|
|
Post by whippet on Apr 28, 2021 16:07:09 GMT
While taking pictures for the photograph challenge, I decided to get extra. I know some of the text is too dark, but I had done it all on one image - then it wouldn't fit properly.   |
|
|
|
Post by Lillias on Apr 28, 2021 21:16:34 GMT
What a wonderful verse on the bridge.
Can I be a little bit critical whippet? It’s a shame that the text covers those two photos and also the text itself seems sort of squashed together making it hard to read - at least for my old eyes.
When you say “I know the text is too dark, but I had done it all on one image”. Were you not working with layers in your document?
|
|
|
|
Post by jackscrap on Apr 29, 2021 3:56:10 GMT
I’m intrigued by all the history in these images, and why the street was made so wide. I once lived near a street called ‘Spitfire Avenue’ so named because it once served as a runway for the planes during WW2.
|
|
|
|
Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 29, 2021 5:05:11 GMT
Love the two, narrow and colorful streets. Some neat history.
|
|
phildc
Junior Forum Member
Posts: 191
Open to constructive criticism of photos: Yes
|
Post by phildc on Apr 29, 2021 11:19:29 GMT
Ahhh... Stockton-on-Tees... watching the latest arthouse cinema releases at the Dovecot back in the early 1990s and flicking through all the vinyl in Sound it Out  I used to run a record shop in Middlesbrough and every Monday morning we and the local HMV would get all the new releases delivered by Securicor to the shops. I came up with the idea of getting a taxi really early in the morning to the Securicor depot at Stockton and intercept all of our deliveries before they were loaded onto the van. That meant I could get back to Middlesbrough, open up the shop early and have a least an hour of sales of all the new releases before the HMV Thanks for bringing back those distant memories! |
|
|
|
Post by hmca on Apr 29, 2021 14:42:16 GMT
Interesting to read the comments on your page, Margaret. I also like the script on the bridge.....brilliant idea as you might say  . Like Clive, I am drawn to the colorful side streets. |
|
|
|
Post by whippet on May 1, 2021 18:12:23 GMT
Yes, those shops have just had a new coat of paint. I did a similar montage a few years ago. I preferred when they looked a bit tatty. I may still have the other one, somewhere. @ Jacki. I suppose like most people around here, I had never given it a thought. You have got me wondering now. I will see if I can find out. @ phildc. If you have not been back to Stockton since then, you will not recognize the place now. And they are going to change everything again. I think there were two record shops in Middlesbrough, Hamiltons and another - Sykes? I used the one on Newport Road. @ Lillias. Well, you know me. I had done the thing in layers. But for some reason I had the thought that I should flatten it before I put the text on. |
|
|
|
Post by whippet on May 4, 2021 14:26:20 GMT
I’m intrigued by all the history in these images, and why the street was made so wide. I once lived near a street called ‘Spitfire Avenue’ so named because it once served as a runway for the planes during WW2. At long last. Got it. Norton used to be much more important than Stockton, everyone had to travel to Norton Parish Church each Sunday and Stockton was an agricultural community with farmsteads on either side of a wide roadway. This allowed farm carts to pass each other and also allow passage for posh visitors to the Bishop of Durham at Stockton Castle with all their baggage and servants etc., the Bishop himself usually travelled from Durham via boat. Stockton grew up from there, evolving into a very wide high street. ..................................................... Lots of High Streets in the North and North Yorkshire, Stockton, Yarm, Northallerton, Bedale for example, are wider in the middle and narrow at either end. It's historically to do with driving cattle in to a safe place to protect from the marauding Scots centuries ago. The area then used for markets with Stockton being the widest. |
|
|
|
Post by jackscrap on May 4, 2021 21:22:32 GMT
Thank you Whippet, your research was very interesting, love the bit about the marauding Scots!
|
|
.