Thursday doors – 20 July 2023

Doors 227 – Doors of York City (part 3)

A quick one today as returning from a holiday always seems to lead into an extremely busy work week. This mortal coil!

This is the third and final instalment of doors from York, and a not-so-recent trip there about a month ago. I think that I could have spent a lot more time there enjoying the history of the place, and I would have liked to have had time to visit the Jorvik Viking Centre, but alas I had to dash off to a conference. This set of photographs aren’t up to my usual standard – I think that I was rushing to get the pictures while the light was fading and didn’t do a very good job of it. I hope you enjoy this final set from York, before I move on to doors of Lincoln and a real door treat in store.

Merchants hall entrance and open doors, York, June 2023
Merchants hall entrance and open doors, York, June 2023
Tudor building and old wooden door, York, June 2023
Tudor building and old wooden door, York, June 2023
Fancy door surround and fan light (including ugly fire exit sign), York, June 2023
Fancy door surround and fan light (including ugly fire exit sign), York, June 2023
Double panelled door with wooden frame, York, June 2023
Double panelled door with wooden frame, York, June 2023
Tudor doorway and more recent door, York, June 2023
Tudor doorway and more recent door, York, June 2023

So that’s yer lot for another week, see you again next time.

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.

by Scooj

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Thursday doors 6 July 2023

Door 227 – Doors of York City (2)

Double doorway with columns and portico and indentations for the boot scrapers, York, June 2023
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 2023
Parish church door , York, June 2023
Wooden framed glass door and brick tiles, York, June 2023
Wooden framed glass door and brick tiles, York, June 2023
Slightly wonky light green door and beautiful Portico, York, June 2023
Slightly wonky light green door and beautiful Portico, York, June 2023
Black door with very grand columns and portico, York, June 2023
Black door with very grand columns and portico, York, June 2023
Thick brick arch surround and blue panelled door, York, June 2023
Thick 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.

by Scooj

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Thursday Doors – 29 June 2023

Micklegate bar (gate) and city wall, York, June 2023
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
Three doors, York, June 2023
Pillar box red door with black surround, York, June 2023
Pillar box red door with black surround, York, June 2023
Recessed blue door with steps, York, June 2023
Recessed blue door with steps, York, June 2023
Recessed turquoise door with steps and tiles, York, June 2023
Recessed turquoise door with steps and tiles, York, June 2023
Micklegate bar (gate), York, June 2023
Micklegate bar (gate), York, June 2023
Ghost door, 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.

by Scooj

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Thursday doors – 15 June 2023

Camping and glamping site gate, Boiling Wells Lane, Bristol, February 2019
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 2019
Farm gate, Boiling Wells Lane, Bristol, February 2019
Back gate, Bristol
Back gate, Bristol
Front gate, Bedminster, Bristol, March 2020
Front gate, Bedminster, Bristol, March 2020
Gate and door, Cheltenham Road, Bristol, May 2023
Gate and door, Cheltenham Road, Bristol, May 2023
Mind the drop. back garden gate, Devon Road, Bristol, January 2023
Mind the drop. back garden gate, Devon Road, Bristol, January 2023
Back garden gate, Devon Road, Bristol, January 2023
Back 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.

by Scooj

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Thursday doors – 8 June 2023

Doors 224 – Doors of Weston-super-Mare (2)

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 arches with doors – Wadham Street Garage, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Double door for a small business, 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
Green front door that looks like a garden gate, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Pink door with kick-plate, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Pink door with kick-plate, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Vibrant red door, 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
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.

by Scooj

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Thursday doors – 1 June 2023

Doors 223 – Doors of Weston-super-Mare (1)

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
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
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
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
Dirty plain door and a little bit of graffiti, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Steel doors, 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.

by Scooj

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Thursday doors – 25 May 2023

Doors 222 – Bristol street art and graffiti doors

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
Mote, M32 cycle path, Bristol, July 2022
Zabou, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022
Zabou, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022
Taker One, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022
Taker One, 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
Taboo, Lower Ashley Road, Bristol, August 2022
Tanith Gould, Elton Street, Bristol, September 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.

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Thursday doors – 18 May 2021

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
Jelly and apparan, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022

Doors painted during Upfest 2022

Aspire, Devon Road, Bristol, July 2022
Aspire, Devon Road, Bristol, July 2022
Face 1st, Moon Street, Bristol, July 2022
Face 1st, Moon Street, Bristol, July 2022
Maybe, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, July 2022
Maybe, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, July 2022

Access hatch on a bridge

Maybe, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, July 2022
Maybe, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, July 2022

Access hatch on a bridge

Sepr, Upfest 22, Bristol, June 2022
Sepr, Upfest 22, Bristol, June 2022
Mesk, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Mesk, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Costah, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Costah, Porto, Portugal, June 2022

Cat ghost door

Hazul, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Hazul, Porto, Portugal, June 2022

Abstract ghost door

Hazul, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Hazul, Porto, Portugal, June 2022

Another abstract ghost door

Carvalho, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Carvalho, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Unknown, 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.

by Scooj

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Thursday doors – 11 May 2023

Three green doors, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023
Three green doors, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023

Doors 220 – Doors of Old Market, Bristol.

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
Black door/gate, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023
Plain door, grand doorway, 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, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023
Pub cellar doors and gates, 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
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.

by Scooj

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Thursday doors – 4 May 2023

Doors 219 – Doors of Fowey, Cornwall

Phew! Today has been a bit of a beast, and I haven’t had any time to post my doors until now, and just as I had settled myself to write this post, my wife called to say she had a flat tyre and as I have just renewed the insurance, could I call out the breakdown recovery. All done now, and I can resume.

I have not photographed any doors recently, so this is a bit of a throwback to 2019 and some doors I encountered in Fowey in Cornwall, dredged from my doors archive. I hope you enjoy them. I have a favourite, I wonder if you can guess which one:

Blue door and anchor knocker, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
Blue door and anchor knocker, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
Short green door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
Short green door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
Frosted door doorfie, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
Frosted door doorfie, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
Grey door and granite step, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
Grey door and granite step, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
Grey door with no handles or furniture, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
Grey door with no handles or furniture, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
Door to the old police house, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
Door to the old police house, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
Front door and stunning gate, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
Front door and stunning gate, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019

That really is all for this week – wishing 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.

by Scooj

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