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Alleyway #wander 2

Here are a few more of the alleyways of Nottingham city centre. I was planning to save them up until I found a few more… but I struggling to find any new ones.

Un-named alleyway, Hockley.



Hurt’s Yard.



Newcastle Chambers.



Peck Lane.



Poultry Arcade.



Weekday Cross.


That is all. If you know of any others, please let me know.

Thom

 

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An Alleyway #wander

I have long been intrigued by the half-hidden alleyways and courtyards that can be found around the city…

A courtyard off Stoney Street.



A loading bay on St Mary’s Gate.



An alleyway on St Mary’s Gate.



A ginnel (or snicket) on High Pavement.



A courtyard entrance at Weekday Cross.



Defunct light engineering, Middle Hill.



Former garage, beneath railway arches at Middle Hill.



Wasteland, Middle Hill.



Alley by the courts.



Courtyard off Carrington Street.



Norfolk Place, off Market Square.



Cobden Chambers, Pelham Street.


That is all.

If you know of any other good alleyways or yards etc in Nottingham, please let me know.

 

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#CAPOTW 9: The Big Push (and how it was made)

I’m sure you are all wondering how a Collaborative Art Project Of The Week is created. Well, here is how it grew from Monday to Friday.

Monday

 

Tuesday

Wednesday

 

Thursday

 

Friday. Finally!!

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#CAPOTW 9: The Big Push

They stand in the mud, as always. Boys from Burnley to Brighton, soon to brighten the soil of Flanders. There’s no place like home, familiar street names fail to rebrand mud trenches. Parapet, bulwark, earthwork, bastion. The unstoppable foe temporarily stopped. How little (looking back) we knew. Staggering giants, sorely reduced, stay toe-to-toe, never moving, never giving a barbed-wire inch, yet certain in their ability to be home by Christmas.

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