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Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 17h

Salford scale

The Victoria building, Salford Quays

Imposing classical-modern hybrid glass fronted building reflecting a blue sky with it’s Post-Modern Palladian shapes and concrete columns. Looking down the Mariners Canal at kayakers, paddle boarders and the tall masts & primary colours of the footbridge

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Burnley rd interest

Very nice Victorian shop front window, now used as a studio ~ stacks of woodcuts and woodworking machines on the tables

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And it has a candyfloss pink pulpit inside to match! hnnnnng 💅

pink pulpit in the arched window of the pink church

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So many gorgeous old shop fronts along the Burnley rd

shabby shop front filled with antique furniture/ curios and mannequins draped in glitzy fabric.

Keith’s Sale Room, Lydgate

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Selected from a catalogue in 1888 Thank you and same here, will definitely have a look next time I’m in Brid

June 1888 date stone

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

tin tabernacle, pink !

A faded pink corrugated iron church with white barge boards and stained glass mullion windows

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sept in paper bags

paper bags flat lay:
saint etienne merch swag bag
stripey gift bag with a yellow smiley sticker
Sarah Nelson’s Grasmere gingerbread - real badmans know
Ham Corner market deli, Todmorden

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this morning is red geraniums and a completed loyalty card coffee

Red geraniums in little pots obscured behind a pane of privacy glass

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Barrow siloed coast

roughcast render on a house, yard wall and off shot kitchen. It’s hard to tell where one wall ends and another begins, think “if Santorini was greige, damp and uninviting”. window with iron bars & outward facing prongs on the yard wall, no barbed wire

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday presence

A field with a standing stone that’s actually 12 ft tall or more, it’s presence is somewhat diminished from this angle by a wooden electricity pole. A sheep grazes close by, you can only see its bum. In the distance, sunlit hills with electricity pylons cutting through

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

pea soup dusk at the wharf

3 or 4 storey wooden canal warehouse building with a prominent and gently sloped roof, the canopy hangs over the canal - which is wide and green

Burnley Wharf
Leeds Liverpool Canal

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Before traffic

Looking across the green canal at an old cotton mill building with a white van parked outside

Chairs left on a pile of rubble with the top half of a chimney stack framed between them. Not pictured but here the view opens up and you can still see the majority of Burnley’s surviving chimney stacks on a clear day

Leeds Liverpool Canal
Burnley

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Priorities 💗

Traditional pub with red and green walls, wood panelling, wooden furniture and a vintage ‘JOHN SMITH’S MAGNET ALES’ poster, looks 50’s. It’s blue with a hand holding an iridescent pint and I’ve been coveting it for years.

The Blake Hotel - where else
Walkley
Sheffield

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mr. Clean

End terraces, one a converted launderette with a blue sign that says ‘LAUNDERAMA’ in bubble style font (the chosen typeface of lots of launderettes in the north west but to my mind it’s seaside doughnut stands)
On the side of the building is a repainted ghost sign for ‘Burnley Co-operative Society LTD - Branch No. 22’ and in the foreground a lamppost with a torn and faded St George’s cross flag.

#ghostsigns
Burnley

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

we are having a good time

cat and book instalment

Flann O’Brien - At Swim-Two-Birds
+ black and white cat called Seimí. he’s having a wash. good time boys

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Burnley Festive

Stone wall of an old mill backing onto the canal and a mounted sign, blooming with rust, that reads ‘J. G. COATES ʙᴜʀɴʟᴇʏ LTD’ in a lovely light blue festive font. They do like a bit of claret and light blue round here

Leeds Liverpool Canal
Burnley

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Autumn’s cauldron with the green canal

Green canal covered in a layer of duckweed, stone bridge, uniform stone terraces & the tall chimney stack of an old mill

this stretch of the LL canal through Burnley has quickly become a favourite place

Slater Terrace - Sandygate
Burnley
Leeds Liverpool Canal

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Calder cats

Beautiful Maine Coon cat sat on a fence in front of a tatty shed, complete with windows and floral butterfly machine made net curtains

unlike her brother - favourite npc - she requires fuss and knows exactly how to get it ^^

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

work, rest and play #ghostsigns

An old corner shop that’s been closed for years, but is somehow so well preserved. It always feels special to see something like this when I’m out and about and there’s been a few of these moments in Blackburn.
The sign says ‘ROYAL CORNER SHOP - Mr. & MRS.ESAT’ along with a vintage Mars advertisement ‘a Mars a day…’

Blackburn, Lancs

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

sights & signs Barrow

Really milking the walk I took around Barrow docks while I used an EV charger now aren’t I

A window with wood casings, barred with rusty iron spikes and patchwork privacy glass patterned panes:, floral, houndstooth and speckled. To me this is Cumbria

A terraced corner, old workshops with boarded up windows, a brick wall damaged by roughcast. no repointing is happening here so climbing plants take hold. A utility pole. Dwellings where people made a living on the docks, moslty shipbuilding, in times before atomic weapons and BAE contracts.

The Devonshire Dock Hall groundscraper looms beyond the terraces. It’s this that reminds me of the landscape around Sellafield to the north, where historic farm buildings and harsh land to dredge are met with the futuristic silhouettes of a nuclear town.

double yellows satisfying curve around the base of a utility pole & black bins

Wall with two notices “WARNING RAZOR WIRE” “NUCLEAR SITE BOUNDARY”

Barrow-in-Furness
Cumbria
the siloed coast where I’m from

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ferry Road Triangle

Back street of terraced housing with adjoining walls at the end of the yards, mostly grey roughcast and some red brick. There are a couple of wheelie bins and fly tipped mattress & chair. The view is dominated by the huge cream shipyard building behind - the Devonshire Dock Hall

Ferry Rd Triangle / BAE Systems
Barrow

Cumbria, Siloed coast

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

F & C Meat Barrow-in-Furness

A very old terraced shop front. Everything is faded including the hand painted sign which reads ‘F & C MEAT
retail butchers’. the window above the shop is broken and partly boarded up.

Ferry Road Triangle
Barrow-in-Furness

Cumbria, Siloed coast

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

that’s barra marra Siloed coast

-to the tune of money honey by lady gaga-

A neglected and battered wooden door boarded up with rusty corrugated metal that says ‘keep out police notified’. that’s good then. pebbledash walls & battered red brick exposed, double yellows.

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Siloed coast Seascale Sports Hall

A red sandstone building with an arched doorway and blue sign for ‘SEASCALE Sports HALL’

West Cumbria

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This siloed coastline

A silo slurry tank for agricultural waste next to farm buildings bearing the words ‘GASCOIGNE - SLURRY STORE’

Almost annual explorations of the landscape between the fells and the sea

somewhere near Seascale
West Cumbria

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

my whole life is like a monstrous and pulpy vegetable

A sign that says ‘FRUIT’ in lovely green Festive font above matching green shop awning

County Fruit Stores,
Cockermouth

wandering round in search of coffee with last nights Stereolab performance whizzing round my mind

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

how it feels to eat a tin of mackerel while standing directly over the sink

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Goin loco

A postwar commercial-looking building with a fabulous red neon 'The ACAPULCO Club' sign. Below it is a yellow sign with a dragon which was the 'Gourmet' Chinese restaurant that looks to have been closed for a few years now

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tai Shani - The Neon Hieroglyph (3)

Tai Shani, The Neon Hieroglyph 3
(2021)

From a series of 9 watercolours exploring the history of ergot, a fungus that grows on rye & psychedelic component in LSD. The painting includes a pink temple with dark entrance based on ‘The Tomb’ by Paul Thek. Two windows with alternate architectural realities, buildings with steps and parapets, and three orange glowy circles connected by loose orange ribbon.

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Marina Symbolic

The Riversway Control Centre at Preston Docks resembles a pyramid with a lookout platform and porthole windows. It’s blue steel beams are similar to nearby cranes that were once used to unload cargo from ships. purrr

The water is looking rather a luminous green thanks to the blue green algae outbreak

corner view of the pyramid with life buoy post and marina wall

Preston Docks Marina

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Preston Postmodernism

4 or 5 storey building behind tall conifers. Distinctive shaped classical forms made with modern day metal cladding. They’re curved on top and resemble mushroom caps or something buoyant. They jut out from the building a bit like the bow of an upturned ship

Princes Reach
Preston Marina

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wind whips away at mortar

farmstead ruins. an entranceway surrounded by collapsed stone walls. The main wall of the building has distinct seams from different ages of construction. Higher up the wind and rain whips away the mortar between stones and turns stone to rubble then dust

Roundfield Farm
Todmorden Lower Moor

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

sights and signs of Ketton

sash window held slightly ajar by a stack of books

fingerpost sign with directions to Tinwell, Stamford, Uppingham and Morcott. Attached to the post is an old bicycle advertising 'The Railway Inn, Chruch Road, Ketton - phone 01780 721050'. (a wonderful pub)

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

silence everyone, the hollyhocks are speaking

A place overgrown with green ivy, in the centre a stem of pink hollyhocks in bloom

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

i n c r e d i b l e
1947 poster ad for Hallamsteel
Blue sky background with an athletic steelworker holding a mallet in one hand and grasping a fistful of arrows towards the sky with the other. Large text reads ‘Hallamsteel’ ‘alloy & special carbon steels’ ‘Manufacturers of bars • sheets • plates • wire rods’ ‘ The Hallamshire Steel & File Co. Ltd. Sheffield Telephone : Sheffield 24?04 (7 lines) Established 1873’

Hallamsteel catalogue clipping from 1955 that I just really liked. ‘STEEL’ in profil font
‘This sturdy key made in Sheffield in the 17th century, was made to fit a mortice lock for what is now known as the front door. A safety device and a guardian of the people, such keys made in Britain by British craftsmen, still prove that after the test of time, British steel is the Front Door to Industry.’ fiyah 🔥

KEY TO INDUSTRY’ and graphic of a big old key.

‘The development of steel made possible the growth of civilisation itself.
For steel is the key to the good things of life as well as to the necessities; as essential to the maker of the precision watch as to the bridge-builder.
Hallamshire high-grade Alloy and Carbon steels serve a multitude of industries in many ways.’

and honestly well done to anyone who’s made it this far along 🏆

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

high summer lurk in this post industrial terrain

pink peregrine

Outer wall of a Victorian warehouse building with a jagged roof. It is heavily decaying, busy and beautiful. The surface is a beige concrete render but its redbrick secret is exposed in areas where the render has aged away. In the centre is a window/vent with a steel pipe - the wall around the pipe has been completely blackened by smoke. Underneath the window, graffiti: tags, ghostly figure and pink peregrine falcon in flight which stands out from its white square background.

Hallamshire Works, former site of Hallamshire Steel & File Co. Ltd.
Established 1873
Neepsend, Sheffield

The same building where a drainpipe in the middle of the wall splits away to either side. A sealed up window with an iron pipe sticking out, the wall above this has been blackened by smoke as well. The render finish makes a nice smooth canvas for scribbles which continue right the way along

Looking up at the sawtooth roof, cloudy skies with a bit of blue

A close up of one of the arched window shaped vents on the building with metal bars over it, a band of decorative brickwork above. Something blue is bubbling on the wall beneath. Acid north

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Woof

A former works door that’s been boarded up. A sign on the wall for the Works Office has been covered by Sheffield council notices stuck with hazard tape and only reads ‘Wo Off’ instead. Graffiti all over

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

freckles

Mini-study of a quietly disappearing feature of our towns & cities. it’s the mid-rise concrete office building with mosaic tile panels of course

Alt: a close up of the grimy outer wall of a building with horizontal sections of louvre vents, mosaic tile frieze, boarded up windows and a street level section of mosaic tiles that’s been claimed by gig posters and graffiti.

Canon Brewery, for your Stones Bitter, Sheffield

Looking up at a dirty mosaic tile wall that would be really satisfying to pressure wash. One patch where a sign has been removed is a slightly brighter grey than the rest

Sheffield

Mosaic tile wall of beige brown and cream. Orange foam sealant spilling out from a boarded up retail window

Stockport

Sunlight bathed orange and red mosaic tile frieze that I can hear. A section of wood chip board beneath & charcoal brick underneath that at ground level, red valerians grow from the base of the wall.

Timeform House
for your bets on the ossis, ready for demolition
Halifax

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Threshold

Had to chip for a short while as I was missing the point. Not sure if it’s been found but outside they have dilapidation and the reassuringly expansive moors which have helped.

~In true Calderdale literary tourist fashion have been cosplaying as some iteration of a 19th c. waiting daughter which naturally called for less screen time.~

not pictured: surviving on a foundational diet of bread, cheese and ale.
(& iced latte)

Alt txt: here we have a stone squeeze stile next to a modern day wooden step stile, they mark a threshold between the shaded, green valley and dry, sunlit hillside beyond. Moors upward.

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

been out for some

A salon called ‘Freshair’ in Bacup
closed for the day & the grey shutters are down

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

if you leg it to the other one you can probably still make quarter past

On the Bacup Road with these two, they’ve been up to all sorts, eating your hedges, drinking from the horses buckets, antagonising cyclists

Alt: a reinforced concrete bus shelter with murky windows & two sheep running up the pavement. Yellow ‘BUS’ road markings

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Gilded stone on the Halifax Rd

A three storey stone building in golden evening light. the lower floor was once the shop front of a painter & decorators, it’s red, faded & the windows now covered in a layer of dust so thick you can’t see through. The door on the right has a flood barrier

80-82 Halifax Road
Todmorden

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

must not be enticed by portal number 9 no matter how cute it is

I’d be such an easy target for kidnapping

A mysterious wooden door to an archway of a once grand building. It’s red and wonky and the paint is peeling. It has 4 heart shapes cut out in a row above the number ‘9’

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

No loathing here

Hydrangea heads pressed against a Perspex screen. The full blooms are vibrant and magenta in colour, soften by the screen, others are green star-shaped buds with magenta tips

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Yesterday ruins, vaccary stones, fruit in reach, a cooling breeze

Photo story from yesterday that I didn’t post yesterday because I got lots of likes on a post and became afraid of my phone

Alt: a cobbled path and mossy drystone wall meet an old stone farm building. The tall meadow grass spills in through the gaps between the cobbles making them barely noticeable

Meadowy hillside lined with unusual grave-like stones. Vaccary stones were a medieval farming technique where the upright stones formed enclosures for cattle. There are loads of them here at Wycoller and along the Brontë Way. The stones themselves have become shelter for foxgloves and thorny, twisted trees

Many raspberries growing on the hedgerows

The packhorse bridge at Wycoller. Very old bridge comprised of two stone arches over a wide and shallow stream. There’s a path to the right and woodland behind.

This area is next to the ruins of Wycoller Hall, visited frequently by Emily and Charlotte Brontë on their many walks & is thought to be the inspiration for Ferndean Manor in Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre”. Reader, it was lit

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

in my defence the stick man looks like he’s having the time of his life there

A sign in front of some old ruins that reads “for safety and protection - Do NOT climb on this Ancient Monument’ with an icon of a stick person, arms outstretched, balancing on a crumbling bridge or wall inside a red circle with a diagonal line through it

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

shoutout vintage avon decanters. got to be some of my favourite vessels

Novelty perfume bottles in front of speckled privacy glass
Here we have a snail, a silver fawn, tap & a miniature blue bottle with a red faceted stopper

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

GO Slowly Round the Bend !

eternal moooooooooooood

Alt: handmade placard sign sticking out of a plant pot at the end of a driveway that reads ‘GO Slowly Round the Bend !’.

I basically performed an emergency stop to get out the car and take this pic whoops

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Redderz

A white stucco wall with a metal vent duct running diagonally across, a road sign for ‘20 ZONE’ casting strong shadows & a window with red trim & security bars

Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

MORECAMBE

A modernist concrete cast building with long thin windows. The lower part of the building has a brown wall with letter sign for the mighty ‘TELEPHONE EXCH-NGE’, no sign of the missing A.
overgrown weeds on the pavement and pebbled ground in front