SNAPSHOT! Chorley. Market Day Miscellany.

It’s a Tuesday and I’ve cleared the decks enough for me to sneak out for a couple of hours out and about and a bit of present buying.

It’s a Tuesday and I’ve cleared the decks enough for me to sneak out for a couple of hours out and about and a bit of present buying.

Right I’m on the last ish leg of the journey home, only a glacier and a pack of wild bears to negotiate. (Okay I exaggerated about the glacier….) I’m currently on Chester station, it’s Eater Sunday tomorrow so the run down of services is more marked than usual. Somewhere on platform 7 a well refreshed gentleman is still singing about the merits of his football club at full volume. There’s […]

It’s the Easter weekend and the holiday has been graced with sunshine. I was beginning to forget that you could have the sky in colours other that dull, life sapping grey. So I have taken myself off to Colwyn Bay on the North Wales coast fos a couple of hours camera wandering. I’m currently sat in Amanda’s Cafe, watching the world go by. I like old school style cafes, there’s […]

Right, waiting for the bus back home from a visit to one of my local markets. Any regular readers of this nonsense I churn out will know how much I like a good market and how important I think they are. Enough rabbiting on from me, have a couple of photos.

I’m in Manchester for a few hours, I fancied a walk around the city plus I need some fresh images for my photo library submissions. Needing food, a constant state for me, I took myself over to Ancoats and the New Islington Marina. This was created out of the network of canals that brought cargoes in and out of Manchester before railways and the iron horse gained the upper hand. […]

To continue the day. I arrived in Chester and decided to take a walk over to Hoole, it’s only a few minute walk from the railway station, it’s an area that was scheduled for demolition but wiser heads prevailed and it’s now an area of interesting independent shops. There’s a couple of places to eat, a personal favorite is The Little Yellow Pig. I got there, found a table and […]