The not very exciting run and ride route picture thread

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swittle Jul 2023 10:54am, 3 Jul 2023 98,279 posts	0 swittle ^ I'll try that Wikipedia link again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Wakefield
swittle Jul 2023 10:56am, 3 Jul 2023 98,280 posts	0 swittle ^ Not to be
Derby Tup Jul 2023 11:32am, 3 Jul 2023 60,249 posts	0 Derby Tup https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Wakefield
Derby Tup Jul 2023 11:33am, 3 Jul 2023 60,250 posts	0 Derby Tup appropriately not very exciting none link
swittle Jul 2023 12:23pm, 3 Jul 2023 98,284 posts	0 swittle appropriately not very exciting none link The lack of link is irritating, and thus, potentially exciting. What the link contains would preclude said theatre from the spirit of this thread [This quote direct from the cricket yesterday.]
DrMags Jul 2023 3:44pm, 3 Jul 2023 79 posts	0 DrMags swittle, that looks very similar to where I once lived in Leeds - and revisited back in March. How happy I am not to live there anymore.
swittle Jul 2023 4:30pm, 3 Jul 2023 98,285 posts	0 swittle DrMags I've lived in the end house in my picture 26 years. It's close to Crosby on Merseyside and is almost all owner occupied. Leeds I know quite well, having researched and taught there for years. The grittiness of a big city quite appeals: Liverpool's certainly not Arcadia...but where is?
DrMags Jul 2023 4:57pm, 3 Jul 2023 80 posts	0 DrMags Just realised my comment could have come across as quite rude 🥴 I was merely struck by the photographic coincidence (and keen to share an appropriate photo to this thread, my others being a bit too bucolic!). I was a student in Leeds and lived in an area full of shitty, multiple-occupancy rented accommodation (unlike your street) where the landlords’ lack of interest in maintenance was only beaten by the occupants’ lack of interest in keeping the place clean and tidy. 36 years has done nothing to improve the sorry state of the place as it continues to slowly compost away. Although I did see the Hyde Park Picture House was getting tarted up (won’t try to add a non-link 😉 ). As a Mancunian, I’ll not bait you with offering Manchester as a Liverpool-beating Arcadia 🤣
swittle Jul 2023 5:09pm, 3 Jul 2023 98,288 posts	0 swittle No, I didn't take your reflections that way, and could match the urban decrepitude of LS6 and elsewhere with the gnarliest of terraces in, say, Vauxhall and Kensington - the Liverpool ones. Slowly, the tide is turning, and some of Kenny's most desperate properties are coming down. Did you see this article about the restoration of the Hyde Park Picture House? I saw 'The Motorcycle Diaries' there years ago. bbc.co.uk
DrMags Jul 2023 5:23pm, 3 Jul 2023 81 posts	0 DrMags Oh I hadn’t - thanks, just read it. I saw “Eraserhead” at a late night showing there in 1986 and very uncooly fell asleep! “Stop Making Sense” on the otherhand 💃🏻 🕺🏼