseyrail train crossing bridge at Kirkdale
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/5078488929_7cd7d1d2e9.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5078488929/)
Cormant starting his dive in the canal in front of the Liver buildings
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4018/5079082560_bd51f7558f.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5079082560/)
Small boat out of the liverpool yatch club in the misty Mersey today

[ChrisGeorge]

Lovely photographs, Joe!

Chris :handclap:

[lindylou]

Fab pictures :handclap:

[corky100]

October 14th

Like to insert two if I may, both exhibits from this years Biennial...

[gregs dad]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5084493418_21f288d63f_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5084493418/)
Captain J Walker looks out over a misty Mersey

[ChrisGeorge]

Lovely photograph, Joe. Just hits the spot! :handclap:

Cheers

Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[wsteve55]

October 14th

Like to insert two if I may, both exhibits from this years Biennial...

Where's the Damocles sword,Corky?

[scouse smurf]

It's in the Black-e

[wsteve55]

Really...it's always been a bit of a mysterious place to me! Low profile, for a community type place!

[corky100]

Smurfs Quite right, its the Black-E, Just inside the entrance. The photo does no justice, its 7 meteres tall and is very impressive! All part of the Biennal installations.

Take a look inside the Black-E too, theres some great works inside.

[Norm NZ]

'Black-E'????? Perhaps someone could explain. Ta.

[wsteve55]

'Black-E'????? Perhaps someone could explain. Ta.

Hi Norm,it was an old church, formerly known as the"Blackie"! Maybe political correctness affected it's name?

[corky100]

'Black-E'????? Perhaps someone could explain. Ta.

Somebody expained a little more detail here... http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?3835-The-Blackie

[corky100]

October 16th

Another Biennial Photo....."Touch and Go" :nod:

[Oudeis]

BTW.
I am so glad the Black-E is not next to the 'Ba-Gum'. ;)

[wsteve55]

BTW.
I am so glad the Black-E is not next to the 'Ba-Gum'. ;)

That's the Thai restaurant,further down!:unibrow:

[Norm NZ]

Thanks to Steve & Corky for the info, Must have missed the earlier post's! I do remember the building, passed it often on my way from Lark Lane to my work at the Radium Inst.:PDT11

[gregs dad]

17th October

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5089408944_68b0da0bfa.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5089408944/)
Autumn wedding in St Chads Gardens, Kirkby

[jacky gunnion]

1757217571
If at my view point ,and i feel that the foreground is messy i ,still take an image ,which once home i will sort out in photoshop ,so as the punters will never no..
gregs dad will see an improvment, if the viewers are a bit more critical, but not judge mental...love u gregs dad...

[Oudeis]

1757217571
If at my view point ,and i feel that the foreground is messy i ,still take an image ,which once home i will sort out in photoshop ,so as the punters will never no..
gregs dad will see an improvment, if the viewers are a bit more critical, but not judge mental...love u gregs dad...


IF IT WASN'T FOR THE 'OUSES IN BETWEEN
(Edgar Bateman / George LeBrunn)

Gus Elen - 1899


If you saw my little backyard
"Wot a pretty spot", you'd cry
It's a picture on a sunny summer day
Wiv the turnip tops and cabbages
Wot people doesn't buy
I makes it on a Sunday look all gay

The neighbours finks I grow 'em,
And you'd fancy you're in Kent
Or at Epsom if you gaze into the mews
It's a wonder as the landlord
Doesn't want to raise the rent
Because we have such nobby distant views

Oh! it really is a wery pretty garden
And Chingford to the Eastward could be seen
Wiv a ladder and some glasses
You could see to 'Ackney Marshes
If it wasn't for the 'ouses in between

We're as countrified as can be
Wiv a clothes prop for a tree
The tub-stool makes a rustic little stile
Ev'ry time the blooming clock strikes
There's a cuckoo sings to me
And I've painted up "To Leather Lane A Mile"

Wiv tomatoes and wiv radishes
Wot 'adn't any sale
The backyard looks a purfick mass o' bloom
And I've made a little beehive
Wiv some beetles in a pail
And a pitchfork wiv the 'andle of a broom

Oh! it really is a wery pretty garden
And Rye 'Ouse from the cock-loft could be seen
Where the chickweed man undresses
To bathe 'mong the water cresses
If it wasn't for the 'ouses in between

There's the bunny shares his egg box
Wiv the cross-eyed cock and hen
Though they 'as got the pip and him the 'morf
In a dog's 'ouse on the line-post
There was pigeons, nine or ten
Till someone took a brick and knocked it off

The dust cart though it seldom comes
Is just like 'Arvest 'Ome
And we made to rig a dairy up some'ow
Put the donkey in the wash'ouse
Wiv some imitation 'orns,
For we're teaching im to moo just like a kah

Oh! it really is a wery pretty garden
And 'Endon to the westward could be seen
And by clinging to the chimbley
You could see across to Wembley
If it wasn't for the 'ouses in between

Though the gasworks is at Woolwich
They improve the rural scene
For mountains they would very nicely pass
There's the mushrooms in the dust-hole
With the cowumbers so green
It only wants a bit 'o 'ot 'ouse glass

I wears this milkman's nightshirt
And I sits outside all day
Like the ploughboy cove what's mizzled o'er the Lea
And when I goes indoors at night
They dunno what I say
'Cause my language gets as yokel as can be

Oh! it really is a wery pretty garden
And soapworks from the 'ousetops could be seen
If I got a rope and pulley
I'd enjoy the breeze more fully
If it wasn't for the 'ouses in between

[scouse smurf]

[QUOTE=jacky gunnion;304308If at my view point ,and i feel that the foreground is messy i ,still take an image ,which once home i will sort out in photoshop ,so as the punters will never no..
gregs dad will see an improvment, if the viewers are a bit more critical, but not judge mental...love u gregs dad...[/QUOTE]

I did exactly that a cpl of years ago with this

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/2690810048_3efc5ca28a_t.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scousesmurf/2690810048/) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/2689996065_258b242222_t.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scousesmurf/2689996065/)

[gregs dad]

Jacky I have plenty of pics of the waterfront, but when I took that, I wanted to include the foreground of the spikes which are around the tower and show the river as water dividing Birkenhead and Liverpool. Here are a couple taken the same day.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/5093759237_dc3ee7265c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5093759237/)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4131/5093758821_1a455166d5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5093758821/)
I think some pics need a bit of foreground

[ChrisGeorge]

I think some pics need a bit of foreground

Hi Joe,

I agree with you.

Chris

[gregs dad]

Thanks Chris,
Hope you like my new avatar, found this today, taken on a polaroid in Moores of Dale St photographic shop a long long time ago; by one of his sons who was trying out a new batch of polaroid cameras. Thats photographic paper I`ve just bought I`m holding

[lindylou]

You look very handsome on your avatar GD.

[Ged]

18TH OCTOBER. Couldn't work out which was the best or worst. It was just a point and shoot opportunity as I was at the lights.

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[scouse smurf]

Ged, ya should have done a google maps and blurred the number plates lol

[ItsaZappathing]

Good one Ged. I have noticed that a llot of your photies are from "cruisin" around OF A NIGHT ???:unibrow: Hmmmm.:shock:

[lindylou]

Ged, I like that picture - the colours and the lights.

[gregs dad]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/5097025221_b83c6aed5e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5097025221/)
Kirkby swimming baths awaiting demolition

[Ron Ham]

Ye Gods ! Dont they build anything to last any more ?

[ChrisGeorge]

Ged, I like that picture - the colours and the lights.



I agree, Ged. Fabulous photograph. Colors and lights are brilliant and there's a sense of movement with the arrow and the traffic about to start up again. This could be entered in a photograph contest. Bravo.

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Ye Gods ! Dont they build anything to last any more ?

Yes fine photo, Joe. Though the dilapidated look of the building with the missing letters which I would guess used to spell "Kirkby Swimming Pool" is anything other than "Nice" as stated on the construction hoarding.

Chris

[gregs dad]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5102464459_c035ac0f59.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5102464459/)
Ships passing in the misty Mersey

[Leon]

George's Dock Ventilation and Control Station, Pier Head.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BoNRiXGHRVQ/TMCkTf_iSLI/AAAAAAAAAis/oRm-5IjMc1I/s1600/[Group+1]-_DSC9366__DSC9373-8+images.jpg

[gregs dad]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1180/5104423253_914458552e_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5104423253/)
Campbell Street ,Liverpool

[Leon]

magnificent view GD :handclap:

[corky100]

23rd October

GD's Pic reminded me of one from earlier in the week....

[lindylou]

Fantastic pic GD ! :handclap:



Nice one from Corky too. :PDT11

[scouse smurf]

24th October
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1326/5111629530_1ed9deb377.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scousesmurf/5111629530/)
A Bench in Sefton Park

[ChrisGeorge]

Lovely photograph, Smurf. Thanks! :handclap:

Chris

[lindylou]

That picture is gorgeous Smurf. :handclap:

[scouse smurf]

25th October
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4091/5111712462_3082f29739.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scousesmurf/5111712462/)
Another of the many I took in Sefton Park. Think it's the first time I've ever been there too

[lindylou]

Another lovely pic :handclap:

[Ronijayne]

25th October
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4091/5111712462_3082f29739.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scousesmurf/5111712462/)
Another of the many I took in Sefton Park. Think it's the first time I've ever been there too

Oh how beautiful, and how familiar. When I lived in Treborth Street I went to the park most days. As it was literally round the corner we treated it as our garden!! Walked through Princess Park and Sefton Park. Actually, the other house I grew up in was only ten minutes or less further away!!!!!

And now I live round the corner from Central Park, it is my destiny!!

[Ged]

Very nice Smurfy. :handclap:

[lindylou]

Smurf, your pics have been excellent lately :PDT11

[ItsaZappathing]

Well done smurf, good photo's mate.:handclap:

[gregs dad]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1241/5118389758_95af061480.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5118389758/)
Port Building reflection in the canal

[ChrisGeorge]

A stunning and unusual photograph, Joe. Well done! :handclap:

Cheers

Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[scouse smurf]

Brill pic, GD :)

[scouse smurf]

27th October
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1191/5111099435_998e2860d2.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scousesmurf/5111099435/)

[lindylou]

My camera is rubbish at night views, but here's St George's Hall taken tonight.

[scouse smurf]

Lindy, that pic is ok. Does ur camera have a firework mode, you could try that on it's fastest time at night. See if that helps

[gregs dad]

Try resting your camera on something flat Linda

[corky100]

I got one of those Gorrillapod tripods, wise choice. Pricey at the time but very practical!

[GeorgePorgie]

Try resting your camera on something flat Linda

Is she not a big girl then,Joe.......................................... .......................................>opens door quickly like. :)

[ItsaZappathing]

My camera is rubbish at night views, but here's St George's Hall taken tonight.

Still a decent pic.:handclap:

[wsteve55]

Is she not a big girl then,Joe.......................................... .......................................>opens door quickly like. :)

George.....behave!:unibrow:

[scouse smurf]

I got one of those Gorrillapod tripods, wise choice. Pricey at the time but very practical!

I got one on ebay at the start of this week, not had chance to use it yet

[gregs dad]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/5128170147_0019466859_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5128170147/)
Kirkby traffic island in it`s autumn colours

[gregs dad]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1164/5128170515_fd5a8fd3ba.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5128170515/)

Punch in Kirkby market today. Not the original Prof.Codman`s though.

[lindylou]

Sefton park, Halloween lantern parade.

[scouse smurf]

Good pic Lindy. I was gonna take one of her, but she turned around just before I took it lol

[Aprillove20]

hi greg dad,

i felt in love with the picture you post..every time you post a picture it is one of the best i could say.
keep up the good work....