A gallery of unique (stained-glass look) scenes from one of my favourite Bristol artists, Creamylines.
Instagram: @creamylines
All photographs by Scooj
Creamylines
Tag: Photography
Thursday doors – 13 March 2025 – Doors from Buxton, Derbyshire
Doors 300 – Doors of Buxton (part III), April 2024
Coming home from a holiday can be a tricky period, especially returning to work immediately afterwards. I still haven’t cleared the accumulated emails from last week and feel like I am very much on the back foot. I don’t think that there is any quick solution to this situation, other than to take early retirement (not a financially viable option) or to not take any leave (well, that’s not happening). So I simply take the heat, keep calm and carry on.
The point of the story is that I have limited time to do justice to Thursday Doors, a valuable constant landmark in my routine that offers me a weekly mindful moment.
I visited Buxton back in April last year as part of a team meeting which we combined with a tree planting opportunity, supporting a project called LIFE in the Ravines. Derbyshire is a fair schlep from Bristol, so I stayed the night in the spa town of Buxton and spent an early hour the next morning wandering round a town I had never visited before – an opportunity to capture a few doors. This week’s doors highlight the dark stone buildings and feature a water fountain, the source of the famous Buxton spring water company.
Something that bothers me about so many doors that I have photographed is the tendency to use them as noticeboards. Is this a UK thing, or does this happen world-wide? Health and safety notices, ‘please use other door’ type notices, adverts and so on, ruin the overall appearance of a door, and while sometimes interesting, show a deep-seated lack of respect or indifference towards doors. Enough said.
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 – 6 March 2025 – Doors from Buxton, Derbyshire
Doors 299 – Doors of Buxton (part II), April 2024
I am really having way too much fun skiing, and way too tired to do pretty much anything else, so today’s entry is necessarily short. After last week’s classic car doors from a car auction in Buxton, this week’s selection is rather more ordinary, but I hope you enjoy them nonetheless.
That’s your lot from the small Derbyshire town this week, more to come 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.
Shab
A gallery of superb abstract figure pieces by Bristol artist Shab.
Instagram: @s.h.a.b
All photographs by Scooj
Thursday doors – 20 February 2025 – Doors of Peterborough
Doors 297 – Doors of Peterborough (Part V), April 2024
So at last we come to my final selection of doors from Peterborough, which were taken in the Cathedral area and then passing on down towards the river Nene. While I very much enjoyed my wanderings around this historic Cathedral City, I was left with a bitter sense of urban deprivation in 2020s England, a legacy of 14 years of running down of public services, of impacts of Brexit, of Covid and of the rising costs of fuel. I have shown you one face of this city, but it is important to understand that it is not all ‘chocolate box’ views and stunning architecture.
My genuine wish is that our country rediscovers its sense of purpose, its compassion and its place in the European conversation. After all, who wouldn’t want to live in a better place that is business-like, kind and fair? Enjoy the doors:
So that’s it from Peterborough, Adieu! I’ll have to think of what to share next from my archive, and will have fun doing so. 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.
by Scooj
Smut
A gallery of superb clean writing from the graffiti writer Smut
All photographs by Scooj
Thursday doors – 13 February 2025 – Doors of Peterborough
Doors 296 – Doors of Peterborough (Part IV), April 2024
The truth is, I forgot that today was a Thursday. I have so far had a week of wall-to-wall meetings and have struggled to come up for air. Add to that an evening out last night (on a school night) and my head hasn’t really been in the right place.
I don’t have too much to add to the words about this series of doors from Peterborough, as these are the fourth selection, and I have said much about the city before. These doors were all within the grounds of the Cathedral and of the Cathedral itself. I hope you enjoy them.
A final set of Peterborough doors to come next time and then onto something else. Have a good 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
Eraze
A gallery of graffiti writing and combination pieces from some time ago by Eraze
all photographs by Scooj
Thursday doors – 30 January 2025 – Doors of Peterborough
Doors 294 – Doors of Peterborough (Part II)
As is so often the case, I am a little pressed for time this week, having been volunteered to take on some extra work (which I have no capacity to do) for another parallel team until the end of March. New relationships, ways of working and projects adds up to heightened pressure, but I will not allow this to interfere too much with my mindful moments such as Thursday Doors and photographing street art.
This is the second selection of doors from Peterborough, which bring us closer to the area around the Cathedral, and an area that was historically wealthier than the surrounding districts. I hope you enjoy them.
There is not a lot more to add this week, so I will look forward to 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
Thursday doors – 23 January 2025 – Doors of Peterborough
Doors 293 – Doors of Peterborough (Part I)
Last year, I made a work trip to Peterborough to run a workshop, and as ever when on my travels, I took the opportunity early in the morning before the workshop started to gather my thoughts and have a little wander around the place taking photographs and noticing things.
Peterborough is a Cathedral City in eastern central England, and although I have visited it before when I lived in Cambridgeshire, it was always on a night out or to an office, so I hadn’t really ever got to know the place. What surprised me the most wasn’t the incredible architecture around the cathedral or the clean and tidy streets, it was instead the levels of deprivation, and I was quite shocked. There were a lot of rough sleepers about the place and the tell-tale signs of a poverty-stricken society containing streets full of bookies, pound shops, gambling arcades and vape shops – ‘Aladdin’s caves’ of bright lights and hope.
I have to say I found the experience profoundly depressing, and a contemporary illustration of how the previous government of 14 years had failed people at the lower end of the economic spectrum. The first thing I saw as I stepped out of the station was a long queue of people with tatty clothes and plastic bags outside a foodbank. We should hang our heads in shame that foodbanks even exist in one of the wealthiest nations in the world, while the richest in our society just get richer.
On a brighter note, Peterborough had pockets of street art and, importantly to today’s post, plenty of interesting doors to admire. Let’s get cracking:
Plenty more to come from this trip to Peterborough next time. 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.
by Scooj
Natural adventures 