Picture of the Day November 2010

[corky100]

Thought I'd start this one off.....

November 1st

[Kev]

Cheers corky!

Totally forgot :)

[gregs dad]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1162/5140664762_f7822680b2_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5140664762/)
Pier head reflection

[gregs dad]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1204/5142372561_49e4b13fed_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5142372561/)
The top of the Birkenhead Magistrate`s court and Hamilton Square station

[gregs dad]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1228/5140063757_910d898bab.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5140063757/)
Abrace of Austins

come on folks send some pics in had to get out of bed to send this

[Liz Smith]

Thank you Greggs Dad for your wonderful photos - living away from Liverpool I really look forward to these photos! Although we are in Liverpool for a few days next week mainly working with a little bit of pleasure thown in!

[gregs dad]

Thanks Liz

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Kirkby firework
5TH NOVEMBER

[Norm NZ]

Liz says it all for me too Joe! Many thanks for all the photo's, It's much appreciated. Cheers:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[Leon]

Kirkby firewok
:handclap: erutcip lufituaeb

[Leon]

Edge Hill Station at 10pm.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BoNRiXGHRVQ/TNcOHbOjT6I/AAAAAAAAAjA/0U5xeHNu5bg/s1600/_DSC9930.jpg

[gregs dad]

Bit late for trainspotting Leon

[Leon]

Bit late for trainspotting LeonI know. :)
I have a little earlier shots, but they are not that interesting. :sad:

7 NOV 2010

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BoNRiXGHRVQ/TNgIScUr0ZI/AAAAAAAAAjI/cD7_JdWdZSQ/s1600/_DSC9909.jpg

[gregs dad]

date that 7th or 8th Leon

[lindylou]

Leon's pic, it will have to be for the 7th :nod:

.. and here's one for the 8th.

the empty bed at the ' Bed in' The Bluecoat.

[Oudeis]

Lindy, I think the blank TV screen steals the show. ;)

[lindylou]

:)

[lindylou]

Scraping the barrel here for pics !! :) we are lagging behind.

.. .. and I never usually give Christmas a mention until December :) - but liked the way these Christmas decs catch the light. St John's Precinct.

[lindylou]

L'pool 1.
red Xmas decs.

[Oudeis]

Scraping the barrel here for pics !! :) we are lagging behind.

.. .. and I never usually give Christmas a mention until December :) - but liked the way these Christmas decs catch the light. St John's Precinct.

They sure go to town, although all that iron-work seems a little over engineered to me. A wire rope is all they use down here. ;)

[scouse smurf]

Lindy, u got shares in Rapid and Dune ? :p

[gregs dad]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1342/5167215460_85fbf2ffaf_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5167215460/)
Tom Murphy`s "Good old Mr Wilson`s" statue in Huyton town centre

11TH NOVEMBER

[Oudeis]

Is he not a little low in the beam? The statue reminds me of a ventriloquist's dummy sat on a lap.

[lindylou]

Yes, it does somehow look a bit strange in proportions. The torso is thickset and the legs look too scrawny to support it ! :)

[GeorgePorgie]

Shallwe say itsjust a bad sculpture overall,my vision of Wilson was slightly roundish balding hair and a always seen smoking his pipe.

The sculptor needs shooting. :ninja:

[Oudeis]

Shallwe say itsjust a bad sculpture overall,my vision of Wilson was slightly roundish balding hair and a always seen smoking his pipe.

The sculptor needs shooting. :ninja:

I suppose it may not be Harold, but some other 'good guy' called Wilson. There must be one or two somewhere? ;)

[wsteve55]

The head(the important bit) looks pretty recognisable,but the build,stance,and posture.........reminds me of Quentin Crisp!!!:unibrow:

[Oudeis]

I popped over to here...

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/11/tom-murphy-dumping-bad-sculpture-on.html

To learn this...

"One sculpture that I used to like was the Boy with the Horse at the bottom of Bold Street opposite the Lyceum. It was said to have cost £150,000 and I used to love the way the public interacted with it. Though one day I saw a mother drag her child away in horror who was polishing a part of it that it should have been. It has now been turned into a....wheelie bin. Who robbed it? why was it moved? why didn't anyone at the Daily Ghost, er David Charters even notice?
So Liverpool European Capital of Bad Sculpture where we dump our good art to replace it with, Tom Murphy Turkey's....clever, the people who run our city, so cultured for sure. "

Does anybody have a picture of this boy & horse?

[gregs dad]

I suppose it may not be Harold, but some other 'good guy' called Wilson. There must be one or two somewhere? ;)
No it is Harold M P for Huyton

[Oudeis]

No it is Harold M P for Huyton

UNCLE!

Yes, dear Joe. I am fully aware of who the statue is supposed to represent. Alas it is half way between allegory and realism. It may be trying to 'say' that Harold had little behind him Politically. Who knows. It is undoubtedly a crude representation of the HW I remember. I checked out the other offerings that TM has had dumped around your town. Again, maybe this is his, TM's stamp. Like Lowery has match-stick men and match-stick cats and dogs Murphy has ape-armed arse-lessness as his peculiarity? Or schtick I think it's called. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/schtick) :)

[lindylou]

Talking of statues; I think the Ken Dodd statue in Lime st station is awful :eek:

The Bessie Braddock one isn't too bad, at least it looks a bit like her.


(pics from artinliverpool.com
and citylife.co.uk)

[Oudeis]

Tom Murphy, icono-plast
notable characters cast
with Liverpool's wildlife he is a hit
gives the pigeons somewhere to...sit

[John Doh]

I popped over to here...

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/11/tom-murphy-dumping-bad-sculpture-on.html

To learn this...

"One sculpture that I used to like was the Boy with the Horse at the bottom of Bold Street opposite the Lyceum. It was said to have cost £150,000 and I used to love the way the public interacted with it. Though one day I saw a mother drag her child away in horror who was polishing a part of it that it should have been. It has now been turned into a....wheelie bin. Who robbed it? why was it moved? why didn't anyone at the Daily Ghost, er David Charters even notice?
So Liverpool European Capital of Bad Sculpture where we dump our good art to replace it with, Tom Murphy Turkey's....clever, the people who run our city, so cultured for sure. "

Does anybody have a picture of this boy & horse?

I haven't... and I can assure you it's not worth looking for: it was a total abomination and deserved to be spirited away, IMO! Someone's having a laugh... and if you really want to do some research I think you may find that the so-called Liverpool Preservation Trust is a bit of a joke in itself. Almost anything by Tom Murphy is superb by comparison ( though I agree with the comments on Harold, NOT one of his better pieces.)

[wsteve55]

UNCLE!

Yes, dear Joe. I am fully aware of who the statue is supposed to represent. Alas it is half way between allegory and realism. It may be trying to 'say' that Harold had little behind him Politically. Who knows. It is undoubtedly a crude representation of the HW I remember. I checked out the other offerings that TM has had dumped around your town. Again, maybe this is his, TM's stamp. Like Lowery has match-stick men and match-stick cats and dogs Murphy has ape-armed arse-lessness as his peculiarity? Or schtick I think it's called. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/schtick) :)

Ha,ha, arselessness.............good description,now you've pointed it out!!:smirk: Had a look for some pic's of the boy, and horse statue,but no luck so far??? (Talking about things going missing....does anyone know when the circular platform,at the top of Church st went?)

[lindylou]

Tom Murphy, icono-plast
notable characters cast
with Liverpool's wildlife he is a hit
gives the pigeons somewhere to...sit


:lol:
:PDT11

[gregs dad]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/5172807928_4616f510e9_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5172807928/)
Big wheel

[Leon]

Edge Hill Station.

FUTURE STATION: The Festival Saturday 13 November (http://www.metalculture.com/)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BoNRiXGHRVQ/TN8Kwqq1oXI/AAAAAAAAAkg/2F-6jk4KmWY/s1600/_DSC9979.jpg

[John Doh]

Perhaps a bit of playfulness on TM's part - a shtik played by him to suggest that HW was known for playing shtiks on us himself... ( A slightly different meaning of shtik, but one that is supported by your dictionary link)... Anyway, why the Yiddish... or have I missed something else allegorical or otherwise?

[wsteve55]

Edge Hill Station.

FUTURE STATION: The Festival Saturday 13 November (http://www.metalculture.com/)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BoNRiXGHRVQ/TN8Kwqq1oXI/AAAAAAAAAkg/2F-6jk4KmWY/s1600/_DSC9979.jpg

What's the band,Leon?

[Leon]

What's the band,Leon?

Former members from Edge Hill’s British Rail Brass Band met at Edge Hill Station on Saturday 13th November for a one-off performance which began a whole evening of festivities.

http://www.metalculture.com/

[Oudeis]

"Any journey is quicker by tuba." ;)

[Ged]

You sound brassed off!

[lindylou]

great pics all.

[gregs dad]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4148/5175651024_a92b245ebd_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5175651024/)
Remembrance Sunday St John`s Gardens

[ChrisGeorge]

Very fine, Joe. Wonderful to see. :handclap: :handclap:

[lindylou]

Crisp but sunny morning. Button st.

[Oudeis]

A cold crisp sunny morning
down old Button Street today
Per Adua Ad Astra
No zips for these Fliers
Is the Button Street way. :)

[JMLE]

Has anyone ever started a thread on plants/trees/bushes growing on buildings? I've seen some fine specimens growing out of walls and gutters over the years.

[GeorgePorgie]

You should get a hobby,JMLE

[Ged]

Has anyone ever started a thread on plants/trees/bushes growing on buildings? I've seen some fine specimens growing out of walls and gutters over the years.

Buddleia buildings by our one time very own PhilipG.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/44435674@N00/sets/72157620068275405/


.

[wsteve55]

Great pic's Leon,sad the band is no more!

[gregs dad]

And I thought Merseyrail had planted these in Green Lane Station
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2674/3772861942_9f2bbed4ed_z.jpg?zz=1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/3772861942/)

[wsteve55]

Has anyone ever started a thread on plants/trees/bushes growing on buildings? I've seen some fine specimens growing out of walls and gutters over the years.

Looks like you've got your wish!!!:unibrow:

[gregs dad]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1426/5179344600_63c0ee724c_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5179344600/)
Old dockmaster`s hut at the end of the old pier

[JMLE]

Looks like you've got your wish!!!:unibrow:

Rubs thighs :)

[ChrisGeorge]

Fine photographs, as ever, Joe. Enjoyed.

Chris

[corky100]

November 17th

The new spinny ridey thing at Chavasse Park looks rather cool from this side of the moat.....

[Liz Smith]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/5172807928_4616f510e9_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5172807928/)
Big wheel

We stayed at Jurys Hotel last week and the big Wheel was right out side our bedroom window! I forgot my camara but took some photos with my phone I dont think they are good enough to put on here. I thought Liverpool was looking really good last week.

[wsteve55]

We stayed at Jurys Hotel last week and the big Wheel was right out side our bedroom window! I forgot my camara but took some photos with my phone I dont think they are good enough to put on here. I thought Liverpool was looking really good last week.

Ahh post them anyway,they can't be worse than mine!:nod:

[gregs dad]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1285/5187202417_05afc01ea8_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5187202417/)

Dusk on a wet Kirkdale Station

[lindylou]

That's a really good picture GD. The rail track so clear - the sharp lines of the track, and the lighting is good.

[Ronijayne]

Good pics to all

[ChrisGeorge]

That's a really good picture GD. The rail track so clear - the sharp lines of the track, and the lighting is good.

Fine picture but the platform sure looks lonely!

[Norm NZ]

Ah Ah!! I can at last complain about one of joe's photo's!!! he misspelt the word 'Kirkdale'!!! :PDT_Xtremez_12:

[gregs dad]

I should have gone to Specsavers Norm

[GeorgePorgie]

Who's Specsavers Norm?:)

[corky100]

Just creeping one in for the 19th! :)

19th November

[gregs dad]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4111/5193105506_89160a7888_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5193105506/)
Liverpools Port building

[Samsette]

It used to be..........

Mersey Docks and Harbour Board,
and little rubber dinghies.
Paddle yer own canoe,
wouldn't you.

I'll be alright in a minute or two.

[John Doh]

Yet another Google mistranslation, surely?

As I recollect, it used to be:

Does eat oats and Mares eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?

[gregs dad]

Mares eat oats and goats eat oats and little lambs eat ivy,I wouldn`t eat either of them would you ?

The version I remember

[Norm NZ]

My remembered version:- Mare's eat oats, and Doe's eat oats, and little lamb's eat ivy, kid's will eat ivy too, would'nt you?:PDT_Aliboronz_11:

[Oudeis]

Mersey dotes on dodgy quotes, it'll land up badly, things like this often do...form a queue. ;)

[ChrisGeorge]

Mares eat oats and goats eat oats and little lambs eat ivy,I wouldn`t eat either of them would you ?

The version I remember

It's a novelty song from 1943. "Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats)

Chris

[Oudeis]

Something for your own kids...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3oSyr8mHY4

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As I can add this sort as a BTW...

http://www.instructables.com/id/Kinetic-Marble-Track-Around-The-Top-Of-A-Room/

[lindylou]

Probe Record shop, School Lane.

[lindylou]

Some sort of mechanical maritme sculpture ? :) at Bluecoat Chambers.

[John Doh]

An 'all-at-sea' version of Heath Robinson, perhaps?

[wsteve55]

Some sort of mechanical maritme sculpture ? :) at Bluecoat Chambers.

There were quite a few of these "contraptions" around on Thursday night,but we missed any, actually in operation! Didn't notice "Probe" had moved!(again)

[corky100]

23 November

This one will be in the Echo Thursday too :)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5184304705_23f6377ac6.jpg

[ChrisGeorge]

Great photograph, Corky. Bravo. :handclap:

Chris

[lindylou]

Very nice picture Corky.

[Aprillove20]

yah..it does and the statue looks great ......

[gregs dad]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/5204366561_7424ae2de5_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5204366561/)

Ferries are using the cruise terminal at the moment

[Ron Ham]

As a 14yr old office boy with the Waterloo Dock Masters Office I climbed out on the window ledge atop the dome of the MDHB Building & on another occasion as I gayly wended my way along the side of the Princes Dock singing 'Mersey Docks & Harbour Board & all the lazy dockers ',one guy did not appreciate it & grabbed me & held me over the dock , saying as he did 'Say it now you little b*****d'
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4111/5193105506_89160a7888_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5193105506/)
Liverpools Port building

[lindylou]

LFC club sign

[gregs dad]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5208976013_dff1244005_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5208976013/)
Dusk in Cases Street with Christians fruit stall, a fixture in Liverpool for years now, in the foreground

[Oudeis]

You have packed a whole lot into the shot there Joe, a topper. :)

[lindylou]

Lovely pic GD.

[NickPantera]

November 17th

The new spinny ridey thing at Chavasse Park looks rather cool from this side of the moat.....

That thing is pretty scary, you can hear folks screaming from Parliament St, no kidding

[lindylou]

Bienial red wolf, Bluecoat Chambers.

[lindylou]

Snow Globe, L'pool 1

[ChrisGeorge]

Bienial red wolf, Bluecoat Chambers.

What's the story about the red wolf, Lindy?

[Oudeis]

What's the story about the red wolf, Lindy?

Thank you Chris, I thought it was just me. It was the ease with which it was put across...I thought I must have missed something. Black dogs have come up once or twice, but the Red Wolf that prowls but once every two years. That's news to me. :)
Nice pics though.

[lindylou]

:) We have Bienial wolves all around the city center, they pop up in lots of places. They are mostly black but I spotted this red one at the Bluecoat. perhaps we should start a thread for wolf spotting :)

Love this description: The wolves echo an eternal, universal city yet describe something feral and disruptive of everyday experience.
http://www.thisistomorrow.info/viewArticle.aspx?artId=495

[ChrisGeorge]

:) we have Bienial wolves all around the city center, they pop up in lots of places. They are mostly black but I spotted this red one at the Bluecoat. perhaps we should start a thread for wolf spotting :)

Love this description: The wolves echo an eternal, universal city yet describe something feral and disruptive of everyday experience.
http://www.thisistomorrow.info/viewArticle.aspx?artId=495

Interesting... and a bit of irony there too. Of course the symbol of Rome, known as the eternal city, is the wolf suckling the twins Romulus and Remus. But I am not sure the Liverpool wolf is meant to be related to the wolf of Rome is it? :D

[scouse smurf]

Cool pic, Lindy.

I hate hearing them called snow globes though. Maybe wrongly but I was brought up calling them snowstorms. Snow globes sounds o american to me. No offence meant to our american cousins

[wsteve55]

Cool pic, Lindy.

I hate hearing them called snow globes though. Maybe wrongly but I was brought up calling them snowstorms. Snow globes sounds o american to me. No offence meant to our american cousins

S'nowproblem!:unibrow:

[gregs dad]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5087/5218292493_eca869ccf8_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5218292493/)
Canadian geese on the iced over Stanley locks.
On a walk along the canal yesterday saw plenty of coots and ducks but not many geese, they`d all emigrated to the locks

[lindylou]

Cool pic, Lindy.

I hate hearing them called snow globes though. Maybe wrongly but I was brought up calling them snowstorms. Snow globes sounds o american to me. No offence meant to our american cousins

Yeah, I think it might be an Americanism.

We never called them snow globes. :)

I called this one a snow globe though because everyone is calling it that :) :)

[ChrisGeorge]

Cool pic, Lindy.

I hate hearing them called snow globes though. Maybe wrongly but I was brought up calling them snowstorms. Snow globes sounds o american to me. No offence meant to our american cousins



Yeah, I think it might be an Americanism.

We never called them snow globes. :)

I called this one a snow globe though because everyone is calling it that :) :)

What would you call it then if not snow globe?

Chris

[Oudeis]

Thanks Joe for another lovely picture.

I shall happily swap my chosen loch for this frozen lock on this St Andrew's Day. :)

[ChrisGeorge]

Thanks Joe for another lovely picture.

I shall happily swap my chosen loch for this frozen lock on this St Andrew's Day. :)

Yes great photograph, Joe! But Brrrrrrrrrr. Oudeis, many thanks for reminding me that this is St. Andrew's Day. I shall be attending the St. Andrew's Day dinner of the St. Andrew's Society of Baltimore on Thursday at a local hotel. I wrote their bicentennial history several years ago.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/2336884283_76913fc32e.jpg

[Oudeis]

That'll be the PRIOMH one? I trust there is as much fun as they say there is. :)

[ChrisGeorge]

That'll be the PRIOMH one? I trust there is as much fun as they say there is. :)

That's them.

[lindylou]

What would you call it then if not snow globe?

Chris

Ha, it's funny, I can't really remember what we called them. We had them when we were kids.
I think we just called them snow shakers or snow storms. You can get glitter shakers too.
I don't recall saying snow globe. :)

[A.D.W]

I have to say an excellent collection of pictures. Bring on December......

[scouse smurf]

I used to collect them and they were deffo just called snow storms