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Thursday Doors – 5 June 2025 – Doors of Cleethorpes
Doors 310 – Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, September 2023
This week I am taking you to a sleepy Lincolnshire town, once a celebrated seaside destination, but now a faded Victorian haunt where poverty and deprivation is intermingled with former prosperity.
I was lucky enough to visit Cleethorpes in September 2023 for the launch of the first of 25 new National Nature Reserves (NNR) being declared over a period of five years called the King’s Series in celebration of King Charles III coming to the throne. These National Nature Reserves are bigger, better and more joined up, allowing nature to overspill into surrounding areas. This first one (the Lincolnshire Coronation Coast NNR) spans a long stretch of the Lincolnshire coast adjacent to urban areas, providing opportunities for people to easily connect with nature on their own doorstep. It incorporated some already well established nature reserves, such as Donna Nook, famous for its seals.
While I was stopping over, I managed to get a long walk under my belt and snapped a few doors, which is pretty much my modus operandi wherever I go these days. I hope you enjoy these doors, and of course the mandatory English Victorian seaside town pier.
Before I went to Cleethorpes, my expectations were quite low, generally it is considered to be an ‘eyebrow raising’ moment when you tell anyone you are going to Cleethorpes, but I have to say I rather fell in love with the place. The coastline with its marshes is spectacular, the seafront shops and guest houses, and there is something rather wistful about the place.
I’m not sure where I’m going for Thursday doors next time – it’ll have to be a surprise.
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.
Thursday doors – 29 May 2025 – Copenhagen doors, Denmark
Doors 309 – Copenhagen, Denmark (part IX), September 2024
The day has arrived, after a bit of a false start. This is the last in my series of doors from Copenhagen. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy my mini-break in the capital city of Denmark, but I have also enjoyed reliving it through posting this series of Thursday doors – a weird kind of vicarious experience, in which I had been the protagonist. Is that a thing?
These doors were the last I photographed during my trip, so they are not ‘odds and ends’, even though they are quite an eclectic selection.
In truth, I am also looking forward to posting doors from other towns and cities – I have so many in my archive and I am impatient to share them with you.
I hope that you enjoy this last hurrah from wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen.
So there we have it. I wave a fond farewell to a city that I would highly recommend to anyone. A clean, diverse, happy, historic, beautiful and somehow ‘good’ city.
Something a little different 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.
Thursday doors – 15 May 2025 – Copenhagen doors, Denmark
Doors 307 – Copenhagen, Denmark (part VII), September 2024
Eek! I have had quite a disrupted week this week, spending Monday and Tuesday in Leeds/Bradford/Saltaire, and I have lost my rhythm. I can’t believe it is already Thursday, and naturally I am ill prepared for Thursday Doors, other than that I clearly have a vast archive of doors in the pipeline. Furthermore, I had forgotten that Dan is having a rest from Thursday Doors this week, but that he will be including submissions in his Sunday roundup.
Today’s selection of doors I think will be the penultimate entry from Copenhagen, and I am already looking forward to which doors to follow up with. This week’s doors are from the North West and West of Copenhagen, continuing along the banks of the artificial lakes and into some rather more Bohemian areas of the city. Here we go:
Although the variety of doors in Copenhagen is vast, as vast as any other city, there is a distinct local style, particularly in the architecture surrounding the doors, that is so different from our doors in England, and elsewhere. The joy of Thursday Doors, vive la différence.
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.
Thursday doors – 8 May 2025 – Copenhagen doors, Denmark
Doors 306 – Copenhagen, Denmark (part VI), September 2024
Another Thursday Doors post written in haste and in advance, because I am working in Warrington over Wednesday and Thursday this week and have little spare time to craft a post then. Thank goodness for a May Bank Holiday!
In truth, there isn’t too much to write about, because this is the sixth in the series of Copenhagen doors so far from a mini-break I had there with my mother in September last year.
The doors in this selection are mostly from the Østervold and Nørrevold districts, alongside the series of three artificial lakes in the northern part of the City. By the time I got to this district, I had been walking at pace for about 8 miles, and was starting to flag a little, but not too much to capture a door or two. I hope you enjoy them.
Quite a lot to get through there. I hope I am not testing your patience, especially as there are still probably another two or three selections from Copenhagen still to come. Expect more 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.
Pura Decadencia
A gallery of fabulous graffiti writing and a selection of vampire teeth from Bristol/Spanish artist and tattooist, Pura Decadencia.
Instagram: puratattoos
All photographs by Scooj
Thursday doors – 1 May 2025 – Copenhagen doors, Denmark
Doors 305 – Copenhagen, Denmark (part V), September 2024
Life is flashing by. April is over, and we are saying farewell to the first third of 2025. Unusually, we have had a pretty dry start to the year in England, especially March and April, and are experiencing summer temperatures this week, which is both delightful and worrying in equal measure.
I managed to spend an unseasonably warm few days in Copenhagen last September whilst on a city break with my mother. Perhaps ‘unseasonably warm’ or ‘biblical rainfall’ or ‘beast from the east’ are terms we will hear more and more frequently as we hurtle towards climate breakdown. I hope not, but it somehow feels like humanity has reached the age of stupid.
This week’s selection from Copenhagen are from the Kastelette citadel area to the northeast of the city and close to the most famous icon of all Denmark, the little mermaid statue, which is where I was heading for when I took these photographs. Here we go…
So there it is, this week’s Thursday Doors post has melted away as quickly as the year so far has. Still more to come from Copenhagen next time… and the time after that…
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.
Thursday doors – 24 April 2025 – Copenhagen doors, Denmark
Doors 304 – Copenhagen, Denmark (part IV), September 2024
This week’s selection of doors come from the Christian VII’s palace and the surrounding area in Copenhagen. I am a little short of time this week, so I will be brief. Perhaps the highlight for me was arriving at the time of the changing of the guard at the palace, and without the vast crowds that accompany the Buckingham Palace equivalent in England. I hope you enjoy these doors:
So that’s it for this week. Obviously, a whole load more doors to come from this three-day trip to Copenhagen last September – brace yourselves.
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.
Thursday doors – 17 April 2025 – Copenhagen doors, Denmark
Doors 303 – Copenhagen, Denmark (part III), September 2024
This week’s doors are a continuation of the Copenhagen series, and this week come from the 17th century district of New Haven (Nyhavn), where some of the most iconic views of the city are found. Try finding any brochure or website about Copenhagen that doesn’t include this famous waterfront. One of the houses, I don’t recall which, was home to arguably Denmark’s most celebrated Citizen, Hans Christian Andersen.
These pictures were taken on two separate visits to the area. I mention this because the eagle-eyed among you might spot that there are some clouds in one or two of the pictures and not in others. I hope you enjoy this week’d selection:
More to come from Denmark’s beautiful capital city 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.
LostHills
A gallery of fabulous wheatpastes and artwork featuring Jake the Dog from the cartoon series Adventure Time, by Liverpool-based artist LostHills.
Instagram: @losthills
Biography: Liverpool Radicals
All photographs by Scooj
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