This week I’m up north with my family, which means I should have made the blog post during the week, because I knew I wouldn’t have chance at the weekend. Unfortunately I didn’t have chance during the week either, so the blog is taking a week off. But I have at least properly escaped Oxford for a bit.
I’d like to keep posting regularly, though, so in lieu of a full post, here are some pictures I took yesterday in the pretty World Heritage village of Saltaire, which I can’t use in a future write-up because it’s not a place you can visit as a day trip from Oxford. Hopefully they reach the required standards of pretentious photo-taking.
The old Salt Grammar School bell tower, now part of Shipley College.
Bradford Council has replaced all the street signs with ones of the original style.
Pretentious mill shot.
What was once the administration building for the mill, and is now headquarters for a tech company. Also formerly home to the Tourist Information Centre until the council withdrew funding.
Looking over the River Aire (after which the village is 50% named) towards Roberts Park, named after the second family to own the mill and village (the Salts being the first).
The banks of the Aire. The footbridge replaces a former cast-iron road bridge that was removed when it became unsafe.
Pretentious tree shot.
Cat!
There are four lions around the former school and the village hall (which is the building here, and is massive; it now has a cinema organ in it). They are named “War”, “Peace”, “Determination” and “Vigilance”, and are posed accordingly (this one is “Peace”). Rumour has it they were meant for Trafalgar Square, but that seems to be an urban myth.
The building reflected in the window is the former village hospital, now private housing.
(If you want to read a blog post about Saltaire, one of the blogs in my blog roll, Diamond Geezer, went there in 2013; it hasn’t changed much.)
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