What's the largest brick built structure in the UK?

The answer, of course, is the Stockport railway viaduct.

The 27 arches took 21 months and 11,000,000 bricks to build. At the peak of building activity 600 men were employed, and it opened in June 1840.In 1890 is was expanded to allow more line to be laid.

What does this picture tell you? That I need to get a lens hood for this camera. That's what

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Yesterday had an exciting start as I went to buy a new bulb for the cooker hood. #livingthedream

I then headed into Stockport to see if I could summon up some exciting images on a cold and blowy winters day. I parked up at my normal place in Middle Hillgate (not far from the famous Strawberry Studios) and had a wander.

Plenty of Spaces

This is the car park that sits between the viaduct (I went onto the top floor to take the pic at the top of this page) and the A6 by Debenhams. It needed a single car parked down at the end, of a figure, but I quite liked the light falling through the gaps in the concrete.

Seen Better Days

This is, or was, a pub at the side of the A6 near Merseyway and if I remember correctly at one time was called "Ups and Downs", or something similar. The roadway is high related to the building and there is a floor below road level.

Steps

These steps link - I think - Great Underbank with Lower Hillgate in Stockport and one of the things I always try to get an image of. It need figures on the stairs so that the leading lines of the steps take you somewhere.

This final picture is a bit pants, but when you have a strongly lit foreground, with a dark and stormy sky, you have to make an image whether it has merit or not.

Sofa and Caravan

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Gel was delivering one her wildly well received "Life Planning for the Over Fifties" workshops at the Guild so I picked her up when it finished and we went to the cinema. We've had a splurge of film going recently and we've seen The Revenent, The Big Short, (I saw) Hateful Eight, and then last night we went to see Spotlight.

A film about the team at the Boston Globe uncovering the abuse of children by Catholic priests, and the subsequent cover up by the church. Very powerful. Well acted. The second film - The Big Short - in which institutional cover ups play a large part. Perhaps all those "looney" conspiracy theorists might not be so mad after all....
See it.