Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces (Read 382489 times)

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #3275 on:** 21 December, 2023, 10:52:42 pm »

The end of the terrace is interesting - what happened there? https://maps.app.goo.gl/UiXXKQPKPeB3u9Qf6

That's crazy cheap for the amount of house, though.

andrewc · « **Reply #3276 on:** 21 December, 2023, 11:33:47 pm »

I'm not sure what used to be there. The other end of the road is an old Territorial Army hall. These would once have been family houses, now most of them in that row are HMO. I think this one may have been something like that or an AirB&B. The furnishings don't look like a family home & there seem to be 2 keysafes by the front door.

Average house prices on Merseyside are fairly low, https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/house-prices-increase-merseyside-see-27961258.amp but it's location as always. A terrace in fashionable South Liverpool will the same as a semi in unfashionable Knowsley.

A short walk from my current flat but I'd need to win the lottery... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141184385#/?channel=RES_BUY

Unfashionable Huyton, a few minutes walk from my parents https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141086684#/?channel=RES_BUY

Fashionable Penny Lane area https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/139350086#/?channel=RES_BUY

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3277 on:** 22 December, 2023, 02:21:05 pm »

The furnishings look like they've put in by one of those "house dressing" outfits specifically to sell the place.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #3278 on:** 30 December, 2023, 10:38:31 am »

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24016832.swindon-dads-christmas-dinner-saved-forgets-key-ingredient/

Man forgets carrots for his Xmas dinner.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3279 on:** 30 December, 2023, 10:42:24 am »

BONNNGGG!

Jurek · « **Reply #3280 on:** 30 December, 2023, 11:27:39 am »

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-67835079.amp

Kim · « **Reply #3281 on:** 30 December, 2023, 12:57:33 pm »

Quote from: Jurek on 30 December, 2023, 11:27:39 am

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-67835079.amp

I went to the effort of loading that on my phone, to see if it perhaps looked like FIRE if you were squinting at it on a tiny screen. It didn't.

Jurek · « **Reply #3282 on:** 30 December, 2023, 01:09:25 pm »

It doesn't really look like one when viewed on a big screen either.

Kim · « **Reply #3283 on:** 30 December, 2023, 01:10:32 pm »

No; on a big screen it looks like orange netting flapping in the wind.

Jaded · « **Reply #3284 on:** 30 December, 2023, 03:41:34 pm »

No smoke with that fire.

Kim · « **Reply #3285 on:** 30 December, 2023, 03:47:40 pm »

Also, it's the Blackpool tower, which is AFAIK composed of steel and lightbulbs. Not a lot to combust. And - crucially - if it could, one of the locals would have torched it decades ago.

Beardy · « **Reply #3286 on:** 30 December, 2023, 04:23:11 pm »

It does remind me of the response of a firefighter of my acquaintance to the question how many false alarms do you get called out to. None was his reply, although we’ve come back from quite a few.

Jurek · « **Reply #3287 on:** 30 December, 2023, 04:52:41 pm »

Poignant.

Kim · « **Reply #3288 on:** 30 December, 2023, 11:02:19 pm »

Yep, no complaints about the fire service response. If it *had* been a fire, it would be serious business.

While it's easy to watch the video and go "doesn't look much like a fire to me", and doubt the thought of fire would even occur to me if I saw it in real life, I certainly wouldn't stake other people's lives on it.

Kim · « **Reply #3289 on:** 01 January, 2024, 12:32:11 pm »

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-12-29/customer-parks-tank-outside-wickes-after-shoddy-kitchen-fitting

Someone will be along in a minute to point out that it's not a tank...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3290 on:** 01 January, 2024, 12:35:00 pm »

Hooray tanky tanky! by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

spesh · « **Reply #3291 on:** 01 January, 2024, 01:25:51 pm »

Nope, it ain't a tank, and it isn't even "huge" - 'tis an Abbot self-propelled gun, which was rather petite compared with most other SPGs.

And if memory serves, didn't Valiant (occasionally OTP), have one of these, or at least, knew somebody who owned one?

<does battle with the forum's feersum surch enjin>

Stand easy, my memory was playing tricks - Valiant and the Space Hijackers had a Saracen APC painted to look like a police vehicle, which resulted in a bit of a sense of humour failure on the part of TPTB.

edited

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #3292 on:** 01 January, 2024, 01:28:13 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 01 January, 2024, 12:32:11 pm

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-12-29/customer-parks-tank-outside-wickes-after-shoddy-kitchen-fitting

Someone will be along in a minute to point out that it's not a tank...

what I don’t understand in this report is the man says he spent £25,000 on the kitchen, but because of the problems he might lose his house. That’s weird maths.

Jurek · « **Reply #3293 on:** 01 January, 2024, 01:28:37 pm »

Quote from: spesh on 01 January, 2024, 01:25:51 pm

Nope, it ain't a tank, and it isn't even "huge" - 'tis an Abbot self-propelled gun, which was rather petite compared with most other SPGs.

And if memory serves, didn't Valiant (occasionally OTP), have one of these, or at least, knew somebody who owned one?

I'm pretty sure Valiant's vehicle was an APC rather than something sporting heavy ordnance.
ETA - it had wheels not tracks.

spesh · « **Reply #3294 on:** 01 January, 2024, 01:35:07 pm »

Quote from: Jurek on 01 January, 2024, 01:28:37 pm

Quote from: spesh on 01 January, 2024, 01:25:51 pm
Nope, it ain't a tank, and it isn't even "huge" - 'tis an Abbot self-propelled gun, which was rather petite compared with most other SPGs.

And if memory serves, didn't Valiant (occasionally OTP), have one of these, or at least, knew somebody who owned one?
I'm pretty sure Valiant's vehicle was an APC rather than something sporting heavy ordnance.

Per my edit/addition to my post above, that is correct. I think I got mixed up WRT the pink Abbot that rocked up at Pride some time in the mid-2000s.

ETA - For reference, here's the "for sale" thread: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=33744.0

Jaded · « **Reply #3295 on:** 01 January, 2024, 02:16:36 pm »

Quote from: Auntie Helen on 01 January, 2024, 01:28:13 pm

Quote from: Kim on 01 January, 2024, 12:32:11 pm
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-12-29/customer-parks-tank-outside-wickes-after-shoddy-kitchen-fitting

Someone will be along in a minute to point out that it's not a tank...
what I don’t understand in this report is the man says he spent £25,000 on the kitchen, but because of the problems he might lose his house. That’s weird maths.

I read it that he borrowed the money for the kitchen, but cant get a remortgage because the kitchen is shit.

barakta · « **Reply #3296 on:** 01 January, 2024, 02:19:28 pm »

I agree with Jaded.

The Guardian's money pages have had several unhappy Wickes kitchen customers with months and months of issues and Wickes insisting on the original outsourced fitter being given umpty chances to fix even after dangerous gas safety and other issues.

I applaud this guy's protest, I suspect it'll work quicker than any legal means. I liked that the owner of it, lends it to people wanting to make a visible protest about shit things.

slope · « **Reply #3297 on:** 02 January, 2024, 09:18:54 am »

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Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3298 on:** 02 January, 2024, 09:44:04 am »

Slope, you have to move house immediately.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3299 on:** 17 January, 2024, 10:15:29 am »

https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/24051935.fire-rips-duke-edinburgh-pub-a487-newgale/

That's a shame. Jan and I stayed there a few years ago - 2018 I think. At that time the accommodation was all on the first floor but a totally different business from the pub.