Jamie K
@crumpsalljamie
a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi
this is a shot of the derelict Conservative Club on Crumpsall Green. There was crown green bowling on the back lawn and that gable end at the front used to be the function room, now inhabited by bats.
by contrast here's the 'reverse libdem bar chart' we got on election day.
And here is William Gladstone, the first 'Manchesterist' prime minister. He is shown here failing get a taxi.
The other half of the building is a mediocre chain pub. Whole thing is pleasingly informal.
Visiting Julie earlier in hospital, part of which was formerly a workhouse. The inscription reads 'poor and needy the Lord careth for me '
In the kebab shop window, local democracy's menu. Note the contrasting sizes of the Party id's.
Typical north Manchester scene. The enchanted woods. The babbling brook. The giant bobbins in the cable factory yard #outwiththedog
If you squint very hard you can just about see the word Labour at the bottom right
so Julie went to Whitby with her sister and sent me this picture of the Hand of Glory she saw in the local museum. Popular with visiting goths, apparently.
abandoned council bicycle on a disused playing field #failedSmithslyrics #outwiththedog
it's not often you see a 50 year old Cadillac Eldorado in a kebab house car park off Cheetham Hill Road
Manchester responded to becoming collateral damage in the war against slavery by offering wholehearted support to the Union and eventually erecting this statue, which sits in Lincoln Square near the town hall.
had to go to hospital mtoday and ran across this in one of the corridors. It's a stained glass memorial to the Cotton Famine during the US civil war, when the Union blockade of Confederate ports stopped the export of cotton to Manchester, collapsing the city's most important industry.