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 2023Pillar box red door with black surround, York, June 2023Recessed blue door with steps, York, June 2023Recessed turquoise door with steps and tiles, York, June 2023Micklegate bar (gate), York, June 2023Ghost 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.
Mr Sleven, Purdown, Bristol, May 2023Mr Sleven, Purdown, Bristol, January 2023Mr Sleven, St Werburghs, Bristol, July 2021Mr Klue and Mr Sleven. Brigg’s Lane, Bristol. February 2021Mr Sleven. Brigg’s Lane, Bristol. February 2021Mr Sleven and Mr Klue, St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2020Mr Sleven and Mr Klue, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2020Mr Sleven, Brunel Way, Bristol, November 2020Mr Sleven, St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2019Pekoe and Mr Sleven, M32 roundabout, Bristol, March 2019Pekoe and Mr Sleven, M32 roundabout, Bristol, March 2019Mr Sleven, Moon Street, Bristol, March 2019Mr Sleven, Moon Street, Bristol, March 2019Mr Sleven, Brighton Street, Bristol, November 2018Mr Sleven, Stokes Croft, Bristol, May 2018Mr Sleven, Upfest, Bristol, July 2017
Camping and glamping site gate, Boiling Wells Lane, Bristol, February 2019
Doors 225 – Some gates of Bristol
A really quick one today. I had time earlier in the week to prepare some images from my archive, and I plumped for a selection of gates. All of these gates are from Bristol, none of them particularly special, but desperate times and all that…
The first gate boasts that is it the entrance to Bristol’s only camping and glamping site – I fear that they might have over-sold it a little. I hope you enjoy today’s selection:
Farm gate, Boiling Wells Lane, Bristol, February 2019Back gate, BristolFront gate, Bedminster, Bristol, March 2020Gate and door, Cheltenham Road, Bristol, May 2023Mind the drop. back garden gate, Devon Road, Bristol, January 2023Back garden gate, Devon Road, Bristol, January 2023
Well that concludes proceedings for another week, I hope to have something a little more inspirational next time. May I wish you a pleasant end 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.
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 2023Double door for a small business, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023Green front door that looks like a garden gate, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023Pink door with kick-plate, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023Vibrant red door, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023Black 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 am definitely under the cosh at work at the moment, and simply haven’t had enough time to sort out Thursday doors, so for the second consecutive week I am serving up some street art doors from my archive – these ones were originally posted in August and September 2022.
Here we go:
Mote, M32 cycle path, Bristol, July 2022
Zabou, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022
Taker One, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022
Taker One, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022
Taboo, Lower Ashley Road, Bristol, August 2022
Tanith Gould, Elton Street, Bristol, September 2022
OK, so you might have to search for the doors in these pictures, and in the last one the picture itself features a doorway, but it is the best I can do this week. I hope to collect some new doors this weekend.
Enjoy the rest of your 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.
Doors 221 – Bristol and Porto street art and graffiti doors
When I do these street art and graffiti doors, it usually signals that I am really busy at work, and don’t have time to do all the necessary admin to prepare doors to share, preferring to trawl existing pictures that I have posted on my blog under the street art category.
So let’s get straight to business with these doors from Bristol and Porto, which were originally posted on Natural Adventures in July 2022:
Jelly and apparan, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022
Doors painted during Upfest 2022
Aspire, Devon Road, Bristol, July 2022
Face 1st, Moon Street, Bristol, July 2022
Maybe, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, July 2022
Access hatch on a bridge
Maybe, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, July 2022
Access hatch on a bridge
Sepr, Upfest 22, Bristol, June 2022
Mesk, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Costah, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Cat ghost door
Hazul, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Abstract ghost door
Hazul, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Another abstract ghost door
Carvalho, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Unknown, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
OK, so it’s not a door, but I just love this photograph.
Well, that’s it for another week. I hope you have a great weekend. Happy Thursday doors.
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.