Another busy day, a trip to Costco, dash to the office to meet a prospective tenant who decided to say yes and rent an office from us, a few hours work on a few different projects, a Skype conference with a customer and then into Loughborough on a scouting mission for future shots!
Using my new 18-55 lens on my X-Pro 1 for the fiurst time I am pleased with the results.
This is a shot on a backstreet with a story. This old hosiery mill is now converted into flats. Loughborough was once full of hosiery mills, but sadly all are gone now.
It is on Duke Street, which is a sidestreet off Clarence Street. The two are linked by being named after George IV (1765-1837) when he was the Duke of Clarence. Regent St in the town is also named after him, named when he visited the town.
We are off to the Nottingham Playhouse tonight to see the Threepenny Opera. Should be good. I will be catching up with you all over the weekend hopefully.
I connect to this photo because of the second floor doors (first floor in the UK, I think). I often see upper floor doors-to-nowhere in ghost towns because the stairs leading to them rot and fall down. But I wonder why these doors open onto nothing? Fav for a nice photo with a bit of mystery.
great looking building - cool composition and you usual fantastic tones @rvwalker a lot of our factories and buildings had doors for loading or unloading on the first (your second) floor, and or above, with hoists or cranes above rather than getting bulky loads up and down stairs, The warehouses in London Docklands have those sort of windows on every floor.
I love the symmetry too. Its quite attractive, not regimented looking. In Baldock high street, next town to us, the old Spirella building was once a hosiery factory. It now belongs to tescos but they had to keep the frontage of the old building.
March 20th, 2014
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@rvwalker a lot of our factories and buildings had doors for loading or unloading on the first (your second) floor, and or above, with hoists or cranes above rather than getting bulky loads up and down stairs, The warehouses in London Docklands have those sort of windows on every floor.