Show Us Around Your Neighbourhood

[Duke Mantee]

On 3/10/2023 at 6:57 AM, Double 0 Soul said:

Had to walk to work this morning.. 

 

Some size of umbrella you have mate …

[Double 0 Soul]

It’s a shame it’s a crappy old iphone photo.. I’ve never had a smart phone till recently (I still don’t really need one) our house is in a network coverage black hole, it’s rarely charged.. I took that one photo and the battery died so I missed some great early morning wintery photos on my walk to work.. there was a bunch of cross country skiers, skiing through Bingham park this morning 

[Maynard Friedman]

It’s snow free and sunny down here today 

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Showing the neighbourhood to the little one

[Double 0 Soul]

His roping puts yours to shame Tilmann!

[MJF9]

Snowy up north early this morning

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

@MJF9 that’s beautiful. I wish it was snowing here. But it’s already spring for us. 
 

evening walk sunset from yesterday. 

[Toegun]

Match day so cars are parked up the wazoo. Heard it was Wrexham visiting the Bromley massive. I think people are attending to catch a glimpse of a certain individual rather than the game. 
 

Far cry from when we were living in East London. 
 

Lost 2-1

Edited March 18, 2023 by Toegun
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[Double 0 Soul]

My neighbour sent this little film to me yesterday

 

[Maynard Friedman]

Here’s a better view of the Mercury parked on my street. The scratches on the door are from it being parked in a front garden that was far too narrow, hence why it’s now on the road.

Edited May 1, 2023 by Maynard Friedman
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[MJF9]

Bump!  A lap of the local park this fine morning...

[Alec Leamas]

On 2/25/2024 at 1:13 PM, MJF9 said:

Bump!  A lap of the local park this fine morning...

Roundhay is a lovely spot! Bit of an oasis in what is a very un-green city, though I suppose on the North side there's a few green areas!

[Double 0 Soul]

Thread bumpin with a view over the neighbourhood..

[Maynard Friedman]

There were 2 pairs up there a couple of weeks ago!

[Dr_Heech]

24 minutes ago, Maynard Friedman said:

There were 2 pairs up there a couple of weeks ago!

Maybe they got divorced?

[bod]

1 hour ago, Maynard Friedman said:

There were 2 pairs up there a couple of weeks ago!

@Dr_Heech
One pair knew the their rights and left

Edited November 8, 2024 by bod

[Maynard Friedman]

I was waiting for the cash point/ATM at the Post Office on the High Road and heard some odd noises behind me. I turned around and saw this.

[gnewix]

I've been walking around the Wandle, a river local to me, recently.

Sharing some photos of the woodlands and park area around it.

[Double 0 Soul]

Bump up the jam..

[ATWM]

I always liked this thread but a) my neighborhood is not exactly charming and b) whenever I'm out on my bike I tend to be on a mission, with a friend, or with my son, so stopping to make pictures isn't so much in the cards.

About 12 years ago I started this sort of conceptual landscape project that was based off of revisiting places I commonly ran by from where I lived/stayed. (I used to run a good bit)

That year involved a move to a different town (both towns I lived in were pretty unremarkable suburbs of Chicago) and also a lot of time spent at my in laws cabin near Lake Michigan. Was recently revisiting this project so while maybe not so descriptive as photographs these are indeed (loosely) my neighborhood - at least of over a decade ago 😃 

 

[Double 0 Soul]

Some lovely colours on those^ photos @ATWM especially the second one from the bottom..  very 70s Kodachrome-esque 😍

We live in this type of red brick Victorian terrace .. c1870

Allotments

Neighbourhood is mainly Georgian / Victorian with a few modern glass cubes / extensions chucked in.

More red brick

Monday is bin day

This is a fancy-pants house.. puts my privet to shame

Edited September 28, 2025 by Double 0 Soul

[ATWM]

@Double 0 Soul the camera I shot those on (Pentax 645D) had a later model Kodak CCD sensor (most digitals now use CMOS sensors). CCD sensors had a good bit more limitation in real use but they did color differently. Going through this work over a decade later and seeing the files almost made me want to see if I could find a used copy of this camera still...the files aren't better necessarily but they really do have a sort of unique signature to them, something that is pretty tough to mimic in capture one or lightroom even if you're great with color work (I'm not).

Lots of those images are deceptively long exposures with various forms of ambient light/light pollution affecting overall color as well. 

Looks like a nice autumn day over there...we're having a late summer burst of heat here that I'm decidedly not happy about. 

[Dr_Heech]

Long overdue walk round my neighbourhood pic fest part 1

 

So for those who don't know, I live in Stroud (Gloucestershire UK). Most weekends l take an early stroll to town for a mini english brekky at a local cafe, walking down the canal as l do so. It takes 15 minutes max. I love the quiet time and the bird song. The simple things in life are the most important for me so l try to build my life around those things, whatever they may be.

 

 

Canal trust doing some dredging works

 

Stroud isn't very big, it's basically 3 parallel-ish streets interwoven with small lanes and alleys. You can walk round it in ten minutes. This was Sunday so hardly any people about, which coincidentally l absolutely love. The town is situated in the middle of the five valleys, with steep rolling hills all around.

So coming into the town, the Holloway building with the café on the left

 

Like many towns in the UK we have far too many coffee shops, charity shops, phone shops, nail bars and turkish barbers, with the latter two often being used for money laundering (allegedly). I rarely go to town for anything ever other that the café or Homebargains as it's generally too peopleey for me. Get in and get out early is my credo.

The old greyhound pub, now a restaurant -

Main high street -

Old library now closed. A bit of brutalist architecture?

and opposite is the old Science and art school -

Contrasting buildings. We say 'NO'

The old Stroud news and journal building  -

Shoe zone now a homeless zone

Towards the Swan inn, a long gone pub where l once used to work -

 

And opposite a pub l once used to drink in, The Retreat. Haven't been there for at least 20 years

 

Top of the high street is the oldest part of town - 

Quirky buildings

 

back of quirky building. Always loved the tiny room at the top -

 

The now closed Old market tavern, which used to be called the Pelican when l was a frequent drinker in the town some 35 years ago. Opposite is the old baptist church. 

Shop on the left was the closest thing that Stroud ever had to something which could be considered a true vintage shop. When it opened 15 years ago, the fella stocked old Levi's jeans, repro Lee Westerner jackets and lumberjack shirts with a bit of military thrown in. It had alot of vintage furniture and lamps with guitars hanging on the walls but times have changed -

And finally, Stroud Subscription rooms. This is an old venue which hosts plays, bands and other events and is literally right in the centre of the town. Van Morriston was the last famous musician to play the rooms iirc.

 

To be continued....

 

 

Edited October 13, 2025 by Dr_Heech
To add George Holloway stuff and edit pix thanks to Double0 soul x

[Dr_Heech]

Part 2

Still in the centre of town..

Contrasts: 'new' Trio nightclub/Ecotricity main branch/The old four clocks -

Back on the high street

Contrasts: One of strouds older shops (left), memories of strouds hippy roots, next to a Greggs - the Starbucks of the hot snack world in these parts.

Contrasts: Costa Coffee left and Woodruffs organic cafe on the right. Woodruffs was the UK's first organic coffee shop apparently (along with our Sunday organic market allegedly - maybe I'll brave it one day and post here?)

Then to the railway station. The old railway hotel which is now the overpriced 'The Stroud' hotel and restaurant -

The newly painted railway bridge.  No apologies for too many pics of it..

You can just make out Brunell's goods shed to the left -

Below: If l could walk the line, it would take me about 5 minutes to get home from here, rather than the usual 15 😁

The hill Paul building (left) and unbelievably in this day and age, a massive area of unused land (owned by the railway) sat neglected for over 40 years -

Then next to this there's the old Midland bridge which has been cut off and made into car parking spaces (now dubbed the bridge to nowhere) for the old Bell hotel which has now been converted into flats -

Below another view of the Hill Paul building,  probably the tallest building in Stroud.  They were once going to demolish it but local protests and occupation changed all that; they tarted up the interior into flats and added a penthouse floor on the top -

Dale Vince's Ecotricity Empire - gateway to the town centre -

Contrasting old and new before back to the walk home along the canal -

 

The estate where I live is tiny, just one small road with 5 culdy sacs branching off. This is the original house when the estate was just that, an estate, once owned by the church surrounded by bare land.

The road l live on has regular 2 storey cotswold stone houses down one side only, whereas the rest of the whole estate is all bungalows with added dormers. This gives it a lovely low down vibe and it's also very quiet as well, aided by a small valley and hill between our house and the town

And back home...

 

 

 

 

Edited January 30 by Dr_Heech
To add stuff

[Double 0 Soul]

2 hours ago, Dr_Heech said:

[Edit] Apologies in advance as usual - Sufu Ai has decided to muck up some my photos by putting them on their side, so thaaanks.

What a great post!

Such a shame about the orientation of the photos.. i think the image data from your phone contains view rotation info so sufu uploader follows the image data regardless of how you rotate the photo?

If it helps Doc.. the only fix i've found here is..

Post your photos and the ones which need rotating.. screen shot them, save to photos, rotate the screenshot (which doesn't have the same image data) edit post, delete the wonky image and replace your correctly aligned screenshot.. once you've done it once or twice, it only takes a few seconds. 

[Dr_Heech]

9 minutes ago, Double 0 Soul said:

What a great post!

Such a shame about the orientation of the photos.. i think the image data from your phone contains view rotation info so sufu uploader follows the image data regardless of how you rotate the photo?

If it helps Doc.. the only fix i've found here is..

Post your photos and the ones which need rotating.. screen shot them, save to photos, rotate the screenshot (which doesn't have the same image data) edit post, delete the wonky image and replace your correctly aligned screenshot.. once you've done it once or twice, it only takes a few seconds. 

Thanks. Yep my phone does what it does even if l rotate and reinsert. I'll try your idea when l get a minute 

[Dr_Heech]

On 10/6/2025 at 9:58 AM, Dr_Heech said:

Thanks. Yep my phone does what it does even if l rotate and reinsert. I'll try your idea when l get a minute 

Edit. @Double 0 Soul It works!

Thanks Neal, l think @MJF9 tried to explain it once but l couldn't get my head around it. Will do the rest this evening

 

Edited October 9, 2025 by Dr_Heech

[Dr_Heech]

Just seen this aerial photo of Stroud on Facebook so sharing here, as it correlates with all my previous hard work (above) and helps demonstrate the small size of the main town centre -

Edited October 13, 2025 by Dr_Heech

[Toegun]

@Dr_Heech wow those photos take me back. When I was a youth I used to get trashed at the Smelly Pelly and back to Chalford to carry on the session. Some amazing house parties in that area, clubs were basically non existent or terrible. 

[Dr_Heech]

On 10/11/2025 at 7:57 PM, Toegun said:

@Dr_Heech wow those photos take me back. When I was a youth I used to get trashed at the Smelly Pelly and back to Chalford to carry on the session. Some amazing house parties in that area, clubs were basically non existent or terrible. 

Thanks, and never knew that - when did you live here and when did you make the move to London?

When l first moved up around here in 1989, the only 'clubs' (if you could call them that) were The Maltings, Jo-Jo's and the Zone (back part of  the Pelly). Now there's just Trio which was the old Mecca bingo/cinema building. 

Edited October 19, 2025 by Dr_Heech
To edit obvs