Double doorway with columns and portico and indentations for the boot scrapers, York, June 2023
This is the second of three galleries of pictures taken during a lightening visit to York at the end of June that included a short doorscursion. I am pressed for time, so will let the doors do the talking. I will be enjoying the Italian sun next week, but will try to do a Thursday doors post if I get time.
Meanwhile, enjoy:
Parish church door , York, June 2023Wooden framed glass door and brick tiles, York, June 2023Slightly wonky light green door and beautiful Portico, York, June 2023Black door with very grand columns and portico, York, June 2023Thick brick arch surround and blue panelled door, York, June 2023
So that draws things to a close for another week. Have a fabulous weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
Micklegate bar (gate) and city wall, York, June 2023
Doors 226 – Doors of York City (1)
I was lucky enough to attend a conference in Harrogate last week, but decided to stay the night before in the nearby City of York, with some of my colleagues. I could tell from the moment of stepping off the train that this was going to be one hell of a doorscursion. To do it justice, I really needed to spend a couple of days in the place, but unfortunately only had an evening, basically the walk from the station to the hotel, and the walk from the hotel to a restaurant. My long-suffering colleagues had to keep waiting while I yelled from behind, ‘just one more door’. I realised that it takes a special kind of person to be interested in doors, and that most people are not.
This first set of doors are from outside the city walls, which are most impressive, as is the whole city, in fact York is a place I must visit again, but as a tourist rather than a delegate. Heree are some doors for you:
Three doors, York, June 2023
Pillar box red door with black surround, York, June 2023
Recessed blue door with steps, York, June 2023
Recessed turquoise door with steps and tiles, York, June 2023
Micklegate bar (gate), York, June 2023
Ghost door, York, June 2023
I couldn’t resist the ghost door at the end, mainly to show to my son, who is an apprentice stonemason and is interested in all kinds of stone work.
Well, that’s it for this week, and I hope to bring you some more York doors next time. Have a fabulous rest of week and weekend. Adios.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
Obviously, I like to take pictures of doors, especially when I visit places that I don’t go to all that often, it becomes a bit of a habit to stop and look at a door that grabs my attention. It is difficult to know what constitutes a ‘good’ door and a door that is nothing out of the ordinary. I think this selection of doors from Weston-super-Mare on the north coat of Somerset sail quite close to the wind in terms of being ordinary, and being a little bit more interesting than that. I will let you be the judges of that, though.
I hope you enjoy this selection:
Double arches with doors – Wadham Street Garage, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Double door for a small business, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Green front door that looks like a garden gate, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Pink door with kick-plate, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Vibrant red door, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Black doors on the side of a restaurant, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
A short one this week – a very busy work day ahead.
May I wish you a great rest of week and weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
Last weekend, Paul H and I took a trip to Weston-super-Mare to photograph some of the street art there, not least the impressive recent additions from the last three years thanks to Upfest’s involvement with the Weston Wallz initiative. We hadn’t even left the station when I spotted a surfeit of doors on a Network Rail maintenance wagon – this was going to be a good day.
Plenty of doors on this Network Rail rail grinder, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Being a seaside town, many of the doors are in fairly poor condition, from all that salt spray in the winter months, so, plenty of characterful doors, but not many ancient ones. The doors were a bit of a bonus on what was actually a street/graffiti art mission, but Paul was very patient with me as I snapped up a few interesting doors. I hope you enjoy them:
Blue doors of a certain period, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Green doors of a certain period in need of some TLC, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Dirty plain door and a little bit of graffiti, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Steel doors, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
More to come from this trip in due course. My I wish you a happy end of week.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
I actually photographed these doors earlier this week, which is something I haven’t done for a while. More often, I tend to rifle through my archives to find a set of doors for posting on Thursdays.
Old market is a bit of a strange part of Bristol, caught between architectural periods and bordered by busy roads. It looks a little bit tatty these days, but at one time would have been a bustling market area, and some of the doors and doorways reflect this.
There are lots of pubs and places to eat or be entertained, but the volume of traffic has taken away any sense of community or cohesion – I guess it happens to many cities around the world I guess. Faded glory.
I hope you enjoy the doors – rather too many doorfies for my liking, though!
Black door/gate, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023
Plain door, grand doorway, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023
Pub cellar doors, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023
Pub cellar doors and gates, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023
It is the writing around the door that tells you something about a previous life of the building, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023
Well, that brings proceedings to a close for another week – may I wish you a very happy weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
Sliding doors at the front entrance, Bristol Zoo, Bristol, October 2018
Little did I know when I took these pictures in October 2018 that Bristol Zoological Gardens would close its doors for the last time on 3 September 2022. After 186 years as the world’s fifth-oldest zoo, the collection is being moved to a larger site on the northern edge of the city to its younger sibling, ‘The Wild Place’. For most Bristolians and indeed for many people living in the hinterland of the zoo, this was a very sad day indeed. Although some of the buildings in the site were old, Bristol zoo was progressive and was a leader in conservation and breeding programmes for endangered species from around the globe.
Whatever your feelings about zoos, they play a role in education and research that result in a greater good for the biodiversity of our planet. Taking myself as an example, it is certain that I was inspired by my countless visits as a child to the Zoological Society of London (London Zoo) to become a marine biologist, and spend the rest of my life working in the environmental/nature sector (doing good things, I hope).
So here are a few of the doors from the old Bristol Zoo. My only regret is that I didn’t take more photographs of this wonderful space. When the children were little, we had a family zoo membership, and it was our ‘go to’ destination, and the children’s favourite day out in the city.
Door within a door, Bristol Zoo maintenance gate, Bristol, October 2018
Ghost door, Bristol Zoo, Bristol, October 2018
In the butterfly house, Bristol Zoo, Bristol, October 2018
Reptile house doors, Bristol Zoo, Bristol, October 2018
Original aquarium entrance door, Bristol Zoo, Bristol, October 2018
Photograph of the original aquarium entrance door and keepers, Bristol Zoo, Bristol, October 2018
It makes me rather sad, reflecting on these pictures, but I guess we have to preserve our very many happy memories of the zoo, and keep our fingers crossed that the developers of the site retain some of the heritage and integrity of this stunning green space.
Well that’s it until next week, I wish you a very happy weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
Green door behind a security gate, Lone Rambler, Bristol, May 2022
A quick trawl through my archives this week has thrown up some interesting doors from around the city of Bristol. These pictures were taken a little while back, and I can’t actually remember where most of them are from.
The selection is a real mixed bag of styles and periods, which rather fairly represents the eclectic architecture in Bristol. Before the blitz, there was a much more uniform transition of architectural periods, but the bomb damage has fragmented the styles, and some of the modern replacement buildings certainly favoured function over form.
I hope you enjoy this small selection:
Green door and unusual windows, Greenbank, Bristol, January 2023
Seen-better-days door, Bristol, May 2022
Boring modern door and fine doorway, Bristol, May 2022
Three doors, Bristol, May 2022
Black door and very grand portico, Bristol, May 2022
That’s it for another week – I need to go on a couple of doorscursions soon, because my supply is drying up a little. May I wish you a happy weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
Doors 215 – Croatia doors (part 8) – Pula leftovers
Wow, I goofed – I have been so busy this week that I thought today was Wednesday – well I was wrong. I thought I was being really clever, preparing my post this evening for tomorrow, but I was being thick/forgetful and am instead running late for today. No matter, Thursday doors is all day Thursday (at the very least) and I am well within the day.
This is the final sweep-up post of doors from our fabulous summer break last August in Croatia. Posting these doors over the last few months has been a regular reminder of just what a wonderful holiday we had. But that was then, and we have a trip to my beloved Italy lined up for this year and plenty more doors to look forward to.
So let’s get on with this final instalment of Pula doors:
Doors to the fish market, Pula, Croatia, August 2023
Wooden doors with diamond panels, Pula, Croatia, August 2023
Steel doors to our apartment, Pula, Croatia, August 2023
Glass panelled doors, Pula, Croatia, August 2023
Doors with fine patterns and ironwork, Pula, Croatia, August 2023
Doors with glass panels and fine ironwork, Pula, Croatia, August 2023
Wide doors with glass and ironwork, Croatia, August 2023
Fancy doors and ballustraded balcony, Pula, Croatia, August 2023
OK, so it’s not a door, but this shuttered window was too beautiful to leave out, Croatia, August 2023
So farewell then happy Croatia. I hope you enjoyed this series. I am going to have to work hard on something a little bit more local for the next few weeks.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
Doors 212 – A selection of doors from Greenbank in Bristol
I am taking a little bit of a break from Croatia doors this week, to share some doors from an area in Bristol called Greenbank, which is perhaps best known for its large cemetery. It would appear that this residential area of terraced houses has a distinct and tight community. Every time I walk around the area, there are always neighbours stopping for a chat, and the people here smile and are friendly.
The community spirit overflows and is reflected in themed front doors and tiny front gardens, and I get a real sense of pride in their neighbourhood, which is a heart-warming thing to see.
No more chat from me… here are the doors:
“Seen better days” garage doors, Greenbank, Bristol, February 2023
Yellow door with cats on the cornice, Greenbank, Bristol, February 2023
Green door with a bottle on the cornice, Greenbank, Bristol, February 2023
Green door with dragons and a lump hammer on the cornice, Greenbank, Bristol, February 2023
Yellow door with a dodo and planters on the cornice, Greenbank, Bristol, February 2023
Plain white door with remains of a fancy surround, Greenbank, Bristol, February 2023
So that’s about it for this week, from a cols and unusually snowy Bristol. May I wish you a great rest of week and weekend.
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