Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:19 am  

LeedsBornWelshRoots wrote:

One of the most photographed buildings in Leeds - the former Holbeck Public Library.

There is a very similar one on Armley Town Street too if you're looking for a subject.

Just don't take your most expensive kit with you

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:10 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

There is a very similar one on Armley Town Street too if you're looking for a subject.

It's on the list, mate, I'm "collecting" so-called Ghost Signs at the moment and there's one on Armley Town Street, so two birds with one stone ...

This ghost sign is in Belle Isle …

JerryChicken wrote:

Just don't take your most expensive kit with you

I'll take our lass to protect me, she's from Armley and well 'ard.

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:34 am  

LeedsBornWelshRoots wrote:

It's on the list, mate, I'm "collecting" so-called Ghost Signs at the moment and there's one on Armley Town Street, so two birds with one stone ...

Not sure it's still there but there was drinks sign on the side of a building at the crossroads through Drighlington. Will you be publishing all your photos?

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Wed Aug 07, 2013 10:16 am  

Couple of photos from the weekend.

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Wed Aug 07, 2013 11:03 am  

West Leeds Rhino wrote:

Not sure it's still there but there was drinks sign on the side of a building at the crossroads through Drighlington. Will you be publishing all your photos?

Thanks for the info. I've added Drighlington crossroads to the list and will look next time I'm there or thereabouts.

I'll be posting the pictures on my Flickr account providing I can work 'em up to an acceptable standard.

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Wed Aug 07, 2013 5:14 pm  

Has anyone used eGlobal digital store? They have the Nikon D3200 I have my eye on for £323 which is about £50 cheaper than anywhere else

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Wed Aug 07, 2013 6:04 pm  

LeedsBornWelshRoots wrote:

Thanks for the info. I've added Drighlington crossroads to the list and will look next time I'm there or thereabouts.

I'll be posting the pictures on my Flickr account providing I can work 'em up to an acceptable standard.

Presumably you have the coal merchants ghost sign on your list, the one opposite the Sandring building on the Burley Road/Cardigan Lane crossroads ?



I'm going to end up editing and re-editing this post

If I was any good at photography some of the old building subjects that I have noted are ...

The old Woodhouse workhouse - stand on Otley Road near the statue at the traffic lights at the junction with Clarendon Rd and look towards Woodhouse - the long brick building facing Woodhouse Moor is the old workhouse, then turn around and get the old Carnegie Library on the junction that is now a bar, then turn back and get the aspect of the hillside of Woodhouse back-to-backs with the old school and its clock tower sitting up proud right in the middle.

Or the back-to-backs that tumble down the hill from Burley down onto Burley Road, I believe some of those streets still have their shared toilet blocks and cobbled roads and there is a famous staircase rise up the hill that has been painted/drawn more than once

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Wed Aug 07, 2013 7:10 pm  

rhino phil wrote:

Has anyone used eGlobal digital store? They have the Nikon D3200 I have my eye on for £323 which is about £50 cheaper than anywhere else

The goods are grey imports shipped out of Hong Kong, there is a good chance you'll end up paying £50 in duty and VAT.

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:34 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

Presumably you have the coal merchants ghost sign on your list, the one opposite the Sandring building on the Burley Road/Cardigan Lane crossroads ?

Yes, it's on there. Passed it yesterday (for about the 1,000,000th time) but didn't have any gear with me.

JerryChicken wrote:

...some of the old building subjects that I have noted are The old Woodhouse workhouse - stand on Otley Road near the statue at the traffic lights at the junction with Clarendon Rd and look towards Woodhouse - the long brick building facing Woodhouse Moor is the old workhouse…

I know the building you mean - red brick with castellations on Raglan Road. (You can't live where we lived and not know all about the Charge of the Light Brigade - Raglan, Brudenell, Cardigan et al.) I photographed it a few years ago but didn't know it was an ex-workhouse.

JerryChicken wrote:

...then turn back and get the aspect of the hillside of Woodhouse back-to-backs with the old school and its clock tower sitting up proud right in the middle.

The school is Quarry Mount. When I was at Queens Road (later Royal Park) in the 1950s, Quarry Mount were our fiercest rivals. Even the inter-school cricket matches turned into bloodbaths! Such fun.

JerryChicken wrote:

...there is a famous staircase rise up the hill that has been painted/drawn more than once

The 99 steps. Stuart Walton springs immediately to mind; Bob Barker hasn't done them but should. I think they've now been refurbed and you can no longer see the evidence of the thousands of clogs that climbed them.

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Thu Aug 08, 2013 9:28 am  

LeedsBornWelshRoots wrote: ...The 99 steps. Stuart Walton springs immediately to mind; Bob Barker hasn't done them but should. I think they've now been refurbed and you can no longer see the evidence of the thousands of clogs that climbed them. Stuart Walton !!! ... I thought everyone had forgotten him. I have some ltd. ed. prints of Stuart Walton's drawings, including Whitelock's, The Hyde Park Picture House, The Original Oak and one of Dodsworth's Court (seen from this angle http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... ifier=4811 ) ... and others ... all bought from an art shop in Upper Briggate whose name escapes me now, as-and-when I could afford them, back in the early 1980's. You've done it now, I know the "steps" drawing you mean, with the iron banister down the middle, I shan't rest until I get a copy now. EDIT : A simple google got me his web site http://www.stuartwaltonart.com/index.htm

LeedsBornWelshRoots wrote: ...The 99 steps. Stuart Walton springs immediately to mind; Bob Barker hasn't done them but should. I think they've now been refurbed and you can no longer see the evidence of the thousands of clogs that climbed them. Stuart Walton !!! ... I thought everyone had forgotten him. I have some ltd. ed. prints of Stuart Walton's drawings, including Whitelock's, The Hyde Park Picture House, The Original Oak and one of Dodsworth's Court (seen from this angle http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... ifier=4811 ) ... and others ... all bought from an art shop in Upper Briggate whose name escapes me now, as-and-when I could afford them, back in the early 1980's. You've done it now, I know the "steps" drawing you mean, with the iron banister down the middle, I shan't rest until I get a copy now. EDIT : A simple google got me his web site http://www.stuartwaltonart.com/index.htm